The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-05-15

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ported by the Agricultural Bureau to be look
ing better now than at the same time last
year
FOREIGN LNI,ELLIGENCE.
--Advices from Jerusalem state that severe
fights occurred in Bethlehem between the
Latin and Greek Monks, five of the former
and six of the latter being injured.
William Charles Mcready the well known
English actor, is dead aged eighty.
--Calcraft, the celebrated English hangman
according to an Irish newspaper, has amounc-
cd his intention to retire from official life
Richard Evans well to do farmer and assist
ant for fourteen years. will be Calcraft's sue
cessor. The corporation of London will PEN
sion Calcraft on his full honorarium of one
pound per week, and the home office is asked
to supplement this Cacraft's last touch Of
art was on the woman Cotton, at Durham.
--Berlin-4he Provincial Correspondent
says the visit of the German Emperor to st.
Petersburg confirms the pacific policy agreed
to by the Emperors of Germany, Russia and
Austria last September. 1t is especially sig
nificant at this time because the prospects of
quiet in western Europe were growing gloomy.
A dispatch from Constantinople says the
Sultan of Acheen has sent an official note to
the Sultan of Turkey requesting him to act
as arbitrator in settling the dispute with tho
Dutch Government,
"A Rio Janeiro letter of the 4th inst says
that owing to the late rains land slide occur
red which threw down a massive stone wall
building in the Navy Yard, instantly killing
twenty workmen AMI wounding fifty others.
Ten thousand emigrants left Liverpool
last week for the United States.
-ITayana-The Trib,RO has attacked the
present syntem OF education in Havana and the
Junta which has embargoed the property of
Cubans and SAYS it will give their names. The
7t'ibuno also advises the people to abstain from
paying in the Havana lottery. Gen Rfquelms
has been ordered to return to Spain. The
The Havana journals confirm the burning of
Rura and the killing Of some of the inhabitants
by tho insurgents
The Hague-rhe government has ordered
fourteen steamers to proceed Immediately to
Sumatra and cooperate with the Dutch troops
in their movements against the Atchinese
The vessels will carry a large quantity Of am
nuniton an arms for the troops
A Vienna dispatch states that seven thou
-o,J 1r,,,, I,1on ,,,itI o,lirIau fnr. thn Eynnsi
lion are now between the frontiers and Wen
la, and only two hundred can be unloaded
lay. 1t will be the end of June before the
show is in full blast.
The Turkish Government has ordered
100 900 rifles in the United States. The troub-
Q between the Latin and Greek Monks at
Bethlehem has subsided and order has been
The Porte leaves the guilty unpun-
shed, but Russia demands their punishment.
Hopes are expressed that the great powers
will now settle the dispute about the custody
If the holy places. out of which this scandal
.rose, but they hesitate to approach ques-
ion of 80 delicate a character.
The brewers of Frankfort -on-the- Main
aised the price Of beer, and the populacc
,truck-that is to say they revolted. They
,acked sixteen breweros, killed twelve peo-
de, and wounded forty others.
The report of the murder of Sir Samuel
Baker and his courageous wife by African saw
lges, while on their expedition up the Nile, is
Untrue.
The disorders in spain are on the increase
md great number Of families arc leaving the
ountry. There have been risings in Madrid
or Commune. The Permanent committee
# the extinct National Assembly has been
dissolved, and the Administration il undergo |
ng most radical changes. The increasing |
ury of the ultras would, il was believed, ne |
lead to massacre, AZ the monarchi- |
al volunteers are disposed to fight against the
of the decree for disarming them.
The japanese ambassadors are at Berlin,
nd have been taking advice on the expedien-
y of making Christianity the State religion of
apan, having come to regard the change as
possible. One of the most eminent German
Professors, however, has advised them that
experience shows religion cannot be enforced
" governments. He said it was only vital
Fben it grows amongst the people and from
he people. He counseled the granting of
ull religious liberty as the most desirable
curse to pursue.
The Dutch Government has ordered four
cen steamers to proceed Immediately to Su-
latra, and cooperate with the Dutch troops |
q their movements against the Achinese. |
he vessels will carry large quantity of am
luntion and arms for the troops.
1t is ascertaned that the recall of Minis |
er DeLong from japan is owing to his having |
epeatedly made presents to the Mikado On |
is first doing so, the fact coming to the |
nowledge OF this Government, he was re-
linded that under the general instructions to |
ur Ministers, such proceedings were forbid
en-, as all presents to a sovereign must be |
iads through his own diplomatic representa-
ives, but DeLong instead of dessting repeat
d the act and was again reminded of his in
tructions. Beside these objections to MIR. |
,eLong, it was thought that some other per-
on should be appointed who would more
the United States in Japan.
he President will, on his return, appoint his |
uccessOr.
Although the bank of England has recov-
red from the Mcdonnell gang all but $50, 900
( their stealings, it does not relent in prose-
uting them criminally, as is too often done.
dwell, who fled to Havana, will be sent at
nee to England in man-of-war. The first
arrant on which Mcdonnell was arrested in
lew York proved faulty, but he has been
romptly re-arrested on another, and will pro-
ably soon be travelling back to England in
hains.
To ARREST an importunate appetite,
0 silence the clamor OF passion, and
o repel as IN assault upon our virtue,
re noble instances OF force, and hand
ome nroofa of temner and dis0retiOn