The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-11-21
GENERAL NEWS,

iiential postoffices.
The stock shipments from East Ten
pessee are increasing.
The largest crop Of wheat ever sowr
IN East Tennessee has been seeded thi.
fall.
The financial condition Of New Or
leans is said TO be better than ever be-
fore
The number Of Indians in the Ever.
rlades Of Florida is estimated at eight
hundred.
The Georgia owners Of tho Refugio sill.
YER mine, in Mexico, refuse to sell it fol
/ 100000.
A farmer Of Suwannee county, Flor.
Ida, has gathered two crops Of peaches
| nom his trees this year.
Calhoun county, Alabama, is aglow
over the proposition to move the court.
. house from Jacksonville to Admission.
The grand jury Of Craighead county,
Arkansas, declared their Jail nuisance,
and recommended that it be torn down
The sum Of $5,1l6 has been donated
by the trustees Of the Peabody school
fund to tho Florida school system this
year.
Tennessee has population of 1,541,.
900, and pays about IS 90 per capita as
revenue to the state and general COVE n.
ment
Thirty thousand dollars have been
subscribed for the Newman, Ca, cotton
factory, and DR.. A. B. Calhoun has do
mated the ground.
4 The South Florida railroad has used
4 up the timber to such IN extent that
there will not be enough to furnish boxes
for the shipping OF the orange crop.
Northern capitalists will locate two ice
factories, each with q capacity of ten
tons daily, in Florida. There will be
one at Tallahassee aud one at Gaines.
vile.
The Southern Telegraph company will
reach Augusta with their wires by the
middle of next month, and from that
point will operate in every city of impor.
lance in the South.
Spanish mackerel and some other fish
only to be found in the spring have re-
cently been abundant in the waters about
Savannah. The fish dealers say the
cause Of their appearance at this time is
tho late long drouth.
The contract to build O pedestal for
ihe Jackson statue, on Capitol Hill,
Nashville, Tenn, has been awarded to
Mr ?, Swami, of that city. It is to be
Of East Tennessee marble, of o beauti-
ml pink color, and fourteen feet in
height.
The work now going forward on the
fanama canal has built up an entire
'own there, with collection of work
shops, warehouses and connecting rail
'ays for the reception and distribution
Of material. The working force will be
rgmented in December to q total Of
u 900 men.
The lumber business in the swamps of
he Yazoo and Tallahatchie rivers, Miss,
assuming immense proportions. Be-
ades the great amount of cypress lum.
Oer that is being gotten out, thou ands
p walnut logs are being cut for northern
nanufacturers Of furniture and other
stcles in which walnut is used. One
Boston firm alone has q raft of 5000
oss, ready for shipment, at the mouth
the Tallahatchie river.
The worth Of the early vegetables sent
nosfh from Mobile county, Alabama, last
sar, amounted to $264,OOO. About the
ame amount will be realized this season.
Inc principal vegetables used are cab
ages, tomatoes, potatoes, beans aud
e@'. Less attention is now given to
Sunnower, lettuce, radishes, and Gu
umOers, as all except the first are raised
! :, 'ne North, under glass. Several capi-
nun" have recently put considerable
money In the business Of market garden.
sa Mobile.
."i'aa oranges are moving slowly on
00unt OF their maturing slowly. Job
'ia are making their contracts for the
u'oy the boz instead of by the thous-
Ano clup OF one grove near San
sd, estimated at four thousand boxes,
~ oeen sold at 50 10 per box, the pur-
user bearing the expense of picking
W ooxing. 1t is is estimated that fully
. nail OF the crop will 20 to the West
'O@ quarter to third of the crop
a'., va' west last year, but this year the fa-
sa %ues are better and shippers are better
qualnted with the market.
Ing Washington monument has reach-
' neightof three hundred and eighty
/ u ieet, and cost, thus far, as follows:
NY aerded by the monument association
0l = the old shaft, $3.50, 900; expended
! Y Colonel Casey, $7lo,ooo; leaving Q
\ s''a0ee on hand Of $4,000 from the ap
~0pf,ation by Congress Of 100000. A
4 ,'pcfter who assembled to the top las
s.., ,.ss found men shifting the massiy,
."n'nery and preparing to lay the 3s6tl