The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-06-06


AMONG many interesting relics in ard
about Monterey, Cal, Is the wreck of the
old brig Natalie, the veritable vessel In
which Napoleon made his escape from
Elba. This slowly decaying wreck is
safely anchored in the sand by the new
wharf
THE British newspaper press direc-
Tory" for 1873 exhibits ,744 newspapers
published in the United Kingdom. In
the United States in 1877 there were
8,079 newspapers and periodicals. OF
British newspapers 1888 are daily, while |
Of the American 709 are daily.
A BosToN man named Samuel B.
Hale, who has been farming in Buenos
Ayres fortyNfive years, owns now $4,000
acres of rich prairie, 5000 cattle, 500
horses, 10000 sheep and 1,4OO hogs,
The fences cost $26,000 Last year the
wool product of the farm netted $4,000
pounds, and there was a yield of 800, 900
pounds of talow; also 25,540 sheep
skins
DURING The nine months past the
aggregate value of exports from the
United States has exceeded that OF the
imports, as shown by the custom house
books, by 100000 600. The cabinet
considered this fact recently, and became
convinced that it demonstrated salts
factory commercial and financial con-
ditiOn.
FROM the return of the British board
Of trade, for the first quarter Of 1878, II
appears that the exports of breadstuffs
from this country to Great Britain were
$l7,OO0O0O in excess of the amount in
the corresponding period last year, while
our exports OF cotton decreased 81 $780,
900 in the came time. The increase in
wheat was SIC, 900 900; -four, IS 900, 900
and corn $4,0OO,oOo.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Evening Post, writing from Toxic
Japan, sends the following; "The famine
in the north of China RACES with increas
ing severity, and the most dreadful
reports come from the stH cted regions
In one town man opened shop for the
sale of human flesh, and did good busi
ness in cannibalistic Joints and roasts til
the local Mandarin caused the shop
keeper to be arrested and beheaded.
IT is lot two years since the Custe
massacre took place, yet the wilderness
In which it occurred is now populated b.
farmers who are rapidly turning tn
desert into n cultivated country.
town of nearly Ole thousand inhabitant
has risen where Gen. Miles encamped o
Tongue river in 1876; in fact the whOl
country which Sitting Bull occupied
now taken up by hardy pioneers who al
planting civilization where barbaris
tlourished such short time ago.
A QUANTITY OF we'll executed cou
tsrfeit trade dollars has been captured
Cincinnati. They are composed of blo'
tin, bismuth, and pulverized glass. Th'
possess pretty nearly the standard weig
and have the exact color and the tr1
ring of the real dollars, The only mea
of detecting them from the genuine is
means Of weigher, or by pressing the
between the teeth, when the glass viii
they contain emits cracking sound.
Paor. SPENCER BAIRD, who has be
elected secretary of the Smithsonian
stitution, to fll the place OF Prot. Hen
deceased, is widely known as the head
the Fish Commission, which under
direction has accomplished such g
work in exciting a general interest
pisciculture. Prof. Baird has writ
several valuable works on natural histo
The Washington Star says; "He
perhaps better fitted, as Prof. Hem
successor, to direct the operations OF
institution in conformity with its es'
Iished policy than any other man
America"
A RECENT Washington telegram
the Philadelphia contractors Tor
South American railroad are unsuc'
ful in endeavoring to secure col
laborers about the capital from the
of the colored men that they will be
into slavery, the Brazilian minister
ing been called upon by the colored
and stated that, although slavery ha
been fully abolished in Brazil, it
process of abolition by gradual EN-
patton, which will make the countr,
in twenty.one years. There is Ia
Brazil prohibiting colored men iron
tling in that country, and they can
he taken in by contract under 81
act
A POET in the Cornhill Mag
wishing to write that his wife wa
beyond the brook, found that "b
would not make the rhyme he wa
therefore he thought be would subs
for it the word "burn," which
brook, although burn" d ,es not |
TO unaccustomed ears, like water
sort 81 he wrote, "My little v
out beyond the burn" 1t made "a
line, and it did well enough un
newspapers began to copy the poe
intelligent compositor soon fell Al