The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-10-24
GENERAL NEWS.


40 Of whom are women.
NorH CAEoLISA has III tobacco rac-
tories.
THE now woolcn mills ut Richmond,
Va, cover half an acre Of ground.
TIE sugar cane crop Of Alabama is
almost au cnt re- failure around Eufaula,
Ala.
TnE increase in the taxable property
Of Georgia last year was nearly 500, ,0O0,-
900
CITIES in the south are growing 30 fast
that they must be supplied with street
railways.
TuE demand for public land in Missis-
sppi for the last few months has been
unprecedented.
LAND is now selling IN Moniclair, Fla.
for $500 per acre, which only cost s. an
acre one year ago.
MoGE dwelling houses have been cree
ted in Richmond, Va, this year than any
like period Of her history.
TIE Georgia Senate has selected Mrs.
J. r. Gregory, Of Atlanta, 10 paint por-
trait Of Alex. II. Stephens.
Ar the Tracy, Tenn, coal mines, on
Cumberland mountain, $50 hands are
employed, ard l0i coke ovens in use.
JAAANEsE pclsimmCrs arc pr dnccd
in Florida TO measure nine inches in cir
cumicrcncc and weigh eight ounces.
TnE southern states have pine timber
enough to last the whole country, at the
present rate of consumption, $50 years.
TWENTY establishments in Richmond,
Va. manufacture agricultural implements
anil other machinery, employing $500
hands.
ONsomc plantations near Montgomery,
Ala, water for drinking purposes is
hauled distance Of three miles. Some
parties haul it from the city.
ORANGES in Florida are bursting and
dropping from the trees This il sup
posed to he the result Of so much wet
weather following n severe drou.h.
Mr.. BLAIDsDELI, Congregational
minister from Vermont, hrs settled at
Tayarcs, Fla, with 200 colonies of bees.
His purpose IS to breed Ices for cxpor-
htion.
A pERsnMoN grown on the place of
Mrs. Hoover, near Jacksonville, Fla,
measures three and n half inches in di-
ametcr and seven inches i'll circumlcr-
ence.
THE experiment Of making glass from
natural glass, has been successfully tried
at Wcllsburg, w. Va. The new process
is said to he much cheaper and to make
better and clearer glass.
Ar Bcbcc, Ark, nursery has been
established on n colossal scale to grow
shade and ornamental park trees. Re
Gently Atlanta's authorities have purchn-
scd 5000 young plants Of the umbrella
palm variety 10 plant in their streets for
shade.
A CORRESPONDENT tells how they sell
"moonshinc" whiskoy in North Carolina:
"On the roadside II big horn is hung to
tree. You blow n blast and n girl steps
out and tells you to put your hand into
her pocket. You comply You drop
some money into the pocket and take
out your bottle and 60. Flirting is at
your peril, for six-foot moonshiner is
in point-blank range with his hand on
the trigger of his persualer.
INFORMATION has been received at the
Office of the National Cotton Planters
Association that if competitive trial OF
lutte dccorticators can he had at the
coming p anters' Convention, to be held
in Vicksburg on the 21st of November,
that Hon. George West, member OF Co -
gress from New York, and the iute man,
uiacturers of the North will be present
with Mt least $40, 900 in premiums to the
successful machine. The Northern man
uiacturcrs will be willing to pay twice
tlssum for the patent right on such {
Tachine.
THE rice planters of the Cape Feal
river have been very much encouraged
of late years, and the interest in the bus
iness has gradually increased from abou
5000 bushels in 1870 to rbout 65,00O il
1882, with prospect of still larger in
crease In 1888 but the late storm ant
consequent high tides, with the heav.
rains since, have damaged the crop yer,
heavily, by which ut least twenty-five
per cent of the entire crop, it is cstima
ted, was destroyed. But for the storm
the crop would have yielded so, 900 bush
els.
New ORLEANS is seriously considerin
the propriety Of the general crematio
Of its dead. Its peculiar situation, tn
nearness of the water to the surface {
the ground, and the danger of yellow f'
yer, are making the cxpediency of tn
quick combustion of bodies by fire, IL
stead of their slower disintegration /
oxygen in the ground, a question OF Il
near future. The recent demonstrate
that the soil Of yellow fever cemeteries
I'M 4..1 N Al