The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-08-26
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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largest cotton-producing county in the
Unite States.
Two Georgia farmers grew 500 bushels
of Irish potatoes on one acre Of land and
sold them for $40.
A MILL at Pensacola, Fla, has closed
a contract with firm in France to fur
nish 1000, 900 feet of pine lumber.
The soft blue-stone rock which under
lies wide part of the prairie region of
Texas is 600 feet thick in many places.
DURING the last ten years the Treasurer
of Georgia has collected $3,000,00O in
cash from the lessees of the State Road.
WITH population of 26, $50, there are
only forty-seven white men in Newberry
County, S. c., who are seventy years
old
The first cotton factory in the South
was built on Mill Branch, in Lincoln
County, S. c., in the year 1915, by
Michael Schenck.
HAMILTON, ALLEN & Co., have leased
the Mississippi State Penitentiary for
term of six years, for $50, 400 per annum
and all expenses.
The taxable property in Bibb County,
Ga., in which is situated the city Ct
Macon, has increased in value nearly
ten per cent. within year.
INSTEAD of Chinese, and to replace the
negroes who have left Louisiana as e1o-
busters, the planters Of that State are
importing Spanish laborers.
A WOMAN in Stanley County, N. c.,
only thirty years DID, has been married
three times, and has sixteen living chill
dren. They were all twins.
TWENTY FIVE dollars are offered for q
specimen of the three-cent stamps issued
from the post-oilice at Madison, Fla, in
1861 and 1862 for the Southern Confed-
eracy.
FARMERS in the western part of Dallas
County, Texas, secure artesian wells,
flowing six feet above the ground, by
boring to depth of between sixty and
seventy feet.
The Oates Cotton Factory Mt Char.
lottc, n. c., will he ready to work up the
new cotton crop. Ten machines of thirty
four cards each, and five waif-mills, have
been received.
A PLANTERS CoTToN SEED PRoTEoTIvE
UNoN-the beginning of an organized
movement against the sale of cotton il
the secd-has been organized at Edge
field Courthouse, 3. G.
MORE than 800, 900 acres of land along
the Airline Railroad in Georgia, North
Carolina and South Carolina have been
registered for sales at low stationary
figures for the next two years.
A YOUNG lady in Covington, Ga, who
is worth of $50, ,000 broke an engagement
with young man during commencement
because he paid seven dollars for a horse
and buggy to give her ride. She argued
that man who would be so foolish as to
pay that much for few hours pleasure
was not the kind she wanted for hus-
band.
REVENUE officers have so entirely de-
stroyed the business of illicit distilling
in the Fifth Collection District of Ten
nessee, that scarcely wildcat concern
can be found anywhere. As Deputy
Collectors have been stationed in the
localities where whisky has been dis
titled in defiance of law, it is not likely
that it will be revived.
The Mississippi Valley Cotton Plant
ers' Association has decided to hold a
series of Interstate fairs in Memphis,
Little Rock, New Orleans and Mont
gomery, to create fund for the encOur-
agement of inventors of improved planta-
ton machinery, and to put several lee
turers in the field, whose especial dut,
it shall be to travel over the cotton State
and form branch associations.
The Tennessee Historical Society ha
been presented with copy of the "Con
federate States Almanac and Repositor,
of Useful knowledge, for 1854" It wa
published by H. G. Clarke, of Mobile
Ala, and devotes almost its entire page
to matters of interest to the late Confed
eracy, including the Constitution ant
Government Of the late Confedrat.
States, and also a chronology from th'
list day Of January, 1861, to the battle o
Chattanooga, September 1868.
The botanical depot at Statesville, N
c., is said to be the largest in the world
The firm which controls it has now il
stock LOO varieties of roots, herbs
bark, seeds, flowers and MOSES, and al
sorts of plants for herbariums, in quaint
ties of from fifty pounds to36, 900 pounds
of each kind. They pay the collectors
who are mainly Cherokees, either in casl
or goods, and last year disposed Of in thii
way 100000 worth Of merchandise
shipping 1000, 900 pounds Of roots and
"varbs."
The Macon (Ga.) Gast-light ant
Water Company has undertaken to fur
nish that city with water-works. The
supply Of water will come about one mile
from the city limits, and will be con
Quoted to the reservoir by aqueducts,
and will give 100000 gallons per day.
Six per cent. bonds to the extent OF $75,
900 will be issued to obtain the funds
necessary to build the works. Tho bond
will be secured BY Ar.t mortgage upon