The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-10-08
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Paper peacl-baskets are used III Maryland.
Watermeloaa six for quarter at Canton,
Texas.
Three hundred Cubians arrive at Key West
monthly.
A lot Of horse stock left San Antonio for
Alaska lately.
Mississippi has the third best State library
In the country.
| A full grown cocoa nut tree will produce
sixty nuts annually.
The Louisiana rice crop aggregates 2JO, 900
barrels this year.
Virginia has shipped a lot OF Jersey stock to
| South America.
This years cotton crop in the South Is fig'
urcd at o, 200, 900 bales.
| An electric light company is being organized
/ at Sherman, Texas
A Delaware farmer has plowcd under 40, 900
behring's as fertilizer.
The Rome, Ga, cotton factory will shortly
be enlarged and improved.
A valuable mica mine has been discovered
four miles from Macon, Ga.
Bco keeping in South Florida Ia attracting
much attention from bee men.
Immense quantities OF charcoal are being
shipped from Stonewall Miss.
A fish canning and a guano factory are
talked Of for Charlotte Harbor, Fla.
Large beds of anthracite coal have Just been
discovered in Northern Mexico.
The San Antonio driving park is being put
In iirst-clRss shape for the fall races.
A man in Putnam county, Fla, has killed
sixty-oight alligators in one week.
II Is estimated that the nut crop OF the
Sonth this year will be worth s3,O00,OO0
Englishmen residents Of England, own 20,
600, 900 acres Of land in the United States.
Virginia will this year harvest one million
one hundred thousand bushels of peanuts.
1t Is computed that the forests Of Texas viii
supply the whole country with timber fol
years.
Pike comfy Ark, will send thousand
pound block of gypsum to tho Worlds Expo
sition.
Nearly n thousand barrels OF cotton seed oil
were shipped from Madison, Fla, during the
year past
The Atlantic Coast Canal, from Daytona to
81. Augustine, is expected to DO finished by
, November.
Augusta, Ca, has gained in population 81.
1872 since 1870, 1850 of which has come IL
since 1880
A negro at Athens Ca. bound out his chilt
for one year TO get money to 80 on an excur
sion with.
Island TO- below Memphis where In ante
> beum DAYS 1000 men were stationed, has now
entirely disappeared.
, South Carolina tea, cured In fruit evapo
rator, has been pronounced by experts to b.
, equal to imported teas.
Apalachicola hopes soon to secure her for
mes Importance AZ cotton shipping port
, Capitalists are at work there.
A palmetto factory for the manufacture o
palmetto into fibre for brushes is soon 10 DO Il
. operation in Sanford, Fla.
{ IL is estimated that ten million dollars WORT
t of grass is annually consumed by the prairi
, dogs in Northern Texas.
: A resent discovery has been made OF an i'm
mcnsc deposit Of sulphur, one hundred fec
, thick, in LON Green county, Texas.
An Admission, Ala, paper reports that work
capable of turning out 125 locomotives year
I, are to be built at that place.
Jack Daggart ran q base ball club In For
:. Worth until ho amassed $500 Of collections
/. and then was suddenly called away to othe
r fields of usefulness.
n Orange peel il now said 10 be collected
"a dried in ovens, and sold for kindling Woo
l. II burns readily and with great herceness, an
il safor than kerosene.
, A report comes from Brevard county @
:, sugar cane eighteen feet high, and weighin
= :, as many pounds. And yet Florida is NJ
!. known as sugar producing State.
,, A San Antonian sues o druggist for u, OK
, damagos for selling him poisonous porot
plaster with which he dressed wound an
;. poisoned his system last March.
1t is stated that new company with capl
tai Of five hundred thousand dollars are goin
10 omen new coal mine at Jellico near I'll
:. Tennessee and Kentucky state line.
- In Florida the strong fibre Of the leaves Of
species of cactus is turned into rope, its juiC
: into a pleasant beverage, and its trunk, aft,
u the removal of the pith, into pals.
II Over one hundred new buildings arc no
being erected in Gainesville, Fla, and tv
|, hundred more should be in course OF crectio
e to supply the demand for houses to rent.
:. Tom Green county, Texas which is abo,
v the size of Massachusetts, though it has !
y towns, has an assessed valuation OF 50, OOO,0
n and population of $50, 900 sheep and Gait
Many OF the best posted among our cat
n, men saw that comparatively few cattle will
Is, driven out of Texas another year that I'll
will be shipped by rail.
L u A Texarkana girl objected to being hugs
i' by fellow named Ivy because she said !
hoard that ivy was poisonous and she did
want any of II climbing around her.
-, The large shops at Meridian, Miss, OF I
"a New Orleans and Northeast Railroad, to
H., completed Sept. /, will DO supplied with q
:" latest machinery. -Four hundred men are ei
ployod upon it.
III From 1870 trees growing, on 4 acres
". land " W. Thompson, Of Smithville, Gil
Of shipped $50 crates of LeContc pears; bcsid
these forty bushels were blown of by Z
wind and not shipped.
The name OF Lake Tahopekaliga is India
NJ and was derived by them from the immen
TO number of blackbirds from around the shor
IN of the lake at all seasons, and whose song !
sembles it in syllable pronunciation.
~ Few cities in this country contain 80 mu
ie beauty within their limits as Savannah, G
Of Twenty-four parks, or squares, each with sc
I'd cral acres Of tall trees and smooth lawI
adorn different parts Of tho city, and 81
A. hroathine- placos FOR the inhabitants.