The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-01-01
The Missippi Valley Cotton Planters

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adopted resolution that the president
of the association be requested to petit
ton to Congress to make specific ap-
preparation of 100000 to change the
Course of the Yazoo river so as to bring
it in front of Vicksburg, thereby reclaim
ing. and making good the harbor of
Vicksburg.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun: Our
count shows that forty-seven gin houses
have been burned in Georgia since Au-
gust 81, and twenty-five in Alabama.
Their destruction involved a loss of fully
100000, for with each cotton was burn
ed. Very few were the results of incen-
diaries. In Florida we have noted the
conhagration of some six or ten.
Richmond Va,) Wing: During the
past month the total receipts in the city
from the MOflet-register tax were ST.
735 80. In the city there were 296 alco-
holc registers, upon which were record
ed 90,73l drinks sold 23l malt regis
tiers, which recorded "A, S64 drinks. Tax
on alcoholic drinks, 81, $50 81; tax on
malt drinks, 1914 80.
Columbus Ga.) Enquirer-Sun: For
the first time since the war, every bust
ness house in Columbus has been occu-
pied during this season. To-day Column
bus has the most promising future it ever
had. Her people are financially
stronger than they ever were, trade is on
Il solid basis and the manufacturing III
dustries never so full of orders. New
dwellings of no mean pretensiOns
are being erected.
The Nashville American tells of ia
tai cutting affray at the Htna coal
mines, on the Chattanooga road, Sum
day, in which a man named Barnes was
disemboweled by another miner, who
cut an eight-inch cash across his abdo-
men. The mans bowels fell out and so
remained until the arrival of physi-
elan, six hours after. 1t was also ascer-
tanned that Barnes liver had been cut
in two.
Knoxville Tribune: The luIl in the
manufacture and sale of crooked whisky
in East Tennessee, which has, to all out
ward appearance, prevailed for some
lime past, seems not to have reached our
! Middle Tennessee neighbors. The bust
ness boom in that section of our whisky
loving State has extended to an increas-
ed activity on the part of moonshiners
and their guardians, the revenue depu-
ties.
Charleston News: The Russian market
| is becoming an important and increasing
customer here for American cotton, and
| some of the largest and most valuable
cargocs which clear from this city now
90 to the cities of that empire. Mcssrs.
Knoop, Froriches e. Co., of this city,
yesterday cleared here the superior Ger
man steamship Koin, for Scbastopo', of
300 tons, with the valuable frcights of
5,5lj bales upland cotton, which is be-
lieved to he the heaviest ship load of the
staple which ever left this harbor.
Galveston (Tcx.) News: A case is
now pending before United States Com
missioner Knox, at Marlin, wherein the
sheriff of Limestone county and two of
his deputies are charged with opening
letters Of prisoners. The officers of the
United States Court hold that the sheriff
may withhold prisoners letter, but has
no right to break the seal without the
prisoners consent 1t is thought this
case will be test case for the district,
as it has long been rule among shcriiis
to open prisoners letters,
Frank Clyne was. killed at Limestone
Gap, ON the NJ, X, and L. railway, Sun
day. He was acting in the capacity of
fireman, was green hand, and being
told by his engineer to go under the en-
ginc TO clean out the ash-pan, did so,
when construction engine coupled to
his train moved his engine forward,
whereupon Clyne, in attempting to crawl
from under the engine, was run over by
the rear drive wheel and instantly killed.
Blame is attached to the engineer who
is said to have imposed on Clyne in tell
ing him to do so dangerous an act.
Mr.. G. A. Hurst, of England, is now
on his way to the Virgnias to purchase
land for 5000 of his country men, who
desire homes in the United States. He
has bought $4,000 acres of land in West
Virginia, and will probably settle all the
colonists in the two States. During the
past ten years several thousand English
immigrants have settled in Virginia
As nearly all the settlers were industri-
Gus and energetic and had money enough
to buy land and stock, they have done
well for themselves and proved a valua-
BILE acquisition to the State.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser; The
use of commercial fertilizers in Georgia,
during the last thirteen years, has been
ON n scale that really looks enormous to
outsiders. 1t is stated, upon what seem
reliable authority, that Georgia soil ha
been dosed with $4,000 tons. The cos
thereof has been 49,, 100000, And yet
Gcorgans, who should know, say that
this vast expenditure of muscle and
means upon the agricultural interest OF
the Empire State has not been labor lost
nor money thrown away. 1t is claimed
that is has been a very fine investment.
Charlotte On. c. Observer: On ac-
count of the low price Of labor, which is
at least thirty-three per cent. below It's
price at the north, our manufacturers
here can compete successfully with New
England mills, and still have very
pretty margin of profit. OF the fifty
five cotton factories in North Carolina,
twenty-six of them built since 1870, not
one that has been managed right has
failed to make money. 1t is true that
many of them have absorbed their clear
profits in the purchase of new machinery
or in other Improvements, but money
has been made all the same.
Memphis Ledger: The nigh price of
fuel and steep wages of laborers is an i'm
mcnse feature in the expenses OF Miss