The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-12-19
News of the Week.
DOWN EAST.


scene Publications, i'll New York, has done
good work of late. Over seven tons OF read
ing matter have been seized and destroyed,
thirty-nine of the dealers havo been arrested,
and their allies in the police force Of New
York and Brooklyn have been dismissed. All
this has been done by the single zeal of an OBJ
scure dry goods clerk, who has devoted him
self to this work.
A Washington despatch says that, III the
event that Mr. Fish retires from the state Dc
partment the President will probably oher tho
portfolio to Mr. Charles Francis Adams.
1t s stated that Mr. Whtelaw helo VIII
certainly leave the New York Tribune, and
that Mr.. Smaley, the London correspondent,
will be made managing editor
A large number of thieves were arrested
while trying to ply their vocation along the
line of the Greeley funeral procession.
The Office of Surveyor of the Port of New
York, now vacant will be filled under the civil
service rules,
The increase of the city debt OF New York
during the year 1872, is ?l2,3lS475.
OUT WEST.
San Francisco. Reports from the scene of
the Modoc Indian troubles, state that all the
settlers on Link River were massacred. The
Indians have 80 warriors in the field. Thirty
five soldiers from Fort Klamath have gone to
fight them. Companies are organizing in the
northern part of the State to take the field.
Reports from various mining districts of
Utah indicate mild winter, and snow at the
greatest altitude not over ten inches deep.
Roads-wagon and rail-all open, and on Ahe
Central Pacific trains are running regularly,
generally on time. The prospects of the mill
ing interest were never more favorable.
A special from Fort Gibson, Indian Terri
tory, which says bill has passed the Cherokee
National Council now in session at Tallequah,
which banshes all white men from the Nation.
The question now agitated il, whether or not
the Chief will sanction or veto the bill.
"A well-known diamond broker of Salt Lake
City, named Well is said to be the party who,
with Harpendng of San Francisco, and Ar
uold, put up the infamous Arizona diamond
swindle. The victims in Salt Lake amount to
over one hundred thousand dollars,
Chicago police raided the gamblug-honsse
and captured one hundred inmates.
FOREIGN INI'ELLiGEN(,E.
The Mexican Congress has passed, by a
majority of sixty, bill authorizing President
Lerlo to arrange with Gen. Rosecrans, in be-
half of the Mexican National Railway Com
paily, the notifications desired to their exist
ing concession, leaving the latter III full vigor
The company ask for a subsidy i'll national
bon ds in lieu of the land grant given them III
De cember. 1870.
The London TiacS alluding to thai part
of the Presidents message which treats of the
rebellion in Cuba, doubts that the abolition Of
slavery there would end the feud between the
Cuban and the Spaniard.
Elizabeth Dredge brought suit in the Court
of Queens Bench, London against Clinton
Winan, an American, for 35OOOO damages for
breach of marriage. Winan compromised by
paying $500.
Tho French Assembly will divide into two
great parties, the Left and the Right, for the
election Of the Committee of Thirty proposed
by Minister Dufaure.
Miss Josephine Mansfield was u depositor
in the banking house of Bowes Bros. to the
extent of $4,000, prior to the failure OF that
establishment
The storm whicn ravagod the coasts Of
Northern Europe, last month, is said to have
been the most severe in the last two hundred
years.
The strike of the gas stokers i'll London
continues, but the crisis is over the people
having Supplied themselves with lamps and oil.
A Paris letter reports Gambetta AZ a sup
porter OF President Theirs against the mon
archists
Tile steamship CresswclI, from Falmouth
to Cork, was lost during her VOYAGE twenty
on passengers and the crew perished.
A conhagrutiou in Auckland, New Zealand,
destroyed buildings and other property to the
value of s25O,OOo
-Bloodhounds are to he used in Cuba for
capturing negroes still remaining i'll the noun
tans
Hans Christian Andersen, the poet, is re-
ported by London dispatch as seriously ILL.,
The po has again overfowed and much
damage is apprehended
1t is thought Rochcfort will be released
soon,