The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-06-05
Terms: 81 per annum.

such dull times as the present would be
task that even Hercules himself would
hesitate to attempt. We have taken our
self away from other labors that press up
on our energy and perseverance, and per-
ambulated our town in search OF an
item, and our search was about as vain rs
the search of Crlibs for a wife, albeit it
strikes us that II CGlibs had been search
ing through WincIc ester and Franklin
county his efforts would have been soon
rewarded with success. There are more
girls here than boys and the only diGi-
Guilty seems to be that the boys are not
worthy of the girls, and That the girls
have too much sense, generally, to unite
themselves to lazy male bipeds, for better
or worse.
Yes, we have searched in vain for an
item. OF course we could tell many little
tribes which we hear concerning family
and private matters. but long since we be-
came disgusted with tile eternal title
tlttle which one Is sure to hear upon the
streets and in so-called social circles, and
if there is any prayer ofours that ought to
have precedence in the estimation of Him
who holds the world, as it were, in the
hollow oShis hand, it is that the day may
come very speedily when tittle-tattlers
will pass away like vegetation beneath. the
frosts of winter. All our towns are cursed
by one or two, or mOre.men and women,
whose whole time, outside Of sleeping, is
devoted to watching and criticising the
acts and private affairs of their %neighbors
and acquaintance. 1t would be y bless
ing to community if all such self-consti-
tuted ccnsors could 90 to sleep and sleep
forever. They have assumed to go forth,
like the fool Don QuiXotc, and rcctify the
evils oftlic world, forgetting, perhaps, that
they themselves are guilty Of more sins
than those they condemn. They have
nothing else to do but tel the follies and
mishaps Of their ncighbors, and they have
actually induced many Il young Il to go
ahead in his follieS when kind words and
private coun cl might have redeemed him.
so much for backbiting, slandcriDg and
idlencss on the parts of those who %consti-
tute themselves, par excellence, the con-
SENATORS of public morals. As for our
self we would not, as Byron said, resign
our free thoughts for Il throne, and to this
end we advise all who are subjects of the
criticism we write against.
In vain we have searched for an item.
We might state, however. that there is Il
80, ,,a,t a.. $3.50.
Soou oe"l u o'hpi"'i' "'o"' nv "e" as
seSSment law, and very Justly we think.
The mon who made the law can hardly
,nLo.,t,n1 n nor am, o,y ann orsn 4.
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Il correspondent Ola Nash'lilc paper Ill
cvt.ouSly remarks:
you've got TO swear I" AL your Stoc"'
OF every kind, good, bad ANA indifferent,
not even excepting the stock OF your gun,
and your stock OF gas OH the 10th OF Jam
uary. You've got to swear to the State OF
Tennessee In general; and your county
and county town, civil district, town lot
anu the street rs on ana the size or your
lioiC Iaru. EG SoC 10 swear II Is
totals
You've got to swear to totals by heads,
' ~
Mnch ~ n"9 m1 nEau' anu Sfei more as
dition to the whole amounts. and total
third heads.
on We got osWGar TO some thllE' right
v"o," ~ '0 V"'"o' o'' !" WV
You've rot to swear TO subdivisions,
fractional sections. and total CROSSE: if
you ever expect 10 rclch NilSootl come
rlean t,y recent. "N
You've rot to swear to every demand
you had, or were entitled to o fany kind,
Oh tlc lotn oi oanualy, 1919 ~ niaIIcls noI
80 ""' ~ ~ "
mn olu n'~iia ''anio; an1 ~ houiI W
If and thc bona fila eyncnscs incurred
in and about said business.
You've got To swear 10 all your. cnlldren
~ LA a,ro Vn v NV ~ Ia,o ihL nfcr, r onn ",u
pray, besides gross total, total taxable and
personal exempt, poll tax, fishing poles,
pigeon holes; etc'' ala aiter deauctlnG one
"s".', uo'a
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