The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28
Franklin County.
We clip the following from the Chat
tanooga Times:

tanooga Times:
CowAN, Tenn, -, 1882. The
name Of the ancient King of China who
invented the pillow is held in remcm-
brance through n custom which requires
each sovereign TO turn a furrow, pre-
liminary to his Inauguration.
Fhe people of Franklin are all be-
coming Sovereigns through efficient
plans of agriculture and manufacture,
and Il normal system Of education
The four.milc law is wrestling with
what is left Of poverty and ignorace.
The thrifty German settlers have
proved that Tennessee stock may roll in
clover in summer and grow sleek on hay
in winter besides thirty.fve bushels OF
superior Tennessee wheat to the acre,
harvested in early summer, fill the
farmers wallet, and makes him laugh
at the old regime Of raising corn to fat
ten hogs for field hands to eat !
1t was at Cowan thlt ground was
first broken for the Nashville e. Chatta-
nooga Railroad. Here is also the 1900
foot tunnel.
1t was on the 18th Of July, 1852, that
the Iron Horse first went snorting over
the Chattanooga road. OF the thous-
ands that came from Nashville to the
tunnel, many still remember the barba-
cue, the flavor Of the roasted oxen, the
basket dinners, the lines of wagons, and
the multitudes from all the surrounding
country.
OF the many furnaces for the manu-
facturc of pig-iron, the most tasteful is
Nulcan's Temple at Cowan. The main
building resembles railway architecture.
The works and smoke-stacks, resembling
turrets, rise gracefully above the main
Enclosures, the stack standing one hun
drcd and sixty-one feet of iron vesturc.
This elegant and profitable furnace was
planned and erected under the super
vision of Maj. DUud from the Pcninsular
Sta tie, though Il pupil of Chattanooga.
Ills place is in Il measure supplied by
the active and ob'ging Col. NJ. L. Slo-
cum.
This furnace was blown in June II,
1881, by Capt. a. j. Short and Scar
CANT Jno. a. Douglas, chips from the
bid Keystone. Its intended capacity of
30 tons pig-iron per diem affords 10
ons, and an occasional chill Of 81 tons
Der 81 hours. Stacks of coke come
down the mountains from
Tracy City. Mr.. Sherwood sends rock
rom the neighboring quarries. Bins of
ample ores and sample products are Ia
)olcd for inspection. Mr.. A. M. Shook,
courteous Tennesscean, is general
manager Of that and other works be-
onging to the same enterprising com
)any. DR.. j. ii. Critic cheers the
rim sons Of toll on pay day BY the
way, this is one Of the companies that
believe in making their money-on iron
not on dry goods and supplies, like
ndiap agents. They also accord to
heir amphlbious workers, as they
merge, at proper intervals, from fire
nd smoke to breath the free air, such
berties as belong to men who know
ow to make iron.
Other industries arc springing up.
food bricks are made at Cowan. Sa-
en- huns to the tune of fifty spindles,
managed by a Buckeye and jennied by .
zeal operatives, :
The Normal College at Winchester is
rising star, molding feature of edu.
ltlonal progress, Its natural mode of
Iscipline develops manhood, its sensi-
lie course of study and class training Sc ,
Ire many independence.
INCoGNITo.