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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11
The Decay Of POlitencss.
From the Temple Bar.

From the Temple Bar.
In nothing is the decay of polite
ness more remarkable than in the re.
lations between the sexes. Men anu
women are antagonistic as well as IA
miliar. We will start no veXed ques'
tions to account for this antagonism,
but suggest that it must be IN some
sort tue result Of steam and smoke,
since it began with the railways. In
oldcn times--not so very old. c!thc-
when the stage coaches were our best
and readiest means ~oftraveling, women
commanded the care and attention Of
the gallant. In case of rain gentlemen
rclinuuishcd their comfortable inside
places and mounted to the roof in ia
vor of the ladies. Goats, cloaks, UNI
brellas-every available convenience
was at their service. They were wait
ed upon at inns, handed in and out Of
the coach, assisted with their luggage
taken care Of, in short, Now tue
sight of a woman in a railway carriage
sends the knight further. lie PUSHES
from the compartment until obnoxious
flowers or feathers that alarmed him
are absent, and he gains that luxurious
divan appropriate to the stronger sex,
and called a smoking carriage" If
the warning whistle p%lecipitate him IN
to the company OF the fair sex, he
leaves it a { quickly as he can, and docs
not tarry to offer a hand or protect a
band box. 1t is just possible that
those ladies who have taken no clga'
retts may find more favor with the
wary masculine traveller. The urbani'
ties of domestic life and the civillties
of society are not equally lost In
smoke. Men herd together in clubs,
where the pipe, emblem OF low life in
the last generation, is the calumet oil
peace Of this. Women who unattect.
cdly dislike the olor of tobacco need
not expect to be liked by the men
They are simply borcs. Thus if men
prefer clubs to drawing rooms and
pipes to LADIES', women, asserting thell
rights in turn, form separate societies.
They have their clubs. They become
what is called ''strong minded, ant
the other sex, who make chimncys OF
their noses" as James |. not inaptJ
said, puff out ridicule instead of puff
ing out politeness.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11
The Laws Delay.

The law IS said to be that which is
laid, set or fixed, all of which may be
true, but in many cases the law is
neither fixed, set nor laid. A juror in
New York city has departed bis life
and a great trial is stopped to consider
the legal consequences, land one court
is held by one Judge which another
declares illegal. The editor Of the
New York Express says: If, as q lay
man, he were called in to define what
is called law, he should interpret the
80 called perfection of human wisdom
to mean a rule of order or conduct to
show by authorithy "hO not to do it,
How not to do it is certainly the evil
dence of legal science in many o
cases than how to do it. Lawyers be.
ing divided into attorneys, counsellors,
solicitors, barristers, sergeants and ad-
~vocates, you have only to get enough
of them upon the one side or the other
TO take all the sense out ola judge, all
the wisdom out Of the court, all the life
out of a jury, all his money out of the
client, and all the virtue out of the
State. And yet. as wise a man as
Burke called the law "the noblest of
human professions" The conclusion
Of the whole matter is, as in the grand
exhibition of living animals, "you pays
your money and you takes your
choice"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11
The itcdristrictinS

The manner in which the Legislature
have laid out the several Congression-
al Districts las not, it seems, given en-
tire satisfaction TO several Of our eX-
changes. The GAINESVILLE Tobacco
Leaf, warmly Democratic, says:
1--WE did think that the redlstrlctlng
a State was to form Congressional DIS,
tricts with a view to compactness OF
territory and identity OF interests but
the sole object of our Legislature mas
been to defeat Maynard. We have
never heard before Of a Legislature
openly avowing as its object a party
advantage, although we have known
that such things were done. Members
have actually justified their action by
referring to the fact that the Radicals
did tue same thing. 1t was supposed
by a few old fogies that the Republican
party was forced to give way to the
Democratic party, because the latter
was honest, and disposed to respect
the rights of the people. After this
disgraceful gerrymandering, a Demo
crat may well blush for his party, may
well fear that it is not far behind the
Radical party, when it openly proposes
to be governed by the same rule OF ac-
ti~on-success by all means, at all haz'
ards. For our part we should prefer
Maynard in Congress. to the scene OF
Tennessee deliberately forming dis
tricts without reference to geographl-
cal lines. diversity Of interests, and
differences of population. AS for oul
district. we wer, only anxious that il
should be compact, without reference
to what counties composed it. OF
whether it lay wholly in Middle Ten
~nessee, or patty in West. We would
be willing TO have it laid off anywhere
so that we might avoid the disgrace o
Tennessee legislating wholly with ref
ercnce to defeating a particular MAJ
We would as soon see the devil il
Congress as Maynard, but we woul(
rat her sec him there than the spectacle
of Tennessee trying to legislate hin
out. In the application of this Judi
cial doctrine, that the end j%ustifies tn
means. we see a direct admission tina
the great people of Tennessee are a
the mercy of this Maynard, and tina
he must have the whole Legislative pow
or turned On TO restrain him, A grea
man truly, this Maynard"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11

