The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-13

MoNTGoMErY, Alabama, is getting
excited over the gambling question again
She seems determined to root it out.
NEARLY all Florida hotels get their
meat and poultry from New York
Canned vegetables are almost exclusively
used.
THE Frigate Colorado, which has cost
T,4lO,GO3, has been condemned at the
Brooklyn navy yard, and she will be sold
at auction
MISSISSIPPI loses by death les, than
thirteen persons to the thousand annu-
ally, and this includes tho dea h rate
among the negroes.
THERE are now moro than five hun.
dred strangers prospecting for homes
and arranging for the purchase of prop.
erty in North Carolina.
The winter thus far is not consi Tered
unfovorable to the wheat crop. Through
much of the winter wheat belt there have
been liberal falls of snow, general y the
harbinger of good crops of all kinds
The best macaroni consumed in this
country is, according to the Philadelphia
Press, made of California wheat. New
York, Philadelphia and San Francisco
make more maccaroni than is imported.
SIXTEEN years ago Jaw was passed
providing for the gradual manumission
OF slaves in Cuba, of whom there were at
the time about 3S5,355. So well has
this law been administered, the planters
IN many cases showing n willingness to
act even in anticipation of its provis-
ions, that 2S5,O00 slaves have already
been sci free.
POSTMASTER GENERAL GRESHAM says
if the bill providing for postoflice
building in every town having $500 in
habitants is amended 30 as to limit the
cost OF the building in each case to tl5.-
OCO and pro vide that they shall be erec-
ted under the supervision of the post
master general he will approve it. Hit.
the author Of the bill, says it will be SO
amended and passed.
One pound of rice gives SO per cent
Of nutrlment, and one pound of beef 25
per cent. And VT, says the Journal of
Health, countless numbers of the poor
strain at point daily to purchase beef
at 10 cents per pound when they could
get a pound of lice at one-third of that
amount, the rice, too, having three times
as much nutriment rs the beef and three
times easier of digestion.
SATURDAY was field day at the Sa-
vannah (Ga.) custom.house in foreign
clearances, the total value of exports
footing up s63S,757,45. The cargoes
cleared consisted of 11,795 bales of up
land cotton, and 14S bales Sea Island,
S5j sacks Of cotton seed, 6,703 barrels Of
rosin and 800 barrels spirits turpentine.
On that day there were seveuty-one ves-
sells in port at Savannah, consisting Of
steamships, 3 ships, "a barks, briggs
and 26 schooners. This shows a rapidly
increasing export trade for Savannah,
and would do credit to city of larger
pretensions.
The region around Charleston West
Virginia, is now being thoroughly tested
for oil. In boring salt wells in the saline
belt crude petroleum has interfered with
operations to such an extent that in
many instances the wells had to be aban-
doned. 1t is the opinion of experienced
biologists that the richest oil belt in the
country is in the neighborhood of the
head-waters of the little Kanawha. A
Pennsylvania indicate has secured 300,
600 acres of land in this section and IN
the spring operations will begin on an
extensive scale. 1t is believed that the
successful issue of this experiment viii
build up an oil corporation that will in
short time eclipse the Standard oil com
pany.