The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-05-13
TIMELY TOPICS.

# TIMELY TOPICS.
The fruit men of Nevada county
California, estimate the loss of fruit il
the state by frosts at ~, 100000.
THE crop reports from the northwes
are rather favorable. Wisconsin makes
quite good showing.
ENGLAND sensibly declines to inter
fere in the internal affairs Of Spain by
recognizing the Carlists as belligerents
THE importation into Finland or Rus
sian territory of American potatoes, oi
sacks or any other article which con
tanned them, is prohibited.
IT is estimated that at least two hun
dred thousand people attend the meet
ings of the American Enngelists in
London during single weeh.
CHGcAGos Mulet.built custom house
walls are SO shakey that they will prob.
ably be torn down. Supervising Archi.
tect Potter is of this opinion.
THE Spanish press IS being treated
with unusual rigor by the new govern
ment. Not a foreign telegram can be
printed which has not been examined
at the ministry of the interior.
> LATE mail advices report the wheat
and rye in eastern Europe as promising
a fine yield this year. From Bohemia,
Hungary, Styria, Moravia, the reports
all accord. There is no complaint of
frost except in Pomerania.
A BRITISH brig, the James Birney,
has been caught stealing men from The
Hawes group of islands in the Pacific,
under the American flag. The natives
have captured her and murdered half
the crew. The rest escaped in the ships
boats.
In letter received at Washington
from naval officer at Port Royal, who
is in direct communication with assist
ant surgeons ut Key West, he says
there have been two more deaths from
yellow fever at that port, and several
new caPes have appeared.
THE New York World says "The
work OF the truant agents, charged
with enforcing the compulsory school
ing act goes bravely on. They com.
prehend all vagrant boys, who are only
released or giving the number of the
house where they don't reside and a
promise to attend school which they
have no intention of keeping"
The issues of postage stamps of all
kinds by the postoffice department
during the month of April last amount
ed to a little in exc .ss of $4,000, 900.
This is al increase of about twenty per
cent on the issues for tho correspond
ing month last year, aud is by far the
largest amount ever issued in any one
month by the department.
A DISPATCH from Muskogee, Indian
territory, says that water-spout burst
Friday ear Honey Spring, which was
followed by the severest rain.storm for
many years. Bridges and culverts were
washed away, and the track of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad near
Elk creek submerged aud undermined.
No loss of life reported, but great dam
age to property.
THE English admirers Of Stonewall
Jackson have had constructed bronz
statue of that general, aud have written
to Gov. Hemper, of Virginia, asking if
the state will accept and place it in q
conspicuous place in the city of Rich
mond. The statue is standing one,
of heroic size, cast in bronze, and the
likeness is considered exact. OF course,
Virginia will accept.
THERE'S communication in the dead
letter Office, Washington, d. c., for his
excellency Jefferson Davis, President
g. s. A., to be left till called for" 1t was
sent from New York, May 4, 1861, and
is from Conrad Brewster, upholster,
No. 800 Broadway. 1t reads as follows
As soon as you take possession OF the
White House, 1 should like to receive
the job of refurnishing the same, which
guarantee to do on the most liberal
terms"
THE placing of mail boxes in the
Chicago street cars has proved very
successful and popular experiment.
Most of the lines pass by the Postof.
flee building on one street or another,
and the mail boxes are empted on each
trip. Thus a man living six mil es dis
tant from the Office, has his mail deliv.
cred as quickly as though he had taken
the car himself AMI deposited it in per.
son. The innovation CONNIE nds itseli
for adoption in ell large cities.
The New Orleans papers are begin