The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-01-03
NEWS GLEANINGS.

A factory for making illuminating
and lubricating oil out of cotton seet
has been started at New Orleans.
or sixty one prisoners working eu1
6ues in the chain-gang on the streets Of
Atlanta, twenty seven are women.
An unusual amount of cotto remains
uppicked in Alabama, and that picked
and packed is being held by planters TO,
better prices.
The South Carolina Legisla ture has
pas.ed a bill raising the limit Of interest
on money to ten Per cent. The limi,
heretofore has been seven pei cent
The New Orleans street railway COM
pany have begun using a patent car
starter, which takes away the strain on a
car mule and necessarily ligblens its Ia
bOr.
Mississippi has l,479 manufac ur'ng
Establishments, with capital Of s4,iT.-
ono. They employ 5,S27 persons, and
produces goods worth 81, 495, 1872 per an
mum.
| Austin Statesman Texas has 81, 600, :
0 0 lying idle in her treasury. She
owes $5,oon, 900, but her credit is So
eood ,hst creditors ask 81 40 for bonds,
! and she declines to pay forty-cent
premium on them.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: A bill
has been introduced in the Senate ap-
propriating for the next two years she
sum of 5000 per annum for the compile
ton Of the geological and agricultural
survey Of the State.
Atlanta Constitution Yesterday NJ
W. 3. Burke received an order from
George Earl Church, Of Providence, for
lVOOD twenty'dolar Confederate bills.
to be used for advertising purposes. Mr..
Burke filed the order, and has $3.000,-
900 left.
Richmond Va Dispatch: The agita.
ton of the tobacco tax question in Con-
ezess has had fearful effect upon the
factories here, In tie uncertainty pre-
vailing manufacturers do not know
what to do. Most of them have sus-
pended operations.
The Supreme Court Of Tennessee is
over four years behind the docket, and
the lawyers Of Nashville met and ap-
pointed committee to devise some ways
and means to obtain relief for the court
4 and their clients, so that the docket may
be cleared and the cases disposed of.
At Lile-ville, N. c., Alexander Dock
cry and wife murdered Slawson Mapes
and Richard Cribs and then escaped.
The murdered men were former To- ers
Of the woman, but deserted her, and,
becoming incensed at them, she confess
ed her former guilt to her husband, urg
. ing him to kill the men, which he did
with an axe.
The Rugby Colony, in Tennessee, has
taken new lease Of life. A great deal
ofland has been sold recently for fruit
raising purposes, large csnping factory
i being built, new settlers are constant.
" coming in, the schools are 1our h
ing, new lusine b. Uses are being erect.
ed and everything points toward the
future successes Of the colony,
Savannah, News: Uncle Sans mail
Yesterday contained tie l'ng |, oked for
reccgniti' n Of the late Conf, dercy in the
n shape Of ten-cent Confederate stamp,
with ex.President Davis face upon 1t,
'upoe a registered letter. The letter was
sent by merchant in Wiregrass, Ga, to
another in this city, and had safely run
the gauntlet of two United States Post.
masters.
Wolfe Trap lighthouse, on Chesapeake
Day Mathews county, Va, is infested
oy ghost, which drives keepers Of the
l'ght house out as quickly as they are
engaged. One night recently daughter
o. the then keeper was slapped in the
iaee while asleep, and for hours after
pore the prints of the ghostly fingers or
ner cheek. The haunted house has rails
% quite sensation in the county.
Athens, Ga, lisa city of modern Sam
'ona One man named Jacks carries 81,
Iull bags Of shot in each hand with ease
snd can hold out three bags at arm
length I; VIM. Beuse lifts a key of bee
over bis head with one hand without tn
same touching his head in being raised
Judge Nicholson has taken large anv
N each hand and carried them across
room; Wyatt Uphaw, colored, has beef
seen to carry a bale of cotton on hi
snoulders, and a man named Harrison
carried three sacks Of salt, weighing 20
pounds each, on his shoulders at on
time.
Savannah News: The results Of Grim
Georgia, as CLEANED from the atati
Tics contained in the report of the keel
q Of the Georgia Penitentiary, sho
'ne following facts: One hundred con
vets are there Tor murder, fifty f
.nooting at another not in defense, Il
ior burglary In the daytime. ssvent,
y Y sve for burglary in the night, flfty.f,
'0r bigamy, forty.three for simple Ia
esny' ten for horse.stealing. fifteen +
oattie-stealing, sixteen for hog. stealth