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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-12-25
FOREIGN.

The Rothschilds have brought out
the Hungarian loan Of $37OOOOOO.
The Berlin press regard the Bazaine
verdict as the result of political Intrigue, and
censure the Duke dAumale.
The Swiss government has decided to
hand the Papal Nuncio his passport, on ac-
count Of the pope's last encyclcal letter.
As Baron Reuter- has not begun inter-
nal improvements in Persia within the time
fixed, the shah has declared the convention
void.
It is said at Havana that the steamer
Merida, the fastest vessel on the coast, will
be altered into gunboat and transport, to be
used in case Of war.
A ukase has been issued requiring
that six men out Of every thousand inhab-
tants Of Russia, including the Polish provin-
ces will be drafted into the army.
A special dispatch from Madrid, says
that cabinet crisis is imminent. Great in
dgnation is manifested at President. Grants
message and Senior Castelar's alleged pander-
ing to the United States.
A Paris dispatch says the resignation
Of Minister Sickles was based on the act Of
the Washington government negotiating di-
rectly with Spain and overlooking him. He
claimed the government has failed to protect
him.
President McMahon has committed
tho aentence NJ Marshal Razaine IN twentv
years of seclusion, and to bear the effects of
degradation from his rank, but be spared the
humiliating ceremony. The island of sainte
Marguerite, of Cannoe, has been selected as
the place Of confinement for Marshal Bazaine,
and he will be sent there this week.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-12-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
SOUTH.

The smallpox is said to be spreading
IN Macon, Ga.
Ex-senator Louis T. Wigfall has been
admitted to tho Baltimore bar.
Tom Saukey is to be hanged at Mont
pomery, Alabama, on the 3Oth Of January for
the murder Of Martin Graham, his rival in a
love affair.
John @. Underwood, United States
district Judge for the district Of Virginia, died
suddenly last week Of apoplexy, at his resi-
dence in Washington.
Joseph Bird shot and mortally
wounded John Jones, Of Evansville, on the
Kentucky shore, near Green river, last week.
The shooting was unprovoked, "a stated by
witnesses.
The steamboat J. s. Lee, belonging to
the Rio Grande railway struck snag near
Rio Grande City, and sunk in twenty minutes
The boat and cargo are reported total loss.
She was bound for Ringgold barracks with
general cargo and government stores and sup
plies for the upper military posts No lives
were lost.
The trustees Of the Southern.railroad
have opened bids for the construction OF
Kings mountain tunnel, in Lincoln county,
Tenn, on the Southern railroad. The tunnel
is 1000 feet long, through limestone and
sandstone rock Indications are that several
bids have come under 100000 for the COM
plete work The exact result Of the bids has
not been made public yet and the contract
will not be awarded for several days.
The trustees'of the Cincinnati South
ern railroad let the contract to Bebb * Tobler,
for constructing Kings mountain tunnel in
Lincoln county, Ky. The cost, on engineers
estimates, will be one hundred and sixty
three thousand dollars. Work il to be begun
in ten days and finished in eighteen months.
The trustees also located eighty miles of the
line Of the road, from South Danville, Ky, to
Chitwood, on tho Tennessee line, selecting the
old Burndsde military survey.
The younger brother and James,
commonly known as the Iowa railroad train
robbers, robbed the store Of Bryant & Chand-
ler at Beasley, Cass county, Missouri, last
Friday evening" and shot and severely wounded
Isaac Burson. A party Of citizens pursued
the robbers, but were captured by them at
Manegaw Springs, and after some detention
were released, with the Injunction that they
would be held responsible for repor which
were circulated regarding their acts.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-12-25
PARTED.
by JOAQUIN MILLER.

We part as ships on pathlesa main,
Gaily enough, for the sense OF pain
Is asleep at first but ghosts will arise
When we would repose, and the forms will CONT
Aud walk when we walk, and will not be dumb,
Nor yet forge. with their wakeful eyes.
When we most need rest, and the perfect sleep,
Some hand will reach from the dark, and keep
The curtains drawn and the pillows tossd
Like tide Of foam and one will say
At night--O heaven that 1t were day
And one by night through the misty tears
Will say--O heaven, the days are years,
And would to heaven that the waves were crossd
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-12-25
WEST.

