The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-03-21

| the improvement OF the ST. Johns bar. One
| thousand dollars have been voted to pay the
captains expenses, and Representative Fin
lay, in communication to the Jacksonville
Sun and Press, says "My only purpose Is
to urge with the greatest earnestness imme.
date and energetic action on the part of the
city authorities and citizens of Jacksonville,
and Of the state, and the prompt acceptance
OF Captain Eads' offer. If his report should
be favorable, IL will be of incalculable ad.
vantage to the city and the state. # it
should be adverse, we shall then know that
we cannct make the river do its own work,
and that We may only hope to get an inN
adequate depth OF water over the bar at the
cost of perpetual dredging"
Herschel Y. Johnson's home in Geor,
| gia, according to Il correspondent: There
was something about the grand old residence
| with its oaks, and walks, and hedges, and
shrubbery, which very much impressed me,
and brought up ideas associated with de-
! scrptions | had read OF old manor houses
and country.seats in England and elsewhere.
| The dwelling, too, consisting Of Il central
dome, around which runs n corridor, with
rooms opening on it from what might be
called the outside, is very much to the taste
of a man who has a vein of superstition
running through his idiosyncrasy. And, after
retiring for the night surrounded by asilence
broken only by the closing of distant door,
or the sound OF a distant footstep ecnong
through the passages, could not help re.
calling the adventure of Captain Marryatt
and the Lady of Burnham Green, the story
Of which is so prettily told by his daughter
Florence.
Polk county correspondence Of the
Florida Patriot. In tbia gnptinp.-ppnp ~ "a NFpalY
splendid crops are the rule this year,
plenty and to spare, OF corn, cane, potatoes
and cotton, with fine orange crop. ] have
ma lie this year with two mules between 800
and 1000 bushels Of corn, about 1000 bushels
OF potatoes, don't know yet how much
cotton, but it is as fine rs | ever saw, and
have good crop Of oranges On my trees.
We have n seli,sustaining country. We
raise in addition to the articles already
mentioned, rye, oats, peas tobacco, and most
OF the varieties OF garden vegetables. Sheep
do WELL and from all that | can see horses
can be proftably raised. We keep our smoke
house at home. hogs doing well on the range
and taking but little corn to transform them
into first class pork. Then we have fat beef
ten months in the year, and chickens and
eggs until you can't rest.
Atlanta Constitution We can safely
assert that the miues of North Georgia in
five years will yield as mucn gold as those of
California ever did. What more does man
want than to pick up nuggets worth forty
and fifty dollars Only last year party of
road hands working on the public road near
Dahlonega dug up plug of gold as large as
mans thumb. A countryman hauled a
load of cabbage forty miles to this city from
Dawson county during this winter, and had
in his pocket along with his tobacco and
knife two pieces of gold that could not have
been worth less than twenty-five dollars.
He was Just as careless with them as if they
had been a couple of buckeyes he was
carrying to cure the rheumatism. We said
to him: Is there much of this kind Of gold
in your country% eyes" said he, "but
you have TO dig for it." Well, why do you
raise cabbage and haul them so far" He
replied: Well, you see, stranger, have to
bring my wagon down to Atlanta to carry
back salt and iron and a few dry goods for
the old lady, and cabbage is about as light a
load as can haul. | generally dig gold
when my crop fails"