The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-01-31
NEWS GLEANINGS.

The insane asylum of Alabama, ha
AN mates.
There are fields yet white with cottor
.in Alabama.
Tennessee, in 1882, produced 9,00O,-
loco bushels of wheat, and $4,000, OO
bushels Of corn.
Nine new cotton factories, with an
aggregate capital of sl,725.5OO have just
|le,u chartered in South Carolina.
In FIVE years the sales Of 60 vernmen
lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Louisiana and Mississippi have increased
fourfold. The pine lands have been
specially in demand.
From the deposit discovered in 1872,
n the Appomattox river, al Bermuda,
Virginia, there are now taken 1000 tons
|unuslly or about third of the fine
bcbre used in the United States.
A test was made in Sparta on last Sat
&rday Of the amount of water a bale of
lOtton would absorb in about one.half
Il hours rain. The increase in weight
ms thirty seven pounds.
The project for a Confederate monu-
uent at Nashville Sc. m, at last to be
suming tangible shape, and if the
line indicated is carried out the monu-
uent Is a certainty.
The experiment, made in large nun.
er Of interior counties of Georgia last
ear Of planting upland rice, was SO I'M
,tisiactory on account of the long sum-
uer droutb, that very little was planted
lst spring,
AT Greenfield, Tenn, an agent for a
l. Louis cotton firm was caught weigh
ng cotton with brass pea, hollow in
ide and packed full of shot, and making
difference of about five per cent. in the
uautity of cotton required.
The Kansas supreme court has decided
That the state has the right to prohibit
liquor manufacture, though this action
estrsys the value of brewery property
puilt when brewing was legitimate.
A keg containing $4,000 in gold was
tolen from the steamer City of Para on
Ier recent trip from New York to As
Pinwall. The moncy was sent by The
BubTreasury in New York to the Unit
d States feet in the Pacific.
Nashville Banner: The present mud
He'd condition of the State treasury will
prevent any of the members drawing
he'll salary for some time TO come--and
hen there is only a little over S. on
band, and that won't pay of for ten
iys service
Nashville had only two cases Of
Drunkenness on the police docket last
Monday morning, instead of the twenty
% thirty, as usual. The sudden reduc-
lion Of aggregate wickedness is attiibut-
TO the revival of a law prohibiting
he sale Of merchandise on Sunday.
Besides 2.csnt postage, the country il,
itely to get, before the winter i, ever,
ome improvements in the money order
ystem At the last session the hou G
oted for reduction of rates to s cents
p sums below $40 and for the introduc.
non oil 3 cent postal notes for amounts
ot exceeding IS. A favorable report
H been made in the senate, and there
20 reason to anticipate much lorgel
pstponement of these experiments,
Massachusetts, has reduced her paupel
list from 10000. in 1876 10 $4,000 al
PRESENT. The persons cost the State 81
'@eoO for maintenance last year, or
* oisl, nearly, for each man, woman
md child in the State. The great CEN
" OF manufactures, Lowell. has more
paupen than any town in Massachusetts,
Many cows have died in Milledgevill'
o. account Of overlooking on cottol
bed.
For a mob-ridden State, Californi
makes a very credi'able showing in it
nnances The taxable property in tn
state is valued at s61O,OOO,OO0. The in
'ercst bearing.debt is 1898, 500, and o
0ls the Stateholds 50, $50, 900 as truste
i0l its schools, leaving only 100000 O
payable debt; and there is now in tn
treasury over 100000 applicable to il
reduction
Georgia in 1871 owed $l,SO9,75O; i
'o01 she owed s2,sOl,9 1872; this sum wa
reduced to s,67O,75O in 1860; in 1877
we debt stood at s6,544,5OO, but it wa
nPidly increased until it stood-on pa
Per-at s2o,l97,5 500. When the tru
amount Of the debt was ascertained, an
xnsn the process Of paymenthad begun
we debt was reduced to 1885, 900; an
we bonds Of the State are now in DE-
nand at premiums ranging from seve
ntwenty per cent.