The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-11-28
GENERAL NEWS.

DURING the year no less than 1906
bomesteads havebee entered in Florida.
ANEW hotel, costing $500, 900, is to be
huilt in New Orleans before tho Exposi
ton opens.
IT is estimated, 80 says the Palatka
Herald, that five hundred thousand alli-
cotors we're killed in Florida last year.
By the census of 1880 there were in
Alabama 1886 physicians and surgeons,
798 lawyers, 1,2l4 clergymen, and IA
journalists.
ApEposIr of mari has been discover
ed on the Conecuh river, in Alabama,
which promises to be valuable for COM
pounding with other elements as ferti-
Gzer.
Two cypress trees have recently been
cut in Sumptcr county, Fla. From one
SO, 400 shingles were made, and from the
other $1,000 shingles and G,lOO clap
boards were made.
Wolves are so plentiful in the Black
Mountains Of North Carolina that they
arc poisoned with strychnine, and their
dcpredations render farmingan sheep
raising very uncertain.
A Gun tree in Florida was fired the
other day, and the occupants summariy
evcted were n swarm Of bats, followed
by flying squirrels, screech-owls, various
other night birds, two coons and one
opossum.
ITisprobable that telegraph line will
be built from the cable of the Western
Union Company through the Everglades
10 Jupiter Inlet, on the eastern coast of
Florida. A survey of the country is to
be made as early as possible.
PENSACOLA Commercial: The moss
crop Of this State is worth more than the
cotton, and can be put On the market
with very little expense. The demand
exceeds the supply, and there is not
county in the State in which the product
isnot now going to waste.
The dogs at the Louisville bench show
were valued at $250.000. Fortunately
for the dog raising industry, they are
exempted from taxation. The same
value in sheep would be annually taxed
about $500. Verify, the dogs are hav-
Ing their day.
LEEDS is spoken of as the next mining
and manufacturing town in Alabama. Its
situation is excellent, being in thebosom
oil the great mineral sources. with plenty
Of water power around, and fine brac-
ing climate. Several wideawake men
are already Mt work developing the place.
Mississippi has 81, 100000 invested in
manufacturing industries, gain of 100
per cent. in five years, and Alabama has
5000, 900 in the iron production. The
lastSouth Carolina legislature chartered
nine new cotton factories with an aggre-
gate capital of 81, 900, and in three
years 275, l39 spindles have been added
bthe manufacturing capacity of the
Carolinas, Alabama and Georgia.
A MACHINE for picking cotton has,
the Charleston News says, been satisfac'
brlytested in Sumptre, South Carolina
Its capacity is two hundred pounds per
hour The cost of picking the late crop
by hand was $4,000, 900, or at the rate
Of 81 per bale. The cost of picking by
machine will be 81 per bale. 1t is esti-
mated that third of the crop has been
left in the field in seasons past because Of
lack Of hands. The machine will remedy
this
MONTGOMERY Advertiser and Mail {:
The number of persons who emigrated
@Tcxas and other portions of the West
and are returning home is astonishing,
on one of the north-bound trains of The
M'mdM road few nights ago, eighty
OF the passengers, and on another sue
ceedlng, sixty were returning from Texas
their former homes IN Alabama and
a@|Olnlng States. Most Of them were
lolmer citizens of this State.
lHE original seal Of the Confederate
oA1es, which is Of massive silver, is still
~ he hands Of an ex-C Confederate SOL
uef' who treasures it carefully. 1t con-
'ls's OF device representing an eques-
sian portrait of Washington (after the
'A'ue which surmounts his monument
The Capital Square at Richmond), sur
'Ounded with wreath composed of the
rr"nclpal agricultural products Of the
sOulederacy Cotton. tobacco, sugar
~ .si'c' corn, wheat), and having around it
4cwords, "The Confederate States Of
=, rnuetica, Twenty-second February,
aeateen Hundred and Sixty-two," with
%e following motto: "Deo vindice. -
cus confederate monument at Magnolia
S,inetery to the memory of the dead
'noieil In defense of Charleston bears
suone OF its faces an enlarged represen
~acn OF the great seal Of the Confede
ateStates.
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