The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-05-20
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY TOPICS.
CAPT. EADs hopes to have his jettiel
built and deep water at the mouth o
the Mississippi in eighteen months.
Gro, II. PRICE, the Adams express
messenger who killed a lobber in hit
car recently, has been voted 81 900 il
gold by the directors.
ENGLAND sticks to muazle loading M.
tillery, and is manufacturing it on OK.
pense of Sl,5OOO OOO annually, while the
rest of the world won't use anything
but breech leaders.
IT looks as if the Prussian chancellor
ship was not such pleasant position
after all. Bismarck and his friend DR..
Falck have TO be constantly protected
by policemen.
DIR, LlNDEMAN, tie United States
mint director, estimates the product of
the ComstoCk mines in Nevada for this
year at thirty.hve millions of dollars,
and nextyear's product at fifty millions.
A WASHINGTON telegram estimates
that the government has been defrauded
out of two and half millions of dollars
during the last three months by illicit
distillatioD,
The number of passengers saved from
the ill.faed steamship Schiller was
only tifteel out of total of two nun
dred and firug. The loss of life, all
told, will reach fully three hundred.
Two " valuable dogs tried to eat up
little Atlanta girl the other day, and
one of the Atlanta journals expresses
the mild hope that she may recover
The dogs, meanwhile, are looking for
another small girl to lunch on.
LATER advices swell the number of
lives lost on the steamer Cadiz to 60.
The Cadiz was out of her course in con.
sequence Of misreckOning of her cap.
tain. She struck a rock and sunk almost
Immediately.
THE southern memorial association
has adopted n resolution that all sol
diers of the federal and confederate
armies be cordially invited to join the
memorial association in decorating the |
graves at Arlington the 1st of June.
THE latest assertion Of the historical
iconocasts is that documentary evi- |
dence exists to prove that the Boston
patriots of 1913 emptied nothing but
painted oats into the harbor, the Brit
ish tea being taken ashore and economi-
cally used in the ordinary way
Thrift, thrift, Horatio."
The total revenue receipts from July |,
1873, to April 30, 1874, were 1885,
Gl2.0l. The receipts from July l, 1874,
to April 80, 1875, were $50, 1853, 81. 95;
increase, $7913, 259.9l. If. to the re.
ceipts for the first ten months, is added
the receipts of May and June of the last
fiscal year, the total will be $40, ,21,-
SO70.
THE passage of what is known as the
i"Peace Preservation set, and which is
II reality an oppressive law akin to the
"CurfeE law imposed by the Norman
conquerors in England, has been 50
obstipately resisted in the E0glish par
Lament by the irish members that the
business of the government has been
seriously obstructed.
ANN ELhzA, the seventeenth Mrs.
Brigham Young, has come to grief.
Chief justice Lowe has practically re-
versed the decision of his predecessor
Keene which awarded her $500 per
month alimony. The new jndge de-
cided that as there could have been no
legal marriage, there could be no legal
divorce, and herce no alimony.
CHICAGO is badly swamped financially.
The delinquent tax list foOts up SO, $780,
600, and the city is borrowing money to
meet the deficits in its treasury by rea.
son OF the shortcomings of taxpayers.
But worse than that, it is acknowledged
that if all the delinquent taxes were
collected they would not be sufficient to
pay the outstanding liabilities of the
city not provided for in the funded
debt.
FrRTnER details of the sickening dis
aster 10 the steamship Schiller state
that ninety.one bodies have been recov-
cred, and an inquest has been held ON
twenty Ct them. There must have been
abont three hundred persons lost. 1t
is the opinion of the officers that had
there been line of telegraph, from the
lighthouse to Penzance or Plymouth, a
steamer might have been sent in time
to have saved many lives.
The following table shows the growth
of the public debt of the leading nations
of the globe in the last two wears:
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