The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-02-22
VOL. XII.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

over lOiU Ol ,OuO.
Statistics show that 10000 emf
grants left Germany last year,
nearly ali for the United States.
N. Matson ~ Co., jewellers, Chi
cago, claim to carry u stock worth
about half u million dollars.
The United States has Is 600
miles Of telegraph lines; about
equal to the number of miles in
England, France and Russia COM
bined.
1t has been estimated that the
freight transported by the railways
of the country last year amounted
in value to over twelve billion of
dollars.
Advertising receipts of the New
York Herald are represented at
$1,000 to $1,000 " day, according to
the changes in the busy season of
the year. ~ .sL. ~
The London Lancet thinks that
during the coming Spring, or early
in the Summer, cholera will reap
pear in Western Europe.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg
announces the issue of an imperial
decree subjecting all male citizens
of Russia to military service. e..
The customs treaty recently nego-
tiated at Frankfort by the represen-
tatives of Germany and France has
been ratified by both countries.
A four-pound cannon ball was
recently found in lump of coal
taken from depth of $50 feet be-
low the surface of the earth, at the
Acadia coal mine, Maccan, N. S.
There are signs of a breaking up
in the ranks of the Republicans in
France. The Democracy of Gam
BETA is too mild to suit the extreme
tendencies of the day.
Eight hundred sewing machines,
worth $50 piece, have been fur
nished to sewing girls at SIG by the
Relief Society Of Chicago, the sew
ing machine company furnishing
them at very low figure, the So
ciety giving portion outright.
More miles of railroad were con-
= structed in this country last year
than in any previous year, being a
total of G,9S3. The number of
miles of railroads now in operation
in the United States is G0,3S2.
The news from Mexico is con-
Aicting, both sides claiming advan-
taees; but there is no doubt that
the revolution is making progress,
and that the cause of Juarez looks
rather more dubious than at our
last writing.
They tell of the Grand Duke that
when his train stopped at Bloom
ington, Illinois, he appeared upon
the back platform, and a strong
minded woman at once began to
"interview" him upon female suf-
frage. The Duke beat a hasty re-
treat into the car, and remained
there until the train left the depot,
An interesting literary relic is an.
nounced to be for sale among the
MS collection of the late Sir Charles
Young, Garter. King at Arms. 1t il
Oliver Goldsmith's political View
of the Present War with Amreica
upon Great Britain, France, Prus
sia, Germany, and Holland"-aI
original autograph manuscript, Al
pages folio. belived to be unpublish'
cd. - . a''.
The French Minister of Marine
has ordered that fencing shall bt
taught on board all the ships OF th'
Republic. Admiral Pothuau re
Gently ordered experiments to b.
made OF Cherbourg and Vincenne
with new steel breech-loaders. ant
the report sent in to the Admiralt,,
speak highly Of. these pieces, whicl
are effective at q distance OF flv
lometres.
EsWest of the Mississippi river tn
United States still own 943,472,56
acres, distributed as follows: low.
Missouri and Arkansas, 10000, ,OOC
Dakota and Wyoming, 145, 1885, ,98a
Montana, sc. 6.964,6O5; Kansas, 43
14S,O76; Nebraska, 52,523,637; Co
orado and Idaho, 1l7,SOO,OO(
New Mexico and Utah, 224, l4O, OOl
Nevada and Arizona, 10000, ,OO(
Minnesota, 36,77G,17O; India
Territory $4,000.
Until the time of William tt
Conqueror the English people b.
gin their year on the 25th OF D
cember. That great ruler havir
been cronwed on the 1st ofJanual
the people began their year at tn
time, to make it agree with wh
they then considered the most r
markable period of their history
THE CALABAR BEAN, one OF u
Paris journals asserts, has been fogI 1,I
to be an antidote to strychnla. ~
latter destroys by spasmodic COZ
traction; the former, when TAX
alone, paralyzes, and consequent
neutralizes the action of strycnn,
if gi~en after that poison. The Cal
bar is the ordeal bean used py !
negroes of western Africa in dett
mining the guilt or innocence OF rs
cused individuals, a test the enc
of which is to immensely SVEN
lists, az it almost invariably PROV
fatal, the individual only escaPi
when vomiting is produceo-
rare occurrence. The most intere
lug effect of the Calabar bean Is u u
of contracting the pupil OF the g o