The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-06-06
GENERAL NEWS.

'"'y ' 'ho"Ssihu cocOanutS VIII L
planted at Kew West. Fla.
In one week, near Winuna. Miss
BufiH.io gnats killed over 100 horses an,
m'des.
lowdnes county, Miss, has over SIG
900 in its treasury and does not owe
cent.
The white Baptists OF, South Carolin,
have $40 churches and jS,7S2 comm
nicants, and the colored baptists numbe,
10000.
1t cost $40 to raise 3G4 bushels Of
rice at a point in South Carolina, which
sold for $40 in Charleston. Net pro.
edss 27O.
Nearly one hundred thousand dollar,
worth Of buildings have teen erected in
Morristown, Tenn, in the last twelve
months.
The State of VireiDia expended more
than a million dollars in 1882 for the
support of her common schools. OF
these 4,O62 are white schools, ard ! ,525
cOloryd.
In is found at tie South that land
planted in cotton, after a vegetable
crop, produces bale TO the :crc, where
only one bale 10 three acres was tn,
rule.
Near Lake City, Fla, is dead pine,
which is broken off at a distance of sixty
feet from the ground, In the top OF
this tall stump grows huckelberry
bush,
In 1860 thee were J4G,7 100 sheep in
North Carolina. In 1870 the humble,
was 46S, 1876. In 1880, by the aid of tn,
legislature and the dogs, the numbe,
bad fallen to 46l ,63S.
The great need Of New Orleans is
admitted to ~ comprehensive and
harmonious system of drainage, TIL,
c'y authorities have determined on the
appointment of commission TO look
lDlo the matter.
New Orleans has discovered new
thing 10 DO with lis yster shells, which
hto plant them for the production Of
more oysters IL is row found that bed.
ling them out in oyster waters stimu.
istes production.
A short time ago Mr.. Thomas Peters,
oil Birmingham, Ala, sold 10000 acres
dmineral lands lying IN Fayette and |
walker counties, TO the Kentucky aEi |
Alabama Ccal, Iron snd Land Co., fol
ss9,6OO
Tie Governor Of Alabama has awar-
ED contracts for 400 convicts. OF
'nls number 200 were let TO the Pratt
Zeal and Coke Company at the rate Of
IVA month for 6rst class hands. $l.5l
l"'econd and 81 for third class.
Adams cotton factory Of 5000 spin
aes, started last year at Montgomery.
AA, was closed recently for want Of
satisfactory prices realized from yarns.
ine property will be sold by resolution
@~e stockholders at an carry day.
The shipping of cattle from IVES,
florida to Texas has not proved sue
''aiul. Maj. Hines, of Mariana, lost
eleOut of every six head shipped, AND
.Ns before the arrival of the shipment.
10 New Orleans. The cattle do not
s'm hardy enough to stand any rough
Vsye
According to TIE Atlanta Constitu-
aon, Georgia will produce 5000 ca,
loads Of melons, or more than 100000
sparate melons. The price of melon.
noged in Chicago from evenly eight to
w'nty cents, Averaging the crop this
'of at twenty cents, and putting ] ,25C
1elcns to the car, each car will be
worth $3.50, This will make the crop
worth sl,5OO,OO for this season.
lhe largest sale of Georgia gold lands
ever made has just been consumated in
LONDON Negotiations between DR..
'0slan Curtis, of Washington, d. G.,
we representative of the Nacoochee
INNING Company, and an English com.
t'ny, have been pending for several
u0n.As past, and have resulted in the
pu,cuase Of the latter. The purchase
u',uaes nearly 5000 acres of the best
goa lands in the coanty, including
'a'u' Oh D. K. Dean, J. H. Nichols and
O'ners' besides the Nacoochee Mining
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