The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-09-24
SOUTHERN NOTES.


Cotton picking has been inaugurated at Car
Isle, Miss.
The Natchez Miss, ice factory will cease
operations this week.
Aunt" Polly Albert died near Timbsrville,
Va, Thursday, aged ITO years
The Mississippi Valley Railroad is giving eI.
cursions to the cities along its route.
The Abe. deem Fair promises to be big sue
cess. SO say all the Mississippi papers.
A false value is given out in real estate Gales
in Birmingham, Ala, that will do the town no
good.
During the past gear Brandon shipped 43H
bales OF cotton, and Hazehurst moro than
1896.
The vicksburg Opera House is assuming
beautiful proportions. II will be great addi-
ton to the city.
At this moment the cotton fields have alb.
sorbed the thousands of idle negroes in small
Southern towns.
The death by starvation OF an aged negross
in Eufaula Ala, has given rise to Ladies
Relief Association
1t is estimated that $1,000 mules are sold in
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of about S2,OOO,OOO.
winona talks of utilizing the slc 900 sub
scIibed for the State Female College by build
| ing Ons of their own.
The Illinois Central has subscribed y 900 to
the good work of building bridge over Peari
River near Canton, Miss.
| A combination of the leading business men
uf Raleigh has been formed to build up the
tobacco trade Of that town.
gentleman in Franklin, n. c., has had .
valuable collection Of the rare stone OK that
State cut by a Philadelphia lapidary.
Tho cotton receipts at Galveston, Tex, or
the 9th inst, amounted to 932 bales. Iht
stock Oh hand amounts to 4iS3 bales.
Montgomery stands third among Alabama
committees in point Of cotton acreage this year,
having ll3, 900 acres devoted to tlm staple.
MFR. j. A. Martin, Of Oktibbela. Mis7 nas Q
VINEYARD of twelve acres, from which le Will
make thirty-iye gallons OF wine to The acre.
One hundred bales Of iItle and one iluEdied
head of horses were among the items Of inter-
est which arrived at Laredo, Texas, from Mex
leo ON Tuesday last
Count Won Borcke, Prussan gentleman
who served on the stan Of Gen. j. l.. Is. Stuart
during the war, il visiting the Southern
States and is now at lIendersopville, in West
ern North Carolina.
strvcbnine and nicotine must he among the
very slow poisons, since an old fellow in Nortt
Carolina, one hundred and fourteen years old
has been a slave to whisky and tobacco for th'
last ninety-four years.
The construction of sixty miles Of railroad
he,wcen Grenada and Starlivillc, Miss,
hiyhlv probable, This will complete direc
linz from Mobile to Kansas City, and will be Z
mcalcuable benefit to that portion OF ID
= State.
Owing to the continued drouth in South
Z western Texas the shipment Of great quaint
= tias of stock from Cotulla has commenced
5 Reliable reports from Eneinal county say tha
. half of the stock in that county will be lost
n any event.
o A gentleman in Birmingham, Ala, receive
afpw days ago letter written III Parls Irol
o Stanley, the great African explorer, IN whic
;, he said: alabama and Florida would year
Il receive many thousands Of thrifty French an
n Italian immigrants were any effort made
., turn them thther.
10 Crops in Medina count. lex. are good th
season. The corn crop II turning out eve
4 better than expected, the yield being .grcat'
10 than last year For corn and small grain the nc,
is no better county IN Tex,s lhau Medina. II
Innate and soil are peculiarly adapted TO Vi
production of wheat, oats, iye' earey, COT y,
,tc. Peaches, grapes and fruits DO we'll al
!: when cultivated.
Tho acreage in tobacco this year in the sout
cru counties of Virginia il by common opini
IN ,,yrnty.dye per cent. greater than ever befo
OF The hill crops particularly, are SAID 10
10 magnificent. Corn, too, both on the nplai
n and lotions, is very good. Most Oh lllo
no hacco factories in the towns, having work
ct mn their stocks, have closed for the season.
lg Galveston is one Of the 1.-Two towns OF Texa
he and il so often spoken Of by p.css and peol
k that difficulty is found IN realizing that 1t
he only 1000 inhabitants IL Is busy, ent'
nd prising go-ahrad place, and IN all essentials
y, city. 1t is well butt, iihcIy laid OH,
er gopd hotels beautiful parks. an the avenu
SO are brilliant at night with the electric illun
AZ nation. Mobile il large when compared wi
to Gllycston-large in size, but she IL not as ID
and she is very much left on the electric lig
lg question also.
We learn from New Orleans that consider
on bic unsasiness is being experienced IN ra,lro
~ ~ circles in regard to the cheap freight rates
W. cotton existing between Texas and southe
nc nc points and the East, vim Cairo. The railro
ny Companies there are unable to compete W
az az the Northern roads, owing to the excess
.oh m charges for ocean freights. The rate per
IN ! from Cairo, H., to Liverpool, England:
ihB rail and steamship via New York Is "
,s thes whilst there the charges by steamship a
kea Nu are from $265 to 81 20 per bale. Another
, an rious drawback to the commerce OF the q,
Ter The high prices paid to laborers. Accord
ner, TO the statements OF parties interested
and handling freight there the laborer IN
,ars orleans is paid higher wages tnan IN
was eity in the world. According to the rep'
ire. from several of the railroads the excuse
nat car at st. Louis averages I'll ''s'a,
'tai 95c. louisville zoe, Memphis tx, s.iHt
Mobile 67c and Pensacola Tic, While theie
a,nenses are a. 81. From tho same source
ia ascertained that lsborers at Cl,clnnau
Ia Maid Al 20 per day, Mobile 81, H. lonis ~
ty- MONTGOMERY 9Oc, Nashville 81, Memphis ~; Il
cs, Evansville 81. .25 and New Orleans fi.oo. \
cen excess in charges for labor, as wei as 'no
$50 vanced rates OF ocean freights, over those
Re- the Northern seaports, tends to divert VII
tai, from New Orleans, and in case oi str,kei
ear Tho future such m now are spoken Oh,
III; Crescent City will have endangered mnot
80; her trade.
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