The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-11-14
GENERAL NEWS.

OVER 5,0O0.000,0)O feet + long-leaf
oincs are now standing in North Caro-.
na.
APALATcmcoLA, Florida, is soon to
have al oyster canning house in opera.
ton.
Is Selma, Alabama, forty-six leading
business houses, during the past year,
did a business Of $l1 SlLS50.
SINGLE pumpkin vine On the farm
Of DR.. w. NJ Clark, six miles south Of
Nashville, bore sixty-nino pumpkins.
TeErico crop just hHr,csted is report
oil to be the largcs ever made in the
parish OF Jefferson, Louisiana.
Tag crJp Of honey for the present
,eason at New Smyrna, Fla, amounted to
1870 barrels.
EGHrEEy THOUSAND and eghty-siy
homesteads have been entered in Florida
during the year.
Ex-Gov BRowS, Of Georgia i, to get
$4,000 per year as President Of the
Florida ship canal.
A FRANKLIN county Tenn farmer re.
allied the past season 5000 from eighty
acres OF strawberries
BY the Mississippi overflow of las.
year, Louisiana claims TO have been
damaged 10 tho extent of SGO,OOO,OOO
An inpccunious old lady of Augusta.
Ga, has subscribed SO to mission work
and expects to cam The money by wash.
Ing clothes.
New ORLEANS is preparing energeti
cally flr the worlds fair, to be held in
that city from December, 1881, to the
end of May, 1855.
The last census of Alabama, shows
an aggregate gain OF G,02l white. 1891
colared voters in the last decade that
cannot read or write.
W.J. BARLOW, Of Live Oak, Fla. is
lO2 years old. His father lived {, the
age of 1OG, and his grandfather, it is
said, was l26 years cid when he died.
The whole number Of postoflices in
the United States, ut the end Of June
last, WIS 47,s63; increase during the
year. 1892
IT is said that thousand Mormon con.
verts will leave Chattanooga next month,
for Utah. They are from different points
of the south
THE total cost of transporting the
mails, by all methods, for the past year,
was SO, 1881, 800, an increase over the
preceding year of s253,SF.
The Chinese are swarming into San
Francisco and other points along tee Pa
coast, upon traders certificates" issued
to them by the Chinese government,
CHAMBERS county, Aa., has brag
club Of cotton pickers, which in one day
lately had a cayy game, scoring an
average of 800 pounds to each picker.
AGREEABLE to an ordicance passed in
Montgomery, Ala, the chief of police
has notified ncwsdealcrs that no h,era-
ture Of an obscene character can be sold
in that ty.
THREE years ago, a dozen houses and
asmal frame depot building constituted
Big Lick station, fifty miles southwest Of
Lynchburg, Va To-day the same place
has 5000 inhabitants.
FIVE hundred Catholic children at
Lercdo, Texas, are about to DO deprived
OF educational advantages because the
Catholic clergy will not allow them t.
attend the public schools.
THE schooner Alfred Wilson gathered
wo hundred and eighty bundles Of
pongcs, ut the mouth of the Osela
liver, Florida, last week. Her cargo
brought $4,000.
HENrY FRErcKs, Of Pennsylvania, is
looking for tea farm in the South. Ie-
Due has said that tea will flourish in AL
bama and Georgia, and the experiment
stobe made at an early day.
The ship Silvertown, from London,
vessel of 3.72l tons not, and 4,9l3 tons
Gross whose length is 33S feet, beam 81
ieet, and depth of hold 34l feet, has
sdey passed the ietties and landed at
tho docks at New Orleans.
The manufacture of starch is about
70 bee me a considerable industry in the
Vlcltty of Seneca Lake, Fla. A starch
factory is to by started there, and seve-
@parties are preparing for IN extensive
cultivation OF cassava
NEXT month the people OF New York
vote 'or or against the proposition TO
abolish convict labor in the State pri-
sons, Last year tho entire cost Of main
tanning the State prisons was paid by the
work Of the convicts. The amount was
,Al5,66O.
HE New Orleans Picayune says that
ELK culture has rapidly developed in
Louisiana along the Gulf coast, within
@e,past eighteen months, and that the
product Of the region around Thibo-
meanwhile commands the highest price
In the market
IN New Orleans. there is now on exhi
pltl0n n bnis of ro,,, all r.>> oa.ao,,,