The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-05-06
TIMELY TOPICS.


Nl-
QUEEN VIC. will be fifty.si on the
oath of next month. Fat, fair, and
fifty.six.
News from all over Arkansas is To
the effect that the prospect for fine
wheat crop was never better.
Elk SENATOR NYE, OF Nevada, is in
the Bloomingdale asylum, affected with
softening OF the brain, and it is thought
will not recover.
THE president having rendered the
position of attorney general to Judge
Edwards Pierrepont, OF New York, that
gentleman has accepted it.
The statistics show that there has
been steady decline in the manufac,
ture and use of lager beer in this coun.
try during the past two years.
THERE appears to be sharp contest
between the cities of Cincinnati and
Louisville as to which shall have the
western connection of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad.
The New York city postofiice is sell.
ing over $1,000 worth of newspaper
stamps alone day, and the postmas-
ters say this is sure barometer of q
revival in business.
The pa'rons of husbandry have a re-.
markable predominance in the legisla.
ture of Oregon, seventeen of the thirty
senator's and fifty-four of the sixty rep
resentatives belonging to the order.
In the great fire at Oshkosh, Wis,
the other day, ,sixty-nine business houses
and about five hundred dwelling houses
were destroyed. The total loss is put
down at $780, coo, and the insurance
will amount from $500, 900 to 81 ZOO, 900.
JUDGES Brooks and Dick, in their
charges to grand jurors in North Caro-
lima, declared the criminal features of
the civil rights act unconstitutional, rs
no law could say men are socially
equal.
The Florida season has closed and
the visitors are coming home to get out
of the way of the swamp fever. 1t is
said that 33, 900 visitors have wintered
in Florida, spending there at least 49,
100000.
THE time between New Orleans and
Vera Cruz is to be shortened to two and
half days, by emitting two or three
stops of the steamers. This is done to
encourage traffic between Mexico and
the United States.
A BILL substituting license for pro-
hibition in respect to the sale of intexi.
eating liquors has just passed both
branches Of the legislature of Michigan,
which is the fourth state where similar
legislative measures have been adopted
within few weeks.
SUMNER travel to Elrope commenced
on Saturday. Five steamers left New
York for England and France, carrying
ATT cabin and 5S5 steerage passengers.
The steerage tourists were mostly re-
turning immigrants, how ever, going to
take look at fatherland.
A New ORLEANS correspondent OF the
New York Times stated that if affairs
in Louisiana become settled, foreign
company, with capital of 800, 900, 900,
is ready to come and purchase 100000
or 800, 900 acres of land in the state and
settle upon the purchase industrious
English and German agriculturists.
IT is not much to the credit of the
new Bessemer steamship, which is de-
signed to prevent sea-sicknsss, that on
her recent trial trip between England
and France she only made q speed Of
twenty miles in seven hours Most
people would not object to be q little
sea.sick, in crossing the English chan
mel, if they make the trip in two hours.
Boynton, the swimmer, crossed in a
much shorter time than the Bessemer.
The imposing ceremony of placing
the red hat on the head of Cardinal
McCloskey, took place in st. Patrick's
cathedral, New York, yesterday. The
novelty of the event-the first of the
kind in this country-attracled large
number of ecclesiastical dignitaries
from far AMI near, and probably not
one-twentieth of the people who desired
to witness the ceremonies we're accom-
modated.
THE newspapers in California evil
IDENTIFY do not lack faith in the bonanza
of silver. "Our bonanza" is still their
theme, and they point with pride to the
fact that since January /, the sum of
2,4s4. 600 has been paid in dividends,
all of which was taken out of the ground
in two months. This is said to be the
yield OF the icon, olidated Virginia
mine alone, SO there must be "millions
in it,"