The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-10-22
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Carpenters are needed ail over South Flori.
da.
Texas furnishes over half of the beef Of the
United States.
For powers Of endurance, the Texas broncho
beats the world
The well broken saddle horse OF Kentucky
has five different gaits
The South Carolina college has opened With
over one hundred students.
The area Of coal lands in Texas is estimated
at twenty thousand square miles.
An alligator was killed in Tallahassee the
other day near the capitol square.
A drouth Of far reaching consequence is in
progress in Northwestern Virginia.
Little Rock is deep in debt, has no good
streets and is almost without sewers.
Augusta, Ga, has six railroads centering
there, and she calls herself the Lowell OF ths
South.
Spaniards have religious reverence for tho
banana, believing II to be the fruit Of which
Adam partook.
Colnmbus Ga, boasts of being one OF the
most orderly cities in the Union. Her police
find little TO do.
Cotton seed to the amount Of $4,000. 600
tons are taken along the Mississippi River
upon an averag yearly.
There are in the Southern States, in opera
zion or in course Of erection, one hundred and
ninoty-one cotton factories.
The Yuma Indians, on the Colorado. bury
watcrmclonS IN the dry desert sand and pre-.
serve them oil winter fresh and crisp.
An award has been made for the construct
ion OF lcveos in the Upper Mississippi district,
from Horne Lake 10 lIuspuckana, a distance
Of fifty miles.
Texas is sixth in railroad mileage and sixth
in agricultural production and IL adding to it's
assessed wealth at the rate of one hundred and
twenty million year
Every newspaper OF South Carolina will be
placed on file in the reading room in connec-
tion with the New Orleans Cotton Exposition.
grand State display is now assured.
Interest in the interstate drill at Mobile is
beginning TO boom up. Companies in New
England. the West and throughout the South
have sgnifcd their intention Of entering.
The earnings Of all the Southern railroads
are much larger than ever before. and the in
crease denotes steady aud gratifying advance
in all the material interests of this section.
Col. Thomas G. Jones intends to lecture for
the benefit OF the Second Alabama regiment
during the winter. His subject will be, "rhe
Last Nine Days Of the War in Virginia" in
which he took conspicuous part
The Erlanger Railroad Syndicate will make
an exhibit at the New Orleans Exposition of
the resources, products ana industrial devcl-
opmcnts Of all the different sections OF coun-
try through which their roads pass.
A pine tree in Irwin county, Ga, has two
distinct bodies, but only one top. The trunks
grew ont of the ground NJ out five feet from
each other, hut at forty feet grew into each
other, forming one tree, with one top.
Mr.. s. J. Memory has been engaged on the
Main Building Of the Exposition, during its
construction, and intends to make an exhibit
Of a number Of his appliances, among which
will figure the derrick used on the Main Build
ing to raise the scyenty-five feet trestlc and n
| portable railway.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has decided
| that n contract between an employc and his
family, and q railroad company whereby the
| employc and his family waive all right to re-
l
by casualty on the road -populary known at
"death warrants CONTRARY to public
policy and void"
A tour of the South will be made by Mana
| ger Muirics Metropolitan team in the even
| Of their winning the American Association
championship. The trip will commence Nov
! |. and will extend over the winter season, thu
giving the players plenty of practice for tn
championship contest Of 1885, when the Met
will again bo in existence, despite all rumor
TO the contrary.
Capt. Chas. de Vaux, secretary of the Mex
lean Exchange, has Just received, and place.
on exhibition in the Exchange, quantity O
Mexican curosities and fancy work, such n
shells, feathers, silk, horn, filigreo work, way
etc, which arc indeed remarkable for thei
artistic perfection. The miniature birds, mad
with natural feathers, are indeed remarkable
and Indicate the wonderful skill Of the Mex
cans in oil work Of art.
While England is closing her cotton mill
and the machinery can be purchased for te
cents on the dollar Of its cost, and the Ne
England mills are compelled to turn ont fine
goods, the mills in the Southern States al
rapidly extending and paying dividends of /
to 20 per cent upon their cost. One of thef
DAYS it will dawn upon the minds of the worl
that it is better to permanently locate mani
features near the raw material.
One OF the natural curiosities Of Hernand
county, Fla, is an immense live oak, situate
near Brookville, which, seven feet from ii
ground, measures thirty-fve and one-half fe,
In circumference; from this height to the to
IL has but two largo limbs, the limbs spreadin
out and at the top measures eighty yart
across. On one side Of this singular work
nature is small orifice from which issues
| al ~ of cold mir ghpNyinp
subterranean connection that is unaffected
what is going on above the surface OF u
, ground.
: Besides the articles comprising the collecti
exhibit, Min nesota will have good rep csc
tation Of some of her / aiding industries in I
: department of private competitive exhibi,
The Saltwater Car Company, the Terra Cot
b. Lumber Company of st. Paul, the Manka
Cement Company the Austin Canning Col
5 pany, Mclaughlin, Sheldon & Co., of Ov
. tonna, who manufacture machinery for clea
ing and grinding cotton seed, the leadi
creamerics of the State, ana many other prom
r rent concerns arranging for extensive
a plays in the Exposition. The Minnesota c'
lection will go to New Orleans in special ira
), Of fifteen cars, decorated with flags, bannt
J., and inscriptions.
d A horrible accident is reported from Warn
furnace Hickman county, Tenn. 1t is the n
% TO give signal before tapping the furna
" that the blast may be shut off, and every p
s son can get out Of danger A workma
If through neglect, tapped the furnace bef.
the signal was given, and four men standi
% near were covered by seething mass OF m
II ten iron. Two Of the men were burned
r death instantly. The other attempted to
N out of the way, and waded through the ma
walking distance of over 100 yards, when