The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-02-22
NEWS GLEANINGS.

gia penitentiary.
Key West, Fla, has 1900 inhabitants
and only two chimneys.
The first national bank in Mississippi
will be started soon at Columbus.
In Florida there are II, ,63S white leo
pie over ten years Of age who cannot
write their own names.
More small grain has and will be sowI
in Southwestern Georgia the present
season than at any former period.
Tennessee stock traders are bringing
their mules back from Atlanta rather
than sacrifice them at the low prices
prevailing.
There are fifteen prisoners in the Vir.
ginia penitentiary for life, one for fifty.
four years, one for thrty-eight, and two
for thirty-six.
The Carthage IN. g. Gazette says
that twenty pounds of solid pure gold
have been taken from the Cugle mines
in the past two weeks.
Citizens of Alabama pay taxes on
&3O5,O worth of farming tools and mes
cIIanical implements, and on guns, pis-
tolls and dirks, valued 1t 1854, 900.
The Silver Valley mine in Davidson
county, N. c., employs about 80 hands,
and produces about five tons of concen.
trated ore daily, which is valued at $500
per ton.
The Southern fourth of Alabama is
covered with forests Of long leaved pine,
mixed in the northern part with much
hard wood. A comparative narrow belt
Of pine runs nearly across the State be-.
tween latitude 32 deg. and 3S deg.
Chattanooga Times The Roane Iron
Company is now securing an order of
steel blooms from England. They are
arriving in carload lots every day.
This order will amount TO about $50, 900,
the duty on which will be $4,000.
During the year just passed 322,934
tons Of coal were mined in the State of
Alabama. A few years ago the output
could have been expressed in ciphers.
This industry has progressed more rap.
idly than any other within the borders
Of the State.
A Rome, Ga, man is preparing
unique directory. 1t will contain the
name, style, whether brunette or blonde,
address and approximate age of every
young lady in Georgia who has in fer
own name, or as heir exrectant, prop
erty to the amount of $4,000 or upward.
Elijah Chaddock, aged lO2 years and
three months, and his wife, aged l02
years and seven months, of Walker
county, Ca, passed through Chattanooga
Monday ell route to Arkansas, where
they will reside in the future with their
son. They are hale and hearty, and bid
fair to live several years longer. They
80 West, it is supposed, to grow up with
the country.
On Friday last, about ten miles from
Albany, Ca, tattered, emaciated, hall
starved woman was discovered wander
ing in the woods. She was taken charge
of by kind persons, and it was soon found
that she was poor. French woman, who
had been abandoned bv her husband or
the way from Pensacola to Eufaula
The woman could not speak word Of
English, and ever since Christmas hat
been wandering in the woods, living OF
mushrooms and toadstools.
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution: Mr.. AL
exandcr H. Stephens keeps microscoP
ically informed of the details at Lbert!
Hall. He knows from day to day how
many chickens, ducks, pigs, etc, he ha
in his yard, and takes as lively an inter
est in these home matters as he does il
national or state affairs, He recent,
lost a mule that had attained the grea
age of thirty-seven years, and he is nov
much concerned about another, nance
"O!d Beck" that had become mori"und
Travelling in Florida is expensive
The hotels rarge in price from $3.50
a per day, but are frst.class in ever
respect. Board may be had in privat
houses from 50 to So a day. Steamboa
fares are about s6 for day and night
travel, including fare and berths. TIL
boats are very much crowded now. an
cots are used nightly in the cabins fc
the comfort of passengers. 1t is not
good idea to buy return tickets on tn
steamers, as the discount is small an
the return tickets are good only on ce
tain boats.
When several years old and three
four feet high the palmetto tree has Il
precise appearance of huge grown
pineapple, with its tuft Of green, blad
like leaves at the top. Until the tr
sttains the height Of several feet Its boz
is embraced with successive layers of
regularly interlaced growth Of shuc
which in color and appearance close
resembles the pineapple. After ct
tain age they lose this, the trunk assu
ing firm, smooth surface, which fl
makes its appearance next the groui
gradually extending to the top as
;ree natures.
An English baker was known to wei