The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-07-27

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sweet potatoes Of this years growth.
The population of st. Louis in
creased from 47,o7l in 1877, to b.
0G3 in 1870.
+ An Illinois farmer has II hun
drcd acres set out with onions.
Baltimore is said to have church
accommodations for 100000 people.
New York last year educated 23J,-
ISL children in the public schools, at
a cost Of $2,733,G0l.
A Troy editor speaks of anolIoh
as sufficiently well posted to edit a
handful"
Peanuts are said to be classcd
among the dessert at Wilmington
On. CO. hotels.
Daniel Styles, of Prescott, Wiscon-
sin, aged LOG, claims to be the oldest
trecmason.
Wizards hotel, Washington, so
celebrated during the war, is to be
removed and q finer building erected.
The sugar crop Of Louisiana this
year is estimated at lOf,SSl hogs
heads, and her rice crop at 1871
barrels.
The Greek and Roman armies ate
but once a day.
TO healthy persons mineral water
is not wholesome,
Hartford claims to be the richest
city GIFTS size in the Union.
The wheat harvest in Kansas be-
gun on the 10th inst. The crop was
never better.
The books in the library belong.
ing to the British Museum occupy
twelve miles Of shelving.
Three elephants, on an average,
come to this country each year. They
cost about $4,000 a piece.
1t is estimated that the number of
cattle driven from Texas this season
will reach eight hundred thousand.
In the procession at San Francisco
celebrating the pontificatc of Plus
IN, General Rosccrans acted as Mar
shall.
According to II OF the New York
papers there have been 1900 cases
of smallpox in that city since Janu-
AIRY.
Coppcrhcad snakes arc said to
smell like fresh cucumbers, and
Western snake-hunters follow and
despatch them by the scent.
Miss Cordclia Jane Hodgcson, the
late English connection Of Benjamin
Franklin, died at the age of Is at
Preston, England, the other day.
1t will take sixty years to restore
to France the forests ruthlcssly vast
ed in the military operations of the
late war.
Brigham Young has recently had a
little steamer built in New York
and shipped West. She is to sail on
Salt Lake, and is called the "Lady
of the Lake."
No less tlan three individuals in
different parts Of the country have
recently shot themselves in showing
how Vallandigham killed himself.
1t is time the experiment ceased.
Late adviccs from Lchcran say that
the famine in one district Of Persia
has reached such a state that starving
pcODlc have killed and eaten fifty
children.
A st. Louis iron company c0ntcm-
plates erecting a blast furnace twenty
five feet in diameter and one hum
drcd feet high. 1t will be thc,.largcst
in the United States. -...s
The RurUL NcH. YORKER recon-
mcnds applying ashes to grass lands
by sowing broadcast the fall after
the crop is OFF. The amount per
aero may be twenty-five to two hum
drcd bushels.
A correspondent of the London
Times, writing from India, tells of a
recent whirlwind that carried houses,
trees and herbs high into the air, and
dashing them to the ground a mile
or SO away, killed everything that
possessed life.
Charles Francis Adams will shortly
publish his "Alemoirs of John Quin-
cy Adams" which will include the
Statcsman's diary from l795 to 1913.
Lippincott has it in press.
No less than two hundred and
twcnty-fo1r life insurance companies
have been wound up in Great Bri-
tain within the last twenty-five years.
This is twice as many as now exist
there. "a IN
Several Of the Mackcrling fleet
have arrived at, Gloucester the past
week, averaging about 80 barrels
each. Prices rule very lew, and the
business will not prove rcmuncra-
tive. E'
Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van
Buren, have Eeen the only men in the
history of this country who have !
been Governors of States, holders off
first class foreign missions, heads of
cabinets, Vice Presidents, and Presi-
dents.
In his speech in San Francisco
Senator Cole expressed the opinion
that the Treaty Of Washington will
preclude the possibility of war be-
tween America and England for per-
laps a century to come, '
w.
y Story is going the round Of the
Northern press that an Alabama
planter, several years ago, becoming
satisfied that the vitality of the cot
ton plant was destroyed only by frost,
tried an experiment with u single
plant. The second year he picked
500 pounds from it last it yielded
| ,2I3 pounds of best cotton, and now
is twenty. five feet high, and.prom-
iscs to yield not less than three bales
of the staple. There is nothing in.
credible about this, any more than
here is about the true and veraciOus
history of Jack and the bean stalk.