The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-10-15

Cotton mills in this country that weer worth
t4O,OOO,OOO in 1880 rose to Sl41. 600 900 In
1870, and to s20s, 600 in 1880.
Cotton mills in Mexico consumed 75.577OOO
pounds OF raw cotton In 1883, OF which 20, ,50O,-
ooO pounds were raised in the United States.
The capacity Of the new three-story mill
" wiich Stephens Bros. will shortly build at
een'ille, Tenn, will be two hundred looms.
The Sale gold mine, in Lincoln conuty. Ga,
has been purchased by company OF which
MIR. Mcneil is the head. Extensive prepara-
tlons have been made for carrying on work.
This mine has yielded s25O,OO0 since the war.
The Robeadel Cotton Mil, at Rockingham,
N. g., is receiving its machinery. II will start
with three thousand spindles and one hundred
looms. The full capacity OF the building is
si1 thousand spindles and two hundred and
fifty looms.
There are immense tractc OF cotton wood
along the Mississippi and its tributaries. The
cotton wood tree reaches the height Of seventy
feet, aud planks from four to SIX feet wide are
easiy cut from 1t. 1t Is perfectly free from
knots and pitch.
Excellent industrial and business prosperity
has prevailed in South Carolina during the
past year. The manufactures Of all kinds foot
up S32,32i, 40i, as against Sl6, 73S, ,00s in the
year 1880. OF the aggregate, s7,9G3, l9S was
cotton goods.
Ex-Governor warpoth, Of Louisiana has
gone to France for tho purpose Of purchasing
certain French machinery for milling sugar
cane and sorghum. The French process IL
said to yield 20 per cent more saccharine mat
ter than the system now in vogue in Louisiana.
Sugar cane culture is rapidly increasing in
Importance on suitable lands along the Caloo-
sahatchie for stretch OF country extending
about thrty-fiye miles above Myers. Tho cane
fields range from five to forty acres in extent,
and the growth this season is already very
promising.
Not long ago a young Florida negro named
Romeo marrieda young colored woman nam
ed Juliet. They now have twins which they
have named Romulus and Remus, and they
are all driven to church every Sunday by a
horse named Pontus Plate in carriage
named Noah's Ark.
A farmer at Nash, Ellis county, Texas, has
turned upa curious bone from depth Of
twenty-ono feet below the surface. The teeth
are said to run ciOsswise and there are eleven
rows of them. A mass of comb-like substance,
about two feet across and several inches thick,
cncrusted the bone.
A deposit Of copper orc Of une1ampl,d eI-
tent has been discovered in Archer county,
extending through Wichita Haskell, Knox
and Wilbarger counties, Texas. Analysis has
proven it to be exceptionally rich, it being
almost pure sulphurot containing about
Seycnty-two per cent. of metal.
The shipments from this port OF Mexican
istle, u kind OF hemp manufactured from
plant resembling the maguey plant, are in
creasng. 1t IL yariousy used in the manu-
facturc Of rope, mats, brushes, etc. II grows
in Mexico in great abundance, and bids mir to
become fair export
The International Gordon railroad is pro-
crossing, five hundr' d hands, it il said, being
on that part Of the road between Panasofkcc,
Sumpter county, Fla, and Tampa Bay. The
iron in on hand, and by next December il is
theught tho road will be completed from Fer
nandina to tho waters of Tampa Bay.
Pine trees in some portions Of North Caro-
linn are dying in large numbers it il supposed
from injuries inflicted by the "bore worm" or
'Eawyors," which played havoc with the pines
in that State about thirty years ago. The raw
ages are not confined TO the old trees, the
.NlHS bh'o aio uo ahN
uumerousy.
To show the value Of grass when pasturcd
and when made into hay, il in stated that the
grass crop of Colorado will be worth thirty
million dollars this year The South spends
millions Of dollars killing grass among the
cotton that IL sold at no profit and frequently
at actual loss; and pays the northwest millions
for hay, which we could just as well raise our
| selves and save its cost.
Alta point l22 miles above New Orleans, on
the Mississippi Valley railroad, a new town,
named Wilson, has been laid ont in al0 lots.
Several stores are in full blast, and many dwell
ings erected and others in the course Of con-
rtruction. The shops and round-houses Of the
road will be located at Wilson, and as a large
force of workmen will be employed in the
shops it is safe to say that the growth Of the
town will be rapid and that 1t will become
quite n ilourishing place.
The Birmingham Iron Works are building a
machine which its inventors claim will trebble
the production Of cotton seed oil mills. The
quantity Of oil in given amount Of seed will
not increase, nor the amount of labor required
to run the mill decrease. The producing ca
pacity of the mill will be publicly tested and
exhibited here. II was invented by two resi-.
dents Of Rome Ga, who intimate that it is
probable they will bnild an oil mill in Bir-
mingham in the near future. The cost Of one
machines will be about $500.
The East Florida Land and Improvement
| Company is composed OF English capitalists
who are operating extensively in the coas
counties. Ilcy are building large saw mill
| at st. Augustine and have contracted with til.
Westinghouse Machine Company, of Pittsburg
Pa, for two Of their automatic engines of l6
and 65 horse power respectively. The mill il
planned on the independent system, doin
away with counter Rhafting to u large extent
A good deal Of money has been earned |
the mountains Of North Caralina by diggin
tho roots of the ivy. Ten and twelve dollars
ton is paid for them at the railroad station
They arc shipped to the North to DO turne'
into door and bureau knobs, and Tor inlai'
and yeneering work. Hitherto these roof
were considered nuisance in clearing land fol
the plow, but now they sell for more than Tho
price at which the land could be bought two
years ago.
There is quite railroad fever In Georgia
IN some sections and we hope all who wan
railroads will get them-and they certainl.
can If they will pay for them. But 1t nigh
be well to have an eye over the railroad report
for the last year and see how much they hav
not made. Railroads are business enterprises
and not picnics, and those who want then
should calculate the cost before subscribing
Columbus ia now several hundred Thousand
dollars behind on railroads, and II will be, w
fear. when the child born to-day dies, having
seen its three-score years, before she is fire.
from debt This is ''old fogyish," we know
hut IL is true. II the money subscribed ant
proposed TO be subscribed for railroads wer'
mt in factories and machinery for the manu-
facture of the hundreds Of things that ou
people want, the money invested would pa
infinitely better. We need home factorie
much moro than We do more railroads.
CRUSHING: THE BOERs.