The Baldwin expedition report the
discovery of tho only practicable route for the
contemplated railroad to connect the Union
and Central Pacific with the thrty-ifth paral-
lei road. 1t passes through the great coal and
iron region Of Iron county to st. George.
thence down tho Rio Virgini and Colorado
rivers.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-12-25

ESTIMATES OF GOVERNMENT EXPENSES.
The following is the total recapitulation
by departments of the estimates for the
fiscal year of 1875, and also those for
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-12-25

will prevent money panics. We demand the en-
actment Of law that shall limit the accumula-
tions Of any individual, that is a law Of
graduated taxation, which shall prevent any
man or set of men being able to lock up tho
circulating medium,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-12-25
Gen. Forrest Tenders His Services
Reply from Gen, Sherman.

The Memphis Appeal publishes the
following correspondence:
MEMPHIS, Nov "a, 1873.
To Gen. w. T. Sherman, Commander-in- Chief
US. A., Washington, d. c.:
DEAR GENERAn-By kilograms from
Washington and other sources, it ap-
pears we are likely to become involved
in war with Spain. If so, 1 presume
the seat of war will be in Cuba. In case
we should become involved, and the
government should require assistance, /
hereby tender you my services as vol
unteer. l think I could enlist from
1000 to 5000 men who served in the
southern army during the late war, at
short notice, and who could rendezvous
at New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola and
Key West, either as cavalry or infantry.
Yours, very respectfully,
Signed N. b. FORREST.
HEAD Q'Rs ARMY OF U. S.,
WASHINGTON, ID. O., Nov. 2S, 1873. !
N. b. Forrest, Memphis
Sm-Yours of the oath is received,
and have sent it to the war depart
ment with this Endorsement, Respect
fully referred to the secretary of war
for file." Among the hundreds of offers
that come to me, / deem this worthy O
place among the archives, to await com.
ing events. L regard N. b Forrest one
of the most extraordinary men devel
oped by our civil war, and were it left
to me in the event of war requiring
cavalry, 1 would unhesitatingly accept
his services, and give him prominent
place. I believe now he would fight
against our national enemies as vehem-
emily as he did against us, and that is
saying enough.
Signed w. T. SHERMAN, Gen.
I don't believe there will be war,
for neither government wants a war.
ABalu, Ill luc e'oh1 VI " ""i WIN oP"ih
on account of Cuba, the bulk of the
fighting would be aaoat, for whoever
commands the sea can have Cuba. We
may not now have sufficient heavy iron
clad ships, but then some could be had,
and we have an abundance of good naval
officers and seamen, when the result
would be certain, leaving for the land
forces the smaller task of occupation.
No part of this will likely be confded
to me, and, therefore, have sent your
letter to the war department, which can
only act after congress declares war and
proyides means for its prosecution.
W. II. SHERMAN, Gen.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-01-04

MANAGING A HUSBAND. =" How do you
manage your husband, Mrs Croaker
Such a job as l have of it with Smith -
Easiest thing in the world, my dear
give him twitch backwards when you want
him to go forward. For instance, you see
to-day had loaf of cake to make. Well
do you suppose because my body was in the
pastry room, that my soul need be there
too? Not bit of it I'm thinking of all
sorts of celestial things the while Now,
Croaker has way of tagging round at nv
heels, and bringing me plump down in the
midst of my aerial fights, by asking me the
price of the sugar I'm using.
We'll. you see. it drives me frantic. and
when | woke up this morning and saw this
furious storm, knew had him on nv
hands for the day, unless managed right
so told him | wouldn't think of going out
to catch his death such weather; that if he
wasn't capable Of taking proper care Of him.
SELF should do it for him that it was very
lonesome, rainy days, and that wanted him
to stay at home, and talk to me; at any rate
he mustn't 60 out, and / hid his umbrella
and India-rubbers. Well, of course. he was
right up on end Gust as ! expected \ and in
less than FIVE minutes he was streakinp off
down street at the rate OF ten knots an hour
You see there's nothing like understanding
human nature; no woman should be married
till she is thoroughly posted up in this branch
of her education"
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-01-04

