The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-03-21
NEWS GLEANINGS.

North Carolina.
Corn is ceiling in many portions of
No nth Alabama at thirty-two cents
bushel.
Y A million feet of black walnut tim.
Der ia to be shipped from Gsudaloupe
county, Texas, to England.
During last year forty.three railroad
and eight canal companies fled articles
Of incorporation In Florida.
In the year ! SS2 the Hot Springs rail
rosd carried $4,000. passengers.
The business of catching aligators pro.
yides occupation for quite number of
persons in Florida.
Gen. Wade Hampton says his grand
father n sed the first cotton crop ever
harvested in the South.
A Hawk was killed in Georgia last
week that measured forty inches from
tip TO tip,
Five thousand dollars have been sub.
scribed for a street railroad in Clarks-
vile, Ga.
The cabbage shipments this winter
from Wythe county, Va, will yield the
county 10000.
The coal fields of Alabama cover 10,
800 square miles, and the coal is all bit
luminous, but differs widely in quality.
Alsbsma has 1919 miles of railroad
and the railroads furnish eleven per
cent of all the taxable property in the
State.
]. M. Coleman, ex-Postmaster at
Crystal Springs, Miss, has purchased
10000 coccoons, and intends trying silk
culture in that place.
The Pascagoula, Miss, Ice Company
ere making preparations to can oysters,
tomatoes, figs, okra, etc., thus Offering
home market for fruit and vegetables
1T said that fifty years ago shad
were 80 plentiful in the Savannah river
that fishermen exchanged them for corn
at the rate Of enc ear of corn for one
chad.
The peanut crop of Tennessee last
year is estimated at $4,000 or 100000
bushels Virginia raised l, 100000 BUSH
els, and North Carolina $50, 600 bushels,
The price ranges from $l.2O to S1.75 per
bushel.
Irish laborers on the Texas and Pa
ciic road, from the Pecos river to Z
Pacos, have been supplanted by Chinese,
who are working for fifty conts a day
less than was paid the Irish,
The real estate business in Montgom
cry, Ala, is on a boom. 1t is estimated
that the transactions of the last five
months exceed those of the past five
years.
The Arkansas Legislature has passed
abill which prohibits for two years the
selling ofliquor within two miles of any
church or school on a petition of ma.
lonty of the adult inhabitanta.i tsa. ..'
There is a creek several miles from
Wsynesboro, Ga, which is so highly
appropriated with lime that it will take
the hair off horses legs in passing
through it.
Mrs. Eli Brown, of Macon, Ga, while
whipping one of her children, accident.
ally struck her husbands finger. The
hnger infamed and Mr.. Brown recently
died from the wound.
1t is estimated that in the two Caro-
hnas, Georgia and Louisiana, tota'
population of about 100000 people
white and colored, are dependent on the
cultivation of rice.
Work on the Savannah river is pro.
gressil 6. The jetties will be built ant
tle stream improved as far as possibl,
with the limited appropriation, which i
considered as altogether too small.
at Flat Rock, N. O., Mrs. Alexande
hollingsworth became exasperated a
ner husband, who was confirmed drum
Ssrd, and assaulted him with an axe
nearly severing his head from his bod
and killing him instantly. The partie
were white.
The original South Carolina ordinanc
OF secession is preserved in the Office @
ne secretary of State, at Columbia. ]
swfitten on parchment, is entitled a
ordinance to dissolve the union b.
tween the State of South Carolina an
otner States, united with her under tn
compact entitled the Constitution of til
united States of America" and is yer
oilef, containing besides the title, dat
e'c', but little more than 100 wore
Macon Telegraph: Out at the Wiki
s"n place, on top of Bassett's Hill, is
n'sro woman who has what is termed
'ns neighborhood, a SNAKE baby" I'll
woman says she found it in the WOO,
.esen years ago and has provided for
s'e' SINCE 1t bears a marked reser
''0cs to snake in features and instes