The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

The secretary of the interior has ap
pointed Joseph Long, Of Indiana, to lool
after the timber land depredations in tn,
west.
Steam seems destined to supersedt
horses on the street railways. Brooklyn hat
Just adopted the dummy engine on one OF
her street car lines, and it seems to give
abundant satisfaction.
Greece is waiting for somebody to
knock the chip of her shoulder. She has
received $l3,G00,000 from her last loan, has
raised her army to 900 men, who are well
armed and equipped, and she has $4,000
stand of arms besides
Ten car loads of ammunition, one hun
bred and four tons in all, have been loaded
upon the steamer John Bramhall at the
Winchester rifle works, New Haven. The
destination is Turkey, and this would tend
to show that America leads the world in the
manufacture Of firearms,
The committee inspecting the custom
house at Boston recommend decrease of
the force, and increased compensation for
those remaining, so that the net saving, il
their recommendations are adopted, will be
little over $4,000.
Harvest expectations in Minnesota
have been more than realized in the yield,
ms ascertained since thrashing began. The
wheat crop of this wonderful grain-produc
state is set down at the enormous total OF
| 81, 100000 bushels, leaving surplus for ex.
port of from 26 0O0,0 600 to 2S0OO,000 bushels
| The average yield throughout the state is
now estimated at twenty bushels to the acre.
The workingmen of Philadelphia have
Endorsed the eighthour labor law, equali2l-
ton of taxes, compulsory education and u
liberal application Of funds for the purpose,
and condemned the employment of prison
labor by private persons, manual labor in
factories by children under fourteen, and all
laws making it conspiracy for aboring men
to combine for their own protection.
The Chicago Times says of the change
| for the better in business in that city: i" 1t
is barely month ago that the country lay
struggling in the throes Of what was little
short of civil war, and it seemed for time
that chaos and utter ruin would be the por-
| ton of the whole community. For four
years things had been going to pot, piece by
| piece, and at last came the engulhng climax.
| All this was but a month ago, yet to-day the
very face OF nature seems transformed, and
the look of despair has, as if magic changed
! into a broad smile of prosperity. 1t is as il
the entire west, all OF a sudden, was revi.
talized."
Two spans of the Union Pacific rail
road bridge over the Missouri river at Omaha,
were blown down during terrific storm
early Saturday morning. The piers are left
standing, and the other nine spans; but it
will probably take two or three months to
rebuild the bridge. The loss is estimated at
about $350,000. The storm was from the
north, aud struck the easterly end of the
immense structure with such force as to
wrench five hundred feet of it from its con
nections, and topple it into the river, twisting
the large wrought-iron stringers and columns
into variety of shapes. About one-half OF
the debris is out of sight under the water,
and the remainder lies on the side and at
! the foot of the high embsnkment on the
eastern approach.
New England has increased in popu-
latien only II per cent. in ten years. In
| 1860 the six states, Maine, New Hampshire,
| Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and
Connecticut, had population Of 3,l35,323;
in 1870 their aggregate population was 81
| 4S7,924. In Maine and New Hampshire
there was decrease. Now, IN New York,
New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania,
there was an aggregate population in 1860
of 1871 POI, and in 1870, S,935,s2l. In Ohio,
Indiana and Michigan there was in 1860 a
population of 1890 and in 1870, 1929
| 956. In Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin the
population in 1860 was 3, 162,745; in 1870
5,SS7 ,5S1. In Minnesota, Nebraska and
Kansas, in 1860, the population was 3O8,OIO
in 1870 it had increased to 927,lll In Colo.
RADIO, New Mexico and Texas, in 1860, the
population was $4,000; in 1879 it was
16i ,422. The greatest increase OF population
is in the west and southwest. Texas, which
in 1860 had 6O4 ,2l5, has now, in 1877. a popu.
iation of 1000 600, and in 1880, when the
next national census will be taken, the pop.
ulation of Texas will be equal to that Of all
the New England states. Westward the star
of empire etc.
The national board of trade commenced
its ninth annual session at Milwaukee, on
the 2lst. Delegates were present from nearly
all the boards throughout the country.
Mayor Butler, of Milwaukee, made the wei.
coming speech, in which he alluded to ali
the leading topics OF the day connected with
| the commercial interests OF the country. In
his response, Frederick Fraley, OF Philadel.
phia, president Of the national board, spoke
of the labor question as follows: He hoped
Indt EACH mani cohSiuoiinS IL III IeldtloH tO
himself, and thus comparing ii to its great
relations with the great interests of the
country, will see that as labor is the creator
of all wealth it should be protected by sound
and wise laws, and that, for the settlement
Of questions involving principles of labor
and capital, the best intelligence of the
country should be invited and invoked, and
that out of such invitation may come con.
siderations that will lead to the enactment
of laws referring the questions Of labor and
capital, where they come in contact, to
boards OF arbitration, that may ascertain
precisely the question involv, d, as between
the laborer and the capitalist, and suggest
compromise adapted to equit BILE considers