YOUTHFUL DEPRAvITY.-The Danbury
Ne,ps tells the following story of the sad
consequences of boyish mischief:
A rather contemplate trick was played
on one of our young clerks Sunday night.
He bought cut-glass bottle of cologne,
with glass stopper and pink ribbon, to
present-to young lady he is keeping COM
pany with, but on reaching the house he
felt little embarrassed for fear there were
members of the family present, and so left
the beautiful gift on the stoop and passed
in. The movement was perceived by a
graceless brother of the young lady, who
appropriated the cologne for his own use,
and re6lled the bottle with hartshorn from
the family jar, and then hung round to OBJ
serve the result. In a little while the young
man slipped out on the stoop, and securing
the splended gift, slipped back again into
the parlor, where, with few appropriate
words, he pressed it upon the blusIlng girl
Like the good and faithful daughter that
she was she at once hurried into her pres
ence of her mother, and the old lady was
charmed. They didn't put up scent-stuff
like that when she was girl; it was kept
in china tea cup, and it was kept togeth-
er with samples OF all the familys hair. But
she was very much pleased with it. She
drew out the stopper, laid the beautiful pet
ais of her nostris over the aperture, and
fetched pull at the contents, that fairly
made them bubble. Then she land the bot
tie down. and picked up a brass mounted
fire shovel instead, and said she as soon as
she could say anything "Where is that
sinking brat?" And he, all unconcious of
what had happened, was in front of the mir
ror adjusting his necktie and smiling at him
self. And here she found him, and said to
him: "Oh, you are laughing at the trick on
an old woman. are you, you wall-eyed leper."
And then she basted him one on the ear
And he being by nature more elegant with
his legs than his tongue. hastened from
there bowling like mad, and accompanied
to the gate by that brass mounted shovel.
He says he would give everything on earth
if he could shake off the impression that a
mistake had been made.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-01-04

What shall l do ?" he asked himself in
great perplexity.
At length he smiled quietly and exultant-
ly. He had arranged his programme.
He rang the bell violently.
Up came Bridget, and in painting voice
inquired what was wanted.
Are you Queen of Sahara?" inquired
Bob wildly.
"Who do yez name, SURF" asked Bridget,
staring. 9" | amt quane at all, at all. I'm
Bridget McClosky, as yez ought to know. y
"Silence," roared Bob, stamping his foot
with terrific frown. "Do what tell you,
or LII roast you alive"
"Howly Virgin!" uttered Bridget edging
towards the door. "What is it yez want u
Bring me up a hogshead of boiling wa
ter directly"
1--WE haven't got so much, sir. Indeed
we haven't"
"Do you dare to contradict me?" yelled
Bob in fury. Bring it up | say"
Bridget with trembling limbs turned to
go. She was anxious to get out Of his
reach.
And bark you, say bring up the cat
also"
"And what would yez do wild the cat y
asked the terrified Bridget.
boil her, to be sure. you fool" roared
Bob.
With a shrek of alarm Bridget fled down
the staircase, and told Miss Jones that DIR.
Ingalls, had turned mad.
"I'll soon see to that" said Miss Jones,
resolutely.
| She went upstairs and entered the room
without knocking Even she, in spite of
her strong nerves, started back as she saw
the young man gesticulating violently with
a razor.
What does this mean?" she asked.
| Bob burst into fit of mocking laughter,
and tossing the razor upon the bed, sprang
towards Miss Jones, and seized her round
the waist
"Ha, my beauty, my peri, you're here are
your"
"Let me CO." said Miss Jones, tearing
herself from him by a violent effort.
"She tells me to let her 60" blubbered
| Bob, with burst of tears. She's a cruel
crocodile, or is it rhinoceros? Tell me,
are you a rhinoceros
IL do believe you're as crazy as loon, y
| calculated Miss Jones, thoroughly taken in.
"Ha, ha, ha. laughed Bob again, throw
ing an old boot at the window, and break
ing it.
Miss Jones hurriedly retreated down
stairs.
A confused series of noises were heard
for some time after in the doctors room.
After while all was still.
| Nothing more was seen of the young man
till the next day. Then he came down
stairs, and asked an interview with Miss
Jones.
81 hope,' he said, that what happened
yesterday will make no difference in our
marriage contract. 1t was only Temporal
ry fit of insanity"
"Do you often have them?" asked Miss
Jones abruptly.
"Only once in a few months, said DIR. In
gals.
Then" said Miss Jones, our contract
is over. don't want madman about me. ,
"ls there no hope?" asked Bob, with
pretended modification.
None at all. +"
Miss Jones drew out the marriage agree.
ment and threw it into the fire.
Good !" said the young doctor. "Pl
follow suit"
Thereupon he threw his receipted board
bill into the fire.
"Now, Miss JONES'" he said, {" if you'll
make out new bill, I'll settle it."
Miss Jones did as requested, and DIR. In
gals left her house free man. Since then
he has formed another engagement which
don't think he would be quite SO ready to
break. Miss Susan Jones is still in the
market. Bachelors in search of home
will please take notice.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-01-04

