The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-10-17
GENERAL NEWS,

SELMA, Alabama, expects soon to have
electric lights.
ALABAMA marble is much used for
monuments and other purposes.
LARGE quantities Of walnut and poplar
LOGS from southwest Virginia are shipped
north.
GREENvILLE, S. G., has population
ofs,S55. An increase of over two thou
sand in three years.
A BRIDGE over the Mississippi river at
New Orleans, at n cost of thirty million
dollars, is talked Of.
The orange crop Of Florida this yea
will be onc-eight in excess of last year,
50 It's estimated.
LOUISIANA is being grid-ironcd with
railroads and in consequence land is al
vancing in prices.
THERE is Justice of the Peace in
Banks county, Ga, who has held his Of
fee for eight years and has never tired
case, always getting tie litigaLts to
compromise
TIY-sToSE, seycnty-cight per cent tin,
has lately bc-n discovered in Birming-
ham, Ala. The lands where the find
occurred are being developed and much
is expected from them.
WHILE blasting Gu the site of the new
bath-house ut Rot Springs, Ark, re-
Gently, n new spring Of hot water was
discovered, the thermal fluid bursting
forth with force sufficient to throw
streem distance Of fifty feet.
EXTENSIVE land sales are reported in
Arkansas. Splendid timber lands, cx-
tending up the Sabine river, with a river
front of twenty miles, lave lately been
purchased with foreign capital. This
large tract, it is said, contains 400, Co.,
QUO feet Of timber.
SINCE the death of Chambord, the last
Royalist newspaper in France has ceased
publication. 1t is probable that the
poor p:etense tf ROYALTY was n costly
basbe to Chambord after ALL and that
it was his purse that opened when lit
tie advertising was needed.
THE will of Mrs. Fillmore, widow of
the late President, is the subject Of n
contest in court ut Buffalo, New York,
a claim being made that she was insane
when she made it, 1t is another warn
ing to wealthy persons to distribute
their property as they wish it hefore the
call of death is heard.
DURING September 1l,21S cabin pas
senges entered orr Golden Gate, against
1883 for the same month last year. The
number of immigrants for the same
month was 32,9C0, being decrease from
the preceding year. The years immi-
grafton shows n decrease of about GO,QQ0
from The figures of last year.
The South stands low IN the scale of
wealth. In Georgia, for example, in
1880 s240, 900, 600 represented the aggre-
gate value of property of 1000, 900 peo-
pie, making but S16O per capita, less
than half the $40. when was the gen
eral average on the same basis of valua-
tor. However, of the $40, 900, 900
about 1894, 100000 were held by the
whites-S17, 900 in number-so that the
wealth per capita Of the white citizens
was about 1885, not 80 far below the av-
cragc. For the sake of comparison we
note that the individual wealth OF Great
Britain is the highest in the world. Say
in 1880, an aggregate wealth of As bill
ions of dollars divided amongst 2,000,,
900 persons, an average of 81 400 pei
capita France stands next. Popula-
ton 100000, wealth ~ billion dollars
nv rage, 81 900. The United States il
next in order, if 40 billion dollars he :
correct valuation, about 1900 per capita
Germany with population Of Al ,OO0,O0'
and wealth of 30 billions, next, the av
erage per capita being $40. Probabl,
Massachusetts,, as a single state, woul'
head the list of wealth per capita, witt
between 81 800 and 1900 as the aver
n age,