The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-02-28

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IS to els per ton.
Rich silver mines have been discov.
cred in Newton county, Ala.
"A cotton factory, to cost SOC, 900, is
to be built at Weldon, N. C.
New coal, of very superior quality,
has been discovered in Alabama.
Russian Jews are reported to be set
ting in many portions of Mississippi.
The Atlanta Exposition buildings are
to be converted into cotton factory.
Georgia has appropriated $4,000 for
cOlored Blind Asylum, which will be
established at Macon.
Louisiana manufacturers propose to
make paper from sugar-cane after the su-
gar has been extracted.
The marble recently discovered in
Fluvanna county, Va, is said to be equal
in quality to Italian marble.
"A company has been organized in
Philadelphia, with capital of 81 10000,
to build iron works ataRoanoke, Va.
"A block of nearly pure copper, weigh
ing 2Ss pounds, was recently found in the
Fauquier county, Va, copper mines.
1t is reported that twenty-seven of
the exhibitors at the Atlanta Exp sition
will establish manufactures in tina, city.
Tie ore taken from the Copper Knob
mines, in North Carolina, contain gold,
silver and copper, and is worth 500 per
ton.
There are in operation in South Car
DINA 1880 cotton looms and los, 1875
spindles. Last year they consumed 81
621 bales of cotton. n
The Department of Agriculture has
received from Luarens county, S. c., spec
linens of minerals and stones covering
nearly the entire list.
Two decades ago Virginia bought
from New England $SOO,OOO,OOO worth
of cotton goods annually. Now the fac
tories in Petersburg alone turn out more
than 81, 100000 worth year.
of over 100000 square miles of tim
Der lands in this country the South owns
100000, or nearly two-thirds. They will
be sources of wealth in few years to an
extent little dreamed of at present.
Chattanooga Times says: "As things
are now going, the South will in the year
1900 supply her own markets with every
grade of cotton goods, and with every
form of iron and steel, fine cutlery in
cluded."
The largest timber contract ever
awaded in the South has been given to
Chattanooga firm. They are to build,
within one year, atrestle across Lake Pont-
c char "a iip1ov, bbG.''' b" OF
The great American Monthlies, Har-
per's, The Century, and atlantic, scarcely
let number pans by wICI,vuG ru. uioI.ius
some new contributions to the South
ern questions of the day. The South is
paramount to-day in the eyes and hearts
of all true Americans, and the question
how best to develop her latent forces is
the grand problem of 1ss2.-North and
South.
The new gem, Hiddenite, ranges from
light to dark emerald green The
largest yet found weighs but 81 karats
The cut stone sells for 800 per karat
The British Museum has purchased a spec
linen. The Albany Journal says that Mr..
Hidden's discoveries in North Carolina
have so far resulted in the first find of
emeralds in the country, the first mining
Of gems IN situ anywhere, and the discov-
cry Of the only purely American gem.
Capital and immigration, says a Ten
nessee exchange, are now turned toward
the South, and enterprise is waking up to
the great advantages now offered III this
pleasant land. New life and activity is
springing up in every direction. We
trust an era of prosperity is setting in
that will go on increasing until this long
neglected but beautiful land will be the
wealthiest portion of the world as nature,
designed it should be, and its people the
most prosperous, happy and contented of
any on the globe.
"A queer find was made by North
Carolina negro, who was splitting up
tree which had just been cut down, in the
shape of twenty-six glittering gold coins,
worth $50 or more apiece. The coins
were concealed in an auger-hole, over
which about four inches of wood had
grown, so that no traces Of the hole could
be soon on tho outside From the growth
of the tree since the boring of the hole, it
is supposed that the coins were hid away
in this secure spot as long ago as 1912.
Nobody has any theory to account for it.
The trade returns of large number
of Southern cities are at hand, and they
all show prosperity. Richmond, with
taxable property of 34O, OOO, 900, turns out
SS2,SOO,OOO of manufactures, an increase
of $1,000 over the previous year, Colum-
bus, GA, with population of only 7,4oO,
increased its business over 1880 by $685.
900; Augusta with population of q, 900
has a. ,OOO,O 900 invested in cotton mills,