The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-11-14

'ne number OF sixty-eight were orpan.
Med' giving two hundred in all. Besides
ms there is territory twice as large az
oeorgia not yet divided into counties.
a WooLEN-MILL to cost 500 900 is in
course OF erection in Habersham county
Tia. The water comes t,,mbling down
IN cataract and furnishes the power
without dollars artificial aid. l. ia
sad that the stream. without artificial
aid, will turn 100000, 900 worth of ma
chinery.
Tile Louisville and Nashville railroad
company offered to present their Alabama
exhibit. now at the exposition in Louis
Vile, t. the city Of Birmingham, pro-
yided the board of trade will erect n suit
able bui ding and n axe q permanent
display Of the exhibit, and the PROPOSE
lion has been accepted.
IT is unusual for n southern planter to
make a bali million : farming. Mr.. Il.
NJ. Hill, Of Wilkes county Georgia, has
Just died. He made seven hundred
ihous, md dollars ly farming. In the
same county, General Tcombs and his
brother Gabriel are each worth half
nearly all of which has been
mr. -. r-' :"~
SANFORD Tla.) journal The contract
for IL, ale of the crop on the old Spccr
grove, mile and quarter from San,
ford, has this week been signed up and
the forfeit deposited. The grove embra-
ccs $50 trees, covering six acres, and the
estimated crop is 10000 oranges. Two
dollars and quart per box, on the
trees, is the price paid At / 50 per box,
600, 0O0 oranges will aggregate 1000
boxes. which, at 81 % per box, will
yield $4,000 We lean that the G, peAse
Of the grove this year will not exceed
$500. Gen Joseph Finnegan, who has a
grove near here and one down the vivcr,
has sold the crop On both groves at 50
per box, delivered at the railroad station
near his home place, and at the warf at
his river place. The estimated yield of
both groves is 1000 boxes, which at
70 per box, would amount to 81, 200.
The first arrival of now granulated
sugar Mt New Orleans from the parish of
Ascension, is pronounced by competent
Judges to be the finest and hannsomest
,vcr brought to that market, and the
equal, in every respect, to the best pro-
duct Of the largest Eastern refinery. 1t
was in two lots. and one lost sold at nine
'ents and the other at eight and seven
oighths.
THE funds collected for the erection OF
. monument to General Lee, in Rich
nond, new amounts to about $50, 900.
It is suggested that the corner stone
should be laid next October, and that
he ceremonial should be rendered mem.
,rable by reunion of the Army of
Northern Virginia and by ball at which
he men should wear the Confederate
inform and the women dresses appro-
pirate to the sentiment of the occasion.
THE stock for the first ostrich farm in
he United States has been shipped to
Florida. 1t consists of three pairs three
rears-old ostriges. Tho destination of
Inc birds was Sylvan Lake, Orange coun-
", Fla the mode of conveyance, the
Mallory limo steamer Western Texas
The birds shipped weighed from $50 to
200 pounds, and stood about seven feet
high without any stockings. They are
natives of Nubia, in Upper Africa. and
they were captured while very yeung by
the agents of Messrs Charles Reiche e
Brother, of New York and Hoboken,
who are proprietors of the projected os-
strich farm.
CLAY SPRING, twelve miles from Or
lando and three miles from Apopka, Fla,
is one Of the largest mineral springs in
the United States. The spring is situ-
ated at the foot of high bluff or hill.
The pool where the water comes up is
seventy-five to one Hun'lred feet across,
in the center of which the water con-
stantly boils and bubbles. Enough water
comes out Of the ground to form river,
and steamboats, have run up from st.
John and tied up directly over the OPEN
ing, where tge water comes from the bow
els of the earth The water is strong v
imprcgnatcd with sulphur, and probably
with other minerals. The spot is u ia
vorite resort for camping parties, who go
tnere to battle in and drink the waters.
The report of the naval advisory
board as to the number and class of YES
sells which should be commenced at once,
in order to carry forward the work Of re-
constructing the unarmored fleet, recon-
NERDS one vessel similar to the Chicago,
oauthrized last winter and now under
construction, to cost 81, 295, 900; one sim
liar: to the Boston and the Atlanta, au-
thorized last winter, to cost 1886, 900; one
20 cost $4S2, 900; two costing $4,000
each; two light draught gunboats 10 cost
1868 900 each. The total estimate fol
the seven vessels, 81 2S3, 900. The board
also recommends the completion Of the
monitors Puritan, Amphitriie, Terror
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