The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-01

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PROMPT measures are to be taken in
Iowa to suppress the tramp. He has
become more than nuisance, He is a
danger, Therefore the governor issues
a proclamation against him, notifying
mayors and sherihs that the law permits
them to call out the troops if necessary
for the protection of railway trains and
other property.
Mr.. PERKINS was Boston widower,
having lost two wives. Miss Carlton
was a spiritualistic medium. She went
into a trance, and the spirits of the two
dead wives, speaking through her, said
that she and Perkins ought to marry.
OF course Miss Carlton was astounded,
after coming to herself, on being told Of
the communication she had delivered,
but she was willing to obey. The cere-
mony was performed the next day.
THE steamer Nevada, of the Guion
line, which arrived at New York Thurs
day, had in the steerage 500 members OF
Mormon colony, under the charge of
six Scandinavian elders, together with
three English elders OF the church. The
leader of the party was Lawrence d.
Young, a son of the prophet. Mr..
Young said his party was recruited
through the small towns Of Norway,
Sweden and Denmark.
THE celebrated trotting gelding Rarus
trotted three heats at East Saginaw,
Mich, in 2;l74, 2l6 and 2;16l, A strong
westerly wind was blowing at the time,
which made a difference in each mile.
He was speeded the same meeting mile
in 2:l4i, On the 4th inst, at Cincin-
natl, o., he trotted a mile in 2.l7, which
is the best time ever made on half mile
track. There seems ever probability
tat he will beat Goldsmith Maids re-
cord of 2:l4 before the season closes.
THE latest aeronaut, c. f. Ritchel,
has actually made progress. His ma
chine is an obvious advance over the
balloons of the past. 1t will not go
against the wind, but he can tack it
with the wind and keep it headed in any
given direction, and can raise or lower
it at will without losing any gas or bal
last. There is no gas connected with the
gas cylinder. He made an ascent from
Boston Oh the Fourth with the wind
blowing eighteen or twenty miles an
hour, and landed safely after being up
one hour and twenty minutes.
MADEIRA is gone, and claret must
follow, to the limbo OF the lost. Already,
from the frontiers of Ital y to the borders
of Spain, they are tearing up the useless
wines and preaching the walls of long
respected vineyards. Hot Languedoc,
sunny Providence are now as bare OF
their most cherished crops as are the
bleakest of the Sologne or the widest
heath of Brittany. And the vine plague
spreads, unchecked, unstemmed by all
that industry and science can effect.
How serious is the evil can be measured
only by the recoilections that 7,000,00
French depend for daily bread on the
now perishing vine.
The Secret service division has on hand
about 100000 in counterfeit money. Oh
this amount about $4,000 are in coin,
ranging from one-cent pieces to the TWEEN
ty.6ve dollar gold piece. The remainder
is in paper currency. This is the accu'
mutation since December, 1876. Some
of these counterfeits are very good ones,
but the larger number of them are mis-
cradle. Tne latter is especially the case
with the the counterfeit silver. Most ol
this coin is SO poor that even after being
melted it cannot be utilized in any man
ner, becoming as brittle as glass, 1t is
generally a compound of antimony
glass and zinc Many of the pieces when
struck with a hammer, used for indent-
ing the word "bad" on captured coun
ter felt coin, break in pieces. The paper
counterfeits can be reduced to a pulp ant
used for manufacturing paper of an in
ferior quality.
The New York Times says Of the
English acquisition of Cyprus:
"Lord Beaconsfeld has in this case
SIMPLY accepted the consequences OF
policy which is already two hundred
years old, and whose ultimate conse
quences must have very importan
share in shaping the future histor.
of the world. When Give and Hasting
wrested from the grasp of incapabl
viceroys the richest provinces of tn
crumbling empire OF AuruDgzebe, the,
were preparing the way for the Englis