The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-09-02

TIMELY TOPICS.
The discussion as to the successor OF
Senator Norwood, OF Georgia, includes
the names OF Alexander FL. Stephens,
the Hon Ben Hill, and Senator Norwood
himself.
The japanese are shipping bricks to
California, and cell them cheaper than
those made in that state notwithstand-
ing that there is an nd valorem duty OF
20 per cent on them.
DETAILS OF the assassination of presi-
dent Moreno, of Ecuador, show that
the deadly machete and two revolvers
did the work. The movement seems to
have been an antiultramontane one, as
there is talk Of massacre of the
priests.
DoNA1DsoN's body viii probably be
found soon, and some one will discover
the wreck of the luckless air ship, and
then the curtain will fall on the last
chapter Of tragedy which was brought
about solely to crafty public curiosity
that should not have been gratifed at
all.
THE English have put bridge over
the Ganges where the Indian mother
used to drow her manageable infant,
and there is now direct railroad line
between Calcutta and Lucknow. The
bridge is little over half mile long,
with superstructure almost entirely OF
brick, and cost Gl50,000.
RICE is becoming a favorite crop in
some sections of the south. 1t costs
1856. 40 to cultivate and send to market
an acre Of rice, yielding 1900 pounds
of clear grain, which sells for $S4. The
profit is about $1,000 per acre, and the
crop is not difficult one to grow.
The managers of the direct United
States cable say that their line will be
ready for public traffic in a few weeks
The steamer Faraday will shortly con-
clude the splicing of the Irish end,
where defect had to be cut out, and
then. splice the American end, which
had been broken by the ice.
CAPTAIN EADs is in New York, where
he will, in a few days, hold consulta-
tion with government and other engin-
eers relative to the work on the jetty
improvement OF the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi river. The contractors are now
engaged placing the willow fascines in
position, and late measurements show
an increase in the depth of the water.
Our English cousins are discussing
it now, and the London Review thus
states the c0sus belH.
"Jeferson Davis, the American rebel,
has been invited to address the Winnie
bago natives. N. B.--The Winnebago
are tribe of Indians, formerly of Wis
consin state, but now removed to an
agency in Nebraska state"
SENIOR P. G. ARMIJo, of New Mexico,
sold over 2OO,O pounds of wool last
year. With his father and d business
partner he own nearly 2,000,0 900 head of
sheep, scattered over range of coun-
try more than 300 miles square. He
has had two losses by Indian raids, one
of 5000 head and the other of $4,000,
"but," he says, 81 hardly missed
them"
TWENTY thousand boxes, containing
overamillion clay pip pos, are importedinto
this country annually, the greater num-
Der being the celebrated "T. d. brand.
All these pipes are made in Glasgow,
Scotland, and chiefly by one firm, W.
White & Sons, honest old Quakers, who
have been piping away for nearly GEN.
tury and half, aud are now doing the
largest business in that line in the
world.
FAYErTE COUNTY, Tennessee, is said,
in the report Of the department of
agriculture, to have suffered very
great loss of mules and horses last
spring by the buffalo gnat. The best
remedy against these pests is to put the
stock at once in a dark stable, to be
kept filed with smoke. "Death, says
the report, doubtless is parity caused
by the loss of blood, but mainly by
poisoning the circulation"
The bureau of statistics report the
total exports Of the country, exclusive
Of specie, for the month of July at
417,286,391 against $47, 1852, 476 the
same month in 1874; imports for seven
months this year, s216, 1O4, 1893 against
$35, 1876, ,903 same time last year. Ex-
ports for July this year, s41, ,495, ATT
against s4O,967,1S July, 1874; for
seven months this year, 1922, 1924, 1897
against 1874, $S76,94s, 366. These are
all currency values.
The annual death-rate Of various
cities in the United States, for four
weeks in April, as stated by the Sani-
tartan. shows q minimum lToledol Of