The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-02-14
NEWS GLEANINGS.


States lands for sale in Mississippi.
Four thousand merino bucks have been
received by San Antonio, Texas, firm.
Lake City, Fla, is supplied with ebar
meat, which is sold at fifteen cents per
pound.
The Governor of Alabama is mansion
less, and his salary il only sufficient for
bare subsistence.
The Vicksburg Herald estimates that
there are forty pistols to every subsoil
pillow in the State of Mississippi. I
Augusta, Ga, loses the $4,000 dona-
ton left by Gazaway b. Lamar, through
decision of the United States Supreme
Court.
The noted Indian mound at Tusca-
loosa is to be excavated. 1t is expected
that some interesting relics will be I'M
earthed.
A Northern company has purchased
the iron ore bed near Rome, Ga paying
$4,000 for it. Another blast furnace is
to be erected.
A party of gentlemen from Kentucky
are prospecting in Florida, with view
to start factory to manufacture fibre
from "bear grass"
A party of Michigan capitalists have
made large purchases of timber land in
Marion county, Miss, for the purpose of
going into the lumber business.
The Knoxville Chronicle thinks that
the people of Tennessee could afford to
give away their iron ore to people who
would build furnaces in their neighbor-
hood.
At Mobile, Ala, Mr.. and Mrs. l..
Gale, Mrs. Bamhauer and her daughter
Fanny were poisoned by eating hogs
head cheese that had stood in tin YES
sci for some days,
Virginia ranks seventeenth in the list
Of fsh.producing States, the oyster, men
baden and shad fisheries being the three
branches in which her citizens are most
extensively interested.
"a reward of $500 and no questions
asked" offered by Judge Strong, fails to
elicit response in the case of the records
which were spirited away from the
County Clerks office in Atlanta.
Three barges and 10000 feet of wal
nut lumber, valued at 1875 0 were lost
last week in the Powell river, on the way
to Chattanooga; 10000 feet consigned
to New York reached the city in safety
The Atlanta Constitution tells of {
Georgia boy Just a little over eight year
old, who last year cultivated with
common goat three-quarters of an acI
of land and made 239 pounds of lint cot
ton.
People in Athens, Ga, are loadin
their wood piles, A negro sole som
the other day from one of the loade
piles and now her cooking stove is flynn
through space, and she's lying up 70
repairs.
The freezing of fish, flowers and oth'
articles in blocks of ice which are use
in the windows of restaurants, makir
very attractive signs, is practiced by Il
New Orleans ice manufacturing esIas
lishments.
A fernando county, Florida, farm
made last season from seven acres of lar
planted in sugar cane, fifty-one barre
OF syrup, five barrels of mo1asses, tt
barrels of sugar, and sold 10000 stal
OF seed cane.
Mr.. Knight, the superintendent OF t
Maginnis cotton factory at New o
leans, makes the prediction that
twenty years all the mills of the Unit
States producing plain brown colt
goods will be located in the South.
Mrs. Lucinda Ross, of Monroe coun
Ga,, is sew nty.four years of age,
one hundred and forty five living
fccndcnts and thirty-one dead, and,
ing an accoucheure, has officiated at
birth Of one hundred and fifty.eight
the aforesaid posterity.
Macon Telegraph: Dogs comman'
much higher price in Georgia Il
theep. Legislators have superstiti
fear of the evil results which they
aglnc would come to them if they sho
Try to equalize the value of these
mails by putting tax on the former
Although year has elapsed since
appropriation of the 5000, coo for thu
building of the Pensacola custom-h'
and post-ofice was made by Cong
nothing has yet been done toward it
establishment. The difficulty seen
DC in securing suitable site for
building.
Mr. Hanson, President of the Cc
Manufacturers' Association, insist
me South must not continue to b
psndeuton imported labor, and tt
must establish polytechnic schools v
inc young men Of mechanical inc
u0n' "od talent may Be taught an
come expert