The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-08-17

n IICElDUc "'St
to have our Icing during the dog days.
requires something Of an effort; but to
write something useful and agreeable I'M
der such circumstances, considering the
general dearth of news, requires IL still
greater effort.
However meager the items OF local In
telligence, there are a few topics ofnever-
failing resources, viz: The Weather,
Crops, immigration, etc.
As to the weather in our beautiful
mountain village, the thermometer mas
shown Il tendency to advance upward
though we have had a few showers
which served to mitigate the otherwise
uncomfortable heat.
OUR CROPS.
In consequence of the partial drouth,
for in some places in our county our FAR
mers have had plenty of rainy have SUI
fered and are destined to suffer much
more il we do not get rain in a few days
that is, the late corn will be cut short;
but the early corn is about matured.
The wheat in this county was almost a
total failure, and there is but little on the
market that is fit to make flour, but, II
ground coarse it will make most excellent
food for horses and mich cows.
Mix one bushel of corn with one OF
wheat and have it crushed, if you desire a
good substantial aliment for making cows
rive all the milk (Which they are capa-
bic.
OUR COTTON CROP
Was not extensively planted only q
small match here and there-barely enough
to keep US from forgetting entirely the
glorious music of the spinning wheel,
accompanied with the enchanting vocal
efforts of our inmitablc rustic beauties
which music. to one who loves to revert
TO the good old times of domestic and ma
.ional felicity, is dearer and swecter than
all the fancy stuff palmed of upon the
public now-a-days for music.
Our people ought, by all means, to
plant enough cotton for home consump-
ton, that our fair daughters may be
taught to spin its fleecy tibres, and weave
them into garment for the family to wear.
Young ladies' of the present day should learn
to make themselves useful as ceU as agree
able, and then we would have the pleas
ure of hearing more of the delightful hum
of the spinning-whecl (Which, in days OF
yore, was the delight Of our grand-pa-
rent) and of chronicling more marriages
than at the present writing. The ques-
ton used to be with manageable young
men, us she pretty-is she rich;' but
since the great change wrought In our
beloved South by that grim monster-civ-
il war-and since, in consequence, our
riches have flown with the current of
past events. the question more properly
is, or ought to be, lis she qualified to dis
charge the duties and obligations OF a
housewife. Can she spin, weave. cook
and sew These are important consid-
c~rations, and they ought to be seriously
pondered by our growing and grown-up
young ladies'.
The idea has too long obtained in the
South that labor is not honorable among
our women (as well as men, and the
SOONER it is exploded the better for u
people. Times are so tight, in a finan-
cial point of view, that our young men are
siow to marry because of the extrava-
gancc in dress, (,rhich is rery imprudsnt and
umrise) and because they know their flu
ture wives would expect them to hire ne
groes to do all the work necessary to be
done about the house.
Take our advice and learn less piano
and more cooking, and more spinning
wheel and loom then your matrimoni-
al prospects will begin to loom up in the
near future, and the heads of the fellows
will begin to spin and matches will be-
come as common as they are desirable.
But we had almost forgot to say that our
small cotton crop looks well, according
to its size, and stands the dry ,oeather Hrst-
rate according to It's age.
CAMP MEETINGS
Are the order of the day. One Is in
progress at Goshen, three miies from
Winchester.
What memories come struggling up
from the buried past at the sound OF that
dear old name. 1t is and has been ever
since our memory serves us the place
wherethe Cumberland Presbyterians have
never failed to hold iexcept, perhaps, dur
Ing the war; a camp or protracted meet
ing every August, and it has been said
mat it never fails to rain, on every such
0celsion-tmay 1t prove true, no,o, tor we
need it) Many have been the onv