The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-13
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Lake on the I'd OF June. A murdere
is to be shot instead Of hanged, the law
of the territory permitting the ghastly
choice between these methods of making
his exit The rifle team may yet dis
place the rope, and with marksmcn VIII,
understand their business we shall moi
be under the necessity of adopting Mr.
Marwood's horrible improvement in ties
TnE French hygiene commission has
made report to the Paris municipality
in respect to cremation. The report sets
forth that if the system of common
gravesis to be continued cremation would
offer great sanitary advantages. The
commission forcsees, however, that legis-
latve obstacles would arise, as the de.
structon of bodies would prevent the
detection of certain crimes. II adopted,
the commission thinks cremation should
be made optional, and an autopsy should
be made in every case where it is re.
sorted to.
THE first pure glucose made in this
country is being manufactured at the
glucose works in this city. The demand
for the article by contectioncrs alone, in
the United States, is immense. The
sources of supply heretofore have been
France and Germany, where glucose is
made from potatoes. Here it is the pro-
duct of corn wholly. 1t is pleasing to
the taste as honey. The production of
grape sugar and glucose opens new de.
partment for Iowa corn. The capacity of
the works here is 500 bushels per day.
This branch of manufacture bids fair to
become of immense importance to the
state and country.-Dareoport (io~a)
Gaeette
The French ministcrof marine reports
a gradual falling off in the sardne fshc-
ries, owing to the inadequate supply of
bait, the roe of Goldfish from the Ameri-
can fisheries having heretofore been relied
on for that purpose. 1t has been found,
however, that grasshoppcrs pounded into
a paste initiate the roe 50 exactly that |
the most knowing of the sardines cannot |
distinguish the difference; and accord |
ingly the French government has i'm
ported large quantities Of the insects
from Algeria in order to try the new
bait on a large scale. Should the eXper
iment prove an entire success the grass
hopper problem which has 20 puzzled |
the western agriculturist may be consid-
cred solved.
THE London Daily News publishes
the following synopsis of the annual pro-
duce of gold and silver from all sources
for the last twenty-five years: The
guinquennial average production of gold
from 1852 to 1856 was f29, ,9OO, 900; from
1857 to 1861, e24,60000O; from 1862 to
1866, f22, 100000; from 1867 to 1871,
.c23,6OO, 900; and from 1871 to 1875, CO.,
4OO, 200, thus showing a steady decrease,
while the opposite is the case with silver,
viz: lS52!56, GS, l0O,0 900; 1S57!6l, GS,-
100000; lS62!G6, C99OO, 900; lS67-Tl,
,GlO, O,6OO,0O0; and lS7l-'75, Cl3,9oo,O ,OOO
The News attributes the great fall in
silver, which amounts to threcpcnce
in the rupee, or about twelve per cent.
in India, to its increasing disusc, while
the reverse holds good for gold.
Mr.. DIsRAELI, who is admitted by
Englishmcn to be one of the most efcc-
tive parliamentary speakers of the last
two generations, has one popularity that
might be initiated with advantage by the
legislators of this country. BY far the
larger proportion of his speeches, includ-
ing many of the more brilliant, have not
exceeded twenty minutes duration. II
has been ascertaincd that the Old Tcsta-
ment was written with 5,642 words, that
Milton used only 5000 words for the
making of his poems, and that Shaks
pcare employed only $4,000. The moral
of these figures is that if there are, COM
paratively speaking, 50 few words in the
English language, man who talks for
two hours on single subject falls under
the grave suspicion of vain repetition,
not to say causeless cackling.
NORTH CAROLINA claims not only that
a portion of her people adopted the first
declaration of independence of Great
Britain, over year before the famous
declaration of the colonial congress, but
that the first victorious fight of the rcvo-
luton was fought and won by North
Carolinians on North Carolina soil. This
was the battle of MOOre's creek, fought
on the 9th of February, 1776. The /
royal forces engaged in this battle were
mostly Scotch Highlanders who had set
tied in North Carolina, and who had for
their leaders chieftains who fought in the
bloody battle of Culloden. They were
commissioned by Josiah Martin, the royal ,
governor of North Carolina, and directed !
to put down., the "rebels and traitors" !
who had raised the standard Of revolt. t
They numbered about 1000, while the !
wings numbered 1000. The tories were T
utterly routed. In 1857 the anniversary
of this battle was celebrated. In 1859 a
monument was erected; and this year
the centennial was celebrated with appro. {
pirate ceremonies.
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