The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-01-18
NEWS GLEANINGS.

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college.
Georgia has 762,9Sl males and 779, 1879
emales.
Birmingham has hopes of large car
mandatory.
Mississippi has four times as much tim
q Der as Minnesota
Marion county, Fla, has 23,OOo acres
n of land in orange groves.
Russian Jews are constantly settling
in all parts of Mississippi.
Fifty-fve cotton mills in Georgia, and
others in process of erection.
Real estate at Milledgevillc, Ga, has
doubled in value in the last two years.
Birmingham, Ala, has raised the Ii
cense of whisky dealers to $3.50 coun-
ter.
n A bill has been introduced in the Vir-
eipia Senate to abolish the whipping
"a post.
M The salary of the Mayor of Savannah
III has been increased from 81, 500 to 81, 900
year.
tits sa d that twenty seven Of the ex.
hibitors at Atlanta are going to establish
factories there.
There are eleven men in the Clarks
vile, Ark, Jail charged with murder in
in the first degree.
Three Butler county, Ala, boys in one
days hunt killed fourteen foxes and
v twenty-five cat squirrels.
Forty thousand dollars have been sub
scribed toward a proposed car manufac
tory in Montgomery, Ala.
Mrs, Nancy E. Pearce, who cut off he
child's head in Howard county, Ark.
has been adiudged insane.
The street letter-boxes in San Anto
MO, Texas, have been robbed so frequent
ly that the postmaster has ordered then
taken down.
Many Georgia farmers believe Their
will be great advance in cotton mex
spring, and are holding back as much
their crops as possible.
Since 1860 Tennessee has acquire
hearty 100000 additional population
and has made crops every year OF a
average annual net profit of S27 ,5OO,OO'
!E In the four States of Georgia, Alabam'
South Carolina and Tennessee the nun
Der of persons employed in the manufa
ture OF cotton is il, 1888, against $500
1870.
The Mayor of Birmingham, Ala, HI
given orders to the police force OF TIL
city to require all merchants to disco
tinue the sale OF cigars and tobacco
Z Sunday.
: The father of Rev. Richard Jordan
Rhea county, Tenn, is still living, at u
age of 106. His son is seventy-five. II
wife is eighty-seven, but looks older thu
NJ her husband.
The Cincinnati Southern railroad h
~ contracted with the Glen Mary (renr
M mines for twenty car loads OF coal p
day for their engines, at seven cents ?
bushel unscreened
vi The new capitol building at Aust
''! Texas, is to be 366 feet high, 566 IL
81 long, and 2S5 feet in depth, the seven
highest building in the world, and
, Y second in the United States.
~ The Trustees of the Georgia Acadel
- for the Blind have purchased ground
iiid3 Macon for the erection of an acadel
l ~ for the colored blind. The State app
priated $4,000 for the purpose.
In North Carolina there are fifty tn
~ cotton mills in operation, and six 9th
4 are in progress and nearly complet
q There are also four or five wooden m
ES in operation in "the old North Stat
A mulatto woman named Fan
Crawford has Just returned to her IL
in Mississippi, with fifty negroes fl
Sumpter county, Ala. This year, alb
closing time, she worked 300 hands
. her farm, which she manages herself
y With increased capital pouring
e New Orleans, with the jetties opened
* 4: the largest vessels, with four railrc
u running there, and at least three n
on the way, the Times-Democrat wi
the whole world ga happy New Ye
The vicksburg and Ship Island
n, the Memphis and Vicksburg railr'
have leased 600 penitentiary conN
I from the Mississippi State Board of
i lie Works which are to be divided
tween the two roads and put to '
near Vicksburg.
A good deal of syrup made in A
ma this season is found to be unfi
4 use because the sugar cane from W
it was made was grown in cow-pens.
stalks.of the cane were unusually
but the flavor Of the syrup is said
absolutely nauseous.
Memphis Appeal Mrs. Erwin, W
mentioned as the Southern Flo
Nightingale" died at Huntsville,
recently. During the war she had