The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-03-28
GENERAL NEWS.

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wheat sown in Tennessee, and farmer
are expecting good crops.
A raft Of 400 walnut logs for New
Orleans, to be shipped to Boston, i
ready to leave Little Rock.
A. VI. Scott, of Hi county, Texas
ra4ed last season GSOrbushels of swee
potatoes on one acre Of ground.
Blrdseye maple, which sells for $l5(
per 1000 feet in England, is used fol
FIRE wood in North Carolina.
Eighteen Mormon elders are in Chat
tsnooga, on their way to different point,
South, where they 60 proselyting.
A New York firm will shortly estab
iish regular lumber trade with Mobile,
and will at first send out vessel once
month.
The Railroad bill now pending in the
North Carolina lie gislature provides for
three Railroad Commissioners at salary
Of $1,000 year each.
Over $50, 900 worth of whale oil ha.
been shipped from Brunswick, Ga, this
year, and it promises to become an i'm.
portant and Aourishing business in that
locality.
Forest fires extending eighty miles
above Chattanooga, along the Cincin-
matt Southern road, are causing great
destruction of timber.
The Hot Springs property, in Bath
county, Va, containing l,l96 acres of
lond, hotelS, cottages, baths and hume
rous buildings, have been sold for 800,
600.
A State Military Academy will lie
built at Savannah. Bonds to the
amount of $2O, 600 will be issued at five
per cent interest, to run thirty years.
A committee has been appointed to can.
vas for subscriptions.
A block of marble was shipped few
days ago from the Hawkins, Tennessee,
quarries. 1t contained 1856 cubic feet,
weighed $4,000 pounds and sold for over
$4OO.
New Orleans Democrat: "What the
Atlanta cotton exposition did for the
South, and we are now realizing the fact
that 1t brought millions of dollars here,
and that to it is due TIE investment of
$l5,OOO,OOO in southern cotton mills
alone"
At Griffin Ga, some Cne threw a
lump of roisened dough in Abel A..
Wrighrs f., pond, causing the death of
no less thai 500 fine Carp.
The Georgia Wine Company has'1OO
acres in vines now producing, ard 30
acres for future use. They expect to
make 10000 gallons this year. They
get four gallons to the bushel, and gen.
orally gather $50 to 250 bushels to the
acre.
DR. Charles, the Forsythe county, Ga
miner, writes an interesting letter to the
clarion. He says the Franklin mine
makes from three to four pounds of
gold per week, and not running their
mills in full regular time. The expcu-
ses are about 81 900 per month, which is
N2'OOO per year, and in this way money
nscattered over the country.
A curiosity is exciting the colored
people of Macon, Ga, says the Atlanta
Constitution. A negro boy, called "the
snake baby" fourteen years old, came
from an adjacent county. His body is
very diminutive, his arms and legs are
the size of a buggy wheel spoke. He
lies prone on his stomach all the time
with his feet drawn back. In the mid
Ole Of his back white spots are seen
dis tongue licks out of his meuth-
nence the name, "snake baby" He
can't talk intelligently.
The English colony, at Rugby, Tenn.
which has been in financial straits fol
some time, has just received a loan O
Sl25,OOO from y wealthy Engllshman
henry Kimber by name and solicito
oy profession. The lender receives, a
security, a first mortgage on the Rugb,
tract OF $4,000 acres and the improve
nents belonging TO the board. Mr.
A'mber Isl one of the original stockhold
ers in the enterprise.
Ihe project of establishing coalin
station at Port Royal hangs fire. OWN
70 the fact th't no part of the appro
pratlons voted last year for stor
house and dock could be used for th
purchase of land for the site of the sta
son. Parry's Island has been agree
upon, and an amendment to the Svndr
olVll Bill appropriates $4,000 for tn
purchase of the land required
Ihe planters of Polk county, Ga
nave prepared for the next crop, an
nave made more composts than the
nave made in the ten preceding yea
ail put together. They have general
used furman's formula, which has bee
used in thatvicinity with great success
,nere is doubtless real wisdom in aba
uonlng high-priced CONNER cial fertt
'ers' and, by saving and using domest
.anures, muck, leaves, scrapings fro
,snce corners. etc., they get mu
vs''er ier'llszer at a small fraction