STRENGTH AND HEALTH.-It is quite a
common idea that health keeps pace with
strength know intelligent persons who
really think that you may determine the
comparative health of company of men by
measuring their arms-that he whose arm
measures twelve inches is twice as healthy
as he who measures but six. This strange
and thoughtless misapprehension has given
rise to nearly all the mistakes thus far made
in the physical-culture movement l have
a friend who can lift nine hundred pounds
and yet is an habitual sufferer from torpid
liver, rheumatism, and low spirits. There
are many similar cases. The cartmen of our
cities, who are our strongest men, are far
from the healthiest class, as physicians will
testify. On the contrary, have many
friends who would stagger under three
hundred pounds that are in capital trim
But l need not elaborate matter so fa-
miliar to physicians and other observing
people. No test of health would prove
more faulty than tape-line or a lift at
the scale beam. Suppose two brothers.
bank-clerks-in bad health. They are
measured around the arm. Each marks
exactly ten inches. They try the scale
beam. The bar rises at exactly three
hundred pounds with each. Both seek
health. John goes to the gymnasium,
lifts heavy dumb-bells and kegs of nails
until he can put up one hundred and
twenty-five pounds and lift nine hundred,
and his arm reaches fifteen inches Thom-
as goes to the mountains, fishes, hunts.
spends delightful hours with the young
ladies', and plays cricket. Upon measur-
! ing his arm we find it scarcely larger
than when he left town, while he can't
put up sixty pounds nor lift five hundred.
But who doubts Thomas will return to
the bank-counter the better man of the
two? John should be. the better man. if
strength is the principal or most essential
condition of health A circus usually
contains among its performers man who
can lift cannon weighing nearly or quite
half ton. Then there are half dozen
riders and vaulters, who have comparative
ly little strength. If anybody supposes
that the strong man has better health
than the flexible, elastic ones, he has but
to make inquiries of circus managers, as
have done, and he will learn that the bal
ance Is found almost uniformly with the
latter. Agility and fexibility are far more
important than strength, and that fine silk
en- quality of the muscular fibre, which
comes Only from an infinite repetition of
light and ever-varying feats, far more i'm
portant than size.-Dio Leacis, in To-
| Dau."
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-01-04

There is man in Yorkshire, England.
who may be regarded as martyr in the
cause OF anti-vaccination. He doth not be-
lieve in innoculating his children with vile
matter from other peoples sores, and he
has borne testimony to the faith that is in
him through six prosecutions. paying his
tine each time, and calmly waiting for the
next trial.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-01-04
A Rhapsody.
BY CAMILLA p. WOOD.

Give me scarlet for my head,
Let me shine in royal red
Once-ah just tonight.
Crown me 1t shall fade away
With the dawning of the day,
With the faintest light
OF the sweet fowered summer morn,
Though am poet born
Let my weary fingers hold
Handfuls of the heart's-ease gold;
All bright colors bring
Flaming poppies in their cups,
Lupines, where the wild bee sups,
Wheat in green of spring;
Salvias from the mesa land,
White stramonium from the sand.
Open all the windows wide,
Till the soul be satisfied
With sea-winds sweeping through
Till the brows, too pale and wan
For such wreath to rest upon,
Reddening anew,
Bear their blossoms, tempest-warm,
Flower of sea and fruit Of storm.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-01-04

CLAIRvoYANCE.-Gerald Massey, the we'll
known poet in recent lecture at st.
Georges Hall, London, said that some twen-
ty-two years ago he was invited to see a
clairvoyant read without the use of her eyes.
He was asked to place his fingers over her
eyes, so as to prevent her from being able
to see. He knew so little of what was ex-
pected of him, that he placed his fingers so
wide apart that she could see between them.
This lady afterward became his wife, and he
found that this reading by abnormal vision
was fact. He had never properly under
stood it before. Since, then, however,
he had seen her read SO hundreds of times,
and convince hundreds of people.
Not only did she read books in this man.
ner. but the human body itself appeared dia-
phanous to her. She had been made use of
in hospitals to diagnose diseases and pre-
scribe for them. Her power was just the
same, whether her eyes were bandaged or
not; in fact if the eyes Of the flesh were
open, she could not see at all. A young
man once asked her if she could see the
pain he had. She said he must have suffer-
ed a fracture Of the rib, as one bone was
overlapping another. The young replied
that he had suffered such fracture, and
that he had always feared that the bones
had not been properly set On another oc-
casion an officer came with a friend. He
was dressed as private gentleman. He had
lost carpet bag, and wanted to know if it
could be found by means of clairvoyance.
She described the bag and contents, among
other things brace of curious silver mount
ed pistols of Indian workmanship, then a
something she could not identify. Turning
to the officer she uttered a scream. He wore
an artificial arm. His own, which he had
lost in action, was in the bag, and that was
what she had described.
One morning on waking up at seven
o'clock, she informed her husband that his
mother was dead. On being questioned as
to how she knew, she said that she had seen
the black-edged letter put under the bed
room door, At eight o'clock Mr.. Massey
himself saw the letter containing the sad an
nouncement put under the Chicago
Tribune.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-01-04

