The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-04-01
TIMELY TOPICS.


that swept some parts of Georgia and
South Carolina last week was three hun
dred to six hundred yards wide. The
Cyclone was cylindrical in shape and OF
fearful velocity from north to south.
The front cloud was as black as night
and half a mile high. The rear was
Illuminated by bright light. 1t trav.
eled nearly due east veering little TO
the north. After devastating Camak,
the tornado seems to have divided, one
portion going east by north, and cross
ing the Savannah river, above and be-
low Augusta, both proving equally de-
structive, laying waste everything in
its track. Huge trees were broken
like reeds, and in some cases the lorna.
do was preceded by dull, heavy roar
ing, rs of heavy artillery in the dis.
tance. 1t spent its greatest fury in
about three minutes. An eye witness
says the senses were utterly deadened
and appalled,. There was crash, a
roar and the mingling of hundred
terrific and unearthly sounds. Houses
were demolished and oaks that had
withstood the storms of q century were
snapped in twain. There is great dis
tress in the devastated district, embrace
ing eight counties in Georgia and two
or three in South Carolina. The de-
struction of property is immense, and
the list of killed and wounded is ap-
palling.
Two weekly lines of steamers be-
tween New York and New Orleans
have discontinued their trips, leaving
only one regular line in the trade.
When questioned as to the. cause of
the withdrawal of the other two, the
agent of the other said it had been
brought about by the great depression
of trade, politics in Louisiana, and the
fact that most Of the cotton which
formerly found its way to New York,
in transit for Liverpool, is now skipped
directly on steamers to Europe from
New Orleans. New York is not the
great receiving port for cotton that it
used to be- As things stand at present,
there is not work for more than one
steamship line. Sailing ships have cut
up the trade. Freights are low, and
should matters not take a more favor
able turn steamships will not succeed
in making more than running expenses.
The steamship trade from New York to
Savannah has of late decreased to half
its former extent.
Two sons Of the late John Mitchell
died in the Confederate service-the
eldest at Fort Sumter and the youngest
in the charge of Pickett's Division at
Gettysburg. The third passed the
perils of war unscathed, and survives
with bis mother and two sisters. After
the war John Mitchell lost all his prop
erty in the fire of Richmond, and mov-
ing to New York joined the editorial
corps of the Daily News Some stric-
lures on the policy of the federal VIC
tors brought him under the displeasure
of secretary Stanton, on whose order
Gen. Dix arrested him and sent him
to Fortress Monroe, where he occupied
the casemate next to Jefferson Davis.
In September, 1865, he was released by
President johnson, as we stated the
other day. He died quietly at eight
o'clock on the morning Of the Goth
inst, near Newry, in the county Down,
at a place called Dromalane, at
Druimleathan" of the -Four Masters,
or in English Broad-Ridge."
THE "bonanza" begins to pan out
dividends, now that the San Francisco
stock speculation has subsided. The
average gross yield of the silver ore
taken out by the Consolidated Virginia
Mining company of Nevada in Feb
ruary, was 800 per ton, and the COM
pany paid dividend OF $40 per share
for the month, amounting to 81 ,OSO,0 600.
This is the largest dividend ever made
on an American mining property, and,
with the usual assurance, it is therefore
called :" the largest ever made In the
world" On three previous occasions,
in the summer OF 1873, dividends OF
$40 share, and amounting to nearly
rs much, were made. Consolidated
Virginia ia now held ut $475, so that the
dividend is only two per cent-very
good for one month. But no dividends
have appeared to warrant the present
inflated stocks of adjacent mining
claims.
THE arrival in Madrid of the Count
ess of Girgenti, King Alphonso's big
sister, has been announced by cable.
Mail advices explain that the STRIPPING
king is despondent and threatens at
times to abdicate, in which case the
countess will be on hand to assume the
royal honors and prevent the Montpen-
sierists or Carlists from snatching the
abandoned sceptre. For the first seven
years of her life Girgenti was princess
of Asturias and ostensible heir to the
throne of her mother Isabella. Then
was born the puny Alphonso, stripping
her of both title and heirship. Now
she becomes again the princess OF
Asturias, and in noting her future
movements, the telegraph is liable to
speak of her under that title.