The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-10-21
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIM ELY TOPICS.
TuADDEus FAIRBANKS and Charles
+, Chickcring are the only Americans
who have ever accepted the nonscnScal
English title Of Sir,
THEY have just caught II full grown
Jesse Pomcroy in France. lie was taken
in the act of killing n little girl, and the
remains Of three missing children were
found in his house.
SINGER, the sewing-machine manulac-
turcr, died, leaving an estate worth nine
teen millions of dollars. just think how
many poor women worked themselves al
most to death to raise each sixty dollars
tonakc that man too rich to. be healthy.
MEAT has advanced rapidly within the
past few days, 1t is not due to scarcity,
but to the speculative spirit prevailing
among the capitalists Of the north and
west At the same time cotton is going
down, and southern farmers are com
PEELED to buy meat which they could
better have raised at home.
WHEN we have built double track
railway from Texas to California, com
plctcd Ead's jctticS, reclaimed the Mis-
Sissippi river alluyial bottoms cstab-
Iishcd dirccttradc between Liverpool and
the South Atlantic States, and admitted
Cuba as State into the Cnion--thcn
look out for II prosperity in America that
would make the national debt Il mere
A WOMAN in Baltimore, desiring death,
but having no home in which to die
bought morphine at drug store and
drank it as she walked in the street. She
kept on as the drug began to take effect,
and crowd Of boys, suppoSing that her
staggering was the result Of intOXicatiOn,
followed after her At length, after
travcrSing several streets, she fell, and
the boys threw mud on her, In that
way she died.
CARDINAL MANNING recently adj
dressed a meeting of Roman Catholics in
London, held on the cite of the new ca
thcdral, which, it is stated, will cost one
million five hundred thousand dollars,
and will be one hundred years in build
ing. The cardinal remarked that Noah
was one hundred and twenty years in
building the ark, and that he thought
should prevent the founders and builders
of the new cathedral from giving away to
dependency.
The Rhode Island authorities will not
allow financial aid to be extended to the
Fall river operatives This might he en-
pcctcd in this state, where the mill
owners control the state government and
own nearly everything. They fear that
the rcbellious spirit Of the Fall river
men might extend to their borders and
another "Dorr rebellion" might occur
Universal suffrage does not exist in Rode
Island. 1t is necessary for the white la
borcr to have property qualification.
Moody brought over with him from
England several bloodcd sheep and other
stock, which he proposes to present tohis
granger friends for the improvement Of
their ilocks Ills Chicago friends are 90
Ing to secure the exposition building for
him when he comes to cvangclizc that
city. In Philadelphia, 100000 have
been raised to defray the expenses Of his
meetings there, and building is to be
erected especially for the purpose.
THE experiment of shipping peaches
from this country to England ON the re-
irigerator plan, has at length proved sue
ccsstul. A steamer from New York has
succeeded in landing peaches ot London
and Liverpool in good condition. A few
weeks ago two thousand five hvndrcd
crates Of fruit were shipped on an expert
ment, on Il vessel Of the Phiadcl pha line,
to Liverpool, but owing to the INSULT
cheney of ice, the whole lot was worthless
on reaching England. The Queen had
sent II special messenger to make pur-
chases Of the fruit for the royal family,
and there was much disappointment over
the failure. The recent success will open
up "a new channel of trade for our peach