The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-08-29
GENERAL NE VS..

toa village recently located on Indian
river, Fla.
ARG tree at Micanopy, Fla., leals
fit bushels of figs every year.
The Illinois Central railroad shops at
Water Valley, Miss, are turning cut
tour twcnty-ton coal cars every twenty
four hours.
IT is reported from San Francisco
that in the last ten years $G.O0O,O00
worth Of opium has been smuPgled into
that port.
FoRrY-TIREE cities and towns in Tex
as assumed separate control Of their
schools and will conduct them indcpcrd-
ent Of State system.
The German carp sent to Florida hy
the Fish Commission does not thrive in
the everglades. The Alligatols scare
them to death and the turtles eat them
A MINING company have sunk shaft
near Cold Springs, Greene county, Tenn.
to the depth of six feet in It rock. and
have struck large vein Of silver that
pays at that depth SAT- per tom
THE Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says
that it is IN uncommon thing TO find in
that city II negro who can not read and
WRITE while there is much illiicracy
among the whites.
OVER go dwellings have been erected
during the past year WITHIN the city linn
its Of Savannah Ga, at an approximate
cost of 100000, including $4,000
worth Of property improved upon within
the city boundaries.
The friiit growers of Florida are pre-
pairing to form an association for the
protection Of their business. The assu-
citation will have charge Of MI goods
shipped from local points, arrange for
their sale and secure careful handling.
WARREN BAILEY, n colurcd man Of
Augusta, Ga, is creating quite II sen
saton by his aquatic gyrations and div
ing feats. He catches fish hy diving for
them, and gives regular exhibitions
which are attended by large numbers Of
citizens.
GEORGIA has Just completed building
containing eco rooms, fer Ter cololcd
insane citizers, at MilledG,yile. After
the colored luIatics were Transferred to
their new quarters the wUk of r,mcdcl-
ing their old asylum began, and in which
the white lunatics will be cared for.
PULASKI, (Tcnn.) Citizen; We have in
the Southern States in operation, or in
course Of erection, 19l cotton factories.
This utLrml us ly twcnty.scycn all
the cotton factories in New England
outside of Massachusetts, and exceeds
by sixteen the humber iii that State.
CHARLESTON, IS. c. News nnd Cont
ner; The system of hiring out conyictS
is II blot upon the civilization of the
South, whether the prisorcrs are pen
ned up in coal minc digging up pics
phatc rock or in building railroads. 1t
cruel, inhuman and mwlcrons. 1t
should I've abolished, and the sooner the
better
SELMA (Ala.) Times. To narrow
gauge railroads this State must look Cor
the complctest deyelopemcnts of its re-
sources. We havn't got the capital to
build broad gauges for feeders for local
convenience, but we can and must send
narow-gauges ont into every section
where it will pay.
MAJOR G. X. DuTroN's twpcntinc
farm, near Live Oak, embraces $1,000
acres Of land, upon which five stills are
operated and work given to $50 hands,
AZ mules, 6 horses, wagons, carts, etc.
The annual production is estimated at
10000 gallons of turcntinc and 1000
barrels of rosin.
APMACmCOLA (Fla.) Tribm,: Mr.. }
Y, Brayton owns place n short distance
from the city, near Mr.. w, S. Turner's
That abounds in hickory trees. Some
Time ago Mr.. Brayton grated the pecan
into these trees The experiment thus
lar has proven entirely successful. The
trees atpresent are having a magnificent
iolage and they premise to bear pecans
lnhrge quantities.
AIKEN Is. c. Recorder: An alligator
measuring ten feet and seven inches in
length and weighing 800 pounds, was
Killed III Aiken county last week. The
existence of this saurian reptile in GLOW
efspond has been known for twenty
seven years, and many is the load of
oucKshot that has been fred at him, but
twas reserved for the gootl marksman-
snip and long rang rifle of Capt. George
20 terminate his depredations. Tho rep
"e must not have been less than fifty,
anu not inprobably seventy-fve years
old.
lhE Times says Selma has the most
wonderful artesian we'll in the world.
Two separate streams of water flow from
m as well OF entirely different properties
iAS effect is produced by the insertion
VIA two inch pipe within four incl
III "ue' The larger pipe descends 46(
.'e.' the water has no mineral propertie,
ii 'uu is very cold. The inner pipe de
II ''enos 700 feet; the water strongly i'm
II p'esnated with sulphur and iron an,
II .Ompared with the temperature Of th