The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-08-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

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his sight.
Much damage has been done by
overflow Of the rivers i'll Idaho.
Shreveport, Texas, has been plac-
ID on the list of first class post
Dilices.
California farmers find it difficult
to get farm hands at $50 per month.
The Signal Service will take obser-
yations from the top of Pixies Peak
during the summer.
A national convention of short
horn cattle breeders will be held i'll
indianapolis on tho 10th Of Novcm'
Der.
Father Backx, the "Gonoral' of
| the Society of Jesus, will visit this
| country next August.
The Prcsbytcriaus of Philadelphia
lately opened one Of the best furnish
ed hospitals i'll the country.
Gen. Warron has been selected by
the War Department to solect tho
site for the bridging OF the MlesiYslp-
pi at La Crosse.
In and around Bildcford, Maine,
there il IL colony of z. 500 Canadians,
and moro arc constantly arriving
here.
The value of improvements i'll
Portland aud East Portland, Oregon,
this year will exceed $4,000, 900.
1t is uncontradictcd thatfor wheat
Nebraska is the banner State, aud
will be the banner State Tor wool
and mutton.
The Secretary of the Iowa State
Agricultural Society estimates the
number of DOGS III that State at No.
2J6.
Tom ScOtt'a company has invest
d SljO,OOO in saw mills at Apnla-
chiola, Florida, to saw out cross-tlos
'or the Southern Pacific Road.
DR.. Thomas Foster, the veteran
editor, has leased the Duluth NM
npSsoiiou to u. If, Prcssnell, and re-
rircs uuon fortune made in Duluth
real estate.
A Lawrence, Massachusetts,, ma
chine for making wall paper, pro-
duccs sovcuty-nno miles OF paper
laily, being run twcnty-thrco hours
ont of twenty four,
The pormit Of the now Lindcll
Hotel, at St. Louis, specifies q front
Of one hundred and eighty feet on
Washington Avenue, and a building
six stories high, to cost S5OO,OOO.
The Kentucky Register says Gcnor-
al Villains is wearing this summer
a pair of linen pants which have
reached their forty-ninth year. They
were made hv Bill" Peacock, i'll this
place, in April, 1924.
The Northern Puciiic Railroad
Company have recently bought out
the interest of the Columbia River
Steamboat Company, including all
the boats plying on tho upper waters
of the Columbia.
st. Louis is constructing works for
reducing silver and gold ores, and
refining bullion. They will be in
operation by the first of August, and
the company is now purchasing ores
and bullion.
A rich vein of lead orc has recent
" been found near Smithland, on tho
Cumberland river, at tho depth OF
1873 feet below the surface. Tho vcln
is 13 feet wido, and the assaylng
yields about 80 per cent, pure lend'
This is the penalty OF disorder.
Within the past few years Paris has
lost four hundred thousand of its
resident inhabitants. The number
Of vacant apartments exceeds forty
thousand. Rents have fallen III
proportion which ranges from one
eighth to one-tourth. The deprecia'
ton in the value of land and house
property is estimated at twenty per
cont.
A leading wine firm of San Fran,
cisco give it as their opinion that 10
is almost certain that the vintage OF
the present year, though somewhat
reduced by frosls in some Iocalitie8'
will foot up greater than that OF tho
year previous, They estimate that
100000 gallons Of wine will be
made, besides the large quantity OF
grapes manufactured into brandy
It is stated in letter from Prague
that the damage done by the iloods
in Bohemia, is estimated at nearly
3G, 600 900 Of norins, one Of tho most
fsrtile districts in tho country having
hsen devastated. The water rose 80
rapidly that the people, most OF
whom were in their beds, had no
time to escape, and about seven
hundred perished. Hundreds OF
houses, too, were carried away, ana
railway bridges and embankmen'S
destroyed.
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