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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-15
Extraordinary Phenomenon n South
ern IUuOis.

A cyclone occurred near Mason City,
Illinois, last Friday morning. A cloud
or smoke-like column was observed
gathering near the earth's surface, on
the open prairie, six miles from that
place, and from this column soon shot
out three narrower and spiral-like
cloud columns, which continued to
ascend rapidly till they reached and
seemed to attach themselves closely
to the passing cloud above. This
frightful apparition moved slowly to.
ward Mason City, but finally changed
It's course, much to the relief OF the
people of that place. An odor, much
like burning sulphur was inhaled by
several persons who stood about o
hundred yards from the cyloue. When
1t passed, some small flashes Of electri-
city were constantly visible in storm
column passing from the earth to the
cloud above, and rapid, popping, crack
ing reports were heard, reminding one
most forcibly Of an infantry regiment
In battle, firing their muskets as fast
as possible.
The pathway Of the cyclone was
nearly tnree miles Ill leuSIIl, anu IrOu1
twenty to eighty feet in width, and In
that pathway not q spear of grass, net
stalk of corn or wheat, not shrub,
not particle Of vegetation was left
alive. For some distance the earth
was literally plowed up to the depth OF
six inches. The column ofwhirling air
must have been intensely hot, as every
green thing in its path was literally
dried to a crisp.
Another feature of the cyclone was
that while its rotary motion must have
been Of incredibly great velocity, Its
progressive motion was not above the
rate of six miles an hour, outlines of It's
pathway we've so well defined five feet
from the outer line. There is total
obstruction Of vegetation ofevery kind.
Not vestige Of its effects could be
seen.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-15
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TRIFLES.

"A pretender to the crown-A
chignon.
Pressed for time - Egyptian
mummies.
"A Joint affair with but a single
party to it-Rheumatism.
"A bad thing for people in the
summer-To have "speculstion in
their ice."
-We have often met with X-roads
but never with X-streams. Still ex-
tremes will meet sometimes.
1t has rained so hard at Mil
wsukee for four months that tho
Chic. Rep. asserts that all the chill
dren horn there are web-footed.
III q hair Of q dog Is good for his
bite, that explains why sulphur,
which comes from Vesuvius, Is good
for eruptions.
"A New York cotcmporary re-
marks that inebriates i'll that region
are apt to think /" the pawnbrokes
the proper place to take the pledg
The report of a criminal tria
makes one Of the witnesses say, II
SAW him round the corner" That
must have been a circular satD.
Newton, Conn, cannot have Its
high school any two soon. A pupil
being asked what A. M. stood for,
responded with alacrity, Amen"
They tell of farmer in Ken
lucky who was 80 lazy that when he
went to hoe corn he worked SO slow
ly that the shade of his broad brim-
med hat killed the plants.
When Senator Wilson calls
Chandler lcaky he perpetrates gross
libel. Chandler holds liquor more
securely than any man in the country.
-[Boston. Post.
-Sawdust pills says an old physi
clan, would effectnaily cure many Of
the diseases with which mankind ID
afflicted, If every patient would make
his own saw-dust.
A Des Moines family were getting
breakfast as nice as could be, when
all of . sudden the stove dropped
through the floor into the cellar. II
was one Of those ready-made houses
and the sole wasn't more. than hall
pegged on.--(Boston Post.
"A lisping mother, who had pre-.
sented her infant at the baptismal
front for christening, on being asked
BY the clergyman, "what name 2" re.
sponded in a whisper, Luthy, thir,'
when to the horror Of the whole
congregation and the CONSERVATION
Of the mother, he christened th'
bAby-LucVer.
4 coquette 10 said to be perfect
In oarnation o Cupid; because sf
Keeps her beau In quiver.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-15

HAPPINESS AND DUTY.-We know
of nothing more contomptible, unmanly
or unwomanly, and craven than the ev-
erlasting signing for "happiness."
Those who have the most of it think the
least about it. Bnt In thinking about
and doing their Duty, happiness comes
because the heart and mind are occu-
pied with earnest thought that touch
es at thousand points the beautiful
and sublime realities of the Universe!
the heart and mind are brought (rever-
emily, it Is said) In contact with the Gre
ator and Ruler and Father OF All--the
PERFECT BIIsS
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-15

DESTROYING INSECTS "A solution
recommended by N. Cloez, Of the jar
din des Museum, Paris, for destroying
plant lice and other insects, Is made as
follows: Three and one-half ounces
quassia chips and five drachms stavesa-
ere seeds, In powder, are placed In seven
pints Of water, and boiled down TO hve
pints. When cooled, the strained liquid
ie ready for use, and may be applied
sithsr By q watering pot or syringe.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-15

A good deed is never lost. AS un-
der currents influence vessel, 80 does
habit our character, aud whether they
speed us on the way Of our wishes or
retard our progress, their power is not
the less important because impercep'
tible.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-15
Sleeplessness and Indigestion.

