Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1873 — The Soldiers’ Homestead Law. [ARTICLE]

The Soldiers’ Homestead Law.

There seems to be some misunderstanding regarding the &mendments which passed Congress last session in regard to the Soldiers’ Homestead law. The amendments prqposed weje various and important, but they all failed to pass except the following, which embodies all thwchangn that has been made in the Homestead law; “That any pereon entitled, under the provisions of the foregoing sections, to enter a homestead, who may have heretofore entered, under the Homestead laws a quantity of land less than 160 acres shall be permitted to enter so much land as, t when added to the quantity previously entered, shall not exceed 170 acres.” is, that whereas the law of 1873 permits soldiers to enter homesteads on what hie called “double minimum lands,” or lamls within the limits of railway grants, and whereas many soldiers had entered eighty acres each, they are npw permitted to enter a whole quarter section, dr lfiO acres of such lands. The amendment simply doubles the quantity of land that may be' entered under the law.— Bouton Globe. —There is some, talk of forming a new State, to lie called- “Alleghany,” out of western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and southwestern Virginia, with capital at Knoxville or Chattanooga. The territory thus described consists almost wholly of mountain land, and th& new State would-be the Switzerland-of. America. It would also be immensely rich in mineral deposits. Another project relates to Georgia and South Carolina, and is the annexation of Pickens and O’Conor Conn ties, South Carolina, to Georgia. It is said that a commission will be appointed by Gov. Moses, of the former State, and Gov. Smith, of the latter, to determine, -if.possible, some basis of annexation. ' —Thirty years ago the island of Nan ticket sent nearly a hundred whalers—tine large ships— into the Pacific Ocean. Now the “R. L. Barslow”—the fast vessel In the whnlmg business bearing the name of Nantucket on her stern —has been sold at Callao.