The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-07-12

over 700 men engaged in the sponge
business.
A factory at Augusta, Ga has Just
shipped an order of 1900 bales of goods
to Africa.
A large Gotten seed oil mill is to be
erected at Bailey's Mill, Jefferson coun.
ty, Florida.
Eastern capitalists are buying up all
the gold mines in the vicinity of Char.
lotte, N. G.
The cotton factory at Selma, Ala,
has declared a semi-annual dividend of
eight per cent.
New Orleans, thinks of establishing
Castle Garden for the accommodation
Of immigrants.
A mammoth iron furnace is to be
erected near Covingtop, Va, by Euro
pean capitalists.
A company has been formed to oper
ate a silver mine recently discovered
naar Gaylesvillc, Ga.
The beautiful Confederate monument
at Columbia, s. c., was totally wrecked
by lightning few days ago.
A little boy at Charlotte, N. c., swal-
loved quart and half of cherries,
seet,s and all, and died in great agony.
The first appearance of cotton as an
article of commerce was n shipment Of
seven bales from Charleston, S. c., in
1857.
In North Carolina during the past
year sixty.thrce new post-oilices have
been established and seventeen discon
tnued.
East Tenness ee has county in which
four of the precincts are named Upper
Hog-thief, Lower Hog-thiel, Fair Prom
ise, and Never Pay.
Richard Paulk, white, of Union coun-
ty, S. O., has been sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary or to pay a fine OF
$500 for marrying anegro woman.
John Turner, of Savannah, Ga, after
serving out eight years of Il life-seryict
for murder in the penitentary, has
proven his innocence and been released
AT Goldsboro, n. G, a man built {
fence, using live cypress for posts. Th'
posts took root and are growing rapidly
bearing the fence slowly but surely sky
ward.
Jacksol county, Ga, is the only plac
in the South where clay fit for jug max
ing is found. Two factories are run il
the county, and the jugs are all mad
by hand.
The grapes grown by the stockholdel
of The Georgia Wine Company, locato
ia Cuthbert, will this year make 2O,C0
gallons of wine, which is the prcsen
capacity of the company.
1t is estimated that the South hG
this season paid to the North S55 0Oa
coo for wheat, $50, coo, 900 for corn, &72
100000 for meats, and about $2j, COO,
500 for hay, butter, cheese, oats, apple
potatoes, etc.
The people of Tavans, Fla, eat allig'
tor steaks and tcndcTloins in preferenc
to the tough beef obtainable there. II
meat when par boiled and fried presen
the fair appearance of the breast of
fowl, and possesses flavor almost
delicate and appetizing.
TEe new cotton compress to be erec
ed in Vicksburg, Miss, soon is to be ol
of the finest and most costly in Il
United States, or the world for tn
matter. There is only one like it in e
istence, and that is now being placed
position at New Orleans.
Vicksburg is still agitated over j
harbor, The receding of the Mississir
river leaving only lake of still wat
in front of the city where the river on
flowed, has threatening aspect to
prosperity of Vicksburg, and her ci
zens are anxiously inquiring what is
be done to preserve the harbor
The heirs of Micajah Martin, {
ceased, living in Troup county, Ga, "
bring suit against the city of Atlanta
to recover 2O2l acres of land in she VI
heart of the city. The Kimball Ho
stands on part of the property. Mar
bought the land when it was cove
with brushwood, and never sold or de
ed it to anyone. The deeds are now
possession of the heirs.
In Smith county, Virginia, a we'll I
ger dug 800 feet in to the earth bel
striking water. md then went thro
with ''. = y subterrancan !;
SS..&,Sa frma again
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