The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-08-20
SOUTHERN NOTES.

Rice and sugar crops are doing well in lou
lsiana.
Alabama is happy over its prospects for corr
,, and cotton.
The cotton exchange, OF Little Rock, Ark,
has been ruined.
At.cr September it will cost 5000 per an
| nun tax TO sell whisky in Berrien county,
, Georgia.
James Hail. the oldest man in Carroll county,
) Ala, died few days ago. lie was one hun
! dred years old
There are twenty-five saw mills in operation
between I.ynchbnrg and Danville, near tho
Virginia Midland railway.
On the pension rolls Of revolutionary sol
ditrs, there are the names Of forty-eiBln wld-
ows in the Southern States.
A large percentage Of the grape crop In tho
vicinity Of Chattanooga, Tenn, has been de-
struyrd by the constant rams
Over $4,000 has been obtained without any
improved mining machinery, and at homlnai
expense from the Sale gold mine III Lincoln
county, ia.
Important coal fields have been discovered
along the line Of the Little Rock Fort Smith
| railroad, said to De u sclni-anilracltc, burning
without smoke.
| An OH gentleman III lhlDol 'uuiH.i ~ va"
! Bunkly place, had corn hard enough for milling
> on July ~, raised this year, and lie had meal
made from 1t ON that day
The estimated resources of Augusta, Ca,
for this year are s322, ,GGOSi and the cApendi-
: tures this year will he t3iG5 10, showing an
excess of expenditures over the resources equal
@ to 81, ,sGl9l
Mississippi has iOi,772 farms; l4,i56 are
:, under 20 acres the rest more than ~ acres.
-; ~" average size Of the farms IN l5G acres.
~ of farms "'''' id d0OO,OOO acres Of land-Nalne
III OOO,OOO. '-'nlcments about slOO,-
w. ~ Atlanta and Savannah are lo'n %.
40, ! ,,' water uu,stiun. 4 Savannah pHptr ~,
%o Atlanta that rhc will probably never haye tn
the GOOD water, and plenty OF IT uh,', ,. WV nmght
ON. | hoochcr canal Is dug, ana lia' H''""
vas not to rest until 1t Is done
owe The woman silk culture association, OF iils,
'S' I.Inlin propose To manufacture from ioi'u
ON 'li,,ms n handsome flag for the state oI
,r,iJ, II il To he regulation SIZE anu ulo
NY, ,,,,.amtatiou will take place at the inauSW~
Nho iinn Of the next chief magistrate oi flo'luA'
ion Thc importance Of the fishing Interests On
avs u,, cnnst of Nurth Carolina IL SHOWN "
,vcr statement of All Elizabeth ity paper '.. @ sno
Is ut s,iurs IN Alhcmarlo Sound mahc V auV" a..
sud. L,Wls every twrnly-four hours, ana u", , WIG
,krl maui o,r6 in an ordinary good season I" from
first II OOO to u 900 hcrrngs cach haul' h' 90 = "no
1t rs .,y IN, thr ,howan River rs many AZ too''''
mur h,,riurs have been taken al one hau'
',,,o The South in all quarters is awakening 70
,,nG u,, imnortancc of eliminating the question: U.
n"t c,uraton from politics. Ina pune spec, Nv
came Suartanhurg, Dr. Orr hnpcr'ht'hur' i,,;on w
,,'' catinn IN Georgia suggests that III Solu''vh W
'w!u NuVt" ,he j,r,inu or appointment of inteili.
,r,ij, r,m conservative pruptrty-hnhierS w AZ M
,s, m trhonl offices and prevent th,lr "'hS ni'' "
,.s IN. | mere politicians or lncompc'eht pcoP'.
made REPRESENTATIVES, of the Union fecihc Railwa.
armed in the city of Chicago JOIN III declaring 'nn
.rnvd ,hc scare over IrNao fever has ceaS'u. ~
,uur.. cattI, along the entire line ef the ROAD nav
,,u nm | hrrn renovated and fumigated, which IN ais
rms nj trnc of every ear used for the ~,
lrpa | nf cattle The company has also h"'ihe" w w
ms. H., | Wyomng Cattle Growers Association .. WI
r.,I | ,,sL taken by every herd from the southwest
many tnrunbl, them to ~arn all drovers ana 'hu
,nui tn nryycnt any possibility ot any Sprcauoi oon
re- Ia taplOn.
