The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-24
TIM ELY TOPICS.

AMONG the smuggling devices de-
tected ut New York is the Illicit impor.
tation Of ribbons hid in watch cases
500 worth in each case. Other articles
have been smuggled in through Con
sular official mail-bags,
The drinking water furnished the in
habitants of Washington must be n sort
OF cannibal soup, thirty'one bodies Of
infantile humanity having been found
in cleaning out the sediment OF the res
ervoir last week.
The government is going to send two
entomologists to the west to study the
grasshopper and his habits, with view
to exterminaiing him. The people Of
Minnesota seem to be mastering the
pest with clubs and other weapons,
without the aid of high science.
A HUNDRED and twenty Englishmen
propose to visit this country to shoot
bullaoos. How would they like to
have fifty Sioux and score or two OF
Utos encamp in their parks and Kill
deer and rabbits and such things? Buf-
ialoes are growing scarce, and the wan
ton shooting of them should be prohib-
tied by law. The shooting Of elephants
merely for the fun of the tlingis almost
as inhuman as the murder of men.
RECENT statistics, compiled by the
best authorities in Germany, shows
that Paraguay has actually decreased
in population nearly half million. SO
much for the internal war waged by
Brazil and the Argentines on Lopez.
The Paraguayans we're declared by all
authorities to be tho most enterprising
and moral people in South America.
They are now nearly obliterated from
the earth
THE department Of agriculture in its
cotton report for June states: The
threatened reduction in area has not
taken place nor has the reduced area of
last year been much enlarged. The
comparison with last year is as follows
North Carolina, 102; South Carolina,
JOG; Georgia, 9G; Florida, 50; Ala
boma, 10l; Mississippi, 1902; Louisi-
ana, 191 Texas, 10S; Arkansas, 10l
Tennessee, 92. The report of the con.
dition is the most favorable in the past
five seasons with the exception of that
Of 1872.
Now comes Frencbman who deties
drought and proposes to make farmers
free and independent of the clouds.
His name is Paraf, and the Monsieur
and his plan depends on the fact that
chloride of calcium abgOrbs moisture
from the air. By mixing it with the
most unpromising soils, he has ascer.
tanned that n iudicious proportion of
the familiar compound will more eff
fectually irrigate waste lands than any
present system of canals or wells. His
preparation retains moisture for three
days, where water application as now
prac'iced would evaporate in one
The completion of the new Atlantic
cable has led to the recapitulation Of
teleeraphic and cable statistics of some
interest, as pre- enting the rapid pro-
gress made in the application of the
cable as a means Of communication be-
tween commercial countries. BY these
statements it appears that, aside from
the cables between Europe and the
United States, which are now five in
number, of an aggregate length OF
9,02G miles, there have been twenty
nine laid bet yeen other countries since
1867 of total length of about 26,GGl
miles. This gives grand total Of
nearly 38, 600 miles.
GEORGIA Is very fast returning to
that prosperous condition of ante-hel-
lum times which gave her the enviable
title of the Empire State of the south.
Laborers, both white and black, are
working with will, and very large
portion of the males of the latter race
make as reliable and trusty laborers
on the farms as they did when slaves.
Her crop prospects are magnificent.
There. has been but little corn and
bacon sold to her farmers this year, and
the slack demand from the south gen
orally is one cause of the failure of the
bulls of the west to make successful
corner in bacon and cOrD.- Union and
1merican.
AN immense falling off in expectation
Of commodities grown, produced and
manufactured in the United States is
exhibited by government statistics.
During the first ten months of the cur
rent fiscal year there was falling off in
value of exports of breadstuffs alone
amounting to $3l, 100000, as compared
with the exports of those commodities
during the corresponding period in 1874,
when they amounted to 1925, 5,0OO,O 900.
Exports of wheat and Indian corn de-
creased 100000 The total exports
of cotton this year amounted to $751;
CeO,OOO worth, or $25, 100000 less than
last year in other words, the exports of
cotton decreased more than 13l 900, 900
pounds this year.
Col. LONG, the ex confederate officer
attached to Col. Gordon's Central Afri.