The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-09-07
NEWS GI IEANINGS.
Selma has fifty fine arlesian wells.

Vegetation is frightfully parched i
Middle Tennessee.
Real estate is on the up grade in Batol
Rouge, La.
The blackberry crop Of Pulaski coun
ty this year was worth 50 800
Arkansas has $500 miles of navigabl,
rivers.
Wilmington, North Carolina, is ship.
ping a large amount of lumber t,
Hayti.
Selma, Ala bama, has flty-Gve over
flowing bored wells afording plenty
of good water.
Mississippi produced the largest
amount of cotton in 1880, the number
of bales being 9Jj S0S.
The Mississippi river commission will
build ninety barges, and will have five
steam tugs.
A live oak tree in Miconopy county,
Florida measures twenty-five feet in
circumference.
A North Carolina colony is talked of
which shall be free from Cheer saloons
churches, ministers and lawyers.
Nashville wants to he the iron center
of the South. / is now the next thing
to 1.-THE rock center.
Railroads, railroads, railroads, is the
cry from one end of the South to the
other.
Southwest Georgia is happy in tho
success attending the boring of artesan
wells. Water in abundance has been
obtained at a depth of $50 feet
j, b. Morrison, of McClclIansviIle,
South Carolina, has raised three hun
dred pounds of excellent Malaga grapes
his season.
The Fort Smith oil-mill and cotton
compress is about completed. 1t is one
of the largest in the country, and cost
$4,000
Pleas Harper negro, bought plan
tation on Broad river, in Georgia, pay
ing for the same &32, 1000. 1t comprises
2,10O acres.
There is great anxiety at Vicksburg
for fear that the recent Congressional
appropriation of $4,000 for the inn
provement of the harbor at that point
is not going to be expended as judcious-
ly as expected. The citizens are mov
ing in the matter, because at this stage
of water good work can be accomplished.
The German society organized at New
Orleans for the purpose Of promoting
the interests of German emigration to
the South is meeting with fattering
success. 1t is stated that large num-
Der of Germans are now ON their way
from Europe to points in the South.
Now this does begin to look like busi-
nes,
One of the Cotton Exposition's at
fractions will he an "ensilage cattIcry"
in full operation. The pits are being
dug, and the multitude of horses, sheep,
hogs cows and mules will be fed in the
ensilage during the exhibition. The
main object of the system is to save la
Dor and time.
The Georgia Legislature has passed a
bill making a complete change in the
management of the State penitentiary.
BY it the Office of Principal Keeper or
Warden is abolished, and a board of
three Commissioners dccted, clothed
with unlimited power to control the
operation of affairs. Th, power was
formerly in the hands of the Governor.
The Charleston Co urier comes to the
defense of the Southern girls who are
charged with being unwilling to work.
1t says that "it il only necessary to look
at Columbus or Augusta in Georgia or
at Greenville or Spartanburg in this
state, or wherever manufac cturers are
established in the South, to prove the
falSity Of this charge. Charleston will
be no exception to the rule now that
favorable opportunities are given to the
people"
Ine ex-ConGederate~ Association of
virginia, at recent meeting, adopted
the following resolution: "'That our
organization being purely social, we
nave rejected the harsh allusions made
oy one of the speakers of yesterday to
the President of the United States We
declare that the United States is our
country, its Government is our Gov
eminent, and we deprecate every at
Tempt, no matter from what source, to
revive the bitterness of the past"
They are after the alligators lively in
Louisiana, The New Orleans Democrat
says: Times seem to be growing bad
lor the alligato's. Within the last year,
or exen less there has sprung up a de-
hland much greater than ever before for
tnelr skins, and now the negroes with
on muskets and rifle in hand, are
launching their pirogue- in every nv on
AsLouisiana is the headquarter. Of these
sa'lrIapS this increased demand has ere
a'ed quite stir, and many people have
engaged in hunting them for living
lne sklDs are taken off and sent to this
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