Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-27
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Birmiugham is called the Magic CITY.

Birmingham is called the Magic City.
Vicksburg, Miss, has building boom.
Gainesville, Ga, will soon have a car
| factory.
Seventy gold mines are being worked il
Georgia.
Practical education in the South is on the
| increase.
Several new tobacco factories are going NJ
| at Asheville, n. c.
Building operations at Pensacola will foot
up 100000 this season.
Five new iron-front stores are being
erected in Columbus, Ga.
Ashe county, n. C, produces 1,646,0Oo
pounds of copper yearly.
The bagging mills OF Columbus, Miss.
running full capacity.
Highland rice il being successfully raised
in Nansemond county, Va.
The ice factory at Pascagouls, Miss, com
menced operations last week.
Two million dollars worth of buildings
are going up at Augusta, Ga.
The Benton, ARK pottery works are turn
ing out large quantities OF ware.
AT Lumpkin, Ga. nearly 100000 worth
OF new stamp mills have been erected.
North Carolina coast fishermen are max
erel.
Texae, it is said, will have over 200 new
distilleries before the close of the present
year.
The Ensign Car Works at Huntington, w.
Va, will probably, by another year, employ
1000 men.
Four hundred thousand pounds of fruit
have been shipped from Greensboro, N. G,
this season.
There are about 5000 ,OOO, 900 feet oflum-
Der in the nine States comprising the South
eru pine belt.
Cedar Keys (Fla.) fisheries promise the
largest yield ever had. Last years was
valued at $4,000.
The immense crop of peaches and apples
in Texas this year will revive the Gistilla-
tion of peach and apple brandies.
More molasses than usual is being made
by the farmers OF Mississippi. 1t will proba-
bly, figure among the exports this year.
Roanoke, Va, is one of the new cities of
the South that have sprung up in night, so
TO speak. 1t is full of industrial promise.
There are twenty-six saw-mills within a
radius of fifteen miles OF Brookhaven, Miss,
with a combined capacity OF $4,000 feet
daily.
The Industrial South ca Is attention 10 the
fact that Richmond occupies a favorable
situation for the manufacture of gas at the
coal pits.
For the year ending August 81, 1882, the
total consumption of cotton by North Caro-
lima mills and factories was 100000
pounds.
A new machine shop to build steam en-
gines, boilers and general foundry and ma
chine work is nearly completed at BirmiDg-
ham, Ala.
Tobacco farmers in East and Middle Ten
nessee, in anticipation of an early frost, are
cutting tobacco rapidly. Most of the crop
is already in.
Morrillton, Ark, has iruit-eanning es-
tablishment which employs ten hands, and is
now canning from 1000 10 5000 cans OF
peaches weekly.
The average corn crop in Tennessee is
10000, 900 bushels, but it will reach 00,00O,
600 bushels this year. The wheat crop will
reach nearly 100000 bushels.
Mattresses made of needles from South
Carolina pine boughs are said 10 cure pull
naonary and rheumatic ailments, and an
active trade in them has been established.
The Memphis and New Orleans railroad
is TO be finished aud in running order by the
LIST of September, 1888. II is 10 be thor
oughly equipped, and will be steel-railed
throughout.
The progress Of railroad buildin. and
railroad business in the South last year was
Unprecedented. About 1900 miles of road
were put in operation, and the gross earnings
amounted to sos, 100000.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad is preparing for complete exhibit
of the ores, tim Der and agricultural products
along its line at the New England exhib;-
lion, to be hold at Boston this fall.
The State Fair at Richmond, Va, will be-
gin November LIST and last three days. The
Hon. James G. Blaine will deliver the adj
dress on the occasion. The Virginia farmers
have been blessed with a splendid crop this
year.
The crop of sugar made in Louisiana |
Turing the season of 1872 amounted TO |
I59, S74, $50 pounds, equivalent to 122 9S2 |
logsheads. The production of molasses |
mounted TO 1851 ,l04 gallons, or 206,l 94 |
A weed far superior TO oakum has been
discovered in Putnam county, Fla, which,
tfter being put through a process, proved
he above assertion. A stock company is
,eing formed for the purpose of utilizing it.
The weed is found in abundance.
Many new cotton mills have been built
md are being built in North Carolina. In
$40 there were thirty-three mills, with 49,,
81 spindles and 6lS looms. Ths number Of
Mills now is sixty-six, with 1912 spindles
nd 2714 looms. In other words, the facili-
les have increased over fourfold.
The State of Georgia is progressing most
in its agriculture as well as
Is manufactures. The estimated corn crop
mis- year is So, 000,0 coo bushels, which is nearly
ouble what it was last year. The cotton
rop increased from 473, 943 bales in 1870 to
IA, 1913 bales i'll 1880; and there has been
eady increase in the number of nearly all
inds of farm animals.
Mr.. J. J. Norman, a farmer OF Butler
ouuty, Ala, has invented portable plank
nee and had il patented. The panels work
Ito each other by system of lock notches.
nd though the fence is perfectly stable and
ith very few minutes work Mr.. Norman
Tvs that the whole cost of fencing section
land is $780, or 5 % per acre.
Aberdeen, Miss, has an incorporated silk
,mpaEy, whose general manager in his
rmer capacity Of agent of the Agricultu-
Il Society of France, has visited Chins.
apan, and all other countries where silk is
with view to learn the best
,rieties of mulberry, and the best stocks of
TX worms. He has for the past ten years
ZEN engaged in establishing silk culture in
is country. He states that he believes the
,uthern States better adapted to the profit !
lie cultivation of silk than any country in
hich silk is cultivated at the present time.
sWHY is Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- '
BILE Compound like the Mississippi river {
a spring freshet? Because the immense {
'lume of this healing river moves with |
oh fr1U, MT 4 al HI