The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-07-11
GENERAL NEW S.

Tug Virginia peanut crop S rotting Oh ,
the vine. Is
TnE AIissssippj lnmatic asylum has 457
inmates
Or ynginias j,5S7'schoo's, over ] 500
me colorcd.
Hor SPRINGS, ARK, will be lighted by
electric light.
LlrrL Rock ARK, is soon to have an
electric light.
Royr, Ga. with her suburbs has a
POPULATION Of 1900.
Cogy, sugar, cotton and rice crops Of
Louisiana are all doing well.
TaE genuine army worm has made its
appearance il Hale county, Ala. /
4 BARBER-SHor in Atlanta nm by wo-
men is doing louiishing business.
Oyg man in Louis county, Ky, has
gathered 900 pounds Of ginsing this
season.
NEARLY Il million acres Of land in Lon
i,iana have been sold recently to Kan |
sas speculation.
Twenty thousand pounds Of zinc were
shipped one day last week from Knox
vile to Coi1ccticuit.
THE now lnnk OF Nashville, Tenn.
will start with Il capital &C half million
dollars. Col T.. W. Cole beads the list
with 100000.
rnEEE are found to exist three cham
neIs outside the icttics below New Or.
leans. and huoys are needed to clearly
mMk these channels.
IHE City Council Of Alexandria, La.,
has decided TO exempt from taxation all
manufacturing for len wears. Many
other towns in the South have done the
same thing,
i THE Southern Telegraph Company are
pushing their lines rapidly through the
South. They will extend to New Orleans
snd have, in ALL 200 miles OF wire ii
two main lines, roaSt and inland.
II TUE Richmond, Va, nail works find il
Impossible 10 supply the demand from
II the South. Six hundred kegs are rolled
ii out in twcntv-iour hours, or 3 1000 a week
mud yet the demand is greater
III ANalligator caught little six-ycar-ol,
gr, dangitcr of Mr. Strange, Of Calhom
county, Fin. A little nine-ycur-old sislc
heat the reptile off. He was aitcrwwrd
AllS' and measured eight feet
Il Az Indiana land corporation ha
bought over 900 acres of land at Wi
soWillc, in Obion county, Tenn, an
will invest several hundred thousun
dollars in That and other localities in Tn
State.
ALABAMA newspapers report that I'll
price OF common labor in that state. iii
Increased twenty-five cents pcr day
tue result 81 the recent growth in man
hctmcs, the building OF railroads III
The wonderful mineral developments.
A NEGRO WAS killed ut q. l.. Cloud
in MrDullrc, Ga, II few days ago by
broken spike rcbondng while feeding
lmcshcr, the spike striking him i'll t
forehead and passing ON through the t
Of the skull. He died in few h"l
aitcrvarl,
MR. J. T.. FLEMING, of Rome, Ga, |
received Il curiosity in the shape g
bird. known us the New Zealand Cronk
They are said TO excel It cnt or dog
killing rats and mice 1t has II long e
we'd bill with which it cuts the thoa
lSprcy,
SINCE September lust there has ~
expended on the lcyccs ON the east III
@ the Mississippi, between Nlcksb
and Grcenyillc. over Sj0O, OOO, of vi
amount the cyrc district furnished =
WM. The National Government furn
cd the most OF the money.
TlR hogs in jackson county, Ga,
dying in large numbers from hydro
ola, and bite everything that CONF
their way. Some farmers have hi
the swine on their places thus aiili'
lhe hogs die in wcnty-four hours
beng attacked, unless killed
NEW ORLEANS is now II deeper III
Than New York. The white Star
duion line dare not load their v,
above twenty-six feet, while the FL
line steamships at twenty-four feet
New Orleans vessels drawing twen
ieet Of water have no difficulty on
ngetting TO sea.
Az experiment. has been recently
IN securing wool ut Fort Worth,
Shd the clean product forwarded t'
Ion for inspection Thirty or fort
lion pounds will he exported from
TINS year in IN unsecured condition
allowance of fifty per cent for di
grease is said to obtain.
1T is found best to ship from the
only the pick Of II crop of any fru
Waporate the rest, on such as per-
evaporation. The improved pro
eVaporating gives the fruit v
mree or four times that done by
method of sun-drying. 1t is mel
en- PEASANT, that the demand for {
ed fruits and vegetables for us
ul0ne has naynr hnnn f,u,, mat