The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-05-17
NEWS GLEANINGS.


iron oar are shipped daily from Gadsden,
Ala.
Railroad property in Georgia increased
two. and quarter million dollars in
value last year,
In South Carolina the contending
local factions are called the wet ticket
and the dry ticket.
The assets of the Ladies Calhoun
Monument Association, in South Caro-
lina. now amounts to nearly $4,000.
A colored female preacher from Spar
tanburg is carrying on revival in the
colored Baptist church at Anderson,
S. G.
Women who are put in the city prison
in Knoxville are set to work on crock
piles" in public view on one of the
principal thoroughfares.
Capt. Martin. of Anderson county, S.
| c., made from one pine tree on his place
1920 feet of straight edge lumber and
$50 feet of rough edge lumber.
st. Luke's Hospital has been incor-
porated at Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs. Al
exander Mitchell, wife of the promin,
ent Milwaukee railroad man, is the Pres
ident.
A correspondent of the Fredericks
burg Star says that be counted off the
shore of "The Neck" King George
county, Va, ninety vessels engaged in
taking oysters.
In Macon, Ga, the little two year
old boy of officer w. W. Henderson
was found dead in bed. 1t had slipped
between the ratings and the foot board
during the night and broken its neck.
A thriving and profitable enterprise
in the neighborhood of Americas, Ga,
is the fur trade, the skins being princi-
pally these of the beaver, otter and
coon, and a few wild cat and rabbit
pelts.
Major B. w. Bellamy, living sixteen
miles from Quitman, Ga, has farm of
10000 acres, with 5000 under cultiva>
ton. Over 1000 negroes live on the
place, and they raise 500 bales of cottons
with all necessary supplies.
The Avalanche says three times as
many beaver skins have been. brought TO
Memphis during the past season as any
in the past fifty years. A dam has been
built twenty miles from the city six feet
high, eight feet wide and forty feet long
by these animals.
Albany (Ga.) News: "Do you want a
local % said an Albany matron the otha
er day. "Yes'm." "Well, you may
say that beax are so scarce in Albany
that the girls have all resolved to catch
the first one that comes along, cage him
and keep him as a natural curiosity"
Houston (Ga.) Home Journal A sue
cessful farmer of Houston county told
us the other day that he considered corn
at$1 per bu,hel equal to cotton at twen-
ty cents pound. That farmer sells
home raised corn, wheat and oats every
year.
Jefferson Davis delivered two-hours
speech at the French opera house in New
Orleans Tuesday night, before meeting
called to raise funds for building in
which to preserve the Southern war
rchives and other papers of the South
er1 Historical society.
A fruit dealer in Savannah has an al.
ligator in box in front of his store,
and was much annoyed by people pass
ing along and poking sticks at him. The
fruiter put up this sign: every IDIOT
who comes along is expected to shove
sticks down the alligator's mouth"
Tie alligator is let alone now.
Reidsville IN. C) Times: Bill Gum
brought to Wentworth yesterday joint
snake he dug up on his place near that
town. 1t was examined with much in
terest by several of the citizens, Col.
Settle offering $40 to catch him one just
like it. The tail could be easily taken
to pieces.
Henry w. Grady says the extent. OF
the cutting which Senator Hill, of Geor-
gia, has been subjected is not realized
by the public. One-third of his tongue
has been taken out-the entire left flooi
of his his mouth--the glands in the left
side of his neck. The last operation was
the most severe, and probably success
full. When he was put under ether fol
it, it was intended to only take out
small lump that had hardened on the
gland in his neck. After he was in
sensible it was determined to adopt the
heroic treatment and take out the entire
gland. lie was kept under the knife
two hours.