The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-06-13
GENERAL NEWS.


Alabama.by.H,2F.
AlbemarIe county, Va, produces
about 100, 900 gallons of wine each year.
Some samples of ores from the school
lands of Puridio county, Texas, assay
over 81, 100 of silver to the ton.
The Columbia, S. c., stocking mill Is
in operation in the penitentiary, and is
now turning out $500 pairs of, finished
Stockings day.
Eight. thousand cedar lsaw logs were
siued at Newport, Arkansas, by United
States ofliclais, on a charge that they
bad been cut from Government land
Cottonycaterpillars have made their
sppearsnce on the farm ol.Mr. G. NJ.
Bacon, near Athens, Ga, month ear.
livr than ever before known in tha
locality.
Dick Dedwiley, of Quitman, Ga,
while hunting TN the creek a few days
siuce, found "bee tree" and upon cut.
Ting open the same found that it con
tanned Ten feet Of solid heney.
A factory is about being started al
Key Wet for TIE manufacture of glu.
cOse out of c.mpti and cassava starch,
which is said to be better and cheapcr
than corn for that purpose.
Within eighteen months $50 miles Of
railroad have been under construct N
in Mississippi. over s2O,OOO,C coo being
invested. During the fifteen years pre-
vOus only stventy-nine miles of road
we're built.
Agentleman off Tallahassee, Fla, pu,
up fruit evaI orator last week, TO u'il-
ire the blackberry crop and fruits of all
kinds. The capacity of the machine Is
twenty-five bushels every twelve hours,
OF fifty bushels per day.
Owing TO the wet season and cold
weather large part of the peanuts
planted in Virginia have rottcd, and
The farmers are forced to re.plant or to
abandon the CROP. The outlook is said
10 be very unfavorable.
In farm house rear Boone, Iowa.
lives Mother Spence, sgod Sc. in the
nme ht use lives her daughter, aged 81,
hu grsndd'ut htcr, aged 40, her great
granddaughter, aged 81, and her great
great granddaughter, aged ?.
Vicksburg Post: The grit or sand
which is taken from the Artesian well
now in course of construction at the
flOvelrce Ice works, at depth of lGO
leet, is composed chiefly OF minute
'htlls, and corresponds exactly with
bottom such as is found in the ocean,
hundreds of miles from land.
At Gonzales, Texas, a colored woman
named Easter Gilmore went to church
alter locking up her children in a house.
About ten o'clock the neighhors heard
'hem screaming, and On reaching the
Aouie raw a colorcd girl ~ years old in
fames. The door was broken down, but
hegirl was already burned TO crisp,
md died in a few hours. She had been
holding small tin lamp in her lap and
bad gone to sleep.
Richmond Dispatch: A German We.
man immigrant is teaching the farmers
MT fe neighborbood of Norfolk some
thing about sheep-shearing. The Vir
Enan says: The modus operandi was
'mple but very effective, and great
Improvement on the old Virginia meth
Cd, which requires two negroes TO catch
Ae sheep, two to hold it and one'to
shear. After catching the sheep and
tying its hind foet together, the womna,
nt down on the ground with her legs
stretched out in front and bound the
anim'Ps lind feet TO lcr ii, ht foot
Then taking the sleeps head under her
kftam she rapidly and skillfully piled
The shears with ber right hand. The
work was beautifully done, the fleece
Oelng removed very evenly and the skin
Tree from all cuts. When necessary the
sheep was shifted from side to side.
lhe price of public lands in Mexico
ranges from four cents TO ninety cents
On acre After December 81, 1854, The
ia'es are to be raised. The land is sole
U! 'he stio, which comprises All
acres Thus a sitio in Coahula W.
,"' flSS'S5, or five cents an acre il
NeW Leon the cost of a sitio is 1882
ufseven cents an acre; in the State o
'uanaluato the cost would be sS,223.4
HVenty-two cents an acre in Sore
%s4oZ,9S, or nine cents an acre. i
cnllhauhau tke price is seven cents; i
uaefIero twenty-seven cents, TIL
p''ce varies in each of the twenty.seve
0'@', and in the Federal district it
a,.e'y cents an acre, or $4,029,2O for
''.'O' .u These rates are not high, especi
''"y IN Chilhauhau and Sonora.
''''nga sitio there are optlonally d,
.s.'ea payments, or the money may /
paid down.