"How should sleeplessness In very
young babe be treated? also what will
cure indigestion and acidity Of stom-
ach2n
Cure indigestion, and the sleepless-
ness will disappear. To do this feed the
baby less frequently, and do not allow
it to take any thing whatever into its
stomach except milk, and that only ON
certain stated times, not loss than three
hours apart. II the acidity does not
soon disappear, extend the time to four
hours. Be sure and be regular in times
offeeding. 1t Is very important.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-15
Significance Of the Cross.

Rev. o. b. trothingham. of New
J ork, in preaching upon the subject of
Gross, recently. brought out histori-
cal fact not generally known, but which
adds greatly TO the significance of that
symbol Of our religion. He said
The cross Is much older than Chris
tianity. The origin OF it was not dis
covered. II always meant, first and
last, one thing-the perpetuation oflitc.
1t WAS said that long ago the river Nile,
worshiped by the inhabitants, was pos
scssCd OF high attributes. At certain
intervals up and down the shore wood
+ en- crosses were arranged so as to rise
with the current of the river in the
summer time. For a long part of tAe
year. especially in midwintcr and
sptingtilne, the waters were low. Those
wooden crosses had an unseenly look.
They were black with the long stand
ing and saturatiOn in the water. They
stood for nothing. They suggested
death, vacancy and barrenness. But
when from mysterious source of the
river came down in the spring the tide
aud filed the channel deeper and deep
cr. the inhabitants watched these cross
eS with interest that meant to them life
or death. As the water rose, their pO-
! sitiOn rose with it, and as the current
of the river touched the transverse
beams, JOY spread through the land.
/ Their hearts twanEed and the timbrelS
were sounded. aud the procession of the
priests moved up and down, for as the
great river touched the transverse
beams it was the sign of fertility, and
Egypt was joyful. The water spread
over the land. and people fled from
their homes, only to return, however,
and build them anew, and cultivate the
ground when the swollen river subsi,i.
ed. The cross meant, incidentally. des.
truction. Life was the result 0i the
death. 1t was curious that Christiani.
ty dated its birth from the death of tho
Redcemcr. The cross, however, was no
Limitation, but expansion; no death.
but the revival from death. The cross
meant no narrow going down into the
ground, but II wide outreachinp of
power. The cross meant the ex,iber
ance of life. 1t was the sign of life."
-
Judge Carmack, of Memphis, WAS
recently called to preside as chair
man at public meeting in the city.
During the proceedings an exciting
discussion sprung up, and amid the
confusion of loud speeches, motions,
and cross motions, one speaker called
out impationtly TO have his motion
put to the meeting. Has your mo-
ton a seconds" inquired the chair.
"Yes. sir; it has fifty seconds, at
least ''Then let il have ten more,
and the Secretary viii make minute
of it.
New-York tribune., 1871-04-10
THIRTY YEARS.

