The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-02-08
NEWS GLEANINGS.


will abolish chain gangs and the whip
png-post.
At sale in Vicksburg, Miss, recent
ly, plantation containing 1900 acres
brought only 1926.
Out of ninety convicts hanged in the
United States in 1881, Arkansas head
the list with fifteen.
There are nine colored men in the
Mississippi Legislature, eight in the
house and one in the senate.
The cotton mill at Wesson, Miss,
pays twtnty.six per cent. divideud, and
the stock il worth over $500.
twc.inch carp put in pond near
Atlanta, two years.ago, was caught a few
days since, and weighed seven pounds.
The Mississippi press alarmed at the
recent heavy sales of land to spectators
+ in that state, is urging that the state
. lands should be withdrawn from the
market until they are explored, classi-
fled and appraised, and then they should
be sold in such way as to swell the
school revenues of the state.
Augusta, (Ga.) News; A Pennsylva-
MIA firm is manufacturing paper at Sa'
vannah, from what is called the "saw pal
metto," a material heretofore regarded
as nearly useless The paper is said to
be of superior quality, and especially
useful as a transfer paper, which has
heretofore been imported.
NIcssrs. Mertz, Finley 4 Purdy, have
bonded the Mertz gold mine, situated
two miles northwest of Gainesville, Ga,
to Eastern capitalists for $4,000. The
ore is quartzite, with liberal showing of
free gold. Both walls are argillite. A
test ton of the ore will be shipped East
this week.
Winston On. O. Sentinel. A man
by the name of Wood- committed suicide
at Laural Springs, Ashe county. lie
came in from hunting and a.ked his
wife to pull his boots of. She refused
to do so, which so wounded his feelings
that he caught up his gun and by the
use Ct his foot, discharged tie contents
into bis body, killing himself instantly,
They wer both young end been
married only about a year.
Atlanta Contribution Florida letter:
"lhe Speer grove. with 600 trees,
would bring perhaps s5O,OCo, and this is
the best in Florida. This is about IS,
500 per acre, for six acres. 1t is the
best because it is the Oldest. The lar
gest yield ever known frcm one tree
came from the oldest tree in the state
at st. Augustine, which bore l4,SOol
oranges. This is held to prove that W
to 70 or 100 years the yield of a tree vii
improve. There are several trees tina
have yielded 10 and 500 oranges.
Florida Key of the Gulf: A frienc
describes to us a remarkable scene wit
messed by him at religious meeting OF
WILDLY Island W. r. A., a memce
of the church, while praying, calle'
upon God to strike him dead il certail
statement made by him in the stronges
and most unequivocal manner was no
exactly true. He had hardly utteret
the las word when he fell dea Com
ing as this did, in the church, and upO
leading member, the effect upon tn
congregation can only be imagined.
~ believe" says Gov. Bigelow, c
Connecticut, in his message, of his tri
South, "tbat the visit gave large bod
of Connecticut citizens new and true
ideas of the South in feelings and m
tives. We hope that these Souther
citizens whom me met, and TO whom "
are indebted for such a fraternal we
come, gained truer conceptions of Il
temper of our people toward them.
has certainly given IN added cCrdiali
and heartiness to the good feeling b
w9!l Come cticut and South ,Carolin'
Atlanta Constitution Florida lettt
"The only newspaper railroad
the country, is the South Flc
ida, running out from Sanford to Ta
pa. This road was built and is own
and operated by the Boston Heral
1t is now in operation twenty TIN
miles and is being extended rapidly.
will be ninety miles long when the pr'
ent contracts are finished, and may
pushed to Punta Rosa. The Her
people are doing the work themsely
and as a Floridan said: They are ia
ing less and doing more work than a
OF our developers The road is pay
na1ds0mt ly ana runs TWO trains ga
The American Cultivator says t
"the scarcity of heavy Texas hide:
getting to be source of anxiety
tanners, who want to get ont he
leather to answer the prevailing dem
The Improvement of herds has |
going on some time on the cattle ranc
and the long.horned, scraggy IL
steers are getter scarcer every
There is more sy stem pursued in raj
cattle. Crossing the breeds give
stock and I've tor meat, at the expen'
the hide, which in the best bred ami