The Russellville Democrat., 1875-09-16

transporting lt VIII De provided It is time this talk about Arkan sas being "isolatcd" should stop We have excellent and chear means of transportation from al most every section of the State, as is proven above. Doubters car come and satisfy themselves.
 
 The South at the Centennial. Our Home Journal.l
 If the South and Southwest are to take a hand in the show, and be adequately represented at the great Centennial of 1876, is it not full time that we were Cup and dolngY'
 The South now is, and probably always will be mainly an agricul- tural country; and it is in this field only that our laurels can be won. We have as yet done very title in the way of manufactures our commerce is all or nearly all in Northern or foreign lands, and we must, therefore, fall back upon agriculture-our main prop and stay. In this department, we can, if we will, rank among the foremost; and to stimulate our friends and readers, we have com piled few very interesting and suggestive statistics of our calling. Our rural readers may feel proud to read that the value of the farms and farm machinery, the farm products, and the live stock of the United States roll up an aggre- gate of over thirteen thousand million dollars, while the total of the products of onr manufactories (less the materials employed and the capital invested in them is less than four thousand million dollars. To fitly present charac- teristic specimens drawn from and fully illustrating this enor- nous industry of our land, is the duty that devolves upon the agri- cultural department of the Gen. tennial. The representatives of the ninety million of horses, cat tie, sheep and swine noted in the census of 1870, will alone consti- tute such grand display as will be worthy Of attention; and it might be we'll to mention just here that one club proposes to ex- hibit three hundred specimens of neat cattle. The attractiveness of the agricultural exhibit and the disposition to contribute to it, will be recognized when we state that, out of the l2, 300, ,000 persons engaged in all classes of occupa- tions in the United States, 5,922,- 900 or nearly one-half, are engag ed in agriculture.
 The trades and industrief, too, that minister and are subordinate to the agricultural interests of our country, swell the aggregate seeking space for display in the area set apart for this department. With these few figures (drawn from the census of 1870 in mind, ] we may imagine how great a pro- portion of the visi ors will be at tracted to the farmers show in 1879. And not only will this DOT tion of the Centennial Exhibition be peculiarly attractive to our own citizens, but as we are best known abroad by our agricultural productions, so we may anticipate that of the foreigners who visit us in 1876 the specially which will call the greatest number of them to Philadelphia will be the agricultural.
 Shall not we of the South, then, be fully represented with all our staples of cotton, sugar, rice, na- val stores, grains, fruits, wines, vegetables and timber-to say nothing of the thousand and one other things that we can so easily send? Let us begin at once, and do all we can to build up this grand National Jubilee.
 Fayetteville Democrat: Mir. S. K. Stone of this place, says that he will make one of two hundred men, who will build a railroad from Fayetteville to some point on the Little Rock and Ft. Smith road. Oh, for one hundred and ninety-nine more Stones.