TIE DAILY TRIBUNE was first issued on the
10th of April, 1S4l; it has therefore completed
its thirtieth and to-day enters upon its thirty
first year. 1t was originally small folio sheet,
employing perhaps twenty persons in its pro-
ductiOn; it is now one of the largest journals
issued in any part of the world. containing ten
to fifteen times as much as at first, and en-
bodying in each issue the labor of four to five
hundred persons as writers, printers, &C., &c. It's
daily contents, apart from advertisements,
would make fair 12mo volume, such as sells
from the bookstores for 81 to $14; and, when we
are compelled to issue Supplement, its edi-
torials, correspondence, dispatches and re-
ports, (Which seldom leave room for any but a
mere shred of selections), equal in quantity an
average octave. The total cost of its produc-
ton for the first week was S525; it is now
nearly $4,000 per week, with constant,
irresistible tendency to increase.
Other journals have been established by q
large outlay of capital and many years of pa
tient, faithful effort: THE TRIBUNE started on
a very small capital, to which little has ever
been added except through the abundance and
iiberality of its patrons. They enabled it to
pay Its way almost from the outset and, though
great Civil War, when, through a sudden and
rapid advance in the cost of Paper and other
materials, our expenses somewhat exceeded orr
income, yet, taking the average of these thirty
years, our efforts have been amply, gener-
ously rewarded, and tho means necessarily
required to purchase expensive machinery and
make improvements on every hand have been
derived exclusively from the regular receints
of the establishment. Rendering an earnest
and jealous though by no means indiscrimi-
nate support for the former half of its e,-
istence to the Wing and through the latter
half to the Republican party, THE TRIBUNE
has asked no favor of either, and no odds of
any man but that he should pay for whatever
he chose to order, whether in the shape of
subscriptions OF advertisements. Holding that
a journal can help no party while it requires
to be helped itself, we hope so to deserve and
retain the good will of the general public that
we may be as independent III the future as
we have been in the past.
SO long as Slavery cursed our country, this
Journal was its decided and open though not
New-York tribune., 1871-04-10

,oo,,,oss adversary; now that Slavery Is dead,
wo insist that the spirit of caste, OF inequality
of contempt for the rights of the Colored races,
shall be buried in it's grave. The only reason
for their existence having vanished, it is logi-
cal ard Just chat they should vanish Also
Since the substance no longer exists, the
shadow should promptly disappear.
The Protection, looking to the develop
ment of our Home Industry, by Duties on
Imports discriminating with intent to uphold
and fortify weak and exposed departments
thereof, has ever been, in our view, the most
essential md bcnciiCent feature of true
National Policy Our country has always
increased rapidly in production, in wealth. III
population, and in general comfort when
Protection was III the ascendant; while
it has been cursed with stagnation, paraly-
sis, commercial reyulsons, and widespread
bankruptcies, under the sway Of relative
Free Trade. This journal stood for Protec-
ton under the lead of Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster, Walter Forward, George Evans
Thomas Corwip, and their cOmpeers: it stands
for Protection to-day as heartily as 1t dl'i
then, and for identical reasons. II asks no
Free Trader to fCrego his economic views III
order to be q Republican, it insists that no
Protectionist shall lie bullied out OF his con-
victiOns in Difference to the harmony OF The
party. 1t asks 10 more than il comedies, and
will be satisfied with 10 less. If the kepubll-
can party shall ever be broken up on the
Tariff question, it will take care that the
responsibility is placed where it belongs.
The Editor of THE TRIBUNE was also Its
publisher and sole proprietor when it first
commended itself to public attention. lie
long ago ceased to be publisher, ard is now
but one among twenty propretOrs. AS the
work required has grown, it has been divided
and in part assigned to others, but the cLici
direction and supervision of its columns has
| been continued in his hands, and is likely tf
remain there so long as his strength shall en-
dure. Half his life has been devoted to TINS
journal; the former half having been NANNY
| given to preparation for It's conduct; and now
few remain who held kindred positions in this
CITY OH Tie 10Th of April, 1941. His only editoria
assistant HEN, though several years his junior
was, after a brilliant independent career, sud
denly called away in 1862 leaving behind HIN
few equals in general ability; and of those
who aided in the issue of our No. ], but two
are known to he still living, and arc among
our co-rroprietors, still rendering daily service
m the establishment, and rejoicing in the pos
session of health and unfaling strength. Ter
wears more, and these three viii probably
have followed their associates already departed
But TIE TRIBUNE, We fondly trust, will sur
yive and flourish after we shall have severallJ
deceased, being sustained by the benefcenc'
of lis aims, the lberaliiy of its spirit, and tht
generous appreciation Of an intelligent anC
! discerning people.
New-York tribune., 1871-04-10