SPONGE CAKE-Five eggs. one coffee-cup
OF sugar, beat together one-half hour, add
one coffee-cup of -four, stirring as little as
possible after putting in the -four. Bake
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-01-04

The milk supply of New York is estimat-
ed to be 100000 quarts, 100000 of which
are sold at retail and 10000 at wholesale
to hotels, restaurants, grocers. ETC. 1t is es-
timated that it will require S350,0OO to pro-
cure wagons, carts and equipments to prop
erly distribute the milk and it is proposed
that the farmers supplying milk raise this
amount of capital and organize Milk Sup
ply Association. To secure this amount it
is suggested that certificates, drawing seven
per cent. interest may be issued, each of
which would constitute the owner a men,
Der and entitled to sell milk through the
agency of the Association-the Association
to pay its members stipulated price for
the milk, and the profits, after expenses are
paid, to be shared by the mem ,ers in annual
or semi-annual dividends, the books show
ing how many quarts of milk each has sup
piled, and the dividends to be pro rata.
Thus producers and consumers will be
brought together, the producer receiving all
the profits which flow from his product, and
secure in them so long as he remains a
member of the Association. Any depart
ure from honest dealing, however, is to re-
suit in his forfeting all his rights as a men,
ber In this way. it is believed farmers will
receive fifty per cent. more for their product
than now, and consumers better milk.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-01-04

The barbarous custom of piercing ladies'
ears for earrings, is rapidly being abolished.
Several very ingenious arrangements for fas-
tening in those articles of jewelry without
the usual surgical opertion, are now sold at
jewelry shops, and are quite extensively
worn.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-01-04

The COLORADO DESERT AS AN INLAND
SEA. = Could the Colorado Desert be
again filled with water? 1t is an interest
ing question. From the Gulf of California,
it is probably an impossibility. The grad
ual sitting up of the old gulfbed at the
mouth of the river, and the drift of sand by
the wind, have interposed barrier too ex-
tensive to be easily removed By turning
the Colorado River into the desert it might
be accomplished. The project has for
years been discussed, of taking enough
water from the river to irrigate stretch of
fertile land, alluvial deposit, found at the
southern end of the desert; but the idea of
going further than this, of diverting the
river into the desert and forming a large
fresh-water lake, seems never to have been
broached. Nature, unassisted, is now at
tempting this. The drift of sand through
the prevailing western wind, is from the
desert toward the east. This drift has
kept the river walled in upon the east side
of the valley, and has apparently constantly
forced it further in that direction. Could
that desert be refilled with water-convert-
ed from dry, hot sand to an inland lake
the very heat which is reflected from the
barren mountain-sides around would be a
power of good instead of evil The con-
slant evaporation would render heat latent
which is now active thus lowering the an
nual temperature very perceptibly. This
lowering of temperature alone, even if unac-
companied by an increase of moisture in the
air. would give greater rainfall by the
more perfect condensation which it would
cause. But the evaporation from the sur
face of the lake would naturally augment
the supply of vapor in the rain-currents,
thus acting in double Manner decrease
of temperature and an increase of moisture
for precipitation. These rain-currents
would also meet with less difficulty in max
ing their way against the ocean winds-as
the winds, caused largely by the heat of the
desert, would be less violent-and would,
therefore, with more certainty and regular
ity deposit their supply of moisture over the
plains of Los Angeles, San Bernardino. and
San Diego. When it is considered that
every additional inch of rain is worth mil
lions of dollars to these southern counties,
the value of such change in quantity and
certainty of fall may be readily appreciated
From "1Ae Colorado Desert" in the
Overland Monthly f0r. January