The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-02-06
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Another coal oil explosion has occur
red, this time at Wincsburg, Ohio. 1t ap-
pears that u number of persons were con-
gregatcd together, ard while filing the
lamp from a can containing about one gal
of coal oil, the can exploded, and five
tsons WIRE killed, and six more very
vigorously injured
8 delaware, Ohio, is in gloom and
mourning on account of the suicide OF Il
talented Methodist minister named Wal
tiers, who hung himself while suffering
from temporary insanity, induced, 1t is
supposed, by opjum-cating.
The Savannah (Ga.) Republican, q
Conscrvatiye-IiGdical paper, Is complain
ing of the distress and mortality among
the lazy, lounging negroes OF that city,
and very t%ruthfully says that the Bureau,
although an mdonbtcd great expense to
the country, by its very existence created
n vagrancy among the negroes, and it is
but right that it should continue TO care
for them, and not attempt to throw the
responsibility Of their suffering npon an
Impoverished white people.
Another clerical indiscretion Is re-
corded by the Peoria (lll.) Transcript.
The %scOundsri Is n ItCv. Mr.. Craig, who
''stood very high" and the victim Is n
pcctablc family" The case has Just been
Investigated before an ecclesiastical cour
of his Church, the Methodist Episcopal,
andl, has been adjudged guilty, deprived
of the right to preach, ard expelled from
the church. Miss Mcclellan Is declared to
be encieate, and the Reverend %rascal's fam
lily, a wife and daughter in the highest
standing. are overwhelmed with grief at
the action Of the husband and father.
There is now living in New York
city an old lady who was present at the
inauguration and funeral of Gen. George
Washington.
In the Home Journal this week will
be found the patriotic letter Of Hon. A. II.
Stewart, in which he refuses to participate
in y celebration at Washington city, while
he is denied political privileges accorded
10 his servant. In speaking of Virginia,
his loved State, he says: while the cy-
press cncirclcs her brow, | cannot Irvine
the myrtle around my own" God bless
him for such love. If every man would
be as true, the South would not have to
mourn much longer. But there arc too
many timc-scrying puppets who are will
ling to compromise away all principle In
order to get the negro vote. We should
like to know If any benefit Is 10 come to
our country by men entering the lists for
niger votes, when they know that the
Jacobins have the matter their own way,
and are laughing In thclr sleeves ut the
poor fools who are so silly as to attemptto
beat thcmat their game of rascality.
The Newman (Ga.) Herald says that
Captain j. II. Sargent, Of that town. plant
cd last year, In cotton, one acre and u
q quarter of his town lot, and the other
day he sold $40 pounds of lint cotton as the
yield of the patch.
General Forrest has fled a petition in
bankruptcy In Memphis.
It's considered pretty certain that the
Democratic National Convention will be
held In Cincinnati.
"A wag says there Is no danger Of hard
times among the shoemakers, because eve
ny one Is ''solcd' before it Is ready for
market.
The Lungs Of Me Lord was the title of
, Scotch paper published fifty years since
IN GLASGOW.
When Cairo had n population Of only
flght nen, women and children, II had q
newspaper too.
"A disguised North Carolina editor is
Jging to rattle away his printing office,
with tickets at IS apiece.
--Ey- Ex-Governor Isham G.. Harris has
been elected Yice-President Of the Plant
er's Insurance Company of Memphis, Of
which Geh. Forrest j. President.
The Mayor aud Council of the c;ty of
Atlanta, Georgia, have beef foolish enough
to suppose they could prevent the sale Of
spirituoiis liquors by requiring retailers to
pay q license Of 100000 per annum.
What nonsense! When a poor frail man
has so far lost his pride as to be seen reel
Ing In the street and making an ass OF
his1eelf In public, lie will buy whisky II
Il takes bsead from tie mouths Of his wife
md children. There Is no meaner or more
lbject slavery than that Of the drunkard to
ais bottle. He becomes, after q while, to |
,e q perfect slave to him who has the
for sale, and he will buy whisky |
tit costs all he Is worth to get 1t, and
Wills this IS the case NO amount of license
VII prevent the sale Of liquor. Alas! for
he poor dfupkard. He will have to pay {
early for his disgrace In Atlanta. {