The reyolutionists OF Mexico are in
a desperate strait for money; they are
levying contributions indiscriminately
on foreigners and natives, and com
polling the payment of whatever they
demand 1t is reported that the revo-
lntionists will declare a Republic, call
on iilibustering Americans for assis-
lance, and ask annexation to the
United States. They have already
opened recruiting offices at several
in Texas.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11
Connecticut Election.

Connecticut elects Jewell. not by
1000 or 1900, or 1000. nor by 500,
but a paltry majority of some thirty
votes. in a poll of over $4,000. The
Legislature is Republican, simply be-
cause the State is gerrymandered in
favor of the small towns, and without
the least respect for popular right or
fair play. This election result. the
New York Express thinks is not much
off shower, and no evidence that Grant
is endorsed, for in the election the
Grant and anti-Grant question was not
mooted.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11
50 HOY ,l,l' 1,p HOY RESTORED.

lust PUBLISHED, a new edition of
q. DR.. Culverwells Celebrated Essay on
the radical cure of certain weaknesses, the
effects of Errors and Abuses in early life.
The celebrated author, in this admirable
essay, clearly demonstrates from Il thirty
years successful practice, that the alarm
ING consequences of such errors and abuses
may be radically cured without the use Of
internal medicine, or the application OF
the knife; pointing out a mode of cure at
once simple, certain and etfectual, by
means of which every sufferer, no matter
what his condition may be, may cure him
self cheaply, privately, and radtcaHy.,
ngy- This Lecture should be in the hands
of every youth and every man in the land.
Sent, under seal, in plain envelope to
any address, post paid, on receipt OF u cents
or two post stamps.
Also, DR.. Culverwell's Marriage Guide
price % cents,
Address the Publishers,
CHAS. j. G. KLINE u co..
I27 Bowery, New York,
tebl-1y p. o. Box 4,5S6.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11

A gentleman in Augusta, Ga, pur-
chased some two years ago a shaving
brush from a druggist in that city, and
after constant use for that time turned
it over to his little son. While the
child was playing with it the top be-
came unscrewed, and in the hollow
handle a valuable diamond was dis,
covered set in the wood and carefully
covered with pink cotton. The exact
value ofthe stone is not known, but 1t
is of pure water and good size. There
are many conjectures as to how the
gem came to be in the handle of the
brush, the. most plausible of which is
that it was placed there by smugglers.
Before the war, some importer of pre-
cious stones, who wished to evade the
heavy import duty on such articles,
placed them in shaving brushes, and
in this way brought them under the
nose Of the custom, house officers
without creating the suspicious of the
latter. Afterwards, the enterprising
jewcler forgo. to emove some of the
jewels, and the brushes went into the
hands of the druggists.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11
Religious Murder.

