The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-04-12
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grees in that city, Warm for tho oar.
lincss Of tho season.
Gen. Walkers War in Nicaragua is
now out. The book contains over
four hundred pages W. believe it
would DO of much interest. Hope the
publishers will sond us o copy for re-
wow.
Tho Nashville papers state that their
city is teeming with burglars and in
cendiaries who are nightly committing
thefts and firing houses, A sad state
of affairs, and calls loudly for vigilance
on the part Of the police.
The Democracy of this the 9Th con-
gressional district, will meet at Shelby
vile, on the second Saturday in May
next, for the purpose Of selecting an
Elcctor. A full delegation is called
for.
The Nashville Union and American
saws that q violent thunder storm re-
Gently passed over Belgium, and that
twelve churches were simultaneously
struck by lightning, three of them be-
ing totally destroyed and the rest much
injured. Ifthere be any truth in spe-
cial providence, we should think the
Lord is displeascd with the action Of
the people who attend those churches.
SUIcIDE.-A subscriber to the Jour-
nal, living in T%ullahoma, writes us that
an aged gentleman named D. M. Tune
destroyed his life last Saturday morn
ing in that vicinity by shooting himself
with a gun. Mr.. Tune lives on Rock
creek in this county, and had been
sick for sometime. Guess he was tired
of life--out Of tune, and out Nth Tune,
and by committing suicide tried no
doubt to put himself in tune. 1t only
took a ball to un-tune the Tune and
deaden the vibrations.
ATLANTIC TELEGRApH.- 1t is con-
templated for the work of laying the
submarine telegraph to commence
again soon. The company seems not
disposed to allow failures heretofore to
discourage them. As TOR us, we object
to any more money being squ%ndered
on the enterprise, and utter our pro-
test forthwith. Already thousands
have been injured by taking stock in it,
and Wall Street millionaries and Bank
crs become more wealthy by paying
large sums of money to New York ed
itors to puff the stock up to high rri-
ces, at which standard it is sold to I'M
suspecting yet expectant others, and
then comes the collapse and stock is
worth nothing. Already Tiffany &Co.
have made a largo fortune by buying
up the cable by wholesale and selling
little bits of it at tremendous big pri-
ces. In fact we got three or four pie
ces now in our sanctum as present and
condeming witnesses of Il excited
folly and anxiety to have specimens
ofthe cable. Fer u long time we wore
II watch trinket of cable, but when we
reflected seriously upon the many hum
bugs practiced in the whole affair, we
got ashamed and took it off. Yes, we
interdict any more excitement being
gotten up about the cable. We were
nearly mashed to death in '5S on Broad.
way when the city was nearly burned
on accent of so much excitement, and
we are mad about it yet. After all the
excitement and loss amounting to mill
ions, we have NJ telegraph. We don't
like it. We warn the company to &c
no farther, lest an excitement cnsucs
and we'll quit writing about it for teal
what we say will make it too promi
ncnt.
TIE CHARLESTON CONVENTION vii
meet soon, and it is proposed by {
member ofthe Indiana Delegation thai
the delegates camp out under n largo
canvass to be provided for tho occa
sion. This is to save the expense o
paying the enormous hotel charges
which are digging to be sure. Wheth
er the nomadic suggestion OF the lndi
ana delegate will be carried out, is quite
doubtful.
MORE SUICIDES. We learn that in adj
dition to the many cases of suicides cor
stantly reaching Il ears, are two O
men who had occupied tolerably prom
inent positions. One Vim. Roberts, :
citizen of Maryland, and formerly
State Senator, destroyed his life by
hanging on the 10Th ultimo. Also Capt
Daniel Searles of the louisiana House
OF Delegates bloWed out his brains Oh
the 21st ult. Similar evidences Of thu
anxiety ofmany to leave the scenes o
earth and try the realities of some un
known state are quite common, and WI
wonder that we do not have disgust
tions on the matterfroln the learned phi
losophers of the world. If insanity is
the cause of all the suicides, then in
sanity is alarmingly on the increase
and one would think it contagious
We know some persons in the world
who could be the subjects ofsuch a con
tagion, and the world be. benefited
,-ot uhon man have families IL sppmS: