The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-05-16
NEWS GLEANINGS.

EpGEFlELD, S. c., is TO have a cotton
seed oil mill.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala, will soon have a
cotton seed oil mill in operation.
FLORIDA hps built 235 miles of rails
road during the past year.
SOME 10000 81 k worms are to be dis
uibuted in Kenlucky.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, will probably sell
10000 barrels of coal oil this year.
A whiskey bar for Texas is being
made in Cincinnati which is to cost
10000.
PINE lands in Putnam county, Fla,
worth IS an acre two years ago, are now
selling for i25.
THERE are now l9l cotton factories in
optration or in coursc of erection in the
southern states.
IT is estimated that there are twelve
hundred towns west of the Mississippi
river, without CHURCHES or preaching of
any kind.
TIE decrease Of the public debt for
April. $2,Sj7, lO2.G5, is the lowest figure
that has been reported for years.
THERE are G06 deaf mutes in Missis-
sipri S22 males and 2S4 females 3lS
are white and 2SS colorcd. All are
natives of the State except two.
The Jefferson monument was taken
from Charlottesville to Monticello last
week. 1t was mounted on a truck
especially made for the purpose, and it
required two horses TO draw the load.
SEVERAL thousand Georgia and Alas
bama cattle have been shipped to Texas
recently. They will be returned south
by way of Chicago with some accessions
Of tallow, but with few evidences of
tenderness.
Asa good dea- Of discussion has been
riIe concerning Gen. Grants pecuniary
means, it may be interesting to know
the exact truth. The entire property of
General and Mrs. Grant yields them an
annual income of $4,000.
The New York Tribune wants cover
over the East River bridge to keep off
the sun and rain. This, with free soda
water, ice cream, a band of music and
plenty of chairs and settees, would make
iavery popular summer resort.
Col. /. r. RICHARDSON gays farming
operations in Mississippi are seriously
Httrfered with by the buffalo gnats. In
Arkansas they fill the ?ir in black
vamS and torture the mules and hor-
ss that it is almost impossible to do
any plowing.
WHEN the clergyman asked at
church wedding in Henry county, Iowa
f'nybOdy had aught to say why the
pair should not be united, Il girl arose
Ard raid, "I have-hc is engaged to me-"
There was some confusion, but the cer-
Fnony was completed.
The exports of March exceeded the
imports of that month $l6,912,703.
The teimports are still large, but the bet.
ter opinion is that there will soon be a
heavy decrease in imports. 1fso, and if
mhave good crops this year, all talk
about panic Or hard times may as well
be dismissed.
THE Times-Union thus describes
jacksonville since the close of the sea.
SON. "No base ball no yachting; no
Nving no fast driving; no gymnas-
inm; mighty little sparking-nothing
but dreary loafng and the labor of hol-
dlngup the lamp posts. Can't we start
something fresh ?"
The Michigan Legislature, as well a:
the Pennsylvania and Connecticut
Legislatures, last week killed resolutions
pl'pOsing prohibitory amendment 'tc
the constitution of the State. In lows
he Sdpreme Court decision invalida
I'm! the prohibitory amendment ha
postponed prohibitory legislation 10
some years.
MONTGOMERY Advertiser: Nov
cmes the Admission factory and ship
lWO bales of cotton goods to China t
make baggy breeches for the heather
ile South not only proposes to squee2
II The Puritans out of the West, but tn
II brlllshers out of the East. The SOut
Heelting hOggish about this buslnes
and we are glad of it.
BosToN total abstinence people a