The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-12-13
NEWS GLEANINGS.

A total of 1892 40 has been collect
ed toward erecting monument to Sen.
stor Ben Hill, of Georgia.
The Little Rock Gazette says the
acreage of wheat sown in Arkansas this
fall is larger than ever before.
Alabama has over 100000 acres Of
Government land subject to entry un-
der homestead and pre-emption laws.
Richmond, Va, has fifty factories,
representing capital Of $4,000
Their sales for 1881 aggregated 81, ,25O,
900.
The debt of Memphis is four and a
half millions, and the Avalanche says it
is increasing at the rate of $270, 900 per
year.
A Southern paper estimates that at
least leo cotton gins have burned THY
season. Many of the fires were incen-
diary.
The general local option petition
which is to be presented to the Georgia
Legislature in few days is 300 feet in
length.
A bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature to require all the
qualified voters in the State to register
before voting
A bill introduced in the Alabama
Legislature provides that the study of
the laws of health he introduced into
the public schools.
The North Carolina peanut crop vii
this year reach 100000 bushels. The
nuts are of better quality than any
grown during the past five years.
Fifty.one. women from Northeast
Georgia left Atlanta a day or two ago
for homes and husbands in Utah, hav-
ing been converted to the Mormon
faith.
The dam across the Chat tahoochee
river, at Columbus, Ga, is nearly com
pleteG. 1t is the largest in the South,
and contains about 100000 feet of solid
masonry.
Virginia will soon have the largest
iron furnace in the United States. The
Victoria furnace, in Rockbridge coun.
ty, now nearly ready to put in blast,
will daily produce 200 tons of iron
Georgia has more illiterate than an
other State in the Union. North Caro-
lima is second on the list, Alabama third,
Virginia fourth, Tennessee fifth and
Mississippi sixth.
Geological exa mination reveals in the
delta of the Mississippi, along space
of 300 miles, ten distinct forests of bu,
ried trees. Bald Expresses with diam.
eter of twenty-five feet have been
found.
Rev. Geo. w. Baker and wife have
sued W. A. Huff, proprietor of the
Markham House, Atlanta, for $40, 900
damages for injuries sustained by M RS
Baker by being bitten by rats while a
guest of the hotel last summer.
Male relatives Of the girls employed
in the Nashville manufacturing estab.
lishments are acting as detectives, on
their own VOLT ion, to punish fast young
men who are in the habit of insulting
working girls on their way home after
dark.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer say'
there is a probability that the Cottor
and Woolen Mutual Manufacturer In
surance Company, Northern institu
tion, will extend its borders so as tt
take in Southern cotton and wooler
mills.
Austin Statesman In the most relia
BILE quarters the crops of Texas for thil
season are estimated at 1,400, 900 bale
OF cotton and 15O,OOO,O0O bushels o.
corn. Texas now stands first on tn,
list OF Southern States in the produc-
tion of cotton and corn.
Great excitement exists in FRANKLIN
and Wake counties, N. O., over th'
Wholesale killing of hogs blonging to thu
farmers. They allege that the hog
have been poisoned by tramp peddlers
in the interest Of Western pork packers
Scarcely twenty live hogs are left in th'
two counties.
Bills in the interest of temperance ar
consuming great deal of the time o
the Georgia Legislature. Many coun.
ties want the sale of whiskey within
their borders prohibited altogether
while others ask that the license be fix
ed at 5000, $4,000, and even $40.
600 per year.
Atlanta has a candidate for Mayo
who proposes, if elected, to gradual
reduce taxation until, at the end of fif
teen years, the city government can b
run without one cent of cost to her Gil
liens. The scheme proposed by the car
didate is pronounced feasible by man
prominent citizens Of that place.
John Milton and another colored ma
named Long entered a vicksburg Mis-
saloon, and wager being agreed upc
between them as to their relative capa
ity for storing away whiskey, drinl
ing tournament was begun, the bill
Dc settled by the one who drank Il
least. Milton succeeded in drinkil
fve pints. His funeral occurred Il
sxt evening.