The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-02-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

5000 in greenbacks.
A. girl in Utah recently fell dead
from lacing too tightly.
Ice two feet thick is being gathered
in Indiana and Illinois.
The value of school property in
Ohio is nearly $4,000 900
The value of school property in
Ohio is nearly $4,000 DOC,
1871 was known in Boston as the
year Of pleasant Sundays.
A band of female counterfeiters has
been broken up in Illinois.
In Chicago the new Mayor is max.
ing war upon the gamblers.
The Swiss ribbon makers are said
to know 1900 different colors.
Silver coin is a legal tender in
England for only forty shillings.
There are 1918 persons over Ten
years Of age in New Hampshire VITO
cannot read.
The construction Of the raj way
over the Splungen pass of the Alps
is to begin this year.
The Italian coral fishery furnishes
employment to 3,ll0 men, and is very
successful and profitable.
A bill has been introduced in the
Ohio Legislature to encourage the
cultivation Of forests.
Why is the car-bell strap like con-
science? Because it is an inward
check on the outward man.
la France, oysters have become so
dear that large numbers of snails are
now eaten instead of them.
James Fisk, Jr., at the time OF his
death, was in his thirty-eighth year.
He was born April LIST, 1884.
NJ. Gambelta asserts that he knows
of no greater misfortune for France
than the execution of Rossell.
There were three hundred and five
murders in New York last year, and
only one man hanged for them.
The Trenton Board Of Trade is
moving for the purpose of improv-
ing the navigation Of the Delaware.
There il mover q man so bad, says
a celebrated writer, but what some
woman loves him and has faith in
him.
Gloves were once the principal az
tir'e given by the French people to
their friends at the beginning OF the
car.
The Nov York Mail says: As men
part their hair in the middle, ladies
have taken TO wearing theirs parted
OH the side.
This is the Princess's birthday"
were The first intelligent words spo-
ken by the Prince of Wales after his
long dcllrium.
Capt. William Gibson, a soldier
during WellingtoL's Campaigns, and
a veteran of Waterloo, died in Illinois
the other de-! in his 9th year.
Joe Jciferson's orange island prom
ises a yield Of nearly two hundred
barrels Of oranges this season. The
crop is being shipped to st. Louis
It is stated the commissioners of
the State have leased the Knoxville
and Charleston road t. r. J. Wilson
for one hundred dollars per month.
The Frodicksburg Wa.) Star re-
cords the death of Mrs. CIoe Fiat
ford, aged llS, and of Abby West,
colorcd, who died at Dumfries, aged
80.
St. Louis last year made great pro-
grCss in commerce, manuiactu es
md business, ind large number of
new buildings were added to the
town.
The Indians of the Grand Traverse
region in Michigan have $4,000
aCrth of property and l4S houses,
and raised large quantities of pro-
ducc this year.
The whole number of barrels of
mackerel caught by the fishermen of
Now buryport this year is 1892,
which i, nearly one thousand bar
rels less than last year. q
The world uses 2j0,OO0,0OO pounds
of tea each year, and IT'S 900 1000
pounds of coffee. China furnishes
all the tea, and Brazil over
of the coffee.
Three fourths of all the water of
London has been pronounced poison
Gus by Professor FARMLAND, of the
Royal Institution. Londoners drink
rs much as ever, though.
Mr.. Carl Rosa publishes the fol-
note: al sec it is said that
tho greatest uay ever received by
r singer was $4,000 paid to Nilsson.
for twenty nights of opera in New
| have paid Watchtel 100000
for the same period in q New York
Engagement.
Hon. w. W. Vaughn, member of
Congress from the Memphis district,
has introduced a bill in the House
authorizing the construction Of a
across the Mississippi at
The task will be accom-
)lishcd and within the current de-
TIE building statistics of St. Louis
or last year show that over $1,000
'00 have been expended in the con-
truction of new editices, ranging
rom palatial business houses and
dwellings to homes of more
moderate pretentions.
Alexis, like Daniel Webster, doesn't
are much for money, but he thought
| 100 u little steep for sixteen hours
aud one m5al at the Spencer
louise, Niagara Falls. The land
'rd, probably desiring to perpetuate
no harmonious relations between
nc two countries, consented to take
LOCO, which was paid. The people
t that vicinity are greatly incensed
It he disgraceful occurrence.