The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16
Items Of Interest.

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trils and administers n glass of water.
Spurgcon wears blue oyercoat, anC
ga cigar burns merrily in his mouth.
Genius can not disgu,o itself even
among clergymen.
On New Years day the people of In
dia are to have their happiness com
pletcd by the formal announcement O
their English empress,
Walters of the Lick house, Sal
Francisco, injured by the explosion Of
the steam table in September, 1879, have
brought. damage suits against the Licl
trustees and ask for $4,000
The University of Virginia has re-
Cciycd donation Of 10000 for the ben
eft Of It's library, from Mr.. VIM. W,
CorcOran.
Two.third5 of the willow for the
manufacture of willow.warc in this
country is imported from Europe at a
cost Of &5OOO,OOO.
The double hanging in New Jersey
last week was horrible affair. One OF
the wrctches slowly stranglcd to death,
and in his struggles his hands got loose.
The Jersey hangman has evidently been
reading Deacon Smith.
Commodore Vanderbilt says the
obituaric, are much better than he cx
pcctcd, but he is mortally afraid the
newspapers will 60 back on him next
time. There is such Il thing AS Il mans
dying once too often. If the Commo
d0rc keeps ON he may write the obitua
rics of some OF the newspapers; and
they would make lively reading.
The steamship Acapulco of the Pa
Ciiic mail line, which arrived last week
was struck by lightning on the 9th o
October while entering the harbor o
Aspinwall, and the topnla5t was shivcrcC
down TO the lower mast, distance o
about forty feet Fortunately no on,
was near it at the time, and no perSal
was injured. 1t iSa curious fact tha
the tore-topmast Of the Acapulco va
also struck by lightning in the same por
on the previous voyage.
The AngIo-Amerlcan Times argue
that the United states have fully re-
covered from the panic Of 1873, "Amer
lean factories" it says for the first
time in sixteen wears, thrcatcna IUrmida.
bic competition with manufacturers in
foreign markets. They can now produce
on n par with European manufacturing
countries, because their work il as eco
nomicalIy DONE or would he, were il not
for the faulty system which remains
American labor is cheaper, its means of
living cheaper, and the whole scale is re.
duccd, hy which the cost Of mmufac.
turing the article is lcs-cned.' "
The papers transferring the Old South
church, Boston, have finally passed, and
/ the sale is comulcted 1t is now held by
Mr. r. NJ. pul,itcr as tru>-ec for tn,
owners. The sum OF %l75OO0 was ad
vanccd. $l1O,0OO without security by
friends interested in the purchase OF the
building the rest Of SIOO,0 geo is secured
by first and second mortgages. The con
ditiou annexed to the sale by the stand
ing committee Of the church, namely,
" that the building shall not he used for
any purpo2c whatever on Sunday for
thirty YEAR, except 50 far as may be
necessary for its preservation, WAS rati-
fled by th@ ,ocicty.
it has become notorious that a legally
made will stands for nothing il there is
enough Of money to make it an object
to fight for it, Any grarping relative
or any person whose interest it is to dis,
cover plain ease puA it within reach
of the lawyers, and there ii is all up with
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