The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-05-27
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY TOPICS.
PACIFIC COAST sailors say that the
winter in Alaska has been as balmy rs
in Florida.
CAPT. EADs has examined the lefty
ground at the mouth of the Mississippi,
and thinks in twelve months he will
have twenty feet of water there,
TnE state tax OF New York this year
il u mills, or about double that of
Tennessee. An effort is being made in
the assembly to reduce it to mills.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says, an
official telegram has been received at
the Russian legation from Berlin, stat
ing that the emperor leaves Berlin Oh
tirely convinced of the conciliatory dis
position which exists there, and which
assures the maintenance of peace.
TwENTv-rHREE carloads OF oysters
arrived in San Francisco, the other day,
from the east. The oysters were to be
planted in San Francisco bay, to supply
the citizens with the luxury. Several
Intellectual attempts have been made to
start oyster.b beds there. Most of the
oysters consumed come from the At
lantic coast
ONE reason why King Alphonso can
not fight Don Carlos and tho Cubans
very long is financial one. The rev.
enue of Spain is only $50, 100000; her
debt is 81, $50, 600, 900, and the interest
on it absorbs the whole revenue. Then
the war is costing more than the entire
revenue. 1t looks as if Spain would
soon be hopelessly bankrupt.
CARDINAL MANNING, in answer to an
address of the Irish members of Par.
Lament, took occasion to say; "The
material prosperity of Ireland was never
greater than now. mhe people of Ireland
never possessed SO wide an extent of its
soil since the day in which they pos
sessed it all. They never yet possessed
such abundant wealth."
ENGLAND has 32, ,461 sailing vessels,
with tonnage Of 5,373, 600; the United
States II, 040 vessels, tonnage 2, LAG, ,5SG;
Italy l9,4SS vessels, Tonnage l,O31, ,907;
Germany 2,269 vessels, Tonnage l, 49,
$40; France 1851 vessels, tonnage 906,-
7O5. French commerce is complaining
because German traders have been rap
Idly getting ahead since their last war.
The largest contribution ever made
to the conscience fund was received at
the treasury department, last Saturday,
from Baltimore-$8, 400. Received 20
soon after the exposure of the whisky
ring, it is suspected that the money
comes from some dealer in CROOKED"
spirits, or government official who ac-
cepted this amount as bribe.
KOoPMANsCHAr, the famous coolie
importer, has turned up in New York
on his way to Europe. He has a con-
tract to supply Brazil with several ship
loads of Mongolians, and thinks that
Chinese labor in the Southern States
has proven a failure. He firmly be.
lieves that his business is one of the
highest kind of philanthropy.
They have hard time getting q
mayor in st. Louis. The last incum-
bent died a few days after his election.
Another election was held on Saturday,
and Col. Britton was elected. Now
comes one Overs toltz, who ran against
him, and serves a notice of contest, on
tho ground of intimidation and illegal
voting, claiming that he beat Britton by
over 1000 votes.
THE enormous whisky frauds have
not been without their tragic feature s
For the purpose of guarding against
the possibility of detection by the reve-
nue. officers, a st. Louis distillsry firm
constructed secret vat, unknown to
their workmen, one of whom fell in and
was drowned. OF course the funeral,
like the cause of death, was private.
PEssAwUh, which the telegraph re-
ports as half destroyed by fire, is city
of some 10000 inhabitants near the
northern frontier of Afghanistan. 1t is
well paved town, furnished with water
and occupies commanding commercial
position, being surrounded by a fertile
country, which, with the aid of irriga-
tion, produces two crops every year,
consisting of wheat, barley, pulse and
the finest rice in the world.
THE grassboppers in Kansas have
just been re-enforced by hordes OF buf-
falo gnats, and tile two pests together
are making sad havoc among the farms.
Every leaf in some counties has been
eaten off the peach trees; early veg
etables are destroyed and large areas of
wheat have been gobbled up by the
insatiate chopper" while the cattle
are in fair way to suffer seriously
from the gnats.
The postmaster general has issued an
order modifying postal regulations by