The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-23
West Virginia, Nebraska, Michigan,
Wisconsin and Arkansas it failed by
only few votes
GENERAL NEWS.


vile this year.
The total number Of convicts from
Montgomery county, Alabama, senten.
ted to hard labor is G2.
The city council OF Chattanooga have
increased the license of retail Iiduor
dealers from 500 to $3.50.
ZINC in abundance and of the yer,
richie t quality, has been found in til
vicinity Of Fall Branch, Tennessee.
Iris calculated that the iron produc
ton of Alabama, Georgia an Tennessee,
by 1890, will reach million of tons
New YoRK's new State Capitol has
cost nearly sl5,5O0,OOO, and keeps
steadily employed thirteen hundred men.
WITHIN the past two years $500 fruit
trees have been planted in and around
Harrisburg, Madison county, Tennessee.
CHRISTMAS parties in Tampa, Florida
dined on watermelons, cucumbers, to-
matoes, beans, early potatoes and
oranges.
By the census Of 1880, the number of
persons Of twenty-onc years and upward
in the Southern States who were unable
to write was 2,9Si,3S7
THERE are now more than five hun
dred strangers prospecting for homes
and arranging for the purchase of prop
erty in North Carolina.
A HINT is given to capitalists in South
crn seaboard cities by the American
LpmbGrD,dn, which says the largest yes
sells ever built i'll Bath and other ship.
building towns in Maine, were built Of
Georgia pine.
Mr.. HAMILTON DIssToN, the million
aire manufacturer of Philadelphia, has
500, 900 insurance on his life in thirteen
regular companies, while he is good for
several thousand additional in mutual
companies. He has probably heavier
life insurance than any man in the
country.
DURING the recent cold "snap" Charles
ton, S. c., had tn. coolest weather in
130 years. The thermometer was l3
degrees above zero, not below, as has
been reported. The News and Courier
seems to be greatly surprised that there
should have been ice en- the streets, that
the Rutledge street should have been
frozen over, and that the flowers on the
Mail should have been crystalized and
covered with ice.
THE construction of new railroad in
the United States during the year 1883
was less than 60 per cent. of the new
mileage of 1SS2-only 6,600miles having
been built, against 1851 miles for the
previous year, 9,7S9 miles in 1881, and
7,174 miles in 1880. In only one other
year, however, was the mileage larger
in 1871, when 1879 miles were construc-
ted. There are now about 100, 900 miles
of railroad in operation in the country,
Of which one half has been cons tructed
since 1871.
DURING the year 1883 not one Amcri-
can vessel cleared from the great port
of New York for Europe laden with grain,
the principal article of export from the
United States. During the year there
were exported from New York in 49l
vessels 21,5i5,000 bushels of wheat,
%, ,225,G ,G08 bushels of corn, 5,052,0 ,043
bushels of oats-a total of 1,970,0Sl
bushels. A low estimate makes the
total amount of freight-money paid for
the transportation of this grain at least
A,OO0,OOO.
WHEN it is remembered that some
seventeen municipalities of Brazil have
voluntarily liberated their slaves during
the present year, it does net seem very
far in the future when n tidal wave of
popular enthusiasm will sweep the insti-
tuition entirely from the South American
empire. On October 1lth, the provin-
cial assembly of Ceara took n step in this
direction by raising the tax on slaves to
500 and by prohibiting the renewal of
slavery in all municipalities in which it
has been abolished. The new law goes
into effect on January 81, and the Rio
News thinks that thousands of sllves
will be liberated by their owners rather
than pay the tax.
DR.. H. II. CAREY, fish commissioner
of Georgia, has been interviewed down
in Florida where he has been hunting
the spawning places of the shad. The
doctor states that shad are disappearing
in the st Johns and will disappear
unless replenished arlifcially. He IA
vors the introduction of artificial spawn
ing. In the course of his interview DIR.
Carey said that few years ago he put
half million young Connecticut river
shad in Flint river. Three years later
fishermen along that river reported that
the shad rose readily to the fly, some
thing before unheard of with the shad of
southern rivers. The fact shows that
Connecticut shad retain their original
habits when transplanted to other
waters.