The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-09-26
GENERAL NE VS.,


The Mississippi river has 1851 miles
navigable to steamboats,, and 2O,221
miles navigable to barges.
THE Texas pecan crop promises to be
avery heavy one. The burdoned trees
are beading under ,,thc weight of half
grown nuts.
A NATIONAL bank has just been or
ganized Mt Anniston, Alabama, with a
capital of 100000, d. d. Parker was
elected president.
IT is supposed that the building of
fhe Lady Ensly Mining and ,,Manufac-
turing Company will be located at Rms
seville Ala.
The AppokaFla. canal is heng made
twenty three feet wide and seven feet
deep. 1t is thought it will have to he
further enlarged to seventy-fye feet in
with.
THE dried fruit trade Of States,illc. n.
C., reaches annually into hundreds of
thouss nds of pounds, and it was never
ilyprcvious year anything ike as heavy
IS This.
MEMPHIS Avalanche: Southern far
mers will have more cash in the bunk
this year than ever before. even il the
cotton crop he short, because they owe
less to the merchant and have raised
more focd this year thanIany previous
yesr.
Wilcox county, Ala, has baby-boy
now IA months old, who weighs GS
pounds The parents have been offered
$1,000 and expences for the privilege of
of exhibiting the child for the benefit of
the medical fraternity. They have re-
fused.
TIE Eufalla tAla.) mills are putting
in new set of machinery for making
patent process -four. When completed
the mil's will have capacity of 400 bar
rels Per day, and will be the bestappoint-
ed III the country,
The Water Valley, Miss, Central is
not satisfied with the pistol assessment.
1t says: "The assessors in this state can
only gather in their rolls total of 227
pistols We will venture the assertion
that about 900 lies have been told the
assrssors about this pistol question"
A SPECIAL from Acworth Ga. . SAYS:
Dir. .. p, McRoberts has discovered
and is now opening rich silver mire.
His show so far is the best thing we
we have ever seen in the line. He has
got his shaft open and molten shows it.
self i'll pure state rs it does near the
surface. Acworth will have genuine
boom, .
The two cotton mills in Matches have
expended in that city in the past twelve
months over $500, coo for wages and ma
terial. They have consumed nearly
10000 bales of cotton ond tuinen out G,
$4,000 yards of cotton goods and cloth.
During the year Matches received dG, ,20C
balcs of cotton, 1866 more than any
previous year, ..
THE trustees Of q colorcd church n
Winston, N G., mortgaged the ediic,
recently to secure 1920 with which t,
have an excursion to Columbia. Hal
the amount required was deposited a
Winston to the credit of the Richmon,
and Danville Railroad. A special trail
was cent to Winston to draw the none,
and take the congregation, but it steam
HNck to Richmond when it was learnc
that the trustees could raise no NOR
cash.
Ar recent cid mems gathering q
Lewisburg Tenn, 164 members wer
present, the oldest being 1O4 years ol
There were ia between the ages of 81,
ty and seventy; AZ between seventy an
eighty; 5 between eighty and ninety;
between ninety and one hundred: ovt
100 one. 0fthis number lO2 were Dor
in Tennessee, forty in North Carolini
eight in Virginia, five in South Carolini
three in Kentucky, one in Maryland, on
iGumaly, ere in Ireland ard thee
Georgia.
KNOXVILLE Tribune: Yesterday N
Southy Nelson youth of 1l3 years I
age came to Knoxville "to have his pi
tme took, Mr.. Nelson lives about fi'
milesirom the city, though he seldo
comes to town. He was accompanic
by his vile, grandson, and grea
grandson The latter is just 10
years younger than his great gran
father.
AT Edward, Miss, two negroes nal
ed James King and George Gaddis we
arrested charged with having robb
the grave of Mrs. Hattie Howell Th
confessed their guilt, informing the OF
Ger that they stole the body for the p'
pose Of securing the bones of one al
which they used in carrying on tn
profession as conjurers,' One was hui
and the other shot in his attempt to
cane.