The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-05-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

THERE are 22S submarine telegraph
,ables. all told.
LIScoIS's tomb, at Springfield, ILL.,,
is going to ruin.
THE Iowa prohibitory liquor law is to
be tested in court.
WYOMING Territory has but eight or
ganized counties.
THE grave OF the celebrated Kit Car
son Is at Taos, N. NJ.
The cattle now owned in Colorado are
valued at $40, 100000.
The value of the Canadian fisheries
for 1888 was SIT, 251 ,675.
THE Roman Catholic clergy no longer
oppose cremation in Italy.
THE dividends payable in Boston in
April aggregate 97O,S62.
A CARLOAD of Mormon converts left
Knoxville, Tenn, for Utah.
An ocean pier, to cost SEQ, 900 is to DO
built at Cape May this spring.
THERE are about $4,000 Northern
tourists in Florida at this time.
CHICAGO butchers killed /, 1872, 9O5 cat.
tie and 3,9l1, 1872 hogs last year.
A NEwBERN, N. c., firm shipped in
one order As, 900 cans Of oysters.
IT is probable that women will soon be
granted the franchise in Canada.
THERE are twice as many sheep in the
United States rs in Great Britain.
By law in Arkansas no saloon can be
built withing GAO rods Of a church.
AN industrial exposition will be held
at Raleigh, N. O., next September.
ATLANTA, Ca, cotton mills will re.
quire 10000 bales of cotton this year.
FoR the year 1888 the South spent
$4,000, 600 for new railroad locomotives.
Mrs. QUINcY SHAW, of Boston, is
said tospend S250,00O year in charity.
EIGHTEEN colored teachers are EN-.
ployed in the Nashville, Tenn, schools.
A CmcAGo widow ordered her funeral
outiit before death, paying $1,000 for it.
THERE are 315 cotton mills in the
Southern States, against $50 four years
ago.
NEARLY five million boxes of "sar-
dimes" were packed in Lubec, Me-, last
year.
The bill before Congress to legalize
Trade Unions has been reported favor.
ably.
A MEDICAL journal states that the
average Chinese baby weighs but five
pounds.
SIXTY million pounds of copper were
produced by the Lake Superior mines
last year.
DURING last year 1G0 manufacturing
and mining corporations were formed in
Tennessee.
The Brooklyn aldermen appropriated
$1,000 for the reception of the Army OF
the Potomac.
TRAYNoR. who once crossed the Allan.
tic in dory, now proposes TO make the
trip in rowboat.
THERE are fifty illicit distilleries and
only three licensed ones in one district
in North Carolina.
FIVE men in the Southern States now
read the newspapers where one man read
them ten years ago.
CONTINENTAL papers refer to the in.
croasing number Of husbands and fathers
who disappear, and are found to have
gone to America"
Or the 10000 Indian children in this
country, over 10000 arc being educated
in government schools.
DAVID BLAIR, Scotchman, has
joined the Bcnedictine monks, and gives
them an income of 10000.
The Toronto GioJe thinks the ten.
perance cyclone is going to make clean
sweep over the whole world.
TIE planets Jupiter, Saturn and Men.
tune will soon be in perihelion for the
third time since the Christian era.
The wife of President Gonzales Of
Mexico, and mother of ten children. is
now living obscurely in Houston, Texas.
THE proposition to celebrate. in 1899
the dOOth anniversary of the discovery
of America by Columbus excites ap.
proyal.