The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-11
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
Capital punishment is abolished
in Iowa.
4 French chemist advertiscs to
convert any ones dea relatives into
ink powder.
The gus bill for the reception of
the Brazilian emperor Don Pedro
footed up $l5O,OOO.
The State OF Missouri wilproduco
500 900 tons Of IRON orc this year.
The Michigan silver mines yield
100000 worth of the ore every
month.
Utah ranks third among the Ter
ritories III the scale OF mineral
wealth.
Copper in srcat abundance has
recently been discovered at Pocn-
hontas, Ark.
Chief Justice Chase has boughttho
site for u summer residence at
Waukesha, Wis.
One Dumb Animal says balky
horse can be started every time by
dashing water in his face.
J.J. Miller, an American civil en-
gineer, has just been 'appointod by
the governor general chief engineer
of state railroads i'll central India
The largest luke in the world Is
Lake Superior, which is Truly an in,
land sea, being four hundred and
thirty miles long, and very deep.
Less than thirty miles of track re,
to be laid between Denver and Iuo'
bio, on the Denver and Rio Grandt
morrow gauge railroad.
The value Of the steamers "o'
barges employed on our We,t"r'
rivers exceeds twenty-tlreo mllllon
Of dollars.
The Kansas CITY JoWndi s sys ol
some of the railroads ming lu'
that city the conductorSaro III i"a8u
with the gamblers On the trail s.
A.D. Roberts, of Ross county
Ohio, will have between four an
four hundred aud fifty acres III bIool
coru this season.
The Te,ro Hauto Nail Works al
now manufacturing 1000 kegs
nails TER week. Employees loun
addicted to drinking are not tole
ated.
Freight charges on the Union II
ciGc Railroad from Omaha to Che,
epno aad Denver have been reduce
from So 60 per hundred TOR ilr
class to 81 so.
There is u wine cask in the celia
Of the Celley's Island Wine Compm
that contains over 1000 gallons
wine. 1t was carried to the lslnl
from Sandusky in sections.
The st. Petersburg Golos Gays til
the personal expenses of the Graz
Duke Alexis, during his travels
tho United States, amounted to Il
wards of two hundred thousal
dollars.
Western Oregon lies between t
mountains and the Pacific Occ'
and never lacks for m abunda
supply of rain producing cons'N
succession of fruitful scasons.
The tobacco crop of Wiscon'
for the year 1872 splaced at 1000
600 pounds'by the Janesville G9ze
The larger portion will be prouu'
in Rock County. -,
The pows of a Methodist emu
on the boundary line between fol
sylvania and Ohio stand i'll the
NOR state and fho pulpit i'll the
ter. They are bothered to cond
mari iagc a,lvices legally and gr
fully at the same tlmo' Ill 'ho ''
tuary. :, ; -,
Col. Thomas A. Scott, vlce,p'
dent of the Pennsylvania zen
~ road, has been ordered by his !
sician 10 stop work if h would
The president Of the road has
to Europe for his health ana a.
second wee president has been I, t'
to an insane asylum h"'i'
men work too last
A huge fish sto,y has Just arr arr
from Honolulu. 1t is all apl
gigantic squid whose body !, was was
large as ten barrel cask' ,;e,anu anu
| % 8 or feelers ten or iiiteen ,
long, and as big round "as a rs s''
main boom" This appears 10
been genuine specimen OF a
fish or something verse.