The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-22
NEWS GLEANINGS.

Florida has ten lodges Of colorcd Good
Templars.
There are 900 Indians in the ever.
glades of Florida.
Mr.. Blackstock, Of Jefferson, Ga., has
nineteen children.
There are 100000 lying idle in the
Alabama State Treasury.
The theological seminary for colored
people near Natchez, Miss, has 1856 stu
dents.
Eight coons and thirteen possums
we're caught in ono tree in Dyer county,
Tenn, last week.
In Tensas and Madison parishes, La,
buffalo gnats are killing the horses and
mules TO an alarming extent.
The Ordinary of Sumter county, Ga,
announces that he will issue no more
license to sell liquor in that county.
Pensacola, Fla, has rejected the ap.
|pi;aation of the Pensacola and Atlanta
|road to erect shops within the city lin.
A company has been formed in Griffin,
[ia., for The manufacture of the Brooke
automatic car coupler. The capita
tock is placed at $4,000.
A strawberry raiser in Chattanooga
Bays the prospects for the coming crop
are excellent. He expects to raise 30
1000 pounds on nine acre patch.
Crawfshing is a favorite pastime with
some of the youngsters about Selma,
who catch hundreds of them in bitches
and ponds on the outskirts of the city.
In the internal revenue district in
which Nashville is situated, composed
Of eight counties, there is not a single
distillery. Applications for the Collect.
omhip are altogether scarce.
The dredging Of Mobile channel il
progressing daily, and it is expected
that it will be completed in time to be
available for the shipment of the crop
pf 1882.
Atlanta Cons titution: Mr.O. o. Gill,
bf New York. has carried 10000 tea
plants from the Heno tea-gardens, Bal
imore, to Enterprise, Fla, where he
Intends to experiment in tea culture.
Tourists are go besieged by the hotel
runners of Jacksonville, Fla, that vic
lent means have to be resorted to to &c,
Fid of them. A man last week pulled
his pistol on the bowling mob for pro.
tection.
There is colored boy in Accommac
county, Va, who is six feet eight inches
high, weight 234 pounds and wears a six-
teen-inch shoe. His principal diet is
sweet potatoes, of which he can eat a
peck at time.
One of the industries of the noun
tains of Western North Carolina and
East Tennessee is the collection of ivy
roots, which are shipped to Philadel.
phia and Boston to be made into door
knobs and bowles for pipes.
While Miss Addie Tenain, a young
lady Of Jackson, Tenn, was crossing the
railroad her dress caught on the track,
which threw her down. Just at that
lime train came along and passed over
her ankles, manglipg them in a terrible
manner. 1t will be impossible for her
% live.
The five daughters of Robert Curry,
of Augusta county, Virginia, are still
living and in excellent health. Their
names and oges are: Annie Mcdowell,
aeed Lightweight; Jane Young, eighty
six; Polly Curry, eighty.one; Lydia
Burdett, eighty-sevcn, and Sallic Curry
eventy-seven.
Mr.. John d. Cunningham, Jr,, drive,
leisurely around his gigantic peach or
rhard of $4,000 bearing trees, near Grif
bin, Ca. observes with satisfaction thai
fhe buds are not too prccocious, ant
complacently remarks: 81 think this il
my year." He says that his is the big
gest peach orchard in the world but
lest some jealous grower should presum,
to dispute the assertion, he intends t
get 200 more acres next fall. "This i
the only region in the world" adds Mr.
Cunningham, "whcre a perfect peacl
can be raised"
Nashville World: Mary Brooker wa
arraigned before the Recorder yesterda,
on the charge of selling "voudoo bags.
She had sold one to young colored Cir
Minnie Woodfork, telling her that i
would mako her lover marry her. Th
girl accordingly paid her 50 for il
Some time after she lost this bag an
could not find it. Some people VII
were living in the same house hunte
around for it, and after Minnie had gon
70 work they ripped open the mattre'
and the little bag jumped out. The
assert that the bag jumped out of tn
mattress across the room. One of thei
"voudoo bags" was opened and found
contain small piece of loadstone, SON
salt, two pieces of chalk and some ashe
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