The "Cincnnati Movement" which was al
first puzzle, is explained BY the sayings at its
First public meeting" whereof we printed a
report on Saturday. Here is the point;
1t il whispered softly in the inner circles of
the Democratic wiro-wOrkers that their next
candidate for President must be (or have re-
Gently been) a Republican. So the friends OF
sundry Republicans are oiling their favorites
preparatory to getting them comfortably swal-
lowed by the Sham Democracy. Gen. Jacob
Dolson Cox, Ex-Governor and eX-Secretary oi
the Interior, is in this category, and Stanly
Mathews g. Co. are qualifying him to be the
Jonah of the Democratic whale This explains
the pertinacity wherewith Judge Mathews in
sisted that the movement was purely Republl-
can-no Democrats admitted &c, &c. e. Me-
"thinks the lady doth protest too much.D And
this explains, too, the remarkable vaguehess
and rarefaction of Gen. Cox's speech A can
didate for President always talks like Del
phic oracle so that his positions may be
equally acceptable TO men holding precisely
opposite opinions.
We protest against the essential dishonesty
of this Cincinnati operation. Mcssrs. Mathews,
Cox g. Co. talk as though Free-Iraders had
somehow DCcD Hi-uCdlcu III lHt hcpuDltdi
ranks. If not, why this demonstration Has
any ProteCtiOnist ever opposed the election TO
Congress of a regular Republican candidate
because he was a Free-Trader7 If so, who
and where7 On the other hand, Gen. Schenck
and other Republican Protectonsts were OPP
posed and defeated last Fall by just such
Republicans as are Stanly Mathews and Gen.
Cox. The Chicago Tribune and The ST. LOuis
Democrat together reduced the Republican
strength in the present House not less than six,
electing Democrats in Republican districts On a
Free-Trade platform. We regard this as bad
faith If you cannot support Republican can
didates Of ability and conceded moral worth
because they are and you are not Protection
lists. then yOu impose a test which must rend
the Republican party into fragments. That is
exactly what you mean and are working for.
Then why not be manly and declare iii
New-York tribune., 1871-04-10

Fighting before Paris was resumed on Sat
urday, and the Government troops forced
their way from the Seine at the Neuiliy bridge
to the wall of the city, one Of whose western
gates they command. The battle of Saturday
does not appear to have been a bloody one,
being confined almost wholly to artillery
firing Indeed none of the several engage
ments except that cf Friday have resulted in
great destruction of life, and it WAS only
during the charge Of the Government troops
which closed that day that the slaughter was
really serious. The possession Of Mont du Va
lerien by the Government troops seems to have
left the western approaches to the city inde-
fensible by the insurgents. On the south
where they held the forts-their resistance has
been more stubborn, and the Government
| troops are brought to halt. Fol the present
| it is intimated that no further active opera
tons are to follow, President Theirs processing
an unwillingness to assault, and being deter
mined on an investment. The city is said to
have provisions for only two days, but this is
q very doubtful story. The strongest indica-
ton that the success of the Government is
genuine and uneduivOcal is found in the
refusal of President Theirs to yield to the de-
mand of the Paris mob that the large cities
shall be permitted to elect their Mayors. He
declared his purpose to resign if this conces-
sion was made; and decisive majority Of the
Assembly has sustained him by authorizing the
appointment of Mayors in all cities of over
10000 inhabitants. Some grave reason un-
Questionably forces NJ. Theirs to insist on this
condition, a privilege which Napoleon III.
usurped. 1t is a condition which Americans
will be slow to approve, as violating all their
ideas of liberty and equality, and because they
cannot comprehend the necessity for it or see
any Justice in it. 1t must be confessed, how
ever, that the conduct of the Parisians who
demand this right does not recommend the ex-
tension of suffrage TO them.
New-York tribune., 1871-04-10

Here is a steady cid church-goer down East that
is to say, in Sosrsport Ne; and his name is Deacon
Andrew Leach. lie has been III his pew 2,59s out Of
1900 consecutive Sundays, covering period OF hfty
years If he attended in the afternoon as well as IN
the morning he must have listened TO 5l96 sermons
TO 1882 prayers and az many benedictlons, and 10
the singing Of over GO,O00 hymns. Taking the ser-
mons alone what an enormous experience he must
have had Of interesting dry bright, stupid, short,
long eXhortatory persuasive, doctrina and funeral
discourses; to say nothing of 100 Fast Day and
Thanksgiving Day sermons 1t is to be hoped that
Deacon Leach is of those equable pew-occup!ers
to whom all sermons are sermons, whatever may be
their quality and who receive the exhortations in
Christian rather than critical spirit. II SO, he may
be regarded as the Model Parishioner of the Nine
teeuth Century.
New-York tribune., 1871-04-10

