The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-07-18
GENERAL NEWS.

PIhB county, Alabama, has bought n,
corn this year, and the farmers are IN
better condition than for several wears
past.
The large boat oar louJ ory now bein.
built at Devall's Bluff, Ark, will be com.
pletei in short time. 1t will work BOG
men.
The hydrophobia is raging among the
cattle at Crystal Springs, Miss, to such
an extent that the citizens have oiit eat
ing beef, and the markets have closed in
consequence.
IT'S said that there are Is, 200 bushels
Of corn in the western part of Greene
county, AIa., which the farmers have no
use for and cannot dispose of.
0yE ol1ngc grower III Alacliau county,
Fla, has nctted about $40, 1000 on cucum.
beB this season. He is now marketing
the crop of tomatoes off of 130 acres.
THE cattle that were shipped from
Georgia recently are dying on the Texas
prararies. The weather is too hot for
them.
WHOLESOME Virginia law requires that
any person elected or appointed to auy
post or Office Wider the laws of the COM
monwealtt. shall, before he acts in such
Office, take the anti-dueling oath.
The mayor Of Norfolk has issued the
following excellent rule: "a police cour,
is a bad moral school for the young,
therefore, boys under the ugc of sixteen
years will not he admitted as spectators. &"
DR. TEETER has entered salt apaino,
the city Of Chattanooga tor SlO,O
claimed to have been sustained by his
Imprisonment Inst fall an charge of
concealing smallpox. He proposes to
sue tho mayor, city physician and chief
dpc.ice individually.
Texas papers claim chat the profits in
cattle raising in that state have averaged
lO per cent in the past five years, while
in some cases they have reached 800 rcr
cent, and the claim is. sulstnntiatol bv
an array of statistics that abundantlv
prove the case.
CAVE ON tho Colorado river, over ono
mile in length, and in some places thirty
ieet In width, is attracting considerable
attention in Lampasas, Tex. This cave
sabout sixteen miles from the town. and
mas TWO small streams running through
IL, witch are about two feet deep.
Two of the locks at Ten-lsland shoals.
on the Cocsa, near Rome, Ga, are nov
inlshed, and work on tho third one is
progressing rapidly and will probably be
hhlshed by fall. The engineer in charge
estimates that $50, 900 will he required
10 coinpIetc the work as it should he,
ALABAMA has fourteen iron and steel
manufactures, Is cotton factories, Is
lOUndry and machine shops, SO7 Touring
and grst mills, and 3Sl lumber mills.
The capital invested in these Industries
s%,Si2,223. Employment is given g.
90 hands, to whom is paid in wages
Sl59,179.
IlIE proposed colored colony on Cum
'efland plateau, which is being organ
ued IN Chattanooga, is attracting wide
'fead attention. j. C. Tate, wealthy
"lorcl man, living on Cumberland
nOuntain, where he OWLS from 5000 to
SeOO acres, is Mt the head of the move
ncnt and proposes to sell his land to set
'S ot S2 to 50 per acre.
j. W. JOHNSON, colorcd lawyer, who
vas admitted to the Austin bar at the
PRESENT term of the District Court, has
hled a petition in the County Court,
claiming ST. 900 damages from lhe Texas
central railroad for the violation of the
Vml Rights Bill. He claims TINT the
defendant company damaged him to that
amount by not permitting him to ride in
afst-alass car.
IHE State Central Express says the
experiment. plantation, owned by Mr.. r.
o. Day, Of New Orleans, adjoining the
~wn Of Alexandria, is the largest hay
'Arm IN the South. The farm embraces
'OOa' 9OO acres that is planted in red
anu white clover, bermuda and other
grasses II is the intention of the owner
~ s,a increase the acreage next year about
wv acres which will give !, 400 acres in
haycqs