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

KEY WEST, Fla, ID to have O street
railway.
MICA has been discovered in Cobb
county, Georgia.
RocKBoRo, N. G., is building a $l2, 900
courthouse.
FLORIDA is utilizing coHvicts on tur-
pentine farms.
A NEW silver mine has been opened in
Wautauga county, N. O.
LIBERTY" street in Milledgeville, Ga,
leads from the penitentiary to the GEM
etery.
THERE is a Mormon church east of
Aberdeen, Miss, just over the Alabama
line.
Mr. TULANE's total donation to the
University in Louisiana now amounts to
100000.
LEWIS HAWKINS, colored, is editing a
paper devoted to the interests of the C d.
ored people in Rome, Ga.
IT is said that ten pounds Of solid gold
were recently taken out of the Ball mine
in Georgia in one day.
A MAN in Sumpter county, Tennessee
has gathered 600 bushels of hickory nuts
which he prop SEES to sell.
Two hundred and thirty.one children
are enrolled at the colored public school
in Pine Bluff, Ark.
VESSELS are in great demand for the
lumber business at Mississippi tity,
which is said to be thriving this season.
AT the next session of the Mississippi
Legislature an effort will be made for
the establishment OF State female col.
lrge.
The Appling sword Of honor, which
has hung in the Executive Office for
nearly seventy years, is to be turned
over to the Georgia Historical Society
for safe keeping, until the new capitol is
completed.
CLEMENT CARO-, colored, l04 years old,
walked from his home to Rome, Ga, a
distance of four miles, to pay his tax.
He is still hale and hearty. Floyd coun-
ty also boasts of white man, Mr.. Huck-
by, ninety.three years old, who has
picked cotton every day this season.
JACKSON county, Fla, beasts among
other things a natural we'll formed by
the sinking of earth, near Greenwood,
few months ago. and natural bridge OF
limestone across the Chipola river, about
three miles above Mariana, formed by
the river sinking for the distance of half
mile.
The long-expected development of the
marble quares of Georgia is Mt hand. A
party of gentlemen have just closed the
purchase of two of the most important
fields, and the managers of the Rutland,
Vermont, Marble Company are now in
Atlanta for the purpose of investing in
some of the same property.
THE passage Of the steamer Silverton
through the jetties below New Orleans,
is considered the best evidence yet given
of their success With the exception of
the Great Eastern, the Silverton is the
largest freight carrier ahoa and there
are now only half n dozen ships in the
world that can not easily land at that
city.
ATLANTA Constitution The failure
of the Mississippi Valley Bank grows in
magnitude as the facts come ont. 1t Is
now admitted that the liabilities are over
one million. The bank seems to have
been a family affair, the President beng
Geo &c M. Klein, the cashier John A.
Klein, Jr., assistant cashier William NJ
Klein, and John A. Klein, Sr., as a sort
of business director. The advertisement
announces that the bank is mot incor-
porated."
The winter exodus from the North To
Florida is unusually large this year.
About $50 people leave New York every
day for Jacksonville, and probably 800
people arrive in the latter city every day
from different parts of the country. The
number will continue increasing until
February. A good many settlers are go
ing at present. A majority Of the set
tiers 90 to south Flor .da, in the neigh.
bmhood of Sanford. Great numbers are
going from New England, New York and
Pennsylvania.