The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-05-02
NEWS GLEANINGS.

population of 1000.
"Blighted Hope" is the suggestive
name of saloon at Malvern, Ark.
d large mine of Plumbago has been
discovered on the farm of James Stone,
in Stafford county, Va.
q An artesisn well four hundred feet
! dcep, at Parnasus, Va has been finished
and affords excellent water.
The Arkansas Legislature has passed
bill prohibiting the sale Of liquor
within two miles Of any church.
Arl ansas has doubled her population
q within the last ten years, and is ranked
AZ the fourth cotton State in the Union.
The Florida coast IL 10 have three
new light housCs--at Mesquite Inlet, at
Cape San Bias and one mnther down
the coast.
Over 40, 900 acres Of timber land will
be sold in Randolph county, Ark. this
month under the r,yi, ons OF the over
due tax law.
A sweet p,tato put TO boil on the
stove of lady in Naichez, Miss ex.
poded with terrific force, nearly killing
the lady.
Florida fruit growers intend cultiya-
4 ting the Craze IN an e1ttnsige scale.
They claim that they can be rs success
4 fully grown as in California.
A gold vein has lo,n stuck at Gains
vile, Fla, by men digging an artcsian
well. 1t is believed that it will assay
z $500 10 81 900 per ton Of ore.
The grange cooperative store at Me-
ridian, Miss, which started business III
1879 with a capital Of $40, sold last
month $500 worth of goods.
q A capitalist tonlcmplatcs the estlh-
lishment Of larger bucket and broom
factory on the l.laud near the railroad
bridge at Ohattanoochte, Fla.
1t Is said that the Jacksonville Fla,
liquor dealers have raised n fu,d of S2,.
90 with which to pay lawyers TO contest
the validity Of the new liquor law.
After protracttd suspension, it Is
faid the Roan iron-wolks, at Chatt; moo.
ga will resume operations this week,
furnishing employment to many people.
Some valuable phosphate beds have
been discovered in Florida, which will
before long be brought to public atten-
ton and fully developed by Georgia
capitalists.
The University of Georgia has at last
accepted the $4,000 given it on certain
conditions The Trustees voted thir-
teen to one on the proposition, Bob
IoOmbs voting in the negative.
s The peach farm of Mr.. Parnell, broth
gof Charles Stewart Parnell, the Iri,l
agltator, six miles below West Point
Ga, contains 700 acres, and has l25, ,OO(
peach and n number of other trees.
There is determined effort on til,
part of some of the people of Florida t'
divide the State into two parts, to b
known as North and South Florida. /
isaid the interests Of the different part
are not Identical.
A movement is on foot in Savanna
y meeting with great encouragement t,
organize a company TO commence mar
ufacturing rice this season. 1t is he
Ieved that it will prove II profitabl
business here as elsewhere.
An aged gentleman at Griffin, Ga
has buried five wives, and by the side q
each wife is buried little child, I'll
offspring Of the mother by which it rest,
Some women never learn anything, eve
with the aid of diagram.
81 There are fifteen out of eighty chi
dren in the State Blind Asylum at Nj
\. con, Ga, Whose sight can be PARTIAL
or fully restored by an operation. d
calhoun, of Atlanta, generously oile
70 operate on these children free ,
charge, and they will be sent to Atlant
for that purpose.
A movement is on foot to h)l q
grand reunion of the army of Northei
virginia, on the field of the second ba
II ueo Manassas, during the coming sun
mer, All the survivors of that Srn
Will be invited, and it is proposed to -
uen Fiiz. Lee to order the Virgin
81 volunteer fore to have their SUNNI
encampment there.
MIR. Matt. Hunt, Of the Mobile al
montgomery railroad, says that the &C
ooom has passed away beyond tigur
aud that shipments from Warrior, Pri
and New Castle and other mines alo
tne South and North road to gulf pc
absolutely stupendous. Arran!
mens are being made bv VIII ich
Oama coal will be shipped from N
Ell orleans, Mobile and Pensacola TO
ports Of Europe. Mr. Hunt, who
studied this question, believes there
enough coal in Alabama TO supply
~O'Ooo of people for 100 years to col
Albany, (tia } special: Capt. John
fOrt' OF Macon, the pioneer OF arte,
Wellsin Southwest Georgia, is exp
@n'ing 10 hls Oaky Woods planta,t
uaining on the ponds and slushes II