The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-04-29
TIMELY TOPICS.

A DANGEROUS counterfeit $5 note OF
First National bank of Paxton, ILL.,, has
been discovered.
ATTORNEY GEN. WILLIAMS has ten
dered to the president the resignation
of his office, to take effect the 18th OF
May.
THE blockade on the Union and Cen
trail Pacific railroads has been broken,
and the delayed trains and passengers
are coming through to Omaha.
CARDINAL MANNING considers himself
"entrusted with commission of war
fare" for he believes the Catholic
church is "approaching a crisis, the
most fiery for three hundred years"
THE state board of immigration Of
Missouri is about publishing map OF
the state and handbook for distribu'
ton in European countries, to induce
immigration. Ten thousand copies OF
the work are to be printed.
A PHYSICIAN in Maine has been in
curing into the statistics of infantile
narcotism with soothing syrups, and
states that the sale of these dangerous
nostrums annually disseminates l5,-
100000 grains of morphia among our
nurseries.
A RESIDENT of NIilledgeville, Ga, who
saw the recent whirlwind strike the
Oconee river, says the water went up,
he thinks, 100 feet in the air, and for
few moments the bottom of the river
where the tornado passed was laid bare,
and the mud and soil was blown into
the tops of the trees.
Gov. STAMFoRb's $50, 600 horse, Occi-
dent, and his companion, st. James,
have arrived safely in Philadelphia, on
the luxurious equine palace-csr pre-
pared expressly for them. The horses
are stabbed at Point Breeze, and are
now undergoing training for the great
eastern races.
ADvIcEs from the west and northwest
indicate widespread damage to crops.
Winter wheat and small grain sown
early in the spring have suffered severe
ly. In many cases fields will be resown
in corn, and this cereal promises to be
the main dependence of farmers this
year. -
A ANUMDER of prominent Louisianians
have resurrected the old railroad scheme
of building line from New Orleans to
Shreveport, and bill incorporating the
company has been presented in the leg
islature. The road is designed to con-
meet with the Texas Pacific railroad,
with view to divert the trade of Texas
to New Orleans.
IT is stated that the old Spanish fort
at st. Augustine, Florida, is to be con-
verted into a military prison, for the
reception of number of rebellious
Indians from the western reservations,
now in custody OF the United States
army. The cells formerly occupied by
the Seminole chiefs, Osceola and Tiger
Tail, have been pat in order, and others
are undergoing repair for the accommo-
dation of the red men of the forest.
AN investigation into the condition OF
the winter wheat by the statistical di.
vision of the department of agricul
ture, the crop as whole much below
the status of that of last year in April
There is an apparent increase of about
7per cent. in round numbers to a mil
lion and half of acres. Though thai
portion winter killed and to be re
planted in other crops may be equal IL
the west to the enlargement of thu
planted area, this increase is small il
the middle states, considerable in Hi
nois AMI Missouri and proportionatel.
the largest in the Gulf states and Kan
sas, reaching 80 per cent. in the south
west.
THE southern railroad lines have no
up to this date Joined in the genera
war among the northern roads. l
having been announced that the New
Orleans and Mobile railroad, known a
the coast line between New Orleans ant
eastern cities, had cut its rate yer.
largely, the Jackson route. in connec
ton with the Louisville, Nashville ant
Great Southern railroad have an
nounced a reduction on rates to Louis
vile, Washington, Baltimore and Ne'
York of from one-ffth to three-tenth
of the regular rates. 1t is expecte'
that the competing route will max
still another reduction, to be followe
by further reduction by the Jackso
route. The fight between the two line
promises to be warm one.
IT may appear surprising that, in re
gard to the cost of transportation
Rome, Ga, is almost as near Birmine
ham, England, as Cincinnati. o. Whe
we add that the article transported wa
pig iron, the surprise increases. Ye
the Birmingham post notes the arrivi
OF an experimental consignment OF Ais
bama and Georgia pig, which sold at 81