The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-07-20
MISCELLANEOUS,


Three thoussnd taverns supply FcS
ton with rum.
Gen. Butler is q candidate for Gv
ernOr Of Massachusetts,.
\ Rome, Ga, has just cast the first
sSve made in that town.
Great dullness is now complained Of
by We Wall street brokers.
SIX worms are now used in Califor-
MA asan article of export.
Chis Justice Chase has gone to the
MlchlgQ Magnetic Springs.
The Oited States has 36S collegiate
institutios.
London Judy calls the Prlnce of
Wales "Hm a Sovereign"
At a LongBranch hotel they fire
cannon rs Snal for dinner
Street cars Ire being made in this
country for Bombay and Java.
In Connecieut they beat Il drum to
summon peole to a sheriH's sale.
Large nunler of Poles are said to he
emigrating toAmerica this year.
A country lWspaper calls Captain
Halls expeditA 1.-THE Polar Picnic.n
Bishop simph, Amcs and James
A school of petied whales has been
added to the eduttional facilities of
California.
A silk factory iabout to start in
South San Francis6 # has ordered
fifteen bales Of raw sk from China to
commence with.
In some parts of Gorado water
sells at two cents q pintwhi,h shows
that they haven't dug thr wells deep
enough to reach the qualN
A dog in Virginia cairiesetters be-
tween two places, lG miles Sart. His
owner merely ties the letteEo his col
lar and tells him to go.
Piano.making at present kes the
third rank among the manuia aurine
| interests in the United States.
The German watering placeAot-
Withstanding the war, are said tom
ticipate this year a prosperous sean.
Butter is now exported from Aust-
lia to England, and it is said to arm
in large quantities and in good ordd
Alabama papers give q report tina
an early special session OF the Legisla
| turc is probable, to consider the finar
cial condition Of the State.
The health of Bishop Simpson is S
prccarious as to excite grave apprt
tensions on the part of his friends.
There are l2l, ,510 citizens Cf Teuc
tonic birth in New York, and 2Ol sc
Irish,
Fifty thousand gallons was the dali
beer allowance at the New Yor
SaengerIest.
The number Of homeopathic phys
clans in the United States has in
creased from 100 in 1874 to 5000 now
4 letter-writer in New York say
the profits Of the Fifth Avenue Hote
after paying 100000 a year rent, az
$1,000 aday.
Boston sells 10000 bean-pOles yea
to suburban. agriCulturists, but mos
of them are not raised in the city.
There is u house in TolIand county
Connecticut, on the walls Of whic
still remains paper which has bee
there since 1857, when the house wa
built.
Four George Washingtons, six An
drew Jacksons, five Henry Clays an
two James X. Folks, all negroes, re
side at present in the Louisiana peni
tentiary.
The neck OF the Archbishop VIII
was shot in 1873 is still exhibited il
Notre Dame, the bullet still fixed il
= the vertebra.
Mr.. Frederick Watts, the New Com
missioner of Agriculture, is now Presi
dent Of the Pennsylvania Agriculture
Society, and he is said to be one of til
most scientific and intelligent agricul
turists in the country.
The table OH which the Versatile
. peace preliminaries were signed ha
been presented to Prince Bismarck a
souvenir, and stands in his Wife
room, q small silver plate recording it
historic significance.
Lord Broughams's letters, recent.
published, reveal the fact that William
+ 1V always believed in the imminenc
of a Russian invasion of Great Britain
and half convinced his Ministers of il
HALLS Journal of Health says: 9TH
old and young delight in warmth; it
to them the great luxury. Half tn
, diseases ofhumanity would be sweI
from existence If the human bod
. were kept comfortably warm all tn
time"
In the last fifty years at least 81
large Empires have come out q
, heathcnism to Christian light and IN
Aucnce, and hundreds of nativ
preachers are proclaiming the Go,
! pei among them.