The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-09-09

shows reduction of about II million
and n half during the past month.
"CAME to his death by accidental
drowning" is the verdict OF the San
Francisco jury in tho case OF Ralston.
THE Freedmens bank commissioners
think that dividend car be declared
for the unfortunate depositors by Christ
mas.
PHILADELPHIA this year heads the list
of United States ports in tho molasses
trade. The bulk Of the impoftations
for the year are usually made in the first
half year.
RECENT reports say that the colony Of
Liberia is prospecting. New plantations
arc developing, commodious dwellings
are going up, and the schools and
churches are well attended.
NEXT Tuesday will be q black, letter
day in the annals Of Arkansas. No less
than six murderers are then to be exc
cuted at Fort Smith. Arkansas can
claim pre-ominence in one respect at
least.
The "wheat belt" is enlarging its
area. Alkansas, for instance, will ex-
port small grains this year for the first
time in its history. The same general
tendency to raise more and buy less is
observable throughout the south.
The Atlantic Mills, at Lawrence,
Mass, started on Monday, after beirg
idle seven weeks. The stock on hand
has been sold to good advantage. There
is prospect now for steady employ
ment for one thousand hands.
The eminent composer Gounod, has
declined the directorshop Of the pro-
posed American College of Music,
gently limiting at the samo time that
an American institute of the kind
should have an American director.
In an agricultural convention at
Dalton, Ga, few days ago, gentle
man called on all present who owned
sheep and no dogs to rise, and thirteen
rose. He then called upon all who
owned dogs and no sheep to rise, and
sixty or seventy responded.
TaE great suspension bridge between
New York and Brooklyn is assuming
shape. The towers on both sides will
be completed next spring, and the Roe.
blin8s, who constructed the suspension
bridge across the Ohio at Cincinnati,
will perfc I'm the feat of spanning the
sixtoen-h hundred feet chasm with wire
VALMAsEDA has called on the loyal
merchants and planters of Cuba for
$500, 0G0 in gold to pay for the trans
portati)n of the fresh troops from Spain.
He gives each person twenty four hours
to respond favorably. If they do not
rot,ce his circular they arc declared
rebels. Valmaseda will squeeze the
gold out of these unfortunates.
THERE is evidence that the French
government will put stop to the Ger
man Catholic pilgrimage to the shrine
of Oar Lady of Lourdes in the south
of France, if it CAL do SO. The pope
has given his blessing to the movement,
however. and he will hardly interdict it
now. The French fear complications
with Germany.
THE liabilities OF the late bank of Cal
ifornia are estimated at $l4 ,000, 600, and
its assets at $76O0,000. The stock
holders will lose not only their invest
ment in stock, but will be heavily as
sessed to pay the claims of depositors,
the entire assets of tho bank only foot.
ing up about eighty per cent. OF such
claims.
DEsrrrE the laws governing the i'm
portation of cattle in England, which
ate 80 strict that if only one animal is
found diseased the whole cargo is
slaughtered, the distempcr has broken
ont in Dorsetshire, and is rapidly
spreading. Happily, few cattle are
brought to the United States from
Europe, but the present circumstances
warrant every precaution being ON
ployed at American ports to guard oui
herds from this fearful plague.
The government is reported to bav
more silver on hands than it can stoy
away. An effort has been made to ge
gpaco in tho Boston custom house, bu
the blundering Mullett put the vault il
the second story without sufficient sup
ports, and only 100000 can be place.
there. Every money mill the govern
ment owns is rattling out silver by tn
millions of dollars, and it looks as if th
secretary of the treasury contemplated
the speedy substitution of silver col
for fractional rags.
The much-mooted consolidation @
the Western Uuion and Atlantic & Pa
oidc telegraph lines has at last come
pass, and the telegraph system almos
OF the entire continent OF North Americ
Is now gathered into the control OF
vast monopoly. The Western Unio
aosorbs the rival corporation, the term
oil the transfer being guarantee Of a