The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-09-03
SOUTHERN NOTES.
Key West 10 now m BY gas.

Inc 1rht crop B unusually holnuAnt IN
Eastern Texas.
The srlky which Jry-Eye-see draws this sea-
son weighs oniy ioi.y pounds
All round the wheat crop OF 1884 for Texas
will far exceed anything Of the past
The work Of laying brick for the Atlanta
Chamber Of Commerce has commenced.
| In four years Arkansas, Florida. Louisiana,
and Texas have doubled their railroad mileage.
| Glars made from sand procured on Geiser
ranch, near San Antonio, Is now made In that
:i.y.
Another Texas city, Fort Worth, will shortly
sujoy the advantages Of the free mail delivery
system.
The recent heavy rains in Hale county, Ala.
have damaged the cotton crop considerably in
that county.
A firm at Tullahoma, Tenn. is said to be
shipping seven thousand dozen eggs per week
to northern markets.
Reports from the cotton districts in Alabama
| show very much improved, condition OF tho
crop in the last week or ten days.
The Corpus Christi people claim that their
free wool warehouse is bringing back to them
large amount of their lost wool trade.
Beef cattle sell at three cents per pound gross
weight in Austin, and the butchers retail beef
al from fifteen to twenty cents per pound.
The Southern lumber trade continues to
grow in importance. II is asserted that tho
southern cypress Is more useiul WOOD 'hah
"Iite Pihe'
Sorolum ia attracting tho attention ~ North
Carolina farmers as a waving crop' and more
care ~ being taken TO produce good moissses
'hah iorm'fy'
Tho lalics ~ tho State are determined thero
,hoII be nlruty of Texas bcdouilts and pincush-
IONS ON ixhiLition nj New Orleans. Thcy arc
, organizing all over thc STATE.
r.,o,, y,oo mazda N, ,be Gtb inst bv n com
,,t,ee ng tbo Louisiana Icgislatnrc in favor OF
Giving a,rh disabled Confederate soldier one
, lnndTc5 ami eTLtv acres M land
, AT waco, Texas, efforts are beng MADE 10
establish another large factory IN 'hat place.
ihe thteiPilSe IL 10 De co'toh mn company;
WIN capIal s'oeh VI oi'o hu''uIcu 'houSa"u
1olialS'
Tennessee bns tbirtv-tbroe COTTON mills with
. sev.nty.eiebt tbousord eight hundred and sew
q ,nly-styrn spindlcs. WHY shouldn't Texas,
, with her immense cotton product, have three
y ilhitS as hiah!F
; II il rcporicd that n fine mineral sprinp has
. l,rn discovered near the Cowpens battle
. ground, in Spartanburg county, s. G., which
. tncccssfully cnres skin diseases and a great
many inward inGrmlties.
a
DouSnea D,"s' nnu '" III H. droo, and sn;sS n
r in Aurns,n Go- by Scptember 1. one OF the
~ largest compresscs in the country, with q ca
/. ~, - .;i,,oo,, Lun1roJ LoIou nor 1av
IA f"o'! VI H'A'''h nuhoi'' o"''' P'' ""''
"A site has becn purchased at Knoxville
" Tenn, for u new cotton mill for which one
/. hundred and Twenty-Five thousand dollars cap
ital has already been raised. Another new
,oplcn mill in the same city is also PROBABLE
Efforts are being made at Birmingham, Ala,
TO Introduce and encourage the Manufacture OF
1t finer case cotton gooiS thsh u. pres nj maze IN
II, fllc southern states, anu 'niuapio piece o,
10 properly ~ 'Vhu'ie" 'no IAN. ,.'Iii.,
IhI,'u "oIhS I'D "' 'h'"'o''eh' " e''"''''n
N "olhs tl'eie'
:. The Salula cotton factory AZ ureenvllie, ..
N C., has made large and valuable contract with
10 Boston hrm Tor furnishing ,hem Win yarns
until next January. New England yarns were
~, offered at one-fourth OF cent lower, but the
~ " superior quality OF the South Carolina yarns
n commanded the contract.
va 7, 4, so;l tbotu q Grant Jobn n Ncw
,o ndrdnr of Grorcio and President Jcwett nj
Il Ho Fric nre CONCERNED in n scheme to bnid n
Inn railroad from Turtle bay, in Southern Florida,
IN i;un il ia bclicved. would build nm the West
no placo Mace the bonds. "
Ter Reports from Southern Arkansas say that tho
ct deslrneuon Oh apm,s.lI n,n Slnam "ii1ng IN, ~
lowel MsSssslppi =! WV nSU y, y, ee ra,n '.
ck exceed al former experiences IN any one year
H., ali All former for records Within radius Of ter
zen u, n;ss from Grensda sir hundred mnles hay,
"st "ss Mro coorco U.rri. an sged I,dv of Tails.
J;s ,onsa .onp,s Ala dicJ recently nnder stranc,
Ia p',''t,,.,, .J"., cia ,od Ler Irshand In tbs
Ar biN l'ih hNi h""""''.' 'he