The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-09-21
NEWS 0LEaNIMGS.

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The old city debt of Memphis is 81,
17279275.
Cotton-seed oil is now used in the
ssush extensively in place of lard for
ashng purposes.
They gamble wildly and desperately
at Hot Springs. Twelve faro tables in
one house allow 200 sinners to fight the
tiger nightly.
At last the capitalists of the North
are turning their attention.to the South.
It's the best place to invest money.
Augusta, Georgia, is no slow place by
considerable. She has 175,OOO spindles
in active operation, representing So
100000 capital.
The White Sulphur Springs property
in Virginia has been sold to satisfy liens
for$19,O0O. The original cost was $780,
900. The property contains | ,499 acres.
Good judges estimate that the de-
iciency in the cotton crop this year will
be 5OO,OOO bales-that i, to say, the to-
tai product will be 100000 instead Of
100000 bales, as in 1880.
Faom an estimate made by the Agr-
cultural Department at Washington, we
learn there are LII acres of grapes in
cultivation in Alabama, making 1862
gallons, worth SS99,7O5.
Out of eighty-fve distilleries in the
Nashville revenue district all but twenty
six have ceased operations. 1t is be-
lieved all the distilleries in the upper
country, save two in Moore county, will
have to cease for lack of corn.
The city of Pensacola has redeemed
her credit by agreeing to pay her debt.
A vote of her citizens on the 9th de-
veloped but twenty-five against a set
tlement, agreed upon between the Mayor
and Council and the bond-holders.
The amount of taxable property in
Georgia has increased within the last
year from Sl2,000,000 to $4,000, 600.
The Governor has, in consequence, is
sued his order for decreasing the rate of
taxation half cent less than last year.
New Orleans has sixteen steamers en-
gagged in the Mediterranean fruit trade.
During the present year they have landed
no less than three hundred and twenty
thousand boxes of Sfanges and lemons,
and about twenty thousand more boxes
have been brought in by sailing vessels.
Louisiana produced and marketed
during the year ending September the
largest crop of rice and sugar since the
war. A careful computation shows the
receipts to have been 2lS,3l4 hogsheads
Of sugar, 16,256,02S gallons of molasses,
and 266,65S barrels of clear rice,
There are 225 Indians still remaining
in South Florida. They are peaceful
and hold friendly relations with the
white settlers. They are remnants of
the "Tigers," Wolves" "Snakes" and
north Winds" Their chiefs are al
ways chosen from the Tigers from super,
stitiOus traditions.
The Morning Star IN. c.: The forest
acreage of North Carolina is probably
greater than three or four of the North
western States combined. What for
tune there is in the forests of our State
for generations unborn. Every farmer
should plant at least 10000 tree Let
the supply be increased rather than di
minished.
We see it stated that the advance
sheets of the census declare that the
small portion of the State of Mississippi
called the "Yazoo Bottom" which il
1879 produced only 25S,OOO bales of cot
ton, is capable, by the exclusion of tho
Mississippi overflow and by improved
cultivation, of producing nearly 5,7S7,
2o7 bales annually, or the whole present
production of the whole country.
An interesting feature of the Interna
aonal Exposition at Atlanta, mex
month, will be the manufacture of {
suit OF clothes from raw cotton in twenty
Tour hours. The cotton will he picked
spun, dyed, woven and made into sui
OF clothes for Senator Brown inside o
the day.
North Carolina has discovered ney
gem. 1t is called the "hiddenite." I
Is similar in color to the emerald, bu
harder and more brilliant. One veil
only has been found, and that only tw,
TO two and half inches wide and tw
ieet long. The cut stones sell readil,
Tor 500 per karat, and the largest ye
found weighs FIVE and three-quarter ka
rats.
MIR. Hamtett, President of the Pied
mont cotton factory of Georgia, make
THIS estimate of the profits of manufaC
turing a bale of cotton into sheetings
Cost of bale, s45; cost Of manufacturing
transportation and commissions, 1882
total cost, s6S.62. Produce of the bal
made into sheet:ngs, ss6.16 net profits
N7.d. bcluding the amount paid i
wages, the manufacture of bale Of col
ton into coarse goods leaves s9l.91 b.
hind in the place which manufacture
II, almost "a much a. tho tnta al valup Z