The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-05
GENERAL NEWS.

PEANUT growing in Florida is being
warmly advocated.
TEE ruling price Of oranges in Tampa,
IL $40 per thousand.
THE Assessed valuation of property in
Texas is $500, 100000.
THERE are nine negroes in the new
legislature Of Virginia.
The domestication of buffalo calves is
10 be attempted in Arkansas.
IT asserted that no other state can
make such show in coal as Alabama
THERE are over $4,000 miles of un-
broken pine forest in Southeast Georgia
THERE are only forty-seven counties
il Georgia in which it is lawful to sell
liquor.
TEXAS is said to produce about one
bali the cotton raised in the United
E!ates.
ASocETY forthe Prevention of Cruelty
b Animals has been organized in Chat.
anooga.
A COTTON compress, gas works and n
tset railway are being constructed at
Pensacola.
A LAND syndicate has bought 10000
cres Of land in Clay county, Mississippi,
or $4,000.
TWENTY cotton mills in Alabama are
paying anaverage Of fifteen per cent per
bnnum in dividends.
TIE St. James Hotel at Tallahassee
exchanging It's entire corps of black
erants for white ones.
CooKEvILLE, Tenn, bids fair to be-
,me an oil region. Three wells sunk
here recently have struck oil.
The United States Court in Savannah
advertising for good, honest and re-
pOnsible men" to act as jurors.
A GLASS factory will be established in
little Rock. The building will cost
10000, exclusive of the real estate.
The plans for the Exposition building
Birmingham have been approved by
be Board Of Arrangements and bids ad-
ertised for.
UPoN therecentvisit Of the agent of the
merican Bible Society to Weakley
Ounty, Tenn, $50 families were found
ithout Bibles.
The Rome (Ga. cotton factory, which
S been in operation eighteen months,
las doubled its machinery, and now runs
light and day.
IT Is now claimed that the south is
letting to be the best market in the
FOrld for machinery and mechanical ap-
piances of all kinds.
From an orange tree owned by Captain
Dukes, of Lake City, Florida, he sold
81 worth of fruit last season. He will
b better this season.
Two HUNDRED thousand dollars worth
gold dust has been shipped to the
Philadelphia mint from the Coco Creek
old mines in Tennessee.
A COMPANY Of Indiana capitalists are
ontemplating the erection of iute fac
Dry at Memphis. The building and ma
hnery will cost $4,000.
THE State Controller of Florida has
ecided that merchants selling branded
peaches, cherries, &C., must pay the re-
ail liquor dealers license.
The ore from the Magruder silver
nine in Washington county, Ga, assays
bout s4S to the ton. A smelter is tob be
Ph up at the mine very soon.
TEXAS farmers sold last year 9,OO0,-
w worth Of cotton, $4,000 worth of
attic, $7,OOO,0OO worth of wool and NUT
On, and 81 100000 worth of horses and
hides.
im electric light company of Savan'
IAN has resolved to rebuild their towers
mo continue business. $25, ZOO in bonds
E'a % placed on the market to secure
und' for that purpose.
lM Little Rock University, now ap
aoaching completion, will bs the fines
pnck building in the State of Arkansas
-uu one Of the largest and most con
'enlent in the Southwest.
AN appropriation Of $4,000 wa
'O'ed Tor the new extension to the UNI
'c'sity OF Alabama. This extension vii
svommodate over 800 students and vii
'ud greatly to the usefulness of the Uni
renity.
MR. WIN. DUKES, of Lake City, Fla.
A'' an orange tree on his place tina
1.'aaires five feet and three inches i
s4'umierence three feet above tn
sound, and the oranges gathered TIL
desert
,aR apple crop Of Virginia is 80 lart
.s season that purchasers are unable
anu barrels, and the fruit is being loadt
bulk on the cars. One gentlem'
u0u Baltimore last week bought 900
''1 from IL sold for $67.
SAMUEL MAcKEY, Of News South Walt
% .asafed 100000 sheep last year, Al
NJ ' year he expects to have $500, on
ns lands run TOO miles in one directic
@q comprise 100000 acres, and ha