The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-11-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
At Home.

Chief of Police McWilliams, OF Jer
sey City, was admitted to bail yesterday
in the sum of 100000.
The Treasury Department has issued
a circular to the Collectors at the prin-
cipal ports instructing them to care
fully observe existing regulations
which prevent importation of neat
cattle hides from country where the
hoof and mouth disease is prevalent.
The Department received information
that this disease had again broken out
in the Argentine Republic.
The Southern Claims Commissioners
to-day heard testimony in regard to
the claim of Elizabeth A. Gould, of
Alexandria, for $2S,S75 for wood cut by
the army on the Potomac river near
Washington. The point of public
interest in this case is the endeavor
made by the claimant to show Il higher
value for standing timber than the
price of one dollar q cord established
by the Quartermaster General, at
which rate similar claims TO the amount
of several million dollars have been
from time to time settled by the Quar-
termaster's department. The claimant
Is one of the heirs Of the late Congress
man Edsall, of New Jersey, who
owned large estates in Virginia.
The President has signed procla-
nation declaring that all provisions of
the acts imposing determinations on
foreign tonnage and import duties in
the United States are revised, and
shall henceforth be and remain in full
force as relates to goods and merchan-
disc imported to the United States in
French vessels from countries other
than France so long as any discrimi-
mating duties shall continue to be i'm
posed by France upon goods and mer-
chandise imported into France in YES
sells of the United States from countries
other than the United States.
Assistant Secretary Richardson says
that rapid repemption of the three per-
cent certificates was the occasion OF
the recent issue of four millions of the
greenback reserve. The Secretary, he
states, will restore the greenbacks to
the reserve fund again during the next
fortnight.
Oxen appeared in Broadway yester-
day doing the work of horses, and in
Boston some of the street-cars Were
drawn by men. The disease appears
to be at its height in New York City,
almost every horse being disabled.
The horse disease is extending West
ward, but is abating in New York.
Its influence upon business in that
city, however, has been disastrous, and
the loss in consequence is to be meas
ured by hundreds of thousands. The
crisis in the disease seems to have
arrived, however, and in the next few
days it will probably commence tC
abate.
The steamship Missouri sailed from
New York to Havana on Oct. II, anC
has been reported missing. All
arrival from Nassau states that she
was burned at sea, and that of all OF
board only twelve persons are known
to be saved. Seventy-nine lives are
believed to have been lost among
them the Captain and all but five o
the crew.
Aspecial from Norwich, Conn, say!
that great excitement prevails in tn,
seaport villages near that place, owing
to the report ofa vessel having arrived
at Stonington from San Domingo, will
cases of yellow fever on board. TIL,
schooner Crown Point, which was
driven into port at Stonington, OF
Sunday night, by stress of weather
had two men prostrated by the disease
which had broken out during her vOy
age. The vessel was at once ordere,
to quarantine in the lower harbor
No new cases have occurred, but tn
two sick men are at the point of death
1t is understood that early in the ses
sion Congress will appoint commits
sion to take evidence with regar
to distributing the lump sum awarded
at Geneva among the claimants VIII
suffered from losses by the Anglo Con
federate cruisers during the wal
Many claimants appear to be possess
ed Of fear that the French spoliatio
claims of 1903 would overtake them
but there is no foundation whateve
for this apprehension.