The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-05-18
NEWS GLEANINGS.

harbed wire tenClng along us lTaCK III
Southern Mississippi and Louisiana, and
will soon have it all along the line, so as
to keep off stock from the track,
The Little Rock Gazette publishes
soociGcatiorss of material and work
roouircd to build hospital for the in
sane at Little Rock, Ark, from which it
orpears that the main building Is inten-
ded to be sixty-three feet front by one
hundred and four deep, and the wings
each one hundred and ffty-six feet long
and forty feet wide.
New Orleans Picayune: Texas towns
grow so fast that the population is al.
WAYS ahead of the returns. According
to the last census Galveston had %, 253;
San Antonio, 30, ,56l Houston, 1856 !;
Austin, 1860; Dallas, l0,35S,
At Blackville, S. c., correspondent
Of the Augusta (Ga) Chronicle and
Constitutionalist Gays the South Carroll
ma railroad has built shed 200 feet long
and fifty feet wide, intended fora cotton
market in the fall, and to store fertil-
izers in the spring.
The sub-treasury at New Orleans has
been notified from Washington of the
discovery of counterfeit so gold coin,
an imitation of the New Orleans coin
age of twenty years ago. About ten
wears ago a number of these countcrfeits
we're in circulation, but of late years
none have been seen.
The Houston (TeXas) Post says that
Fort Worth has an artesan well $50
feet deep, and the water rises out of a
bed of white sand fourteen feet deep.
The well affords about 100 barrels of
freest0ne water per hour, which is SuHi.
cicnt to supply the needs of the whole
city
The Confederate monument in Talla-
hassee, Fla, is seventeen and half feet
high The base is Of gray sandstone, on
which rests an immense block of white
marble, with appropriate inscriptions
engraved. A tapering shaft Of pure
white marble, surmounted by an Egyp-
ton shaped marble vase, rests on this
rock.
Chattanooga Tenn. Tradcsman; The
expense of the great Cotton Exposition
at Atlanta will reach high figure, To
run the machinery will require lot less
than two miles of shafting. All sorts of
novelties in the manufacturing line are
to be shown. The enterprise will be a
success in all respects, and every city in
the South should take a hand in it, for
its own benefit and for the encourage
mcnt of our king Of industries, For
otton is now more truly king than ever
of exports, and soon to be king of South
erD manufactures.
Charleston News and Courier; Tuition
at the South Carolina College is abso.
lutely free, except in the department oil
literature, where the students pay such
fees as may be agreed on with the in
structOrs. The South Carolina College
is emphatically a poor mans college. Ii
is supported by the annual interest on
the invested proceeds of the sale of the
agricultural land script given the State
by act Of Congress. The whole fund
was lost, but it was replaced by the
present State government, and the inter
est isregularly paid This interest main
tains the College at Columbia for whites,
and the Clahin University at Orange
burg, for colored persons only.
Judge A. S. Merrimon, having been
invited to address the prohibition con
ycn.ion at Raleigh, n. c., responded in
an able, lucid and fcrvent speech, in the
course of which he said: All legislation
sa bundle of compromises. This bill
was not what many people wanted, but
seldom are statutes just what we wish
Whatever else it may be- prohibition is
init The question must be discussed in
the light of reason, and it must be plain.
ly discussed. But remember this: The
act prohibiting the sale of liquor is a'
much law as any on the statute book
lhe Legislature docs not ask the people
TO adopt or reject this act, but only it,
penal provision. 1t goes into full force
and effect on the first Monday of Octo
Der next, The county commissioner
cannot issue licence after that date |
stherefore is idle to speak upon the stat
ute, for it is not public question, bcin!
already law.
The Sunland Tribune, of Florida
says thai with the exception of abou
twenty miles where boats Se required
~go outside, there is an inland passage
Oh four or five feet depth all the wa,
from Tampa bay to Punta Rassa, at tn
mouth of the CalOosahatchie river. B,
opening a canal for eight miles at wha
called the Hanover" in the vicinit,
Oh Casey's Pass, the inland route, tn
tribune learns from Coptain James Nc
Nay, who is perfectly familiar with tn
entire coast, can be made complete fror
Tampa bay to the mouth of the Caloc
@hatchie for light draft boats, such a
could go up much father than sea-goin
steamers, the rivers of Manatee, Make
feace creek and Caloosahatchie. TIL