The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-11-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
At IIOnle.

i, ter County, n. Y, over the discoveries
of gold quartz there.
Thomas Carl, Of Cassapolis, was
burned to death at Dowagiac, Mich,
on Saturday.
Half an inch of snow fell at Bruins
wick, Me-, on Sunday night.
General Burnside arrived at New
York yesterday from Europe.
McCormak e. Linck's stables, Buffa-
10, has been burned. Fifty horses and
mules perished, Loss $4,000.
A fire lately occurred at the Mary
land penitentiary, doing damage to the
amount of 100000.
Mr.. Marble, of the New York JP0rld,
has returned to his post as editor of
that paper in restored health.
Nearly all of the medical staff and
the nurses of Wards Island have re-
signed
Gottfried Gibhard, of st. Louis, the
young boy who was bitten in the hand
seven weeks ago by n dog, died on
Sunday night of hydrophobia, after
suffering intensely for three days.
In Pittsburgh, a man named Barney
HargroVe committed suicide by taking
a dose of sulphuric acid. Deceased
has been only recently married.
John Hope, German, of Cleveland
Ohio, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head. Liquor is
supposes to have been the cause,
AT meeting of the directors of the
Titusville Saving Bank, held recently
a resolution subscribing $25, 600 to the
stock of the Petroleum Producers AS
sociation was unanimously adopted.
A man was found floating in Charles
River, Cambridge, in two barrels, the
body in one and the head and legs in
another The remains were taken
ashore and found to be horribly mutt
lated. The legs and head had been
chopped of. The trunk of the body
was well dressed. A gold watch was
found in one of the barrels.
The Post-oflice department is in re-
ceipt of numerous reports, detentions
and failures III the transportation of
mails, owing to the prevalence of the
horse disease. Complaints are most
numerous from New England, al
though there many from New York
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and
some from as far West as Wisconsin
In a fight in Little Cottonwood,
Sunday, VIM. Haines, native at New
York, was killed by Miller. The lat
ter was shot through the waist. The
narrow gauge railway to little Cotton
wood has been commenced. The af-
fair has no charter, and there is not
much faith in it. The officials of the
Grand Trunk railroad left for the East
after q days visit about the city.
Large discoveries are made by the
Wiudsor Mining Company in Little
Cottonwood.
At West Chester, Pa, Geo Grant, I'M
der sentence to be hanged made des-
perate attempt to escape. He attacked
the keeper, Ben Haines, while the lat
ter was going his rounds, and nearly
killed him. Cooper, the under-keeper,
was attracted by the cries of Hanes,
and fired four shots at Grant
without wounding him. Grant
was finally forced back into his cell
and handculfed. He had padded his
body with blankets, and the pistol balls
did nor take effect.
1t is understood that either Brigadier
General A. II. Terry, now command
ing the department of the South, or
E. r. Il. Canby, commanding the de-
partment of Columbia, will be appoint
ed Major-G General in place of General
Meade, deceased.
AT the meeting of the Army of
Northern Virginia, resolutions were s
passed commenting the sarcophagus
now in the course of construction at s
Lexington, Virginia, to the memory
Of Gen. Lee, and recommending that i
he ladies hold memorial meetings,
and, Oh the next anniversary of the |
birth of the Southern Chieftain, take )
such measures as seem to them best for l
money on that day, to be
specially appropriated to the decoration $
Of his tomb.
The Ute Indian delegation called on
he President this morning, to say > !.
goodbye and express their entire satis-
action with the arrangements for the
of friendly relations with y
he whites in future, by virtue of I
which the present reservation of seven I
hundred and fifty thousand acres is to
,e thrown open to all the Utes of Utah r
md Colorado, some thirty thousand in
and stocked so as to give @
hem a start in civilized life. t
Abroad.
The Russian Government recalls the
expedition against Knivs. .
The Irish government has prohibited S
ha irnnnrtntipn of hpr,ao frnpn fba