The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-03-07
Items OF Interest.

Commodore Vanderbilt is re-
ported i'll.
Scotland exports walnuts to this
country. ,-r Hr
There are sixteen firms in New
York who deal exclusively in corks.
Memphis lawyers are moving for
reform in the matter of trial by
jury.
The new mines near Prescott,
Arizona, continues to be the centre
Of attraction.
The English expedition in search
Of DR.. Livingstone has left London,
the necessary funds having been
subscribed.
The southeastern portion Of New
Mexico is filling up with Texas cat
tie men, who say they can raise
stock there cheaper and with less
expense than in their own state
Five trains leaving Omaha from
January 1S to February 1 arrived
at Ogden on Saturday. The pas
sengers complain bitterly Of the
treatment and suffering along the
route.
The Western Division ofthe Col
orado Central Railroad is being
finished rapidly west, and will
pierce the very centre of the mining
regions of Colorado within few
years.
The town Of Lawlew, Iowa, which
three years ago was patch of ha-
eel brush, with only one house in
sight, shipped 100000 pounds
of railroad freight last year.
The Terrific Mining Company at
Georgetown puts the present yield
ofsmelting ore at $50 tons per day
valued at $11,25O, or $3,5OO,O 600
per annum, and employs, at pre-
sent, 1900 men.
The Legislative investigation in
to the affairs of the City Chamber
lain's office of New York, shows the
expenditures of the city and county
the past eleven years have been
$679,7S9,271.
Representatives of brewers were
before the Committee of Ways and
Means on the 18th, praying mod
ifcation of the present tax law, and
the adoption of stamp system for
taxation.
The Missouri, Kansas, and Texas
Railroad have nearly completed one
of Posts patent diagonal truss
bridges over the Arkansas River
near Fort Gibson. The bridge has
alength of $40 feet from shore to
shore, forty feet above low water.
A delegation OF native Chiefs from
the Navigator Islands are in Wash
ington, asking that the Govern
ment may take possession OF the is
lands. They contain 5000 square
miles, and are represented as being
ofgreat value for coaling stations
and other purposes. :,
DR.. jolly says that the French
consume more tobacco than any
other nation, and he attributes the
enervation of the soldiers, as evinced
during the late war, to the combined
effect of alcohol and nicotine upon
the national character.
The Leavenworth Commercial
says that Kansas has her share OF
Bills. There was Wild Bill, Buffa-
10 Bill, Apache Bill, Comanche Bill.
Buckskin Bill, Bin Mathews, and
now she has q Temperance Bill be-
fore her Legislature.
There are 10000 orange trees IN
Los Angeles county, California
which produces an average OF 1,OU
oranges per tree. The promise
OF a large crop this year is excellent
The gathering season commences
ABOUT the first OF January.
One of the best farms in England is
kept by woman, and took the firs'
prize recently offered by the Royal Ag,
ncultural Society. 1t is a farm Of
four hundred acres, devoted to pasture
grain and stock. The soil was origl'
nally poor, but had been much improv'
edby skillful treatment.
THE CELLAR.-,A light dry cellar Is
better for keeping half-hardy or ten
Ger plants than q pit. A good cellar
having large body Of air never
freezes, while pit, however carefully
tended, may. We find the Geraniums
Lantanas, Verbenas, and all plants Of
mat class, taken up and put In boxes
OF earth, winter well in the cellar
Agaves, O!eanders, Cape Myrtles
and things Of that kind, winter splen
dldly there. Plants in the cellar, how
ever, need air on mild days. They arr
more apt to suffer from dampnes'
than dryness, and should be looked u
OCCASIONALLY, and not allowed to be
come what Is called "killiDg dry"