ing Tweed's scheme they can have the conso-
lotion of knowing that, when the bargain is
made. the Sachcm has the entire control OF
tbe matter. and can do just as he pleases
ohout fulfilling his part Of it. He has no re-
snonsiblity in regard to the ratio in which he
sbou divide this sop Of corruption, and can, II
he chooses. give dollars to one and farthings
10 another. The gudgeons who have
becn caught by this bait may reflect
that they have nothing to rely
unon but Mr.. Twoed's hOlor-and what that
amounts TO is sufficiently well known. so
that. by this betrayal of their position, those
greedy advocates of their especial establish
ments gain nothing substantial, and ut
,orlv sacrifice their attitude OF opposition to
sectariau enAowments by the State. Selling
their birtllright for a mess of pottage, they
40 not even investigate the character OF the
eoup nor the chances OF the vendcr's dellyor-
ing it. -
Ii is not yet too late to defeat these rascaiiy
combinations Tacse blas cannot pass readily
and smoothly without few votes IN addition
10 the stohd Democratic phalanx which votes
TO order If every Republican IN the House
does his duty in voting against and in every
parliamentary way opposing the passage OF
these measures, they may be defeated. II IS
worth a serious effort Let us see VINO VIII
Gcbt his line like a man, and who will sknlk
New-York tribune., 1871-04-10
sPRIYGEs TO CATCH gOODcOCRS

| 1t would be worth while to know, if we
we could only find out what men like Fisk
and Tweed think Of human nature. The means
Of rascality which they use are 80 simple and
vulgar, and the success they meet with is so
immediate and enormous, that they must have
no more respect for others than they have for
themselves. Every fellow is Oh his dead
"make," they say, in their classic language,
"and we see The little game quicker than others
that 3 all" Fist shows his contempt of
the public by defying it and hvlng always
in plain sight; and Tweed shows still
deeper scorn of the community be plumbers,
by tossing it from time to time a bone from
the table spread for him at the public
expense He has recently taken into his
own hands the entire charge of levying
collecting, and spending our municipal
taxes. He has endeavored to silence
the clamors OF awakening reform in New
York by amending his Tax Levy bill
so as, apparently, to exclude sectarian insti-
tutions from drawing upon public money,
and he hopes to secure sectarian
support by excepting from the provisions
of this amendment certain institutions which
he names OF course, if this amendment he
allowed TO stand as it is, it opens the door to
the most fragrant abuses. No Limitation is
made as to tho amount which may be given
to any one of the institutions in question, and
Mr.. Tweed may, if he chooses, give to one es-
tablishment enough 10 pay tho entire civil
list of the denomination which controls ii.
This, in addition to the sums proceeding from
the Excise law, which aresexpressly appropri-
ated to sectarian purposes.
If, through the hope of prOfting 10y this
lniqnitous provision. any friends of the ex-
cepted institutions are deluded into support
New-York tribune., 1871-04-10

Gen. Butler proposes to answer in the
House of Representatives, to-day, the out
pouring of senile venom with which Garrett
Davis wasted the time of the Senate last
week. Is there any use of this The cause
of the Kentuckan's rage was that some news
paper had published an account of his silly
performance in which he was made less a
backguard than he is. He insisted on telling
the Senate that he cursed and swOre at the
Yankee statesman and dared him to fight.
We can understand why Gen. Butler should
decline to slay the stridulous old grasshOpper,
but can scarcely conceive why he should be
weak enough to seek to rival him. Surprises
are sometimes fatal to centenarians, and it
would be cruel to subject the venerable gos
sip Of the Blue Grass to the shock of having
one Of his speeches listened to and seriously
answered in the same vein.
New-York tribune., 1871-04-10

We cannot say that We have much admiration for
slang and we like it least in q college. The Yale
College Corapt las published vocabulary Of the
canting words used in that seminary from which We
particularly learn that "a shad-eater' is a member
of the Legislature, and that "a pilp is a silly fell
low Boys will De boys; but we Should think that
the very presence of a Professor Of Rhetoric (who
must he a fastidious man if he be like all the
Rhetorical Professors heretofore known to us
would disseminate purer genealogical taste. But
we are living in the age of slang, and the well Of En-
elish undctlled has become unpleasantly muddy.
Even young ladies return from their neutrality-suspicious.
with dialect which must be abhorrent to the gods
and which should be abhorrent to those gentlemen
whose attention is sought, through vulgarties Of
speech by foolish misses.