The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-12-05

MOORE County, n. G., has twenty
eight gold mines, six silver mines, eight
copper mines, nine or ten iron mines
and a general assortment Of other min
erals.
GREAT attention is now being paid by
the inhabitants Of the Argentine Re-
public, South America, to the cultivation
of wheat along the river Plata. There
is every reason to believe that in few
years that region will be one OF the most
extensive grain>producing localities in
the world. Many Italian, French, Rus
sian and other settlers are now breaking
ground there.
The Chinese population of San Frar.
cisco has been lately reported as $4,000,
including 1000 servants. OF cigar-makers
there are 5000; of taior, 5000; OF
boot and shoemakers, 2,'O0; laundry
men, 1900; merchants and professional
men, 1000 professional gamblers, 400;
peddlers, $500, while The rest are fisher.
men, laborers and miscellaneous. There
are 1000 women.
The longest train believed to hsve
ever been drawn by single engine, re.
Gently Travelled over the Northern Cen
trail Railroad, o. Pennsylvania. The
train consisted of 1873 empty freight cars,
one loaded eight.wheeler, two cabooses
and dead engine. The train was 5000
feet long, or 800 fee nil,e han a mile,
The distance Travelled was thirty.one
miles, mostly up grade, at speed of ten
miles an hour.
A GREAT work has recently been
81 finished in Hungary by the completion
of drain for the famous Schemnitz
mines, which was commenced as far
back as 1882 by the Emperor Joseph II.
The drain is about ten and one fourth
miles long, mostly in very hard volcanic
rock, and intersects the mine at depths
varying from 500 to 500 feet. The
point where the functions of the last
sections were effected is about 1000 feet
below the surface, being under a noun
tain pass.
ONLY one of the big trees of Caliior-
mia has been felled by the hand of man.
To accomplish this it required the WORK
of five men for twenty-five days, not
chopping, but with long augurs, boring
it down. After the tree was completely
severed, the veteran stood still unm0ved
and refused to fall, until by ropes, pull.
leys and wedges, the enormous trunk
was brought to the earth. This tree was
found to be over 800 feet long, ninety
six feet in circumference at the base and
sound to the very heart.
Miss CAROLINE OWEN, the pretty
young English woman whose rebellion
against the polygamy of the man whom
she loved, and whose only wife she sup
posed herself to be, excited such interest
throughout tho country, has yielded to
the influence of her husband, avows
herself good Mormon, and withdraws
all her charges. In letter to the Salt
Lake Herald, she says that she has come
to the conclusion that individuals who
strive to separate woman from her
God, her religion, her husband, and her
true friends, are enemies OF the worst
kind" she adds that he. husband had
never informed her that he had another
wife, and, outside of her own suspicion
she had no knowledge that he had one.
Miss Owen, now Mrs. Miles, belongs TO
a respectable English family, and her
connection with the Mormon Elder, Tor
whose sake she crossed the sea, is a cause
of deep sorrow to her relatives.
If any class of farmers need cline upon
line /" to induce them to see the road to
success, it is the dairymen. They keep
COWS for the supposed profit they bring,
and they live in blissful ignorance that
they are doing this labor for amusement;
yet they seldom make an inquiry into
the actual performance OF individual
cows. They make no effort to separate
the good from the Improbable. We
have known several herds that paid SO
poor a return that the owner became
discouraged and concluded that dairying
must usually be carried onwithout reason
able profit; but by listing the individual
yield and quality of these herds it was
found in one case that the loss was made
on three COWS out of eight, the five pay
ing reasonable profit on twenty. There
is seldom a herd of twenty cows that
does not contain some that pay a
good profit; a few herds comparatively
of that number that do not contain one
or more that are kept at loss The
selection ofcows should be considered one
of the first practical principles of dairy
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