The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-09-26

At Home.

all idea of leaving home ,,o
The Nav York Senate has aoJourn-
ed until November 2Oth' not loth as
enormously reported.
Justice Henry Hogcboom, OF the
New JerEey State Supreme Court ana
an eminent jurist, died at Hudson, N
j., aged siXty-four.
In East Cambridge, Mass, during a
quarrel between James Cavanaugh
and his sister, Bridget Talbot, he beat
the latter so brutally that she died du'
ring the night
Dispatches from Victoria report mat
ters in Alaska in very unsatisfactory
condition. The only place where there
IA ANYTHING like governmental in Alaska
ia in the immediate vicinity of Sitka.
outside, life aud property are at the
mercy of the Indians.
AThe Shutdown railroad, air line from
New York to Council Bluffs, that was
projected several years ago, Is now be-
ing built rapidly, A large force Is now
at work grading the road from TIflin,
Ohio, to Fort Wayne. The grading
from Rochester to Rensselaer,, Indiana,
IL also under contract, and work has
been commenced 1t is expected that
the road will be ready for the iron from
Rochester to Rensselaer, about the lst
of January. When completed this will
be the shortest route between New
. York and Omaha.
The efforts of the coal oil men to de-
crease production have failed.
Maurice DAILY won II s., 600 billiard
match in New York over John Deery
ofChcago, DAILY scoring 600 to Deery's
4O6 in 96 innings each.
The Cincinnati Exposition draws
10000 visitors per day.
The widow of Baita, the lately assas-
sinnated President of Peru, sailed from
Aspinwall for New York on the 9th
INST.
a.. White, Brown a. Co., Boston dry
goods importers, are sued by the United
States for defrauding the custom house
] of$l00, 600.
no Dr. Schoeppe, recently acquitted at
Carlisle, Pa, of the murder of Miss
Steinneckc, has filed a caveat to the
will of deceased. The Doctor lays
, claim to Miss Steinnecke's y estate under
said will, which was admitted to pro-
bate early in 1863.
g "A Geneva special says: "Tho Arbi.
TRAITORS are not all Of the same opinion
on several points, and will deliver pa
pers expressive of their individuals
views. Full details of the proceedings
will not he made public for some time
yet"
" One Of the men summoned for q jul
ror in the Fair trial. now pending In
San Francisco, stated to the Court that
he had been approached by q person
who offered him a 81 600, if he would
secure place on the jury and vote for
the aoquittal of the accused. The ac.
cuscd party is under arrest to answer to
the charge of contempt.
The Texas cattle fever is prevailing
to a considerable extent in Mclean
county, Illinois. Forty milch cows
have died from the disease in LeXiug-
ton within two weeks, and many more
are sick. Every case has proved fatal
the animals living from two to six
days.
A New York dispatch says: Col
Whitelcy received information OF the
p discovery OF an unusually large coun-
terfeitiug plot in st. Louis, the princi-
pals in which could not well be appre-
hended, and that the plate would be
sent North to be finished The cOun-
terfeiting material was seized at tie Of
fee of Westcotps Express Company in
Brooklyn. 1t was packed in q box and
addressed to b. Still, who had been
afraid to take it from the Office. Two
plates for fifty-dolar bank-notes were
found, together with about $4,000
worth Of counterfeit notes, which were
pronounced the first of the kind ever
Issued.
The War Department has received a
dispatch from Gen. Sheridan, dated
Duluth, Mimi, September s, saying
that Col. Baker, after reaching the
mountains of the Yellowstone Valley,
was obliged to come back, on account
nj Of the surveying Engineers deciding to
yIgo no further for fear Of Indians, and
therefore the expedition Is a failure.
i, The President has issued proclama.
ton abolish all duties OH imports from
Japan in japanese vessels. The rule
to hold good SO long as Japan imposes
no duties ON imports from the United
States.