u avn - Nv ht'I'"''N bi"6S''l
II Dayton, Ohio, reads like a bad
u veritable nightmare OF bor'
ror, in which the sufferer wandcrs op
pressed with q dim sense Of the urgent
necessity OF accomplishing some dis
tant purpose, and combats grotes1ue
on the way. 1t differs lIom
the usual developments Of insanity
from the fact that il was not an indl-
vidual frenzy, but husband and WIFE,
equally dcranged in intellect, minister
ed to their mmon madness and form
eI for themselves a little world OF
nbontosms in which no sane being eX
listed to ~disenchaut them. The hos
ton Post says "Togcther they read
the Bible, and in company they knell
70 seek revelations from the Deity, The
husband bears his throat for the wife
to cash with a sharp knife and bows
his head for her to brain him with a
Ratchet, confident that God Almighty
would let nothing hurt him" The wo-
man joins in the rites, as horrible rs
those of the priesthood Of Baal, and
the apparent immunity which both en-
joy-"only u little soreness next day
confirms their crazy minds in the be
lief that they are inspired Of Heaven.
There was no quarrel and apparently
no violent difference between these
two religious ~lunatics. They "on
V argued about God Almighty and
the devil" as Marquardt says; ano
when the time came that they were i'm
PEELED to slaughter their wi children
it found them united in sentiment and
agreed in action.
A more pititul tale than that of thu
nieht in which their exaltation culmi-
mated, cannot he conceived. Two 0
the children, hearing their parents
reading the Bible, praying and discuss
ing the deed, fly in terror to hide be-
meath q hay.stack. 1--WE had better &C
TO the woods with the Children" Il
length said the husband and, taking
two IN his arms, his wife followed witt
Che infant. They found q "straigh
and narrow path" and a"thorny way
That must be the road to heaven, OF
the hymn-book was sadly at fault ant
as they went they "~dropped the chill
dren by the way" One they stranglcd
another they killed by blows upon it
head another they drowned. The.
came to a pond, That meant pnrili
cation; and forthwith stripping nake'
in the frosty air they seated thcmselvc
side by side in the water. Naked the,
went home, read the Bible and, with
ont remonstrance and even suggcstin:
the decd to her husband, the woma
submitted to be stranglcd to death Q
his hands. Even then no doubt rs t
his divine commission seems to hav
entered the mind Of the maniac, an
he was found wondering, but not scel
; teal, because he "could not bring he
1 to as Christ has done" The verdi,
of the %coroncr's jury was to the etle'
+ that an insane agreement existed b'
, tween the husband and wife to destrO
I their whole family but such a doubl
, curse of madness, turning the tcndc
t est sentiments Of u man into the mos
horrible cruelty and robbing a moth'
of the one affection most deeply i II
planted in her nature, is f%ortunatel
rare, The Marquardt tragedy mu'
stand unique among the ghastly cur
osities of religious frenzy.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11
The Earthquake.

Our exchanges contain details of
the late terrible earthquakes in South
ern California. At Lone Pine the
shocks are described as resembling a
park ofartillery fired directly beneath
the town. We quote as follows:
Col. Whipple, who was in the second
story of the Adalee House, states that
he was just in time to jump from
bed and get to the doorway when the
house appeared to crumble to pieces
beneath him. He was buried among
the ruins, but succeeded in eXtricating
himself from the debris, having re-
ceived several severe but not danger
Gus wounds. The scene beggared de-
scription; nearly the whole populace
was buried beneath the ruins. Cries
for help and creams of pain from the
wounded beneath the ruins filed the
air, while those who escaped were
calling for aid to rescue fathers and
mothers, wives and children. The
earth was in Il constant tremble over
three hours. A cbasm was opened ex-
tending th.irty-five miles down the val
ley, ranging from three inches to forty
feet in width. Rocks were torn from
their places and rolled down into the
valley
ADDITIONAL ADVICES
from Inyo county place the number of
killed by the earthquake, on Tuesday,
at thirty, besides one hundred wounded.
In the desert country, stretching from
LAKE to the Mexican line, are
innumcrable craters not long extinct,
besides several mad volcanoes, and it
is supposed that some of the old vol
canoes may be in eruption again. Big
Owens lake has risen over its banks,
lcpositing shoals of fish on the shore.
il receded. For three or
miles through Lone Pine the
earth cracked and one side remained
while the other sank seven
or eight feet, leaving wall of earth
extending over three miles in length
where formerly there was a level plain.
Innumera BILE cracks were made
throughout the valley. Keen and
rivers turned and ran up stream
several minutes, leaving their beds
Try, and finally returned with largely
increased volume. There has been
10 parallel to this earthquake since
.8l2.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11

~Hydrophobia appears to be disease
just now existing in an epidemic form
throughout the whole country, and
playing havoc among the canine spe.
cies. The McMinnville New Era OF
the 4th instant says:
1--WE have heard of thee or four mad
dogs in this vicinity within the last
three days. Officer Patterson shot
several times at one on Tuesday in the
n~eighborhood of F. M. Smiths on the
Sparta road. At no time, since oul
recollection, can we call to mind a
time when 50 much hydrophobia was
working on the canine family"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11
Puffs of Candidates.

