The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-03-07
NEWS GLEANINGS.

N. G., that is seven feet high.
Freight trains are prohibited from
running on Sunday in Alabama.
West Virginia contains $4,000 persons
over ten years of age who cannot read.
There were / 1850 arrivals at the Cedar
Keys hotels during the month of Janu-
ary.
About 100000 is the amount now
invested in the manufacture of pig iron
in Alabama. "a ...1S s s5,.'5
A bill making it criminal ofense to
deal in futures has passed the Alabama
State Senate.
Sixteen very large whales drifted
ashore on the sea beach near Cananeral.
Florida, recently.
A negro in Newberry county, South
Carolina, has forty-two children and
SM grandchildren.
A man living in Polk county, Tenn.
had six acres in tobacco last year, and it
made him s75 per acre.
A remarkable rich vein of ore has been
struck in the Gold Valley mine, in Row.
an county, North Carolina.
Frederick county, Va, has fine cloth
manufactures, turning out over 100000
yards Of cloth per annum.
Only four miles Of iron has got to be
laid to complete the railroad from Pen
aacola to the Apalachicola river.
Over $4,000, 900 cans of tomatoes were
packed last year. Nearly half of it was
done in Maryland and Virginia.
The horse trade of Texas is rapidly
growing in Importance, and assuming
proportions only surpassed by its cattle
trade.
The grand jury of Mobile has been in
session two weeks, during which time it
has examined $50 witnesses and found
143 indictments.
There are 10000 square miles of al.
most unbroken forests in North Carroll
ma, comprising pine, chestnut, oak, ma.
pie, beech and hickory timber,
Land at Gafihey City, Spartanburg
county, S. G., which was worth about
2an acre ten or fifteen years ago, now
finds ready sale at from $40 to $50.
Tho North Carolina Legislature is fa-
Worldly disposed toward a bill which
makes null and void all contracts for
cotton futures. The measure has passed
first reading.
In Anderson county, Tenn, there is
awell which emits perpetual stream Of
Illuminating gas, and it is said that
crude petroleum may be found in the
same locality.
Perhaps the rarest curiosities ever
brought to Jacksonville, Fla, are two
monkey-faced owls, recently captured in
one of the caverns in Fort Marion al
st. Augustine.
1t is very probable that the city Of
Atlanta will get special appropriation
OF $4,000 to buy land and begin TIT
erection Of permanent United State
barracks in that city.
A rich vein of gold quartz, over sever
feet thich, has been struck in the Nor.
row gold mine, Virginia: 1t yields nov
$40 a day. The new machinery, nov
being added, will greatly increase tn
yield.
The Alabama Legislature recently re
FUSED to grant charter for the Rome
(Ga.) and Decatur railroad, saying
was against the policy of the State
grant charters to roads leading out G
the State.
The Alabama Legislature has passe
an appropriation bill in favor of the Nj
bile Medical College. An appropriate
OF 100000 in favor Of the Universit
and Agricultural College of that Sta
has also been passed.
Maj. A. ID. Hit, who, in snte-bellu
Gays, was one of the largest cotton bu,
era in Columbia, S. c., and possessed
fortune estimated at 100000, died
The alms-house of that city on Saturd.
last, aged seventy-eight years. He W
never married.
When Gov. Stephens, of Georgia, W
lad the ladies of the Presbyteri
..nurch, approaching the great capabi
tles and fine promise, aided in havi
MIN educated for minister; but he, |
coming lawyer, made the money
MS profession and refunded it.
The salaries of the city officials, i
Guiding the Police force of Pensac,
were paid in cash last Saturday, for I
nfst time in many years, and the Ct
administration will hereafter be run