The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-03-11
A Second Offer.

to obtain q SufhClent number OF per
sons, who would give $50 or S2:
apiece for the purchase Of a press
We published our proposition two
weeks, took it out, and awaited the
result. Several came to us and gave
us their sincere hopes that we might
succeed, whilst three or four promised
the required assistance. But our ef
fort failed. Not from any doubt thai
could have been in the minds Of those
who were want to assist as, as to the
safety of the investment, for we Ger.
tainIy offered three-ioll and undoubted
security but the financial crisis was
just then agitating the country, and
money was a commodity talked OF
but not in circulation. The crisis has
past-times are easier, and the future
is as bright as the past has been dark,
and in few months we may reason
ably and checrtully expect a decided
change for the better. And now, as
in days gone by, our ambition is to
have number one and superior paper
in Winchester. We want to add four
columns to our present number, and
make other improvements. Franklin
county must have paper published
IN her midst. We tell you, friends,
you cannot too highly estimate its inn
portancc, and you do not yet, as a
mass, fully appreciate the value a
paper is to your town and county; al
though there are some in the place, we
believe, who would sacrifice something
more than the subscription price to
sustain it. Aud while you all will
readily admit the need of a home or
gan. YOU must all likewise admit that
a large and well printed one is most
desirable. Now, we propose, in six
weeks TO furnish the town Of Winches-
ter and county Of Franklin with one
Of the largest and neatest papers ever
published in their midst. And we
propose to do this. not at a cert of tax
lpon any one but oursclf, (Qnless some
me, led by an innate desire to cncour-
,gc an honorable enterprise, should
Tomato a gcntcel sutn) We must haze,
! lorycr press in order to have a lar
ger paper. Oar subscription list is
Increasing fast. People living in dis
ant parts are ordering it, and not I'M
ii we secure IL large press and the
improvements that must
come with it, can we 60 whole soul
nto the advancement of our claims.
Net even can we commence our prize
ale.
But to our proposition: We want
fifteen persons to 0doancc as ttUenty
'oilors cach-making $500, and in
he aforesaid time, the sort of paper
We desire to publish, and that the Ell.
ire community ought to desire, will
'e left shining in its beauty and
nanhood at your doors. Now, ho,o
an we fail to succeed this time in en-
sting your assistance, when such a
mall sum is demanded, and when we
roposc to pay you interest on your
money as you desire it, until we get
bic to pay the principal-you the
Meanwhile retaining a lien on the
ress and anything else we've got to
ccure you Isn't that fair? Can we
o better? Shall we fail? Now, we
annot go in person to any one. We
ont want to. We hav'nt got the
rass, and feel inclined to believe that
our appeal through the paper can
OF prevail on them, our presence can
ct. Fifteen persons only! Why we
ave subscribers who are indebted to
s nearly twenty dollars, and if they
'ould pay up, we'd almost take it as
loan. We have four or five names
D commence with, and now we'll
nxiousIy and earnestly await to see
the additional number cannot be
REQUIRED. Should any one away from
ONE feel inclined to invest his money
t interest, we invite him or her to
end it along by mail, at our risk, and