The Lebanon Herald is quite correct
in the following sensible remarks which
accord with views we have long enter
tanned, and shall henccfolth observe.
The Herald says:
"It has become so customary to &C
company the announcement Of a can
didate with an editorial notice laudato-
ry Of his many virtues and eminent
qualifications for the office sought, that
people take it as q matter Of course,
and it produces no impression whatev-
er. Therefore, we shall hereafter in
scrt the customary announcement I'M
accompanied by any editorial remarks,
except simply TO call attention to its
appearance, and if candidates desire to
bring any especial point to the notice
of our readers, they can do so at oul
regular advertising rates"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11
Cash assets, Jan. Ist, 1872, ...S3,070 GGS 50

Cash assets, Jan. Ist, 1872, ...S3,07O GGS 50
cS"The ANDES has paid losses to the
amount Of $S50,00O and upwards, from its
current receipts, without selling any bonds
or placing other securities on the market,
or etfecting loans or accommodation with
banks or individuals.
aB"The above result shows what the
commercial world and property holders of
this country think of the Andes.
aSs The Company is receiving premium
money at the rate of HALE A MILLION
PER MONTH. 1t is fairest and promptest
in adjusting and paying losses, and proves
its claims to pre-eminence by its works
and the results thereof.
j. M. HUTCHINS. Agent,
mar29-tf Winchester, Tenn.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11

There is a colored lodge of Masons
IN Columbia, Ga. They get their
charter from Canada, and are not rec.
ognlzed by any of the lodges in the
United States, except those who have
Their authority from the same source.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11

w. Matt Brown, ex- Mayor of Nash
vile, has been appointed Warden of
the Penitentiary, and will at once enter
upon the discharge of his duties.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11

There is a general religious interest
manifested by the convicts in our State
Fenitentiary. Sixteen of them have
recently protested faith and been hap
TIED,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11
VALUABLE MUSIC BOOKS
Mailed, postpaid, on receipt Of marked price.

Magic Circle. Easy Piano Music. 9 90
sS" Address j. l.. PETERS, 500 Broad
way. New York. Send 30 cents for a sam
pie copy of Peters Musical Monthly, and
you will get at least 81 worth of music.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11
This Route is rs Miles Shorter to Mem
phis than via Decatur.
More than 100 Miles Shorter to St
Louis than via Nashville.
Time to St. Louis 19a Hours, 4f Hours
Quicker than by any other Route.

The 3 As A. NJ. Train to Memphis arrives
there same day, twelve hours in advance
of rival lines. Connects at Humboldt for
Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston and inter-
mediate points. and connects at Union City
for St. Louis and all points West and
Northwest. The 500 A NJ. and 700 p. NJ.
Trains connect at Chattanooga for Rome,
Atlanta and all principle Southern Cities.
Passengers for Washington City, Balti-
more, Philadelphia, New York and Boston,
as well as all points in East Tennessee and
Virginia, make direct connections through
by both Chattanooga trains out of Nash
Vile.
This is the Short Route East,
And the only direct route to the South
and Southeast.
Passengers for McMinnville and Man
chester, Winchester and Alabama, or the
Jasper Branch Railroads, will take the
8 200 A. NJ. train.
SLEEPING CARS accompany the 2:3O
p. NJ. Train to Memphis and 900 p. NJ,
Train to Chattanooga.
For Through Tickets and further intOr-
nation apply at City Transfer Office. Max
well House, ard at Chattanooga Depot,
Church Street.
JNO. w. THOMAS.
w. L. DANLEI, Genl Sup't.
Gen. p. and Il. Agent. nov9-tf.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11

~ w hibh "cpSSioAAty
Also, Tobaccos. Suffff and Cigars. Pat
ent Medicines of known merit. In fact.
everything usually kept in a first-class
Drug Store.
q" Prescriptions carefully and accu-
rately compounded.
a" Wem make many of our preparations,
and as directed by the U. S. Dispensato-
ry. we know they can be relied on as cor
rect.
sdS Terms strictly cash. These are cash
times. We are required to pay cash for
our supplies, hence we cannot and will not
sell on credit Don't ask it.
cB Thanking the public for the gener-
Gus patronage heretofore extended us, we
respectfully ask a continuance of the
same.
WHIPPLE & PHILLIPS.
janll
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-11

vTRAINS run to and from Church Street
l. Depot as follows:
LEAVE. Chattanooga Trains. ARRIVE
8 100 A. NJ. Sundays Excepted. 2:l5 p. NJ.
9 400 p. NJ. Daily. $40 A. NJ.
LEAVE. Memphis Trains. ARRIVE.
3 as Daily. D:3o A. NJ.
, 80 P. NJ. Sundays Excepted. 5:l5 Pm.
Time to Memphis, llA hours.
LEAVE. 81, Louis Trains. ARRIVE.
3 :45 A.. NJ. Daily. $3.50 A. NJ.
Time TO st. Louis 1919 hours.
EAvEs ShelbyriAe Trains. ARRIVES.
4 100 p. NJ. Daily, Sund'y excepted. SO 70 Am
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-06-27
Laws.

The following are among the more i'm
portant laws which passed the Legislature
of Pennsylvania last session:
An act to allow all defendants to be
witnesses in their own behalf in all cases
not above misdemeauor, except in indict-
ments for perjury and forgery.
All elections for borough aud township
officers shall be held at the places design
ed before the passage of the acts of 1860
and 1871, except where otherwise provid,
ed by decree of the count or statue.
The State Superintendent is authorized
to appoint two trustees for each State
Normal School.
Enabling married women to purchase
sewing machines without the consent OF
their husbands and making the contract
binding.
An act authorizing courts to graf char
ters of incorporation to water, gas, town,
hall and market companies and to associa
tions for the preservation of birds, fish
and game.
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Beer Business.

There is no donbt that the consump
tion of malt liquors is constantly increas.
ing in this country. Henry Clusen, in
the opening address before the brewer
bongress lately in session., stated that in
the United States there are more than
three thousand breweries, giving employ
ment to thousands of people, and repre-
senting Sl00,000,000 of capital. These
breweres consume 100000 bushels of
barley aud 100000 pounds of hops,
which require for their cultivation over a
million acres of land, thus becoming an
important item in our agricultural inter
ests. The direct and indirect revenue
paid into the Treasury through the manu-
facture aud sale of malt liquors, has
steadily and rapidly increased; iu 1868 it
was 81 800, 900 in 1870 it was $6,00O,-
900 and last year it had reached the
enormous sum of 81 200, 600.
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Go to Simon Fried for hats and caps.
The LYcOming Giant.

Mr.. George Woorster, of Anthony
township, who has the honor of being
called the Lycoming county giant, has
attained height of seven feet and weighs
250 pounds. 1t is probable that he will
yet reach crater height and weight, as
he is only about eighteen years of age
The health of the young man is good,
Notwithstanding his extraordinary size at
such an early age, and he is engaged
every day at work in saw mill His
parents are of the ordinary size, and none
of his brothers show any signs of undue
growth. Geo. is a very quiet, we'll be
haved young man, of retiring aud
modest disposition. His strength seems
to be in proportion to his great size, and
when fully developed he will be giant
indeed. ed.-Lycoming Gazette.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-06-27

The formal opening of the Water Gap
House, under the care of L. w. Brodhead
& Bro, took place on Thursday last. We
regret that circumstances, not under our con-
troll, prevented our attendance on the occa
sion. From those who were present we
learn that every thing passed off in the most
pleasant manner, and that the Messrs. Brod-
head spared no pains to make every guest
feel comfortable and happy. Several hund-
red sat down to dinner, and it is the general
expression of those who were present, that
the feast in all its appointments, was perfcc-
ton Itself. The house, one of the largest
and most complete for its purpose of any in
the state, is capable of accommodating some
four hundred guests. 1t is furnished
| throuhout in the best and most elegant
manner, has an abundance of the purestand
best water in every room, and is lighted
throughout with superior gas, manufactured
on the premises. From It's surrounding
grounds, which are left as nearly as nature
made them as possible, and from its balconies
and turreted roof some of the finest views inn
Imaginable can be obtained In point of
capacity, on the part of the Proprietors, in
managing so large house, and caring for so
large number of guests, We know of no
gentlemen better qualified than the Messrs.
Brodhead. They have had experience, they
have the MEANS and we know they have the
determination to make all under their care
feel happy and at home.
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A Card.-Having been appointed Col

A Card.-Having been appointed Col
lector for some half dozen counties by the
General Agents of the Wheeler and Wilson
Manufacturing Co., / would state that Mr..
James Boys, of Stroudsburg, has been APP
pointed my successor as District Agent for
the the counties of Pike and Monroe. Any
orders or inquiries addressed to him will re-
ceiye prompt attention. Thanking the peo.
pie of Stroudsburg and vicinity for their lib
eral patronage in the past, and respectfully
soliciting continuance of the same in be-
half of Mr.. Boys, / remain, &C.,
A. j. WELLS.