The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-30

"hu obiy oui'iNihB uauBhtOi, "AN
at Georgetown in utter deshtution, was
70 years old Thursday, and Congressman
Potter sent her $3.50 as a present and
said that if Congress didn't take care Of
her for life he would.
The production of syrup in South
Georgia, owing to the killing of the cane
by fros Is, will be shorter than for several
years. stubble was the only hope for
seed, and this has been killed by the late
frosts, which will extend the shortness
into next years crop, owing to the lack
Of seed.
The coolest day in the history Of
Mon gomery, Alabama, was the 3D. day
of February, 1886, forty-eight years ago,
when the thermometer froze down TO
zero, point which it has never since
touched. The driver of u stage from
Selma to Montgomery was frozen on the
box of his coach.
No passenger riding in q passenger
train was killed last year in Massachu-
sets except from his own fault, As
there we're over Gl,0O0,O 900 passengers
carried an average distance of Is miles
each, this is o remarkable record. One
passenger was killed upon o freight
train, where he was riding contrary tc
rule.
THE balance Of trade for the year 1889
is more than $lO0,0a0,000 in our favor
since ths United States sent abroad pro
duce and merchandise worth SSl3. l66
1873, receiving from foreign ports ship
ments worth $72O,762 1927. New Yorl
City receives about two-thirds of all tht
imports and dispatches about 46 per cen
of all the rest
Mr.. JOHN SHIRLEY, one Of the larges
landowners in Australia, has just pur
chased from the Southern Pacific railroa(
ali the camels used by that company il
carrying goods and freight across tn
deserts Of Arizona. There are about 50t
animals now living. Mr.. Shirley intend
shipping them to Australia, where h
will use them for carrying purposes OIL
his cattle ranches.
Advices from Mobile say the late COLI
snap caused immense damage in tina
section. The loss TO orange groves is es
timated at nearly $1,Q0 900, and til
value of the vegetables k lied in Mobil
groves in Florida, but many orang
growers profted by the signal serviC
warning and built fires in their grove
d thus saved their trees.
TIE new postoflice at Atlanta, Geo
gia, cost $275, 900. Offices in other cite
cost as follows, the cost of the site NJ
being included: Cairo, Illinois, $2Sj, ,0OO
Des Moines, Iowa, $3.50, 600; Fall Rive
Massachusetts,, 100000; Hmtfor'
Connecticut, $l3S,OO0 city of muc
less population than Detroit lndianap
lis, $4,000; Knoxville, Tennessee
$3.50, 600 Madison, Wisconsin, 1914, ,OOt
Mobile, 1854, 900; Nashville, S4O5,00
Raleigh, North Carolina, $34l,0OO;
Paul, $445, 900.
Ir is estimated that 10000 rabbi
have been sold in Nashville during /
present winter. Between $4,000 a
S.. 900 must have been realized from t
, sale of these animals from tho oleni
\ of the season to the present time.
number of hunters make regular bu
, ness Of supplying Nashville with rab'
. meat. They have dogs trained for t
] purpose, and manage to capture go
q many rabbits in day. Sometimes
I single shot will k Il rabbit, no mat
: how small the shot or where it strib
p the animal
n The late news from Egypt is imp'
: tant Virtually there is no longer
0 Egyptian Government although th'
t are nominally an L yptian Khedive a
Premier. The decisive step taken
8 the English Ministry, nastened by
d patent schemes of the French, set
l. henceforth the British policy with rel
'f ence to this country By ordering
n ! abandonment cf Khartoum and
, Soud n, England now takes on her
6 the defense lower Egypt, and, at
:. same time, assumes its government. .
o. nexstion is practically inevitable 500
, or later