The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-09-28

The Louisiana sugar industry vii
pan out handsomely this season for tn,
pelican State.
And now they are talking of making
an excellent substitute for butter out OF
eotton-seed oil.
The crops of Marshall county, Ala,
are reported in good condition, the
drouth to the contrary notwithstand.
ing.
Silk culture in Alabama is being agi-
tated by many of the papers. They
seem to think that it would handsomely
North Carolina ores will beta feature
in the Atlanta Exposition.
Louisiana is a well timbered State
The New Orleans papers claim that there
are millions to be made in the wooded
hnds of the State.
The health of jeff. Davis rince he ar
rived in Europe has been wretched. He
will probably return to America sooner
than expected.
The two ice-manufacturing establish
ments at New Orleans are making bic
money this season. They charge 500 a
ton, and can't supply the demand.
The tenant farmers in many places of
the South are asking reduction of rent.
Owing to the drouth they have raised
little or nothing on their places.
The Virginia Historical Society i, be-
ing built up. 1t is an ancient and
honorable institution, and its friends
everywhere will be glad to know that
its prestige will be sustained.
Pensacola old bonds are now in re-
guest since the compromise of the city's
debts, Twenty-Five per cent, has been
offered for $50, 600 of the old bonds, and
declined.
Colonel r. F. Maddox, the big cotton
man OF Atlanta, estim ates that the cot |
ton crop will be short about 1000 600 |
bales. But, with all this, there will be |
an abundance of cotton in the land.
Marietta (Ga.) Journal: Some of |
our most sensible farmers, notably the |
larger and more thrifty ones have dis
covered their mistake, and will hereafter |
cow down their lands in wheat, oats. |
clover and grasses, and increase their
herds of cattle, sheep, hogs and horses. !
Arkansas Democrat; Cotton-seed oil |
is being generally used here for cooking
purposes, and is liked about as well, if |
not better, than the stuff brought here
in buckets and sold as leaf lard; besides.
is 80 much cheaper.
Georgia is not to have a prohibition
campaign, after all. The bill to submit |
the question to the people was defeated |
in the Senate by vote of twenty to |
nineteen, and reconsideration failed. |
The House will probably let the bill |
die on the calendar, and thus avoid |
cOmHitting members.
Charleston had trade last year of |
Nl,211, 100. 1t receipts of cotton were
e2S,2S7 bales; of rice, 1851 tierces
OF spirits of terpentine, 5l,3S6 cakes
Iosin, 291, AT barrels; of crude phos
phate, 1O8, 1873 tons; lumber, 1850 I
'57 reet, of commercial fertilizers, 10O,-
tonA-the whole of the value of $36, 2l6,- |
Q60.
Mountain, Ala, Home: Mr.. J. W.
Mcmillan planted tive acres in water
melons and one half acre in cantaloupes
this year, from which he has sold
s2O75O,and has used himself and t. ca ed
bis friends to what would have sold for |
700 more This beats cotton raising too |
bad to talk about, to say nothing of
setting several tons of good hay off the
same land.
The New Orleans Democrat states
that nota drop the water of the Red
nver now runs into the Mississippi, but
all goes to swell the Atchafalaya, |
which, re enforced by large percent.
age OF Mississippi water, is daily in
creasing in size, and constitutes direct
menace to the future of New Orleans"
The Legislature of Georgia has killed
the bill to appropriate sl,0O00OO to
build new capitol by large majority.
The present capitol building was origi
nally intended for an opera house, and
mot only unsuitable for State house,
but is unsafe. The dead bill provided
for the expenditure of 5000, per an
mum until the whole amount was paid,
at the end of the five years time set
apart to construct the new ediflce.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
mas correct appreciation of the news
paper, and adds his testimony to its value
as an educator Journalism" he says,
has become as much a separate and
distinct profession as medicine, or law,
or engineering, or agriculture, or arcbi
lecture, or mining, and every family
should have newspaper if they expect
or care to keep pace with the current Of
events in this fast.moving age. Books
are not always accessible, but paper.
are, and at price that places them
within the reach of the poor as well as