The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-02-01
NEWS GLEANINGS.

Key. Fla.
The public debt of Tennessee is lit.
lie over $4,000, goo.
Knoxville expects to have water works
n operation about the lst of June.
A Baltimore liniment manufacturer
(pends 5000, 600 year in advertising.
This seasons Louisiana sugar crop has
fallen short from % to 80 per cent.
The population of Virginia is 1872
[6y
Alabama cultivated 2,179 acres Of to.
bacco last year.
The Mississippi state lunatic asylum
has 500 inmates.
The value of productions in Missis-
sipp in 1870 was SS,lj4,7jS; in 1850,
s12,352, 975.
A few DAYS ago Columbus, Miss, in.
vested 100000 in cotton factory, and
bow the capital amounts to $l,25O,0OO.
A Van Buren,, Ark, man has a CON
tract to dig 1000 persimmon roots to be
|shipped to Los Angelo, Gal.
A four story hotel, with all modern
improvements, and to cost SO 600, is a
probability at birmingham, Ala.
Atlanta's irst grain elevator is com
pleted 1t cost &33 600, and has Il stor.
age capacity of 10000 bushels.
N Georgia raised less than 1000, 600
bushels of oats in 1870, and in 1880 the
froduction WAS over 100000 bushels.
Pensacola, Fla, has voted against re-
budiating her ante-bclIum debt, and re-
'cntly paid 100000 of it.
Six hundred and one conyict' in the
Arkansas penitcntiary. Over 100 of the
humber are murdercrs.
The individual deposits in the four
national banks at Nashville amount to
50, 702, SSlG 2,
Shad are becoming numerous in the
Alabama, ard are sold in the Moat@om-
ery markets.
Birmingham, Ala, taxes retail .whisky
dealers 1850, while Mouton charges only
IS9O.
Grandson Harris, Jr, was convicted
Of body.snatching n Augusta, Ga and
sentenced to pay n iinc ofSl,OG or work
in the chain-gan@ for twelve months.
A stick of yellow pine timber at Way
cross railroad, Fla, measures fourteen
inches at the mall end, and is Of feet
long.
A company will commence work III
+ Atlanta on the lst Of March on facto.
Try for the manufacture CT stationary
sCngincs.
A large portion Of Arkansas has been
carried by the late throc-mile local op
ton law, and hundrcds of saloons We're
closed with the close Of the year,
A factory will be established at Mes
Orleans to prepare cotton-sCed oil for
cooking, Illuminating and lubricatins
purposes
In the Green county, Tenn, poors
h use the daily expense of each paupcri
averages four aud half cents. The billy
of fare ought to be printed for the sake
of curiosity.
Alabama has 81 $40 square miles, is
divided into sixty six counties, eleven o,
them being 200 squarc miles or more in
dimensiOn-thc largest, Baldwin, being
1920 square miles. The smallest are
Green and Etowah, being each $40 square
miles
Twelve tramps visited Columbus, Ga,
n few days ago, and few hours after
ward they we're beginning thirty days
sentence on the rock pile. This treat
mGnt generally and vigorously applied
vail reach the very marrow Of the tramp
nuisance.
The Little Rock Democrat gays that a
great many people in that country dc
not understand that it is u greater crime
10 XII human being than it is to steal
.ChocIaw pony, with flax name and
tail, worth Sl4.75.
The Florida Southern railroad projects
an extension to Pc ry, Ga, which will
pass through one Of the richest undevel
oped sections of the State. The com
pany is composed Of Boston capitalists
said to represent $iO,000,00o. "A heavy
,orce is at work on the Georgia line.
Atlanta Constitution: If one of the
products of the cotton plant is to run
hogs fat out of the South, this remark
able weed will hereafter be regarded a,
the author of n new and hieher civil
cation. We are all the victims of dis
et;ased hogs fat ard 4 too frequent use O.
the frying pan.
Fort Smith (Ark. Independent: 1t il
no longer Old Arkansas, but New Ar
kansas. The flint lock rifle. the econ
skin cap, the yellow dog, the beled spur
and the quirt are only remembered Il
The past and good stock, good farms
good schools, education and retincmen
have taken their place.
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: With the in
crease of our industries comes also thu
,demand for skilled laborers The Soutl
mas not got them. All our boys hav
been trained to be lawyers and doctors
georgia has not an institution for train
ing young men as skilled mechanics Sh
has several so-callcd military attach
ments, but not an institution devoted t
practical Knowledge in mechanism an
manufacturing, which is now her great
est need.