The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-08-13
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Talk of bagging factory at Griffin, Ga.
>, Cord wood sells for nine dollars per cord in
Key West
The average monthly wages paid farm hands
III Georgia is 1888.
There is going TO be a thousand acre cocoa
palm grove in South Florida
A glass factory to cost twenty thousand dol
lars Is to be erected at Morrilton, Ark
Eighteen hundred homcstcads have been en-
tered in Florida during the past year.
The streets in DeIand, Fla. are being coy
cred with sawdust by the town authorities.
Key West imported over three thousand gal
Ions Of clarct wine from Havana last month.
1t is said that the peanut crop this year in
the South Will amount to three million dollars.
The Mississippi carries annually to the sea
eight hundred and twelve billion five hundred
million pounds of mud.
With her cattle upon thousand hills Texas
people eat more o!eomargarine than they cat
butter
large colony Of immigrants from Germany
recently arrived in Louisiana to settle on lands
In the northern part of that State.
Selma, Ala, has scycnty-four artcsian wells.
Some OF them flow excellent mineral water,
and every stream is pure and hcalthtul
Alabamas output of iron in 1870 was less
than $4,000, 900, in 1888 80 600, 900, an ncrcas,
OF 400 per cent. III four years.
Arkansas proportion of the fund to be dis
triuted under what is known as the blair
bill, for educational purposes, will amount to
over y, 100000
A single English syndicate owns 4 100000
acres of land in Texas. Foreign capital alto
gethcr controls an aggregate Of q, 0O0 600 acres
in the State.
The Scientific American says the best Of
hickory used in the arts where toughncss is
required, is obtained from North Carolina and
East Tennessee.
1t is stated that Lake dc Funiak, Fla, is set
ting up with class of farmers from Iowa and
Wisconsin, who will engage in raising sheep,
cattle, rice, sugar, pecans, olives and grapes.
There are about 800 men engaged in killing
aliigators in South Florida The hide and
teeth of the gator is what's wanted. The
years business will bring to that section about
Si5,OOO,
Immense quantities of plates made from the
common gum tree ground up into wood pulp,
pressed. are manufactured in Newbern, n g.,
and are daily shipped from Norfolk TO points
all over the country
Southern planters are now preparing for
decisive test of cotton harvester on their
next crop, and should the result be favorable,
it will probably work changes greater than
were caused by the introduction Of the cotton
gin in the prices of cotton.
In the middle of the main street Of Aber-
1een, Miss, are artcsian wells several squares
apart, which supply the city with water. Ev-
cry well is covered with large pagoda, and
the ground beneath is pave !. Tho water runs
from spouts into troughs, and passes of under
ground.
The South possesses in her varied and vau-
able woods the basis of enormous future
wealth. The manufacture of cabinet woods
and furniture in the South can be made one Of
her leading industries, ts the material is al
most unlimited and the water power for fac
tories abundant.
stock company has been organized at
Montgomery, Ala, with paid up capital stock
of $50, 600 for an extensive mandatory OF
SOAP ball potash and axle grease. Cotton
seed oil will take the place of oifal and grease,
said to be far superior The enterprise is in
the hands of leading business men.
jay Gould says that the Southern States arc
increasing beyond all precedent Cotton man
ufactories are being established in all direct
ions, and in Florida manufactures OF furniture
etc., are numerous things that they used to
have TO depend on the North for exclusively,
they now make for themselves
The cattle interest is becoming immense, the
growth of which can scarcely be measured by
estimate or figures Tho great trunk lines Of
the Missouri Pacific railway will be taxed to
| their utmost TO furnish transportation for this
already vast and increasing traffic. 1t esti-
mated that from the first Of this month to
October not less than 1000, 900 head OF cattle
will be shipped over these lines from Texas TO
| Northern points. In this no estimate is made