The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-22
NEWS GLEANINGS.

tie ana nOgS 10 flOrlda.
James B. Pace is announced as the
wealthiest man in Virginia.
The United States Jail at Ft. Smith,
Ark, contains 100 prisoners.
The late Gen. Holt, of Macon, Ga,
left an estate valued at 100000.
Montgomery, Ala, expects 10 handle
100000 bales of cotton this season.
Maryville, Tenn, has factory where
buttons are made Of muscle shells.
A carload of German carp have ar
rive at Nashville for distribution.
The New Orleans police are making an
efo rt to break up the opium oens o
that city.
Most of the levec work on the Missis
sippi river below Natchez, Miss, is TN
der headway. =
Fulton county, Ga, is taking care of
ZIG prisoners who are awaiting trial on
different criminal charges.
A law in Florida requires that the
tickets of candidates for county officers
be printed on colored paper.
Nineteen Indian boys have been TAX
en- to Trinity College, North Carolina,
where they will be educated.
The New Orleans papers complain be.
cause the Charity Hospital at that place
is overrun by patients from other States.
Nashville has no water for fire pur-
poses, aud the underwriters are discuss.
ing the advisability of advancing their
rates.
Several more Mormon elders have ar
rived at Chattanooga and joined the
band of Mormon missionaries now work
ing up converts in the South.
Lord Houghton, of England, has pur-
chased 10000 acres of land in South
ern Florida, and intends going exten.
sively into sugar culture, investing at
least 81, 100000
The British steamer CASTILLO left Sa-
vannah, Ga, Monday, with the most
valuable cargos ever cleared from the
port. The cargo was 100 bales of up.
land cotton, valued at S406, 037 so.
A bill to be introduced at the present
session of the Georgia Legislature will
provide for registration law, which
will debar any person from voting who
has not paid his taxes in full. it is
thought this bill will be easily passed.
A Mr.. Johnston, of Atlanta, n cousin
of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, is the ia
ther of twenty-five children, the young
es. of them being an infant. Mr. John.
ston has been married but once, and his
wife lsnow living and in excellent health,
One of the four silver half dollars
coined by the Confederate States gov
ernment is in the possession of a GEN
temah living in Cartersville, Ga. He
has been offered on several occasions the
comfortable sum of $500 by numismatic
collectors fer the coin.
Work on the Mobile harbor progresses
satisfactorily. The present dimensions
of the channell are seventy-6ve feet
wide by seventeen deep from the mouth
of the liver to deep water down the bay,
together wither with an additional short
cut of forty feet wide near the msuth
of the river.
There are now 979 patients in the
Georgia Insane Asylum, 257 of whom
were received during the present year.
Chatham county furnishes the largest
number, sixty-four; Fulton follows
with forty eight, and Richmond with
forty-six. The patients range from fif,
teen to ninety years of age.
The Picayune is informed that dan.
gerous $40 conterfeit Treasury note ia
in circulation in New Orleans. The
note is of the same manufacture which
appeared in Chicago in 1880, the printer
of them being arrested with S25, 900 of
the money in his possession. They have
since appeared in many of the larger
cities.
By recent decision of the Supreme
Court of South Carolina, characterized
by the Charleston News and Courier a,
the most important judicial deliver
ance that has been had since the adop-
ton of the new constitution" no feor
in future has the right to vote. Thi
law is being generally adopted in tn,
Southern States.
Suit has been brought against tn,
Tennessee Brokerage Association, n
Nashville, by Calvin Morgan, who seek
to recove. SO, $50 lost on corn deals dur
ing the month Of October. The con
plainant alleges that the transactions il
which the money was lost were not bon
fide, as no real delivery was contracte,
for.
Charleston News and Courier: TIL
skeleton of full grown mastodon ha
been found in the Cowee tunnel, on tn
Ducktown branch of the Western Mort
Carolina railroad When the mouste
was discovered the convicts fed in tel
ror, and it was by nard work that the
could be induced to return to the
picks, 1t was found six feet below ii
sllrface ~ thu a,rtL II ,vo, l., N $40