The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-03
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The spread Of fever has lately been
| traced to attending wakes, and the medical
papers in England are asking the Roman
Catholic clergy to use their influence against
them. The clergy have long tried to abolish
wakes, but hitherto with little success either
| IN Ireland or America.
II il a curious fact that, nOtwithstand-
| ing the sure destruction uf houses built near
the base OF Mount Vesuvus, sooner or later,
| still the Italians 90 not cease to build there.
The town OF Terre del Greco, containing
nearly ten thousand inhabitants, is built en-.
tirely upon the lava streams of 1851.
Ten mammoth cheeses from Herkimer
county, New York, have been shipped to
England for exhibition during the holiday
season. Five were manufactured ut the
Newport factory, and weigh six hundred
pounds each, and five at the White Creek
factory-weight, five hundred pounds each.
There are 46, 6,0O0,O acres in England
and $4,000. 600 inhabitants, and only forty per
cent. OF these are fed with British food. The
sixty per cent would be without their bread
and good deal OF their meat, butter and
cheese, but for foreign import.
The war department gives notice that
a board OF officers. Lieut.. Col. Benton, presi
dent, will assemble at Springfield, Mass,
April 5, to examine all magazine rifles that
may be presented, with view of selecting
one for use in the army, in case one is found
fit for the purpose.
Harper, the owner of Ten Brock, and
a number of prominent turfmen who sub.
scribed $4,000 for Ten Broeck to run against
Parole, are greatly disappointed at the break.
ing up Of the negotiations for the proposed
great match. II Mr.. p Lorilard is steadfast
in his refusal to run at Louisville, Mr..
Harper will enter Ten Broeck in all the large
eastern stakes and cup races in which Parole
and Tom Ochiltree start.
Capt. James b. Eads, of jetty fame,
having accomplished the depth of twenty.
two feet OF water in the outlet of the Missis-
sippi, is on his way to Washington to. collect
his second half million, part Of which is to
pay notes due in New, York next Tuesday.
The secretary OF war says he will not pay it
until he sends cOmmettee down there to
examine and report, he not deemng he re.
port of the inspecting engineer sufficient
evidence upon which to base his warrant for
pay.
Caleb Gushing, after some years inves
tigation, for wh ch the government paid him
$5,COO discovered that the bank of England
contains about Sls,00O,0CO in cash belonging
to the late confederate government. The
administration isanow trying to discover some
method by which the money can be trans.
ferred to the keeping of John Sherman.
Probably the best disposition of the funds
would be to let England keep the dollars
IN payment of the Halifax fishery commits
sion award.-COuricrJ JOmn0l.
Mr.. Gladstone says that, rs rule, it
would be as rational TO begin trIa ming for the
ballot ut forty-tive or fifty as for the real
work OF the cabinet. lie deplores "the
rapid and constant advance Of the money
power in parliament, and the reduction to
almost zero of The chance to parliament for
men who have nothing to rely on but their
talent and their character" Mr.. Gladstone
has on more than one occasion stood up
boldly for what are called "pocket boroughs.N
inasmuch as they were the only means by
which young men of talent without political
influence could get a seat. Thus Pitt owed
his first seat to Sir James LOwther, whom he
not long after made an earl of; Macaulay to
Lord LandsdOwne, who returned him for
Galne and Gladstone himself came IN ON
the duke of Newcastle's nomination for
Newark.
Barradocs, first settled by the English
in 1924, is described by recent very observ-
ant visitor as the only West India colony
where British stock has taken firpn root, and
where British institutions have thriven. OF
its 1900 souls, there were reck Oned in 1871,
1850 white to 39,57S mulattoes, and l0j,90i
blacks; which is at the rate Of nearly one
white to six blscks, while in Jamaca the rate
is one to thirty, and in British Guiana one to
one hundred. Nearly all the whites are ma
,ves, aud many can trace from settlers of the
time of Charles |. Yet, even here, with u
dry, salubriOus, bracIng atmosphere unyis.
tied by malaria and refreshed by constant
northeast winds, the Anglo-Saxon degener.
ates without frequent enforcement Of
blood from England. In the other West
Indi, islands, he is seen to far les, AL.
vantage. II is to be borne in mind that in
the paImy days of Jamaica the planters were
usually absentees during at least third Of
their lives