The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-02-15
NEWS GLEANINGS.
In Florida 5000 pine apples can be
raised on an acre of ground.

raised on an acre of ground.
One thousand men are employed in
the iron works in Cherokee county, Ala.
The only drawback to cocoanut rails
ing in Florida Is that it takes ten years
fer the trees TO bear.
Fifteen hundred executions for dclin-
quent poll taxes have been Issued IN
Union county, s. Q.
An old man on Caney Fork, in Mid
die Tennessee, caught $4,000 worth Of
saw logs during the last rise.
Tennessee has State law which i'm
poses fine of $500 for failure to report
small pox cases to the State Board of
Health.
At Louisville, Miss, John ID. NJ.
Thrasher has been sent to the reniten-
tiary for life for the murder Of W. d.
Triplett.
The Georgia Supreme court has dc.
cided that the cities Of that State must
stop their debts at 7 per cent of their
taxable property.
Six hundred partridges in boxes,
shipped from Danville, Va, arrived in
Wilmington, Del, last week for the
Delaware Game 4 ssociatioD, which is
trying to restock that State.
Fifteen thousand dollars have been
expended On the North Georgia sgri
cultured college at Dahlonega. 1t will
take S., 900 TO complete it.
Col. Benz S. Kicks, of Yazoo county,
Mis-, tie second largest planter in tie
South, employs 1000 men, and made
1000 bales Of cotton last year.
The acreage Of wheat sown over East
Tennessee is unusually large, and the
prospect for an excellent crop was never
more encouraging for the time of year.
Within the last three years over 81
1000 have teen invested in manufac
turing enterprises in Georgia, and nearly
sl0,000,000 have been invested and con.
tracted for in new railroads in our State.
Old Aunt Bonnie Holloway died in
Fauquier county, Va, last week, in the
one hundred and fifteenth year Of Eer
age, the Oldest citizen probably in the
Old Dominion. When Lord CORVALLIS
passed through Eastern Virginia in the
summer of 1871 she said she was a good
smart gal, big enough to get married.
The Nashville Banner, in some race
rccountings, says: At another race over
the Glover Bottom track Gen. Jackson
entered his famous horse Truxton, and
was backing him quite heavily. Gov.
Cannon was on hand, but had no money,
so he bet wagon load of negroes with
the General. Truxton won tho race
and the General took in the negroes.
Gold is being washed from alluvial
lands within the limits of Gainesville,
Ga, which pays so cents TO the pan.
The city covers deposit of gold-lear-
ing material which should be utilized,
and no doubt will be as soon as the ca.
nal Atlanta so much needs passes
through that section. The bed OF that
canal for distance of forty miles will
be cut through veins ard deposits Of
gold bearing ere.
There are three great land companies
now interested in Florida The Disston
company holds 100000 acres Of the
100000 acres it bought from the State,
A third company (headed by Diss'on
also) proposes to drain the Lake Okee-
chobce region and reclaim the swamp
lands. The area of reclamation is as
large as New Jersey, Connecticut, Della
ware and Rhode Island, and the Dsston
company will get half of it, the State
retaining the balance of it. Two cnor,
nous dredging boats are already at
work at this, and the work will be pushed
to completion.
Atlanta Constt ltion Florida Notes
Eight years ago there was only $4,000
invested in steamers on the ST. Johns
Now there are twenty eight steamers
plying that river, enc of which cost
$240,0 1000, and to this feet there are con-
slant additions. The Indian river and
South Florida lakes and inlets are now
dotted with sail boats, carrying freight
to and fro. In very short time thcs,
will be supplemented by steamers, and
then the quesaion will be settled, a new
region opened, the fertility, and beauty
Of which cannot be put in words.