The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-03

u. J' Alehunuer, oikWoouuuIu rurm,
Ky, has sold TO Mr.. Fox, of England,
the oath Duke of Airdrie and the Goth
Duchess OF Airdrie at 100000 for the
two.
Our national debt is $2, 131, 900, 900 ;
the total of state debts, 1890, 900, 900 ;
county debts, $3.50, 100000; city and
town debts 1910, 900, 900; total, $3,271,-
100000
The principal biectof Vice President
Wilson's trip to the south at this time
is said to be to visit the spot at Austin,
Texas, where his only son, an officer in
the regular army, died.
The terrible fires which have been
sweeping whole districts in Pennsylva-
mia are attributed to the great drouth,
arising from the reckless telling of tim
; Der, which diminishes the rainfall and
opens an inviting field for the flames.
The Inman line of steamships, which
for some years has been plying between
New York and Liverpool, intends to
transfer some of its ships to Baltimore,
with the expectation of establishing a
line between that city and Liverpool.
Col. ROBERT NJ AND STEPHEN A.
DOUGLASS, sons of the late Stephen A.
Douglass, receive an award for l Last
bales of cotton, or about $3.50, 400,
seized in the state OF Mississippi on the
maternal plantation.
The luxury of calling lawyer shy.
ster in st. Louis is so cheap that no
newspaper need practice self denial or
economy in this regard. The Republi-
eau has iuet been assessed one cent
damages as the result of protracted
libel suit.
SPAIN has settled damages for the
slight put upon the Mecklenburg brig
Gustav. She managed to scrape up
$4,000 to fork over to the German
ambassador at Madrid. The flag stands
well, and the Deutsch goose hangs high
pretty louch everywhere nowadays.
Now it is Queen Victoria who is again
threatened with assassination. O'Con-
nor, who, some time since, made an
nttempt to shoot her, was found stand
ing in the identical spot, the other day.
whore the former affair took place, OBJ
serving the queen. OF course he was
packed off to the insane asylum.
CAPT. LAWSON has Rstonishe1 the
gcographers by discovering mountain
Blk miles high, on the island of New
Guinea. This mile higher than
Mount Everest, of the Himalayan range,
hitherto believed to be the highest
mountain in the world. 1t is rather
singular that such protuberaDce has
not been seen before.
IHE girls of Warsaw, KY, have unan.
imously resolved to purchase no dry
goods costing more than twenty. five
cents per yard for the space of one year.
Here is woman's reform movement
which, If carried into effect throughout
the entire south, would do more to cure
the ills of short crops and high rates
than any plan we have yet seen sug-
gested.
ONE OF the most recent of the sick.
ening 81. Louis sensations is that which
tells of the discovery of the putrefy.
ing body Of a smallpox patient in the
bottom OF well, from which a mum,
ber of families had been getting water
for some time. Strange to say, the
people did not detect any peculiarity il
the taste Of the beverage. They viii
henceforth be proof against the small
pOx.
A YOUNG man left " Walla- Walla severa
weeks since for the purpose of making
general tonr of Northern California
Before starting, he solemply promised
his friends to write back all the pir
ticulars of the country. But one lettel
hos been received from him, containing
two lires, which says: 1.-THE girls ar,
all from Boston, and whisky is twenty
five cents drink"
DIo LEWIS declares that he refuses t.
lease hotel OF his "except on condi
tion that wine and brandy are excluded
from the cookii e." H. is qnite righ
in this. We never see parcel OF men
women and children 60 reeliDg an'
staggering from the dinipg.room OF
hotel where wine and brandy are uset
IN cooking without shedding tears o
blood aod experiencing emotions OF tn
soul which can he soothed and guelle,
only by B iurbon cocktail or glss
or two Of beer. Exchange.
The surveying party sent out by th
Government to locate the line of th
pro- osed ship canal across the Isthmu