The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-04-04
GENERAL NEWS.
There are twelve hundred and thirteen

in ten years. 1t is now the fourth cots
ton State.
Tie Arkansas Legislature has passed
stringent law for the protection Of
timber.
Mr. w. II. Crawford, OF Joresboro,
Ga has bought and will plant 1000
grape vines on his pace near that to IN.
A granite monument is to be ere tied
at Andersonville, Ga, in memory of the
Federal soldiers who arc buried there.
Tcere sre 40 colored Baptist churches
in New Orleans, with membership OF
1000.
Ihhe death list OF New Orleans last
week, vast the largest since the epidem,
ic OF 1873, icing l72 from all cautes.
Dealers in Athens, Ga. report four
times as many improved agricultural i'm.
plemsnts cold as last year.
It is estimated that it will cost the
State of Georgia $4,000 to assemble the
legislature this spring to count the
vots for Governor.
S,uth Carolina hiss 2,07S manufactu.
ring establishments, with capita Of
sl,2O5, S04 invested. Value Of products
SIG 1888 COS.
In some sections Of Tenntssee the far
ners intend to plow up their wheat, as
It has been ruined by the Hessisn Hy.
They will plant corn snd potatoes in
stead.
On deed which was registered al
Dresden, Tenn, few days ago, the sig
nature OF ten persons was required, and
GU, # this number nine made their
marx.
A tract Of land, 1877 acres, on Thun-
dsrbot rosd, near Savannah, has just
been purchased for fruit farm. 1t will
be under the superintendence of expert.
onced gardeners from western New
York.
There is more building of houses going
on now in Columbia, S. c., than at any
time since 1865. Within the past yea
zeal estate has advanced twenty, five PEE
cent in some localities of tie city.
A man in tia Goldsboro district o
Pllaski county, Ga, is offering s1O'
cash icr 200 head of geese. He want
the geese to run in his Gotten fields snC
Keep them clear of grass.
Atlanta Coustition: Much talk j
heard Just now CT Gen. Gordcn's FlOf
ida road and II completed, as original
conteml lated, 70 Augusta, it will max
one OF the most important railroads i
the South.
Mr.. Augustus L9yvras, in Putnal
county, Florida, is growing five or 81
different kinds of olives, as many difa
ent kinds of American snd Europea
prunes, snd sixty varieties OF grape
He afro las Aourishing aliary.
M. Il. Hunter of Alabama, will plai
over one hundred sores in peach tre'
near New Castle, not Tar from the SOut
and North Alabama railroad lie il
tends to build a peach brandy manufa
tory.
Savannah News: AS the increase
cotton manufactures progresses at Il
South the solicitude Of the Nortbe
journals increases lest the capital invi
ted here in that line be thrown ava
This friendly interest is truly remark
be.
Henry Clay Thurston, who was to
in Greenville, s. c., but now lives
Titus county, Texas is seven feet sn'
half inch in height, but has foot til
teen inches long, wear7 No. Is shoes, a
his hat is seven and one-eight, saowi
that his head Is small in proportion
hi, height.
Elder Morgan, a leading light OF
Mormon church, ia in Chattanooga,
ranging for the semi,annual immigrat
Of Mormon converts to the Western c
onies, to leave about the 18th. M
monism is getting many convertsin t
section constantly, and recently
with such encouragement that tive
additional missionaries have been pu
work in that field.
Mr. G.. A, Pike, Secretary OF the
torical Society of Louisiana, states
at the next meeting, which is subiec
call by the Hon. Charles Gayarre
proposition will be made to exca'
ZONE prominent Indian moundSin
State for the purpose Of sscertsinir
the relics will compare with those
similar places in Missouri and elsewf
Mr.. Pike is in favor of excavating
mound few miles youth of the car
brownsville Times: The yellow
belt OF southern Georgia ia, perhaps
largest and finest body OF .unbrc
primitive yellow pine lumber in
tence. It sweeps scross the entire
oil the State, reaching inland from
coast about 400 miller. In view o
TACT that this valuable timber is
rapidly depleted elsewhere, 1t beh
owners of unimproved pine lands il
section to properly appreciate th
pertance and value OF their posses
Already spectators and mill me
viewing out the land,