The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-10-10
News of the Week.
At Home.

At Home.
The second trial Of Mrs. Fair Is
progress at San Francisco, but it excites
little interest
The wreck of the bark New Castle,
bound from Liverpool to Savannah,
Ga, Is confirmed. Thirty lives were
lost.
Later reports In regard to the burn
ing Of the Northern Ohio Lunatic Asy-
lum state that six persons were burnt
to death. Measures have been taken to
provide for the patients.
The United Order Of American Me-
chanics has been holding abrilliant Gel
ebration, at Newark, N. j. About
five thousand members, with thirty
bands OF music, were present.
The committee appointed by the
Harvard College overseers to consider
and report on the admission Of females
to the institution, recommend that no
action he taken on the subject at pre-
present.
The passengers on the Union Pacific
railroad report immense work along
the line to protect the track from snow.
The division superintendent is conf
dent that there will be no blockade the
coming winter. The men employed
in the Emma mine have struck for full
Ter and better ratiOns.
A wonderful discovery was made
recently, six miles west of Carbott,
Utah, of an enormous silver ledge, or
system of ledges 50 locked or woven to-
gether as to be practically one lode. 1t
measures sixty foet in width, and can
already be traced over five miles, car
rying ore the entire distance that assays
from S75 to 81 600 per ton. The sur
rounding formation is remarkable-ons
carries galina, black and gray sulphur,
etc. A large number of men are al
ready at work on it, and 1t Is the sensa-
ton Of the whole mining region.
The next session of the Internation-
al Machinists' and Blacksmiths' Union
will be held at Louisville.
New York Custom house officials
state that the actual value of the silks
stolen from the public store will not ex-
ceed $1,000.
The vessel reported wreck ed on ms
kar Rock on the l4th inst, was the
bark Newcastle, Capt. Wilkins, which
cleared at Liverpool, Sept. |, for Savan-
nah. 1t has been ascertained that thir-
ty of the crew were l0st.
1t is said that efforts are being made,
which have not yet assumed any official
form, toreq uile Mcssrs. Laird, the con
structors OF th1 Confederate privateor
Alabama, to pay ortion OF the sum
awarded to the United States by the
Geneva tribunal.
A Reading, Pa, dispatch says there
is great excitement there, owing to the
warfare now going on between the
Philadelphia and Reading aud Viii
mipgton and Reading railroads. The
inhabitants are in great alarm at the
symtoms of au impending riot, end
special detachment Of 900 policemen
has been ordered out. The Philadel-
rhia and Reading road has sought to
Chstruct the line of the Wilmington and
Reading, which Was recently construct
ed as an opposition company, and the
matter Is already in the courts.
Attorney General Williams decides
that the remitter Of a postal money or
der cannot, under the existing law, re-
woke all orIer or stop its payment by
merely giving notice to the Postof1ice
authorities but that he must present
the money order itself before he can re
ceive back the money or prevent its be-
ing paid to the person in Whose favor
the order is drawn.