The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-06-14
All Over the South.


Darlington, South Carolina has
raised $250,00O towards q cotton
factory.
The fruit business is threatening
to rival the iron industry at Chat
tanooga.
The southern wheat crop in
creased from 100000 bushels in
1878 to 67,00O,0O0 bushels in 1880.
The grand jury at Austin, Texas,
have indicted fifty members of the
legislature of the state for gam
bling.
a man in Georgia complains that
the frogs have eaten his rice so that
he has been compelled to plant a
second time.
At Madison, Miss, there is to be
established a Fruit and Vegetable
Canning Association, composed of
citizens of that vicinity.
At Sparta, Ga, the other day a
family of children were attacked
by buzzard, which kept up the
fight until it was killed by a shot.
Fine stock is being raised on
farms near Columbus, many speci-
mems of which are now seen where
few years ago were nothing but
scrubs.
Most Of the tobacco stems from
the North Carolina tabacco factories
are shipped to Germany to be man
ufactured into snuff for the German
peasants.
A wild blackberry is being cult
waited with great success around
Atlanta. The wild black berry of
Tennessee is susceptible of great
improvement and yet it is not cult
waited.
Public schools are becoming more
popular than formerly in the south.
Nine-tenths of the young men just
entering business life in Augusta
have received their education in
these schools.
Over three hundred dwelling
houses, by actual count, have been
built in Montgomery since the first
day of last October, and a great
many are now in process of erection.
Real estate has advanced 70 per
cent. during the same time.
The Augusta Chronicle says that
in the pride of their hearts, the
southern manufacturers imagine
they can dispense with all tariff pro
lection and undersell New England,
Old England and all creation, but it
respectfully dlsagrees with such
views.
At the South Tredegar Iron
works of Chattanooga difficulty
occurred between two employees,
Lafayette Browder and William
Thomas. Browder, who's q power
full man, raised Thomas like a child
and laid him on his back on a red
hot slab of iron, holding him there
until burned nearly to death.
Ellison Capers, jr, son of Rev.
E. Capers, of Greenville, S. c., is
thirteen years old, yet he has
planted and cultivated so far this
season a large lot of ground in
corn. He has done it all with q
plow of his own invention, to which
he drives two goats. He made
most of the harness and the pillow,
except a few bolts.
The same story of the march of
improvement comes up from every
quarter of the south. Albany, Ca,
will build more this summer than
ever known before in the history of
the town. A cotton-seed oil mill, a
new hotel, half a block of brick
dwellings, a $4,000 barrel factory,
and another iron railroad bridge
across Flint river are in contem-
plation.
Vicksburg Herald: With a seven
million bale crop of cotton raised in
1882, vast majority of cotton pro-
ducers are enduring hard times.
With diversified farming and fruit
raising in its infancy in Mississippi,
those engaged in these pursuits are
enjoying good times and are hope
full. If the cotton plantations raise
eight million bales in 1888, they
will be still more Respondent in 1884.
The Manufacturers Record I'M
dertakes to show that in two years
the value of the agricultural pro
ducts of the south has increased
over $214,O00.OOO, during which
time southern products rose from
80 to 81 per cent. of those of the
whole country. Only 100000
acres Of the south's 600,OOO,00O are
under cultivation, but the products
were valued at 1915, 100000. 1t is
predicted that within a decade this
may be increased by so per cent.
The Boston Herald thinks that