The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-04-25
GENERAL NEWS.

in Murray county, ga. ,r....t
There are 10000 orange trees at Bay
St, louis, Mississippi = ...
There will soon be three cotton.seed
mills in and around Cheraw, Ala.
From one acre of long staple cotton in
Rankin county, Mississippi, Mr., w.
Waddell realized $500,
The Ben. Ifili residence in Athens,
Ga, which some time since sold 'or sG,-
OOO, is now held at $4,000.
A young lady near Bainbridge, Co.,
has about four acres in onions and ex-
poets to realize { 800 on the crop.
The number of bearing orange trees
on Halifax river, Fla, is estimated at
100000, New groves are being planted
all the time. ..t o. .. ''
A bill Withdrawing all public lands
in the State from sale or lease for two
years is 10 be Introduced into the Texas
Legislature. 4 u .- '- ..y.
The Key West sponge fleet, number
Ing 70 vessels and about GOO men, is out
on cruise. A large catch Of sponge
brings about 100000 into that city.
Tie entire police force of Birming-
ham, Ala, have demanded higher wages,
and refused to work. They are being
paid $50 per month in city script, dis
counted twenty per cent.
Almost,i within sight of the Court
house at Monticello, Fla, there are 300
acres Of watermelons and 90 acres in
potatoes. These crops are estimated TO
bring the producers 100000.
The North Carolina State Board
Agriculture have decided to make full
display of State products at the fair of
the New England Mechanics Institute,
at Boston, in September next. An am
pie appropriation will be made to secure
an admirable display.
The Charleston News and Courier
states that South Carolina phOsphates
are in demand in almost every market,
and South Carolina fertilizers are pro-
4 nounced by progressive farmers to be
the cheapest and at the same time the
m st valuable commercial manures that
can be used in the cultivation of our
various crops. More than 100000 are
4 invested in the manufacture OF fertil-
izers in that State, and very large cap
ital is also employed in the mining of
phosphate rock.
The great bulk of the jugware used in
n the South is manufactured above Ath-
ems, where clay especially adapted to
this purpose is found. 1t is taken from
the banks of streams and all the work
done by hand. A man can manufacture
about 100 gallons a day, but one-leged
jug-maker in Jackson county easily put
up 200 gallons. The clay is first ground,
every lump carefully weighed, when the
vessels are formed around a revolving
wheel turned by the foot. They are
then baked in furnaces and gazed with
glass. They sell for about four cents a
gallon at the works. . ..
The story is told that some distance
down the Georgia railroad, not far from
Augusta, a case was before Justice
and an Augusta lawyer was one OF the
attorneys employed. The lawyer, hav
ing all the facts snd the law that hi
desired in the case, made little or NJ
Argument before the Justice, but to hi
utter astonishment the case was decided
against him. After court was over tn
lawyer went to the Justice privately ant
asked him how in the name of common
sense he could decide that-ca as h
did. He simply replied: Swell now
sir, we Justices know a great deal NOR
about these cases, than is ever brough
up before the court. ....
NJ Montgomery, Ala, has the following
manufactures now in operation: Tw
oil mills, one Touring mill, one cotto
mill, two planning mills, four grist mill
two ice manufactures, two candy MAJ
''. ulaCtories, two sodawater manufacture
twocarriage manufactures, one Turn
turemanufactory, one broom manufa
tory, one tinware mandatory, o
clothing mahufactory, one wagon ma
ufactory, one cigar mandatory, OF
fertilizer works, one iron works, tV
n marble works, two railroad machil
M shops, one railroad car works, one
andmachine works, one cotton compre
one oil refinery, two iron foundri
four printing houses. four brick yar'
The above makes total of Al establis
ments in operation, which is a fair e
hibit for a city comparatively unkno'
asa manufacturing point. ....
~, 81 ~ y E n ~ Ut
There is talk in Georgia Of purchase
Liberty Hall, Alexander Stephens Il
residence, by voluntary contributio
and retain, in it the famous rolling ch
and other relics, making it pecul
pilgrim shrine for the people of
ela'e, especially the young men. l
also suggested that the State emp
some famous sculptor to make 9 sta
y, .he late governor, seated in a 70
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