The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-09-17
SOUTHERN NOTES.

BLOCK III tne NhlcncH COTTON NILS Is quoted
ct 200 per cent.
Dallas received A., 600 bales of cotton during
the past twelve months.
A yarn factory, with 1000 looms, is to DO
established at Baton Rouge.
Five years in the pemtontiary Is the penalty
for fence cutting in Florida
The city Of Tallahassee is ont Of debt, and
has more than (: 1900 in the treasury.
The completion Of tn, Mississippi Valley
Railroad gives New Orleans six trunk lines.
The cotton crop around Thomasyillc, Ca,
Is now conceded to be fully % per cent short.
The Mcxicans have appropriated $4,000 to
represent NJ Nico at the Worlds Exposition at
| New Orleans.
Cedar Key, Fla, has n population of 5000,
1 'ud but tour deaths occurred there during
| twelve months.
! lts estimated that there are now GO0,Q00
| people interested in mining and manufacture
! ing in the South.
! A lady living near Taylorsyillc, Polk county,
/ Ga, has recently, at the age of thilty years,
| cut an entire new set OF teeth.
The cotton mills in aud about Augusta, Ga,
Will lt'lUllN llllH AtdI I'AIlN tUiUuU DaltH, |
greater number than ever before.
within three years the number Of saw-mills |
| in Arkansas has increased from three hundred |
aud f0rty-nine TO over twelve hundred.
Five dollars worth Of property and ten dogs |
was tho assessed fortune OF Hay County, Ala.
negro, and two dollars in property and four
dogs another.
lao Ia ,ta ui ln ala "a
average and cane and potatoes promise well,
though the acreage in cane is smaller than
usual, owing to the loss of seed from the cold
last winter.
Tho Tennessee Commissioners to the
Worlds Exposition at New Orleans appointed
commissioners for the various counties Of tho
State, who will he charged with the duty OF
seeing that their counties send creditabc ex-
hibls TO the great show.
within two miles of Heidelberg, Jasper
county. Miss, ON the New Orleans and North.
eastern Railroad are valuable quarries OF
lnildng stone. One Of the kinds is similar to
the noted Caun stone, Of which the city OF
Paris i3 mostly built.
It is said that in front Of the entrance steps
! Of the WhtMt house, of Ringgold, Ga, there
= is a large Hat rock which has plainly outlined
10 on its surface the perfect shape OF very largo
" human foot. Tho impression shows clearly
, al tho Ioas and very broad heel. The rock
u was found near a small stream in the noun
- tain Wygj OF lHnsguld.
In urging the importance of forest culture
u the Commissioner of Agriculture in his recent
" roport SAYS: The total value Of the forest pro-
y, ducts Of the United States for the census year
~ is estimated at 7OO,OOO,OOO. In other words,
~ our forest products exceed in value our crops
4 Of hay, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, potatoc;
~ aud tobacco. taken together. They amount tC
tn times the value of gold and silver o
~. which We make SO much account and to NOR
than three times the value OF the precious min
l., erals and the coal AID other minerals com
Nv, bn1d.
I'd The discovery Of tin in North Carolina wal
W, made in a singular manner. Among the min
pa. erals exhibited at the Boston Exposition from
-. that State was a lump of ore marked "un
In known It was analyzcd by an assayist, ont
IN found to contain % per cent. of tin, the rich
~ est ever known. The specimen came fror
il, Kings Mountain, and whllo the vein has NJ
been discovered. from the quantity Of or
id living around loose scientists are sure I'll
he metal exists IN great quantities. There al
m only three tin bearing mines in the world, an
n; it is said there is a standing olor of $780,
Inc for the discovery Of one in the United State
OF Hon. j. NJ. Smith, Of 0glethorpe, is one {
,r, the most extensive farmers in GeorgiG
lief Around him he has about $4,000 acres Of lOr
hy /, 900 in cotton, ., 800 in corn, and the re
llc of tillabc land in other crops. He has on ]
a,s plantation over 200 mules and horses, bcsid
ur other stock There are about l,0hn or mo
a. men. women and children on the place to fec
including the conyics. The remarkable 81
ate cess Of this farm is due to the fact that II
tie selt-sustaining by raising everything they
id at home Corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, a
IRE every other necessary upon the farm, ID rails
in. in abundance even to sugar cane.
mn. The silver excitement IN Richie count
wd West Virginia, appears to bo increasing, Sc
'l3 epl very promising deposits having be-
"" recently discovered in the valleys near Cfil
" The mine on the farm of Rev. John Walters
~. in operation and has . five foot vein.
W., cent assay shows $500 in silver and Sl1 of IL
5' TO the ton. NJ. d. Bartlctts mine comes ne
~, with $40 to the ton. Other mines are not
M,' rich, yielding only 800 to the ton. In d
~ nr a well on the farm Of Mrs. Pool, n,
W. ,ailo, nugget of almost pure silver, meas
ing eight inches by five and weighing lft,
pounds, was found. The specimen is valr
,. at $500.
Mississippi is making rapid strides in
wooden industry and her spindles and loom
city the Waunita Mills, the Wesson Mills and
ani, mills at Ulmauville, are eagerly devourinl
and Nnnces offered Tho Aberdeen Examiner
light marks, "In tho matter of wool, we,
have camorod 30 stoutly for the rcmov
lh6 the tariff, will, ere long, be one of its stau
en- est advocates and supporters, for tho is
hing of the last census point unerringly to an
pers day when wool growing will become one o.
most general and important of houthefi
heir dustrcs and its manufacture roprcsel
vent large portion of our capital, and 1t woni
Dox the very height Of folly for those VINO
tho and rli1 sheen TO demand that the gatC
y Us supply be thrown open to the sheep grower
here Australia and other foreign lands.
man A Georgia correspondent of the soutl
igar- World writes that strange as it may apl
ono even in that old settled country tho beave
~ NJ fingers. and despite the efforts Of trappers
were be found in large numbers in the swa
owds which fringe the creeks and rivers OF SO
sand crn Georgia. A few hunters make a good
ing hy snarng them. Tho writer had VII
but their haunts ON stream III Nanuoipn cou
,tlers where for many rods around their suDhie
in n homes. trees nearly as large as man Is b
owed had been deitly ghaweu aomn 'ne', .h
dolo. i,mnGs cut IN sections and used in the
city strnciion OF Their das wei, Ii s"own p'
owed, the beavers had WEN nsn wv
ortei Young timber. These animals are exceedl
''N' saracious, and are rarely caught napI
6rcd oloor beavers without a nap to their bac
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