The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-05-30
NEWS GLEANINGS.

Danville, Va, has two cotton mill,
in operation and is erecting third one
Gov. Boynton's bride is worth 3d.,
COO in her own right She is about 4(
years Cd.
The firft cotton factory in Wisconsin
was opened few days ago at Sheboy.
gan Falls.
Mr.. J. II. Henderson, Of Covington
county, Ala, is sixty-three years of age
and since 1916 has killed 412 deer.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee added about g.
900 to the funds of the Southern Hi
torical Society by his recent lecturine
tour through the South.
The Key West, Fla, sponge fleet,
numbering seventy vessels and six hun.
dIed men, is out on a cruise. A lerg
catch of sponge brings about $4,000
into that city.
1t is said that Il Vermont farmer
sends more than an average of 1000
pounds Of butter to one hotel in Geor.
ela every week during the year.
Within eighteen months $50 miles Of
railroad have been under construction
in Mississippi, over s20,OOo,0DO beng
invested. During the fifteen years pre-
vicns only ~ miles Of road were built.
J, 7. VanSIyeh, Of Texas, is Carrying
47,COO sheep from Arizona to Graham
county, Tex. He paid rs cents each, or
$4,000 for the whole lot.
ten. L, T. Sturdivant, of Orlando
Fla, recently took $40 worth of honey
out of one bee hive, and yet left honey
enough To keep the colony in good spir.
iis and working condition.
In every tobacco factory at Key West
there Is a "reader." Cubans cannot
talk without gesticulating, and in order
to keep tlrem from talking person is
tmployea to read aloud to the hands
during working hours.
A negro woman at Powder Springs,
Ga, stuck knife through her hus-
bard's heart, and then aroused the
village by her yells over his dead body.
The blocdy knife was found concealed
In her bosom.
Smith Islaud, in Smith Lake, near
Ocala, Fla, containing eighty acres.
thhty'tivc Of which are in an orange
grove, sold a few days ago for $1,000
Five years ago it could have been
bought for 800.
The Sewannee coal seam, Of Tennes-
see, covers an area Of 5000 square miles
in which there Are 100000 acres,
which, alta low estimate, will yield an
average of three thousand tons per acre,
ora sum total of ffty-:even billion
slz hundred million tons.
Talbotton (Gs,) New Era: Capt. N.
p Carreker presents J. w. 7. Jones,
Tsltot's antiquarian, with a couple OF
reIifed owls, perchcd on petrifed
limbs. The feathers on the birds and
the leaves on the limbs lock perfectly
natural.
Fifteen years ago an enterprising
Mobilian brought little Jersey COW to
that city, and was laughed at. To-day
the wealthiest m en- in Mobile own herds
Of Jerseys, and it is estimated that
there are nearly 5000 registered an
mails and numberless grades in Mobile
county, worth near $500, 900.
Tavares Ola. fishermen have institu>
ted new and novel method eff catching
fish, which seems, however, to be very
successful. A fire is built on board
across long row-boat, and the fish,
attracted by the bright light, leap to-
ward it, fall into the boat and are cap,
tured
Rice planting in South Carolina and
Georgia is becoming precarious, and,
except in the cases of very rich men,
it is thought that the industry in the
two States will die out. Louisiana and
Florida will become the rice States par
excellence. The coast planters of Geor-
ga and South Carolina will have To
initiate Mr.. Robert Gourdin-drain
theta fields and convert them into mead'
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