The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-09-12
GENERAL NEWS.

cattle in some parts Of Texas.
Large beds Of phosphate have been
discovered in Dulpin and Pender coun-
ties, North Carolina.
The porcelain works in Augusta coun-
y. Vo.. have commenced operations, and
goods equal to any ever made are turned
out in large quantities.
There are now 4S,0l9 post-oflices in
,be United States. The number of post
offices has increased forty per cent since
1876.
There are eighty-four cigar factories
in Key West and all hands constantly
employed.
The drouth has about spoiled the cot
ton crop Of South Carolina. The up
land crop is estimated at threc-fouIths,
and the Sea Island at still less.
A Northern company is negotiating for
the purchase of the Magrudcr mine in
Georgia, which is very rich in copper,
lead and silver.
There are many parts of South Florida
where the crops of guayas are greater
than the people can use. Being n perish
able fruit it can not he shipped.
One firm in Gates county, N. c., Owls
thirty miles Of narrow-gauge railway,
connecting five Of its saw-mills. 1t is the
largest lumber business in the State.
Since the death of Tom Thumb, Gen.
Abe Sawyer, Of Key West, Florida
claims to be the smallest dwarf in the
world, being thirty-two inches high,
nineteen years of age and weighing only
thirty-seven pounds.
The Georgia match factory buildings
at Gainesville are about finished and G..
Van Flcck, theprincipal owner, is in the
Eastern cities and Canada shipping the
machinery.
North Carolina has two of the largest
yineyasds east Of the Rocky mountains.
The grapes raised are coming into great
demand even outside of the State.
The Louisiana Homestead and Aid
Association have taken in hand project
to purchase 400 or $50 acres of land neal
New Orleans for establishing home foi
some 500 old and infiim negroes in the
State of Louisiana, who are reported as
being in great want.
The citizens of Rome, Ga, are indig
nant at the advance in the premium OF
cotton insurance in that city and claim
that with Rome's unsurpassed water
works and well equipped and dauntles
fire department the rate ought not to b'
as high rs two per cent.
A report from Castleburg, Ala, says
"Ihe timber and the turpentine busi
ness have both been dull the create
part Of this season. The saw-mills hav,
acomplete vacation. Turpentine is fift,
per cent. lower than last year"
Honey is plentiful in Smyrna, Fla
Olaf Oleson has extracted over fort
barrels of choice honey, and was con
PEELED to stop for want of barrels, and
now gathering it in neat one-pound sec
tions. r. S. Sheldon comes next, Will
his neighbor, DR.. Goodwin, has bee
busy building up his apiary for the con
ing season.
Reports from the cotton i'll the Nasl
vile district, including Middle Tenne
see, q portion of West Tennessee al
North Alabama, show larger aggrega
yield than last years crop.
Dispatches to the New Orleans Time
h Democrat from all sections of the cote
belt show considerable falling off in or,
prospects compared with last year, e
cept in Tennessee and some portions
Texas, caused by drouth, caterpillars NJ
X boil worms. The decrease is estimat
in some places at thirty-three and on
thirdper cent! Many reports from Tex
also show falling off in the outloc
| The corn crop is also reported consider
|4 blydamaged by drouth.
part of He'll Hole Swamp, conta
ing 100 acres, has been bought by n
I JOS Remfry, who resides at High Poi
M A. e., as the representative of COM
ny Of English capitalists. The Go
mlssloners of the South Carolina Sink
FUND are to receive for the tract $10,O
payablein three anuuel installmonts.
Will take about 100000 to drain the
Ter from this swamp and its sale is
garded MS good one for the State.
Washington G. Kerr, State Geolo'
ofNorth Carolina, says the whole Stat
notably adapted to the culture of gra
ahd the manufacture of wine. The pl
Of this is, FIST, that considerable n,
Der Of the pest American grapes origi
Cd within its territory, such as the
mwoa, Lincoln, Isabella, ScuppernC
etc.. second, the testimony of the
observers and growers of the Ohio
icy, and OF the whole country, and t
and chiefly, the success of the few in
gent experiments that have been m
and this opinion is confirmed by
considerations Of climate, which ar
monstrably known to control this il