The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-10-01
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Atlanta, Ga, proposes to have q new stove
foundry.
San Antonio is the largest horse market in
the South.
San Antonio has more parks than any city
in the South.
The juice of the sweet orange, it is asserted,
will cure sprains.
Alabama is now the leading producer Of pig.
iron IN the South.
Gen. Ruucy Lee, son of Gen. Robert e.
Lee, isa Virginia farmer
The sponsing at the bars near Key West,
Fla, is very poor this season.
The Wason Car Works, Chattanooga, are in.
crossing the supply OF machinery.
An attempt Is TO be made TO make Cedar
Keys, Fla, a seaside resort in the summer.
II is estimated that the peanut crop OF the
Sonh this ysar will be worth :3,0OOOOO.
Tho largest gas veins in the world, II is re-
ported, WAS tapped recently in Washington
county, Pa.
1t is said that over two hundred ounces Of
morphine are sold annually by a drug store N
Washington, Ga.
Although the greatest cotton grower Texas
plants about two hundred thousand acres
more corn than cotton.
Michigan produces about two-ffths OF the
worlds peppermint crop, tho yield varying
from 1000 to 10000 pounds OF oil.
Washington county, Miss, produces more
cotton than any other county in America; y
yields $4,000 bales. Yazoo county Is second
with $4,000 to $4,000 bales.
One thousand seven hundred and sixty
pounds Of bone have been unearthed in Jasper
county, Miss. The bones are supposed TO bea
part OF mastodon of the ancient times.
The boierof the Central Railroad Compress,
| at Eufanla, Ala, exploded recently, killing
Tour men and injuring several others. Abous
Tour hundred bales OF cotton were burned.
The cemetery at Conyers, Ca, has been
| laid waste, aud several monuments despoilsd
| The Methodist church was destroyed by fire.
| Ii in thought that the fire was OF incendiary
| origin and the work Of the persons who desc
Grated the graves.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury issued
Warrant for :lGG66 in favor of the direct
| lrs Of the New Orleans Worlds Exposition,
| being the second installment under the act OF
| Congress looming the Exposition 81, 000, 900.
| The first payment was 1888, 33l.
| George Latham, editor of tho Statewide
American, was found dead in his ROOM lie
had been drinking hard for several weeks. He
went to his room and wrote the following note
| to man who rOomcd next to him: "My kind
est regards to you. You are tho only gentle
man IN Statewide"
| Charleston, 8. c., has organized coffee
importing company of fifteen members, with
| capital Of $4,000 Coffee will be imported
and sold at auction to the highest bidder,
whether he be member of the association or
not. II the scheme is successful, other articles
will he imported and sold in the s,mc way.
The Board Of Management OF the Exposition
at their last meeting, decided to extend an
invitation to the Red Cross Association Of
America to make an exhibit OF tho workings Of
their organization for the purpose Of develop
ing an increased interest in humanity and
snlisiing the sympathy of the Southern people
| in their work. The board also invited the
association to hold their regular annual meet
| at New Orleans next year.
In the western part OF North Carolina, on
Pigeon river, is church twenty-five feet wide,
forty feet long and fifteen feet high, built
from the timber sawed from one curly poplar
rco; and near Eastman, Ga, is an oak trco
fifteen feet in circumference, two and a half
feet above the ground. 1t has been struck by
lightning, but is still living. At the base Of
this tree, two separate streams OF water spring
forth, one running direct east and the other
west.
The vast deposits Of coling and camel coal
in the Warrior coal fields of Alabama are be-
ginning to attract wide attention. The depos-
its Of the Warrior basin will certainly drive all
other Goals out of Mobile and other Gulf ports.
Fifteen years ago Maryland coal wss worth
fifteen dollars ton in Mobile, now the native
article is laid down at three dollars and sew
enty-hye cents n ton. This means that all tn,
shipping and all the ports farther South vii
hereafter be supplied with Southern coal.
For some time past Exposition headquarter
have been frequented by large numbers Of
electric light and railroad mon, who arc IN the
interest of the companies they represent for
the purpose of having their inventions adopt
cd for use on the grounds of the Exposition.
These gentlemen represent nearly all, il not
| all. of the prominent companies Of the coun-
try. For the railroads, the companies repre-
scnted include tho electric elevated roads,
surface steam motor surface electric motor,
elevated steam motor, elevated electric motor,
cable and wooden tranway. All of these diff.
fcrcnt patents are offered for the railroad that
is to be established in the Park. The electric
lights offered are from all the different patents
| in use.
Atcrrible drouth prevails in the Arkansa
Valley, owing as much TO the intense heat q
the want Of rain--for when a shower falls her
and there, the hot sun ticks 1t up IN aday o
q two. The mercury has ranged from 90 to 10
n degrees since the Goth OF August, during th
/" heat of the day. Stock water is drying nj
q Cotton bolls, squares and leaves arc falling Q
n rapidly. Many farmers say 1t will take fro
!, three to six acres to mako . bale in the u
> lands. where most of our cotton grows. Do
4 tom cotton is very seriously injured No OF
'" hero ever knew cotton ruined ~ snddenl,
! | Small grains were good and corn was mostl
a made before the hot dry weather came on III
The front and middle parts OF August wer
rather cool for the time of tho year.
The Exposition management have been fur
nished with copy OF correspondence that haI
taken place between the Secretary OF State a
1 Washington and the Mexican government, II
, which the Mexican authorities ask permission
0 10 bring into the United States armed troops
The reouest of tho Mexican officials was a
D once granted by the Department at Washing
1 ton, The object of the government In obtain
! ing this permission is for the purpose o
0 bringing to New Orleans and statoning on tn
, | Exposition grounds during the continuance o
l the Worlds Fair, q regiment OF infantry and
4 regiment of cavalry detailed from the Mexical
l army. The troops will be comfortably campo
: on the grounds, and will give exhibition drill
Q daily in infantry and cavalry maneuvres dul
t ing their stay there. They will be magnifi
Gently uniformed and equipped and will col
0 stitutc ono Of the principal attractions at u
0 great show. The advertisement Of the World
8 Exposition concerning concessions and priv
Q leges" has been altered, and the time 4
y receiving bids has bcch extended to Octos
: II, 1884.