Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-19
SOUTHERN NOTES.
Florida is about to tackle the cultiva.
ton of peanuts.
Poor Florida.

ton of peanuts.
Poor Florida.
A company will be organized shortly
to build cotton factory at Dalton, Ga.
The new cotton mill ut SidEev, NC,
is receiving It's shafting and machinery.
About fprty farms have been recently
purchased IN Green county. XIV, Iv rm-
I1SJ.s III f1ssa .sIshs.I.H'ss
4 pottery has Teen cstablis he'd at the
kaoline mine near Fldtonia, Fla, con-
Quoted by ex. ert wOrkmen.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, is giving
employment to nearly one thousand men
in his Georgia iron works.
The Knoxville, Eenn.,dGar Wheel Com
pany are running their wheel foundry
extra time to fill heavy orders.
Three thousand yards of cloth and one
hundred blankets are manufactured in
the New Braunfels, Texas, mills weekly.
All the money Necessary has been sub
scribed to start the Griffin, Ga, cotton
hctory. SrThe capital stock il about ss4,-
600.
Savannah is thinking of manufactur-
ing asphaltum blocks with which to pave
the city.
Don't know a place on the continent
where they are more needed.
Anew (?) fibre for paper making has
bAsn discovered in the ldwatf palm OF
Mceria. Means have been found for
utilizing the whole of it above the roots.
Several mills in this country have been
using the same for years.
A new rolling mill, the first one in the
State, has just been started up at Hous-
ton, Texas, and it will engage in making
light Z rails II the business proves
success, the works will be speedily en-
larged.
The track of the Southern Pacific to
the great salt mine in the Colorado des-
ert, near Idaho, is ballastel with great
Jumps of crystal salt. Heavy rains and
high waters might cause a dissolution OF
tffst SSalfast.. > Sssr S't'''<S'''
According to the Orange City Fla
Times, there has not been an investment
in lands in that section in the last three
years that has not paid the party invest
ing at least twenty per cent. per annum
on the amount invested.
The Messrs. Moulton, of Laconia,
n. H., who are proprietOrs of hosiery
mill at Columbia, S. c., where they en-
plcy the labor of the prisoners in the
penitentiary, are largely increasing the
capacity of their works there.
More than three -fourths of the cedar
used In the Manufacture Of cedar pencils
in the world is shipped from Florida.
Large groves 6Fcedar grow up and down
the coast and on the Suwannee river,
and the supply sesms inexhaustible.
The Cuthbert, Ca, Cotton Factory r-s
cidwled with work, having received. on.
oAeday, orders tor more goods than can
possibly be made in six months. not
wittstanding the enlarged capacity from
the new machinery now being put in.
rwenty-nine saw mills are said to re-
ceive their supplies from Brewton, Ala.
These mills. are. multiplying along the
line OF the Mobile and NJ ntgomery and
the South and North roads, and the tim
Der business is developing into immense
proportions.
A party of capitalists from an Indiana
town has decided to start jute factory
at Memphis, Temp AT least fifteen
thousand dollars win be expended in
buildings and machinery, and the COM
pany expect to be manufacturing bag
qng N time for next years cotton crop.
Mississippians feel very proud of their
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try.
Charleston, S. G., has organized a cof-
lee importing company of fifteen men,
bers, with, a, capital of $4,000. Coffee
will be Imported and sold at auction to
the highest bidder, whether he be a
member of the association or not. If
the scheme is successful, other articles
will be imported and sold In the same
way.
The Salu'a cotton factory at GTeens
YfWe{f34lHnhde lare. &hd "vafhaf
hd Ufatfac' Eithta Boston firm for fur
nishing them with yarns until next jan
uary. New England yarns were offered
at one. fourth of a cent lower, but the su-
perior quality OF the South Carolina
yarns commanded the contract.
There was O. desperate fight between
smugglers and custom hOdses officials
near Matamoras recently. The smug-
glers fed. leaving forty-three bales of
merchandise and many horses and mules.
Two of them were killed and several
wounded. One of the officers was fatal
ly wounded and one of his men killed.
The Wilson cotton mills, at Wilson,
N. c., which were commenced about
year ago, for the manufacture of fine
yarns, are now running thirty-six card
ing machines and five thousand one
hundred and twenty-four spindles, en-
ploying seventy-tiye hands and consum-
ing eleven thousand pounds of cotton
per week.
Within radius Of less than thirty
miles Of High Point, n. C., SAYS the En-.
terprise, there are-atleast thirteen cotton
factories, two wooden factories and four
teen mines, all in full operation. To
theseAdd large numb of topacco fac
tories, sash and blind factories, spoke
and handle, and one factory that finish
e shuttles ready for the lcofn. = q ,'''-'t =
Atlanta Constitution: New England
capitalists Woold savBlfimel and money
by moving their cotton factories to Geor-
gia and other Southern States. Why