The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-02-28
NEWS GLEANINGS.

The warehouses of Danville, Va, arc
bvded with leaf tobacco, which is sell.
high.
An old lady asked at the sandersville,
:, pest-office for "yaller developments
do letters up ill.,"
The First National Bank of Colum-
/, Miss, is now in operation. 1t is
only national bank in the State.
a ccmpany has contracted with the
chmond, Va, City Council to furnish
at sixty cents per 1000 cubic feet.
4 woman in Hart county, Ga, has
zen birth to twenty.one children and
s not seem to have had any grave
ID luck. She has raised them all.
a bin containing 5000 bushels Of cot
seed at Lancaster, Texas, exploded
In the generation of gases. The re-
It could be heard two miles, and was
terrific force.
Atlanta, Ca, is consuming large
cunts Of Chicago refrigerated beef,
The demand is growing daily. Deal
in that city also furnish Macon, Mont
merry, Ala, and Jacksonville, Fla.
An unknown woman threw her infant
m the car window between Macon
d Atlanta, while the train was run
bg at full speed. 1t was picked up by
road hands badly bruised, but will
bbably live.
The enthusiasm Of the farmers of
bughorty county, Ga, on the subject
truck farming increases in volume.
De or two of The largest planters have
ready engaged the services of skilled
getable growers at large salaries. II
omises to work an important revolu-
D.
Information has been received fro
ndera county, Texas, showing that
out Of one flock of 1000 sheep had
ID and 200 out Of flock of 1900 have
en killed by cola. The loss of sheep
|nugh cold will average from fifteen
twenty per cent At one firms rancho
|ey have lost 400 sheep out of a flock
5000.
The Rome, Ga, cotton factory has
st been finished. One month AGO 10
es freely offered for stock, but none
)uld be had at those figures. The stock
plders have already decided to double
y capacity Of the factory during this
Pr. Parties are examining Cohen's
% water power, within half mile of
one with view of erecting a cotton
ctory there.
Macon, Ga, Telegraph: The general
fglect Of orchards in Georgia is to be
getted. Here and there over the
ate an entelprising fruit man raises
eaches and pears for the Northern and
astsrn markets, but the home markets
y ndly neglected. 1t was not so for
Psfiy. We did not see a bushel of first
is peaches last year, and not one Ro-
fauite apple-the best that grows, in
% opinion of the writer.
W. Teeter, of Chattanooga, war ar
s'sd for concealing over his drug store
case Of small pox of a woman named
Eusell. He was taken to the quaran-
DO station, a ball and chain attached
DIS leg and kept several days. He
~ then presented before the Magis-
fsn and fined SIS and cost, and again
uaantined several days. 1t turns out
(aat the woman died of measles, and
Re doctor brings suit for $4,000.
Mftenville (Ga.) American The
[sds Coal and Iron Company have near.
\ nnlahed their railroad from Rogers
ansn 10 the vast and valuable deposits
I'ion ore in the mountains, eight or
g miles to the northeast Of this place.
ms Is no Insignificant enterprise, and
" projectors know no such thing as
|uiuie No such effort to develop the
'nd resources of our county has ever
.e'n made since that old hero, Mark A..
"oper, started those great manufactur-
ng works at Etowah.
AUG success of Judah P. Benjamin in
slano has been wonderful, but he has
~ gone beyond the expectations of his
nus IN this country who knew his
IN s q lawyer. Mr.. Benjamin is not
Y Oirth an American. He was born in
~, ~" domingo, but was brought to New
S''sns oy his parents when four years
~ his career in the Senate from 1867
i'oo was especially brilliant, and
- was no greater constitutional law.
4. ma orator than he in Congress. In
\. Voniedercy he occupied front posi-
= y Attorney General and Secretary
= oate' 1t has now been eighteen yeal
suT ne was admitted to the bar in Lon
u' ana in the third year of his resi-
aOe tnere he became widely known al
= uilst. Reaching the rank of Queen
ss1neslor, ! he attained the highest hon
TX. '0e practcing legal profession
4. ss''sfly his practice yielded him 5000,
@os year.