The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-10-01
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General Sherman mas sou his ieoi
douce on street, Washington to ex-Mayor
Emory. i
The will of Miss Mary d. Brown, OF
Philadelphia, distributes sl2oooo to local
charitable institutions
Two hundred Italians have arrived at
Pittsburg to take the place OF thestrlKhS coal
miners along the Pan Handle railroad.
In q collision at Smithton, on the Bal
tjmore and Ohio road. laat week, postal clerk
was killed and good deal of mail matter
burned.
The production of the cotton and
WOODEN mills in Berkshire county, Mass, Will
be cut down twenty per cent after tho lHt OF
October.
Adyices from Fall River report it Is
almost decided to run the cotton mills on
short time, some reducing it to one-half ana
others to one-third.
A car load of twenty-one cattle from
Buffalo were attacked by mysterious dir
order at Washingtonville, N Y. Eight sud
denly died and tho others will die.
The representatives of the trans
Atlantic steamship companies having failed 10
agree upon passenger rates. their late fl'aiiio'
arc renewed, and tickets to Europe are selline
at fifteen dollars each.
The recent experiments in the u'e OF
steam as q propellng power on the Erie canal
scom to have been satisfactory, and it is ex'
nectcd that next season there will be at least
twenty steamboats, on that canal. 1his VII
effect practically revolution in heavy freigh
TRANSFORMATION, and be of vast advantage u
the producing interests of the country
REPRESENTATIVES OF the manufactur
ing corporations having their headquarters
Boston, have just voted that the production
cotton mills of New England should DO re
duced at least one.thrd, until the proper IL
lation between the cost of production ana I'LL
market value of goods shall be re- estaoiishe'
and the true relation between supply ana Ut
mand adjusted. A committee was appolntt
to recommend the mode in which THIS resu
NAV be reached the committee to report a'
future meeting. At meeting OF manuia
turers at Fall River it was voted expeuieht
ioin the manufacturers elsewhere III fu'ii'i'
on short time. -,
Frrtber advices from the mill disa
ter at Fall River, Massachusetts, place ,
tota, humber of killed and injured at tifty' eie'
The calamity appears to have been the res"'.
criminal carelessness and neiilciehcy' !"
first place the mill employees attempted "
tincuish the fire without cilling out the oePa
kIo Nampa to OBTAIN 81
headway. When the engines arl'eu AZ =,
scene there seemed total lack OF disclPil
and no ATTEMPT was made touse the lauueio 70
tho denortment for the rescue OF the roas'
operatives. The fire escape at'acheu ~
mills did not reach the sixth story WHERE
was the most needed, and for this the pro-
etors are censured. The depioraoi0 ios,
life might have been entirely pre'en'ou
either of the three causes had been pro''
against. ou
The loss by the burning OF the vi
ite mill No, 1, at Fall River, MassachuS'
last week, is reported AZ s''O'OOO
the operatives in the spooling rooin
lost In the fifth story they were p'
stricken, and jumped from the wihuo"
were suffocatcd. About thirty persons
killed aud injured, and the dying nunOe
MANY moro. Inyet tigation seems TO
that the fire originated in the mulo roohi'
ing started in from unused muie-hcs'
ch, ;e OF boy named Young. Inc FP'l
in the room tried to check the spread
flames with boxes and sticks when oro =,
the threads attached to the machine. :.
were made to subduo the fire. but men
ally. ard when it was at last found nece
to sound the alarm, the flames ha' s''
such strength that they we're dartine
the lower xindows. Many OF the gH