The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-21
NEWS GLEANINGS.

$4,0OO,0OO.
Texas has nearly 2,4OO convicts in her
penitentiary.
The dogs of Georgia cost more than
her preachers.
A large cottonseed-oil mill is to be
built in Madison. Ga.
An unusually rich copper mine has
been opened in Cabarrus county, N. @.
A fourteen-pound cabbage has been
shipped from Americas, Ga.
Geo,ga's wheat crop this year will be
the best raised in twenty years.
The Richmond, Va, water works are
to be completed, and will cost 100000.
\ A goldfish TO- inches long was recent
a ly taken from Il cistern in Macon, Ga.
Virginia will come to the front this
4 year with remarkably large fruit crop.
For the first lime in scventy-fve Yeas,
Putnam county, Ga, is without sa-
loon.
Tennessee has Is, 900 acres unimprovtd
land, most of which is covered with fine
timber.
Two hundred and forty convicts are at
Work on the Marietta & North Georgia
railroad.
Atlanta, Ga is to have watch man
ulacturing company, with a capital stock
of 100000.
A South Carolina lady has made feath.
err fans of the value of - so for New
York irm
Rome, Ga, has completed the survey
of her proposed canal, and estimates the
cost at S25, 00o per mile,
Moss Point, Miss, has glass factory,
tannery, shoe factory, five planning
and fourteen saw mills.
The postmaster at Vicksburg gets the
largest salary of any postmaster in Mis-
fissippi. His pay is $1,000 per year,
George Ra II and Peter Bang, each is
years OF age, ale TO be hanged at Pas
cagoula, Miss, August 4, for murder.
Near Lumbertcn, N. c., two girls
named respectively Frances McNair and
Jane Kellar fought over young man,
and the latter was stabbed through the
heart.
Southern papers point to the i'm.
mense amount of farming machinery
being sold as evidence of the prosperity
of the South.
A rich deposit of kaoline has been dis
lowered in Macon county, Ala. The me-
ttrial is Indispensable in the manufat
trre of fire brick.
A company has been organized il
North Carolina to bottle juniper water
famous as gentle tonic. The water il
abundant near Albemarlc.
Tennessee has rs copper furnaces tina
turn out 100000 pounds of cope
each year. Tho state has also Is, 0OO,OOo
acres of unimproyed land.
South Carolina protects she birds b,
imposing fine of 10 against every ON
convicted of robbing nest. Thirt,
days Imprisonment can be added.
A Norfolk, Va, girl became so in
ccnsed because her sister gave birth t.
an Legitimate child that she strangle,
the infant to death. The parties belon
to good family and the murderess is il
Jail.
The Athens. Ga, cottno factory pay
an annual dividend of 49, per cent, be
sides putting like per cent into sir
ing fund for future repairs and add
tions.
James Kirkland, of Levy county, Fla
!. met with horrible death while GU
uniting recently. He stumbled an
rell on n sharp stake, which pierce
= through his body and held him until h
died.
The Hebrew saloon-keepcrs of Lift
Rock, Ark, refuse TO obey the new SUI
day law, claiming that the Christia
sunday is not their Sunday.
Willie Morris became joyous at
wilmington, N. c., camp-meeting, an
Tell over Annie Williams while the la
ter was kneelng in prayer, and brol
her back.
Augusta, Ga, will soon add 400
people to her population by taking
The new factories and Harrisburg, Hic
vile and Rollersville, and the Sible
king and Curry settlements.
Thomas Ferguson, of Weldon, N. {
carelessly pointed an "empty" shot-g1
at his three year-old brother, but it W
OH Just the same, and the child was to
to pieces.
The Savannah News calls attention
the feet that the execution of two VIII
murderers recently in Georgia, sho
that hanging white offenders for murt
Is by no means played out in the Emp
State of the South.
peculiar accident caused the de;
Of Richmond Pitts, at Cedartown.
stick or. wood fell from wagon
which he was riding, and catching