The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-07-05
NEWS GLEANINGS.


Seven employees Of the Atlanta, Ga,
post-oflice are negroes.
Pensacola, Fla, is building an opera
house at cost of $4,000.
A chair factory at Marietta, Ga, has
sold 100000 chairs in the past year.
An immense number of manufactures
are being built in Birmingham, Ala.
One tannery at Iuka, Miss, turns out
BOO, 900 worth Of leather each year.
The census taken in Chattanooga,
Nay 1882, gives her 1904 population.
Atlanta, Ga, has eighty-seven licensed
aloons that take in over sl,00O,0O0 a
car.
An oat mill will be established at
Sumter, N, G. 1t will be the first in
Dc South.
The bronze statue for The Confeder-
he monument has been delivered at
harleston.
Thirty bushels to the acre is com.
lon yield of wheat in East Tennessee
bis season.
Alabama will have 2,33O,OO acres in
otton this season. A decrease from last
|eor Of 1913 per cent.
Key West, Fla, is troubled with an
pidemic of "dengue" fever. Five hun
red cases are reported.
More reapers have been sold in Geor-
ia this year than the entire cotton belt
posse ssed one year ago.
The cotton crop of this year, 30 it is
stimated from presentappearances, will
be about 100000 bales.
The largest orchard in North Carolina
3 owned by r. p. Paddison, at Moults-
by's Point. 1t contains over 5000 trees
Fortress Monroe is the largest single
ortificaton in the world. 1t has al.
eady cost over $S,000,000 of money.
Sixteen thousand men are now en-
loyed in railroad construction in Flor
la. Eighty thousand people have set
led in the State in the past ten wears.
The last appropriation of s125,OOO for
constructing jetties at the mouth of the
ft. Johns river, Fla, is nearly exhaust.
ID, and it is probable the work will cease
bout the 4ih of July.
The Charleston, $50 News and Cou.
fier, as a proof of the growth of home
Industries, mentions the building of
steamer and the construction of all her
nachinery in that city.
Of the several Governors Alabama
has elected, four were natives of the
State. Gov. Patton was born in Lau
derdale, Gov. Winston in Madison, Gov
Watts in Butler, and Gov. Cobb in st.
Clair county.
Presley Nelms is the oldest citizen of
Monroe county, Ga, being 1O4 years of
age. He yet chops with an Ak, uses the
hoe, and can get about with surprising
|activity. He has living son over sew
fnty-five years old.
In the seven States of Georgia, Ala.
bama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana
and the two Carolinas there has been an
increase of 36l 900 in the number of cot.
ton spindles during the year, represent
ing an addition to the manufacturing
industries of nearly S10,0O0,00O.
A man at Magnolia, Ark, has some.
thing new in the potato line. In his
garden about thirty potato bushes are
growing, and the potatoes grow up
among the limbs, like apples, and none
are attached to the roots. The Pulaski
(Tenn.) Citizen tells of similar vines in
that vicinity.
Geo. /. Seney said "If any one asks
you why gave so much meney to the
Wesleyan Female College, of Georgia
tell them it was to honor my mother, t.
whom, under God, l owe more than toC
all the world beside. I admire tn,
Southern women. There are possibili
Ties in the Southern women not equaleC
anywhere'else on earth"
A novel but profitable industry in tn
mountains of North Carolina and Eas
tennessee is that of collecting root
(mostly laurel. The roots are shippe,
to Philadelphia and Boston and used 70
the manufacture of door knobs and pip
bowls. The roots frequently weigh fror
20 to 150 pounds. There is a constan
demand, and the prices are paid fo
them by the ton.
The will of Gen. George Washington
On file in the clerks Office at Fairfa,
Fairfax county, Va, has received 4
much wear and tear from strangers VIII
desired to examine it. that the cler
found it necessary to inclose it in a gla
case in order to preserve it. The wi
is written on heavy unruled pape
about note size, and every side is CO.
cred. There are twenty-seven page
all Of which have Gen. Washington
name attached except the twenty-thir
which ended with the words Getty
Washington" and it is supposed that
looking over it the General mistook Il