The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-26
GENERAL NEW s.

OEN EKAL N EW >.
OYSTER canning is growing industry
in ipalachicola, Fla.
Texas has organized sixty.eight now
counties within the last year.
ENGINEERS are at work laying off the
new city OF Sheffield, Alabama.
UNION COUNTY, Georgia, has a prac-
ticing physician who is ninety years old.
THE moncy-order business Of Atlanta
amounts to quarter Of million per
month.
The large falling off of the yield of
rice in South Carolina is attributed TO
inefficient labor.
EASTERN capitalists are purchasing a
good deal Of land in Chiffon county, Ala,
with view to getting ont mineral.
For the year 1883, 27O trotters have
trotted in 2:3O or better. Twenty-six Of
these have trotted in 2:20 or better.
THE outlay for new buildings and re-
pairs of stores and dwellings in New Or
leans this year will exceed 100000.
GENERAL SHERIDAN, commander of the
army, will visit Lake de Funiak, Fla to
select site for the Military Gulf Sani-
tarium.
MEMPHIS is building a flour mill with
a capacity Of $50 barrels day and grain
elevator with storage capacity of 55, 600
bushels.
TAXES to the amount of 1914, 75l due
the defunct corporation of Memphis still
remain uncollected, the interest on which
now exceeds 100000.
THE manufacture of articles from soap
stone is profitable industry in Alexan-
dria, Virginia, the quarries near that
place furnishing an abundance of very
fine stone.
A CENSUS of Southern editors shows
two captains, seventeen majors, seven
generals and 1926 colonels. There are
no privates and no officers below the
rank of captain.
Two cypress trees have recently been
cut in Sumter county, Florida. From
one SO, 900 shingles We're made, and from
the other $1,000 shingles, and 6, 100 clap
boards were made.
THE cost of the Brooklyn bridge viii
exceed $4,000, 900, including interest t,
date, the interest on which at 6per cen
is $l,OS0,OO0 per year, Of which New
York pays one-third, leaving for Brook
lyn daily charge of 81, ,972.S5.
THE city of Atlanta was first callet
Marthasville, after the daughter of Mr.
Lumpkin, who donated five acres o
ground at that point, and 80 decided thu
terminus Of the Atlantic and Westerl
railroad, The name was afterward
changed by the Legislature.
The disease resembling hydrophobia
which has appeared among Texos cattl
, in some parts, has broken out anon
those near Houston. When attacked th
animals below, foam at the mouth an
roam over the prairie with head in til
D AIR, destroying everything in sight.
GEORGIA is the only Southern stat
0 that pensions manned Confederate 30
= diers. Those who have lost q leg aboy
the knee receive 500; below the kne
8 ,75 arm above the elbow, $50; belo
i the elbow, $40. these payments are no
@ being made by order of the govemo
h under an act of the Legislature.
IS In the negro cemetery in Amerlcu
Georgia, is cedar tree which was plant'
, in large pitcher at the head Of a negr
:. srave about ten years ago. 1t burst {
bottom out of the pitcher and rooted
:, :, the earth. The pitcher still encirc'e. t
- bottom of the cedar, and is without
= crack. The tree fills the pitcher col
10 pletely, and is about eight or ten fe
!. high.
"a WILLIAM and Mary College, Of v
N ginia, has closed its doors, having but o
,e student at the beginning of this schc
or year. Next to Harvard, this was t
~ oldest college in America, having be
.. founded in 1898, and was the only o
&c. that received royal charter. Amo
!. the most eminent men educated in
~ halls we Washington, Marshall, RI
.n dolph, Tyler, Breckenridge and Gene
iii Scott.
m.n m LyNonpuRa Aduance: From the rep
ass ihNo'''o''
"A. of the Commissioner of Agriculture
ss appears that during the season just clos
sta no less than 10000 tons OF fertiliz
led we're sold in the Safe, thevalue OF VIII
rel from analysis was s2,65IooO. For
ON five thousand tons Of ammoniated sup
ro- phosphates, $4,000 tons of..acid sup
ern phosphate and $4,000 tons Of bone, e'
hat we're the representative divisions as
md the character of the matter sold.
ON THE horse-car railroads OF New "
i've City paid dividends asfollows in the y
ink snded September 3oth last; Twen