Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-02
EDGTURfAE NOTES.

The news comes from London that fresh attempts are being made there to "boom" Confederate bonds. A part of the plan is said to be to have bill introduced in the house of representatives at Washington pro posing that the government assume the bur den of the rebel debt. The bill will thus be used to arouse interest in England, and the ring which has collected the old bonds will attempt to sell them to anyone who is fool ish enough to buy. This is an interesting scheme.
 The farmers of South Carolina are waking up B. R. Tillman, one of them, having printed series of articles criticising the ad- ministration of the State agricultural depart ment, finds himself overloaded with demands from brother farmers to call a convention to plan a campaign for the advancement of the farmers cause. The general demand is for a board of agriculture composed of farmers, instead of professional men and politicians, and for laws against commercial fertilizers and sundry special grievances.
 The last New Hampshire legislature passed law providing that any person resident in the State not under guardianship or legal re- straint, who was honorably discharged from the United States army or navy and who is poor or unable to support himself, shall be supported in his own home by the town or city in which he resides. The result of this law is that any soldier can move into the State and live very comfortably at the ex- pense of the town. There is such a case in Dover and the city will make test case of it, believing the law unconstitutional.
 Florida land has been well described, but there is some land in Georgia which is appa- rently ahead of it. This is the way the man who wants to sell it talks about it: The mere act of residing in that little paradise is a cure for all the ills that flesh is heir to. It heals the sick, opens the eyes of the blind, makes the lame walk, forces second growth of amputated limbs, removes cataracts, cures the itch, removes the taint of scrofula, cures catarrh, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, rheumatism, indolence nervous pros tration, eczema, pen paralysis and hog chol- era, to say nothing of hydrophobia and snake bites.
 French wines may be cheap Cor as dear) in this country as they have been, but it is probable that there will be more adultera- tion and fraud practised than there has been. The wine product of France for 1885 was the smallest, that of one year excepted, for thirty years. The quantity in 1875 was nearly 1 1850 0OO, ,0o0 gallons, and the average for the ten years ending in 1884 was 95O,- 000 000, but the returns are said to show only 642, ,O0O, ,OOO for 1885. Mildew, the phyl- 1oxera and bad weather were the causes of the decrease Where one gallon of wine was imported into France ten years ago thirty gallons are imported now. This foreign wine from countries on the Mediterranean Is doc tored" in France and sold at home and abroad as native product.
 Considerable attention has been lately di- rected to the commercial and industrial value of the tupelo gum and willow oak tlmbers ot Mississippi After various and thorough tests the first named has been pronounced almost as soft and light as cork, and the whitest timber in the valley. It is extreme