The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-07-25
GENERAL NEWS.


burg, West Virginia, Wednesday which
is pumping at the rate Of 400 barrels of 2S
degreeg oil per day. There il considera-
lie Excitement over the strike.
ASr. LUCE river man, who is no hun
ter talks of abandoning his place. The
deer lay waste his field, the alligators and
caamounts take all his pigs and tho coons
and possnms decimatc his poultry.
A VESSEL from Pensacola discharged
load of lumber ut Boston, and in shaking
out topsails to depart, huge water-moc-
asin brought all the way from the Pen
sacla docks, fell to the deck.
JOSIAH II. WALL, Florida's colored ex-
Congressman, now farming in Alachua
county, will realize between $1,000 and
5000 net from his vegetable crop this
season.
The longest trcstle in the world is now
building across Lake Pontchartlpin on
the Northwestern railway, 1t will be
2ll miles i'll length, and requires besides
the piles 15,O0l0OO feet of lumber.
SUBSCRIPTIONS amounting to 800, 900
have been guaranteed i'll aid of the
Worlds Industrial and Cotton Centennial
Exposition at New Orleans next year.
Tie total amount wanted il 100000.
Sr. AudusrlSE has century plant
which will bloom i'll a few days. II il
about thirty-iiyc feet high. and the stalk
upon which the flower will appear has
shot up Ia hundred feet III the last two
,three days,
ARRANGEMENTS are being effected fol
continuing the Cove nment work at Aran,
sas PISS II il estimated it will require
$4,000 TO complete the work to n twelv,
foot contour. The Government fund.-
will he expended during the present
month";
A NUMBER of whales, one Of them Il
feet in length, went ashore recently noaI
Jupiter inlet, Florida. They are new
species of sperm whaleand perfect skcl
eton Of the largest was obtained, and ha!
been purchased by the Smithsonian In
stitutute.
THE managers of the Associate,
Railways of the Nirginias and Carolinas
gave notice that after the lat Of August
1883, no piece of baggage weighing mor
than $50 pounds will be accepted 70
transportation MS baggage, nor will it b
transported in haggagc-cars, but mus
he shipped by Express or freight Al
baggage over $50 pounds i'll weight t.
each person will he charged extra.
IT is said that Mr.. Tulane will appea
TO the Louisiana Legislature, backed b,
the strong public sentiment Of the State
asking that the property gencrousl.
given hy him to the cause of education i
New Orleans be released from the bur
lens of taxation. He has just adde
property to his donation, which will il
coase the revenue Of the prosperity
Tulane University 5000 II day, bringin
be donation up to S60O,OO0.
Is 1876 there were but twenty-fou
cotton-sced oil mills in the country
During the past season about 300, 90
tons of seed were crushed, the produC
Of all heing estimated at over 5000
barrels. As the product OF seed for tn
year was 3,5O0,000 tons, it may readil
| lie col jectured that the stock of raw mi
terial will allow considerable expansio
Of oil production. About so, 1000 900
already invested in the mills, which no
form one of the important industries
theSouth.
A QUEER accident happened to n Gtt
girl in Atlanta, the other day. She W
working with n sewing machine, N
was running it Mt n good rate OF spe
when the driving-rod, which was made
wood, snapped in two, and one pie
penetrated the heshy part of her sg !
low the knee, tearing the flesh in t.
nble manner. As soon rs the brok
rod entered the child's flesh the ninchi
stopped and in order to remove
wood the wheel of the machine had to
turned by hand.
AGENrLEMAN A near Danville, Ga, d
covered swarm of bees in tree ah'
icrty feet from the ground one day
week, and his son, quite lad, clrnl
The tree to cut the limb and let the b
IL down, but unfortunately Jared the Ii
~ and the bees swarmed again, this ii
settling on his head, many of them sti
Ing him wherever they could touch h
lie tol6 his father he would Ike forced
tall, but his father urged him to find
way to the trunk of the tree and
aown. He did 50, and brought the b
down on his head. He was aung
fearful manner, and it was thought
ceuld not live.
EDITORIAL NOTES.