Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Winston, N. C.. claims the distinction oi selling more pounds of leaf tobacco direct from the hands of the farmer than any other loose market in the world. Th* present tobacco year the market will sek 2,000,000 more pounds of tobacco than it has ever sold before, the sales reaching tc more than 18,000,000 pounds. Geological specimens lately discovered at Mount Poole, iu the far west of New South Wales, are considered to show that in a distant age the sea divided Australis Into two or more portions. They consisi of fossil shells, etc. -