The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-09-12
News of the Week.
At Home.

Miss SNYDER and the coachman, were all
killed at a crossing near Tacony, in Phil
adelphia, Monday night, by locomotive
smashing the carriage.
Both the California, Atlantic and Pa
ciGc and the San Francisco and Colorado
River railroad companies applied to the
Board of Supervisors Of San Francisco Tor
subsidies of ten million dollars
Colonel Scott and the Texas Paclhc
railroad party had reached Los Angleo' NJ
last reports, and were enthusiastically re-
ceiyed by the entire population.
A letter via Copenhagen from Il. W
BRYAN, astronomer of Halls Arctic EXpe
dtion, says that the health of all on board
is good, and that they are confident of
reaching the pole.
VIM. II. Pyneagh of the Roberts Tor
pcdo Company, TitusvIle, Pa, was blown
to atoms Monday by an explosion of nitro
glyccrine.
The Atchison and Nebraska railroad
was completed Saturday to Lincoln, the
capital of Nebraska, and to-day trains
commenced running to that place. The
completion of this road to Lincoln makes
n direct short line from st. Louis to Fort
Kcarney, on the Union Pacific.
A locomotive and two freight cars laden
with whisky were smashed and the whisky
burned at Jersey City, by a collision with
another train. Loss $lil 900,
The new trial of DR. Paul Schocppe for
the murder of Miss Stencckc three years
since, commenced at Carlisle, Pa, yes
tcrday' Much difficulty in procuring Il
jury is anticipated.
Rev. james Roosevelt Bailey, Catholic
bishop of the diocese of Newark, ycstcr.
day received from Pope Plus, at Rome, a
bull announcing his appointment as Arch
bishop of Baltimore, to succeed Bishop
Spalding.
The frigate Yantic, which is to sail
shortly for the East India squadron, by
way of the Snez Canal, will touch at Ian-
zibar and inquire into the African slave
trade in that section, and take immediate
steps to suppress it.
COL f. Y. Rocket editor of the Mem
phis Lcdger, died in that city last week.
Col. Rocket was an able and experience |
journalist, II clever gentleman, II finished
scholar brilliant writer and gifted
poet,
A destructive incendiary fire occurred
at Mount Carmel, ILL.,, between one and
two clock in the morning, burning eight
business houses, including the Register
printing Office and Ridgeways new three
story block. Loss about $2j 900, with less
than 81, 900 insurance.
A fire broke out in the saw mills at
Somerset Mills, Me- Tuesday night. The
mills were entirely destroyed, together
with large quantity of timber, The
mills were owned by Lawrence Bros. and
Ming 4 Butler. The loss is estimated at
from $4,000 to 100000; insurance SlS,-
O0O.
The first hearing in the suit of W A.
Woodward against Ezra Cornell, the foun-
der of Cornell University, to recover Sll7-
900 for locating the Government lands
granted to the University, was had at
Newburg, N. Y, yesterday before re.
tcrccs The case will probably continue
several months,
A jamestown dakota Territory dis
patch states that the Government troops
surrounded that town, and seized and de
stroycd all the liquors in the place and
imprisoned half dozen whisky dealers.
A dispatch from Gallipolis says that the
boiler of the steam saw mill in Lawrence
coutry, opposite Guyandotte, exploded
Monday killing four men, John Jones, the
proprietor Mr.. Clark, Mr.. Webb, and n
colorcd man, and wounding two others.
The fruit canning establishment OF
Duckwcll & Co, Cincinnati, was destroyed
by fire Friday night. Loss on stock and
building $4,000 IN attempting to jump
from the third story of the burning build
ing to the pavement, to avoid the flames,
Wm. Massey was mortnlly injured, and his
father, Richard Massey, had his leg and
arm broken.
FORGED drafts purporting to have been
drawn by Koutizc Bros, bankers OF
New York, have been presented to various
banks throughout the country, and cs
pccially at the West Among the forgerleS
was one draft for s., 200 presented to the
Real Estate Bank at Allegheny City, Pa.
and one for $4,000 presented at the ThirJ
National Bank at Chicago. The torger s
name attached to the bogus drafts is James
T. Hill.