n very Farmers from the southern portion OF Mon
bl any ,,,,nrry couuty, Aa report that the crops
w NV, I'll that section have impfoycdt0 a6r' ~ ue6r
vs., "',' since the recent rains fell: The corn Gro
N and hH"rN'l' MHn J"arlv The great and ou
'he re- ,,ubl feared now by the farmers of tha' p,
III wv tnu of the country Is the cotton worn" WI,
"''n , q, arc hccomim. numerous But thus i't '
res n'i nests have done very little damage. Ihe 'n'
WV ,,s nll speak very hopefully OF the outi'os
P"N%', a fair average crop, unless the worms co"'c
.ns Ohio force.
sitation Col Bennett II. Young, president OF
he earth Southern Exposition, has announced 'ha'
nricntly Tymnsi,iou will he formally opened huSns
il was hS tGny KNIT. Coppa's and Gilmores Dar
at lasted oi New York. will furnish the music; my
gallery will comprise the choicest SeieTuo" my
ng Beach American pictures ever collected Inc
rd of its stock exhibit will eclipse anything the !"
than two ,yor saw London's great stock show leo
Sunday thinr of the kind previously made, pnt ~
~ pro yilles Southern Exposition WIN he,es'e,
lravy OBJ ha I;., oy stock exhibits One million uo
nor over, worth of horses will stand IN hhe esS
'Ock, and an eighth of a mile long James raihe
he of the In,Jnn furnishes the fireworks. There
oi open, h vrc.t competitive military drill and
$ u'lerc" features Of no less merit,
talted 10 There IA an enormous market rehu!
room Alabama coal New Orleans uses ABOUT
ed their noo tons n wear. and since they have got
dashed ,yn,er nt the mouth Of the Mississippi 'he
Us lcadmS ryinp trade has changed rapidly rom %
panic io vessels To steam vessels, 80 that inc aci
ut"s ihhe for coal Mt that point has Largely ihcie
'cSS ana Havana uses about 100000 tons OF con.
doors h'" and ther, il large number oi Po,mo
. veran Ia " w, TIica that use coal largely. The
the neWn of Santa Cruz uses 80 OOO TONS !Vat w
,ranao anu MN Galveston IL another poiht 'ha'
the beach coal largely A large amount ot tAe COZ
,e building 'o", % '' G,lvcstou now is English coal.
eveo there scls coming to Galveston Tor COTTON pl
coal ma freight as they cannot Set INV
foregoing ,o norry At one time the Pratt mine y y
land Long coal at Galveston and San Antonio,
lh' hl'N uos-mnkinE purposes, anu h"u '"
ms To- have Scnnl from Matanzas and Havana. anu Oh
hauics, AMI lnnJ was sent to Vera Cruz. III Mexico;
The states Years ago they senta schooner-loau u,
odc Island, cuba and it was pronounced mt, =, a.
yland )ca received in one week orders for moie "
Of Name could be supplied in q year.
'"l"NH There are a number OF women P, Piah,
it, NO Madison parish La. Mrs. NJ A. dipp
Iorte'; now low, nm the IIccla plantation when sue u,
isliiu laNV With great success. Miss lu Lucas MAJ
md sever ,rre estate, and personally superin'..
conlp'ettN' i",,,e force. She spends most of her
some loss thn saddle, and looks after her Pi0ws,
n California Trains, leyecs, stock and milL' Maaam'
that IN 'he !. rsgar,ed AZ the best woman ID lhe
canS III loss nrns tract of 1000 acres ana has oo'
To- interiors in cultivation this year.
n Francisco The remarkable growth OF the variou'
- solidiiiet, along the line of road WAS sio sHuolV
Ia counties, siderable comment among the railroad
ii to center, Of the Mississippi Valley railroad VINO
y strikingy over it, and they were enthusiastic IN
trical storms dcncc of prosperity nouceaoie eve
t such havoc along the line None OF the towhs "
stcd mainly six months od-iu fact, six months
otion, shown house had been built at any OF INC
nd crimnes. hctwecn Baton Rouge and Vioksburg,
its editorial isolated farm houses Of the older resiu
saying: "Thc --------'--------------
he late shock, Art In Rome.
tho rehec- Mr. Burne Jones has Just compl'
o,rthuunkp H. l,,oro tion Of the mn