The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-12-23
TIM ELY TOPICS.

1--WE II H. OTHS o.
THE Sutro (Ncvada) tunnel has pen,
tratcd a distance of II ,l3j feet.
NlcEFREsIDENr WUSQN's propcr
will not exceed, it is thought, $40 600 i
value
IT Is now supposed that abaut 10 pei
sons were. lost by the disaster to tn
steamship Deutschland.
\ FEARFUL collicry explosion ocrurc
in Yorkshire, England last week, result
ing in the loss Of about two hundre
lives,
Moody attributes his lack Of succes
in Philadelphia to the fact that the regu
lar church-gocrs crowd out the clemcn
he is dcsirous 81 addressing. How woul,
1t do for him to labor with the rcgula
church -gocrs Il while?
They want the cXtravagant Fox rive
(Wis.) improvement pushed through
congress, but think aid to the Texa
Pacific railroad II reckless waste of money
The former is local improvement, anc
ihc Latter will benefit the nation.
) The peaW fisheries of the Gulf of Cal
iiornia threaten to be entirely ruined,
owing to the wholesale use of submarine
armor; last year they yielded about
SlOO,OOO worth of pearls and 100000
worth of shells, while this years opera.
tions will hardly pay expenses.
lr took the Cherokee nation two or
three months to find out who was elected
chief at the last election. Charles
Thompson is the man, aud he is full
bIoodcd Indian uncducated, speaks
broken English and is classcd among the
"progrcsSionists." lie is in favor of a
regular territorial organization.
The party in Canada who have favored
annexation to the United States are said
to have abandoned that project, owing
TO the recent triumph of the reform
party, which has obtained control of the
government and the cmolumcnts thereof.
Inc anncXationistS now sing with much
1eryor, "GOd save the queen"
THE twenty cent pieces have proved a
failure in California. The san Francisco
Post says: Nobody seems to want
either TO pass or to receive them, and in
some mysterious manner they disappear
and 90 back to the mint, and, though
destitute Of such Il coin, we still reckon
IN bits for all our small transactions"
THE French wine product of 1873
amounts to 2,OO0,000,0OO gallons, and it
As calculated that it would fill a canal
three and half feet deep and three and Il
halt feet wide 1900 miles long. Supposing
you could drink twenty-five gallons a
minute, it would take you one hundred
and thirty-five years and eighteen days
to drink the whole of it.
SENIOR ALBANIA, the Cuban agent in
New York, has received u letter from
'amaglIay, giving account Of the opera
tons Of the first and second divisions of
the Cuban army since January last. The
Insurgents have been especially success
lul in the eastern department, and all the
enemy has been able to do is to protect
plantations at Guantanamo and Santiago
dc Cuba.
kHEDIvE IsMAIL is not having such
IN easy time conquering the Abyssinians
as was predicted. A dispatch from Alex
andria states that the Egyptian army
has been surprised, with a large loss.
King Johannes, the Abyssinian potenate,
is the aggressor in this war, as he ordered
his troops to invade Egyptian soil for the
purpose Of stopping the dissenson of his
own people and concentrating their at
tcntioE on the border.
THE Supreme court has decided the
Union Pacific railroad case against the
government. BY this decision the com
pany isexcused from paying the govern.
ment any interest or principal on its
bonds for thirty years. The aggregate
amount involved in the case and lost tC
the government by the decision is up
wards of S2OO,OOO,OOO, and naturally
enough the result was awaited with
breathlcss interest by the stakeholder.
and spectators generally.
The London Times has a leading ed
itorial on President Grants message
referring to the part about Spain and
Cuba, the Times says If Spain cannot
suppress the Cuban rebels; if the island
must be half ruined while she holds it
if she will not put an end to that institu
tion which is the main source of disturb
ance; it would be hard to expect the
United States to let the work of devasta
tion proceed unchecked merely out o
regard to the normal sovereignty o