The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-14
NEWS,EANINGS.

bNbys
The oat cropme parts of Geor-
gia averages 1Ohels to the acre.
The new custouse at Nashville is
ready for occur.
Eastern capis will build large |
cotton-soed oil at Chester, ,. q.
Virginia corplates making arrang
ments to ship potatoes to England.
Lagrange, Gia, is to have a large
cotton factory.
Tn some mar, South Carolina the
barley yield isy bushels to the acre.
Little Roc\rk., cannot pay her
gas bills, and gas company has shut
off the light.
A packageStokes county, N. c.,
tobacco receItold for 500 per hun.
dred pounds.
Alamancc hty, N. c., has two cot
ton factories operation and five in
course of coIction.
A crate dlorida peaches sold in
New York aventy-fve cents apiece.
The six hired tea plants set out by
CommissionLe Due AT Enterprise,
Fla, are do1inely.
Florida w,xperiment in the grow
ing of cinch trees, from the bark OF
which quinis made.
A fruit ing establishment on 8
large scale be started at Greensbor
South Caro-.
Vicksbugirls have organized a
band of est sweepers." This is the
latest South craze.
Greater parations than ever will be
made thisar to develop the gold and
copper mi of Mecklenberg county.
North Cara.
Many fralnut trees in South Car
olina sell $40 apiece, tle purchase
ers reservithe right to remove them
when theYoose.
The Riaoud, Va, alms-house con-
tains sew men who few years ago
were woi from half a million to a
million ddrs each.
Jacksollle, Fla, has just made its
first conyion under the new law pro
hibiting intermarriage of whites and
blacks. e culprit was fined $50.
Plentyf illegal votes are cast in
Clarke coty, Ga. The grand jury of
that couy has just returned Indie t
ments ainst 12l persons for that of
tense.
SeyerAlabama farmers report Aone
damage cotton by cut worms, a means
of dame heretofore unknown; and
they rert that it has had very se'
rious eft on some fields.
The stersburg, Ga, Index.Appeal
says incest and largest fruit crop ever
grown Georgia will be ready for the
markets few weeks.
In IL seven counties around Grimm,
Ga, Il distillerics will be running TINS
SUNNI The peach crop in the same
sectiowill be immense.
A ly.genius of Charlotte, N. c., has
made small fire engine, three feet high
and omplete in every way. 1t raises
steam in minute and throws a tiny
stres, of water ncrly twenty feet.
Ccoanut growing is becoming an i'm
po,ant Industry in Florida. They grow
toperlection, and promise to add great
lyto the wealth of the State.
ia Jackson, Ga, man has discovere'
tat his stock will feed as readily o
bermuda grass as on hay, as preparln
10 harvest big crop. of the long dc
spised heritage.
The outlook fer peanut crop in var
Gus parts of Virginia and North Carol
ma, is very discouraging. Cotton an
corn have suffered severely from Il
cold.
The Rome, Ga.,. Courier says the be
evidence that the South presen
the best field for cotton manufacture
in the fact that Southern mills RI
profitably on full time while Northe
mills have to curtail their production.
Reports from the overhowed terrific
in Louisiana differ widely. In sol
places benefits are reported and crops
Jdoing well. From others the reports {
ust the reverse. The cut-worms
some parts is doing extensive damage
The increase in cotton spinning in
South is indicated by the statistics
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Miss
sippi, Louisiana, North Carolina a
South Carolina, which shows an incre
OF 1851, 500 spindles during 1881 and i
This represents an investment of S9,7t
200 in machinery, and a consumpt
OF 1901 bales of cotton year.
The ferryman at Meals ferry, on
Chattahoochee river, Tenn, found a
floating in the stream which contai
sweet little babe, alive and crow
An abundant stock of fine clothing
the waif was in the box.
In Troup county, Ga. field
planted in wheat this year which
nine preceding years has been plal
in cotton. Strange to relate splel
stand of clover came up with the W
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