Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-19
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Atlanta, Ga, proposes to have new
stove foundry.
San Antonio is the largest horse mar
ket in the South.
San Antonio has more parks than any
city in the South.
Contracts have been signed for build
ing gas works in Corsicana, Texas.
The Wason Car Works, Chattanooga,
are increasing the supply of machinery.
An attempt is to be made to make
Cedar Keys, Fla, seaside resort in the
ummer.
An Admission, Ga, paper reports that
works capable of turning out l25 loco
motives per year are to be built at that
place.
Michigan produces about two-fifths of
the worlds peppermint crop, the yield
varying rom 10000 to 10000 pounds of
oil.
Anew Campbell power printing press
has been received at the Tampa Tribune
office. Spencer 4 Harrison are not to be
LEFT where improvement is concerned.
Washington county, Miss, produces
NOR cotton tEan any other county in
America; it yields $1,000 bales. Yazoo
county is second with 5000 to $4,000
bales.
Victoria, Tex, will soon issue bonds fol
the constiu tic q OF water-works to run fol
period OF forty years, the city reserv.
ing the right to cali them in after thirty
years. to bear6 per cent interest, payable
semi-annnally. ..
In the Carrizo mining district, rich
silver finds are reported. This strip lles
between the Pecos and Rio Grande riv'
ers in West Texas, and the groupings D
horn silver ale said to be the richest a,
yet di eovered in this country.
The Ralei IN IN. c. Exposition Build
ing Association, w. 5. Primrose, Prcsi
dent, capita, $500, 900, will pit up a build
ing a; once. lmving 10000 feet floor space
In addition certain counties may cree
build ngs for their own exhibits.
A. G. Mont.ome.y 81 J. G Cirr,li
formerly overseers .. IA. i;'ckfIrd VI. n
ufacturing Company, X ,ckor,l, Tenn.
have commenced the manufacture o
shuttle blocks and lobbin hea Is at Mon,
gomcry Mills, Springfield, Tenn, foul
miles south of Rock lord.
The Foote & Beaumont well, at Ricf
Hill, No., at the depth of 900 feet, ha.
strucl heavy vein of petroleum. Othel
wells will be at once sunk, tanks erected
and refineries established The oil il
pronounced by experts to be equal to the
finest petroleum OF Pennsylvania.
There has been an analysis of tin dis
covered al Kings Mountain, North Car
olina, and tits said TO be SO satisfactory
to the company owning the mine tha
preparations for sinking two tunnels hav,
already commenced. Henry Frochling
chemist. reports that his array of spec
tmens OF or, yield 6S.OS per cent of me
ialic tin.
Charleston, S. c., has organized coffe,
importing company of fifteen members
with a capital of $4,000. Coffee viii b
imported and sold at auction to the high
est bidder. whether he be member o
the association tr not. If the scheme
success ful. other articles will be import
cd and sold in the same way.
Messrs. Ostrom & james, two gentle
men representing northern capitalists
have purchaied the water power at TN
head of the San Marcos liver, Tex, from
Mes srs. Fourqueran & Code. The prlc
paid was $4,000. tits understood tha
they Will Immediately construct and pu
int, 7peration $500, 900 paper mill.
In the western part of North Carolina
on Pigeon river, is a church twenty-five
fectwide, forty feet long and fifteen fee
high, built from tse timber sIwed from
one curly poplar tree; and near Eastman
Ca, is an oak tree fifteen feet in circun
ferencs, two and half feet above tn
ground. 1t has been struck by lightning
but is still living. At the base ofthis tree
two separate streams of water sprin
forth, one running direct east and tn
other west.
Mr.. W. F. Askew has gone to Ne'
England to purchase machinery suitabl
for making and preparing wood pulp 70
the manufacture of paper at the Falls {
Neuse. He has heretofore been usin
pulp imported from Norway. Now h
will bring the machinery here, aud max
the pulp at the mills, using our natiy
woods, pine, spruce, black gum, etc.
will be the first wood pulp-mill in tn
State.-Raleigh IN. CO. News and Oh
server.