The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-01-05
OUR NEW DRESS.

We have great satisfaction in present.
ing to the public the Home Journal in a
new dress, cap a pie. The types are all
new and smaller, but palmer and neat.
er. Some improvements will yet be
made in its mechanical cxccution-im-
perfections %remedied, &c; but even i'll
the hurried mannerin which it has been
prepared, there is little to cXcus and
much to occasion q good degree ofhon.
est pride.
There is not u type which we now
use on our paper, or in job work, that
is not ne,c, and we feel that the people
of Franklin County will appreciate our
efforts to keep up with the progress OF
the age in presenting them with jour,
nal in their midst, devoted to their in
terests as q common people, and every
way worthy Of their support. Types
cost q good deal, and the outlay for an
entire new office has been to US about
twelve hundred dollars, yet we expect
the investment to rcmuncrate in an in
crease of patronage, besides adding to
the qualification of present subscribers.
MISS DRESSER TO LECTURE IN WIN
CHESTER.
By a private letter, sent us at the re-
quest of Miss Helen NJ. Dresser, we are
informed that she will be in Winches-
ter next Wednesday, the l1th instant,
for the purpose of lccturing. From the
bills sent us we learn that Miss Dresser
is "a southern lady by birth, lived in
Salt Lake City with her parents until
the age of IA, when they escaped from
Utah, making their way on foot 900
miles over the Great American Desert.
During the past year she has Travelled
over $4,000 miles and rendered her clo-
quent writings before 2GO audiences
She is yet but II years of age, and pro-
nounced by all prodigy Of intellectual
strength. + = x Her subjects en-
brace Joe Smith, the Mormon Bible,
Mystic Sp~ectaclcs, Golden Plates, Polig-
amy, Sealing, Domestic Economy, Brig
ham and his Wives, Facility Of Divorce,
More Wives more Glory, Journey on
the Plains, Escape, Mormon ~ScragIios,
Mormonism in almost every village, a
Harem the road to Haven, Old Men
Court Young Girls, Old Bachelors and
Single ived Men can't get to Heaven,
Marrying Sisters or Mother, and all her
Daughters, &c.
Miss Dresser's object in appearing
before the public is, the support Of her
aged parents, whose property was sac
rificed in her flight from this Sodom of
America. Miss d. travels under the
protection of a family"
: All the foregoing III regard To Miss
ID. we quote from the bills sent US. We
knothing about her ourself. The Nash
vile Banner has a lengthy and compli-
mentary notice of her, and says her
lectures are not of the Caudlc stripe,
NOT tho least. The editor compli-
ments her personal appearancc-hcr
intelligent face, sparkling, attractive
eye, and modest, unassuming, winning
ways. The Editor states these things
"under the awful responsibilities sur.
rounding him rs a married man." If
we find his remarks to be true we shall
reiterate them under the amfua respon.
sibility surrounding US as an unmarried
man, and very susceptible to such at.
fractions, yea, rery.
We shall certainly go to hear Miss
Helen-would pay a half or q whole
dollar any time to hear q lecture on
Mormonism. The novelty of the at.
fair will draw an audience, even if no
bright eyes, ruby lips, and swimming
ways were on the programme. Veil,
90, certain.