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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
An Important Invention.

4 correspondent of the Vlcksburg
Herald gives an account of a new in
vention now i'll practical operation in
Mountain Cotton Mills, near Bolton
Station, on the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad, which, if it proves to be
all that is represented, must have a
more important elltcC upon the produc-
ton and manufacture of cotton than
even Whitney's cotton gin has had. 1t
does away with the ordinary process of
ginning, converting the cotton just as it
is taken from the field into thread of
superior quality. 1t costs only $3.50,
and it attached to the ordinary card
stand. It is said that specimen of
thread made by this machine have been
sent to nearly all the northern manu-.
facturers, and have been pronounced
stronger and more lustrous than that
spun by the ordinary mothod. It is
claimed that thread spun by this
means will sustain fully one-third more
weight than thread of equal size made
of cotton that has passed through the
processes of compression aud cOmpli-
Gated machinery of common cotton
mills. The great Importance of the in
vention, however, consists in the fact
that by it's chcapness and simplicity it
may be introduced i9to common use,
the natural result of which will be to
transfer the whole work of cotton spin
ming from manufactures to the cotton
fields, thus eirecting great saving in
the cost of packing and transportation,
and in other expenses.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
PATHS Debut.

Antonio Barili, half-brother of Ade-
lima and Carlotta Patti, has confded
many family affairs to correspondent
of the Chicago Post and Nal, who
writes that Barili said "Adelina Patti
began with me, as did a SO Carlotta. |
taught her on the piano. When Jenny
Lind was here Adelina proved herself
such wonderful imitator OF the great
singer that she was placed in other
hands for vocal culture. was on trip
south soon after. When | came near
New Orleans stopped off one night at
n small town in Alabama. BY the
merest accident tdrped in at the court
house to hear concert. took seat
well back tow irds the door and awaited
the singers. Before they came I heard
some one on the stage say, Why, papa,
there's Antonio. II was Adelina's voice.
Then | knew / had come to list TO my
own sister. When she Appeared and
gave one or two little ballads 1 was
amazed. Such voice j had never
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
The Place of Woman.

One OF the principal features Of Tho
middle ages is the recognition of the
fact that Christianity assigned to woman
a new place in the social order of the
world very diiferelt from what it had
been before. The deep respect accorded
by that epoch to woman could not but
exercise most powerful and beneficial
Influence on humanity; for when man,
confident il his physical force, rejgns
alone, we can never expect TO see real
human culture develop itself. There
now arose Il new kind of worship of the
Beautiful, and of female beauty in par
ticular, and that in higher and more
refined sense than hal been the case
with the uon-Christian world. The
Greeks, the Romans, and the Arabians
hud bestowed praise on woman, as nee
essary to their happiness, but they
treated her only as an inferior, and even
as a slave. The Christian world set be-
fore itself new ideal. What man now
strives for is, that the lady whose aitec
tlOns he endeavors to win should recOg-
ni2e his personal worth that she should
prefer him to other suitors that she
should love him because she honors and
esteems him. Such demand is based
upon the supposition that man consid-
ers woman as his equal nay, that he
looks up to her as superior being the
endeayor he makes TO deserve the favor
of her he loves, and to become worthy
of her, reacts on his own conduct. Love
raises him above all that is common and
vulgar; it becomes with him the main
spring of every noble action; he can
henceforth neither do or say anything
of which he would feel ashamed before
her. The Teutonic nations especially
seized the full significance of this lofty
conception of woman and of her place
in life with them love was nothing but
the spontaneous homage of strength to
beauty; they introduced new social
usagos and more elevated system of
ethics among the inhabitants of South
ern Europe, and at the same time, com
municated to them that reverential re-
spect which raises woman, though nat
uralIy weak, above the common level Of
humanity.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
Bursting Brains-A Singular Sick.
ness in Mexico.

A most singular and unaccountable
disease, commoaly known us the burst.
ing sickness has broken out in this
vicinity, and already has spread TO many
Of the n2ighboripg villages and cities.
The people are in Consideration by rea.
son OF the many deaths which have oc-
cured. The doctors wrctched medi-
cal men at the hcst--are Mt loss how
to deal with the trouble, and the priests
have their hands full. Tlalenango,
Bolanos, Cnrfagna, aud even Sanceda
Hac are suffering more or less, and
there is no telling where or when the
disease is to stopi | am not an expert
in describing sickness, but the trouble
seems to me to be an usual discharge Of
nerve force into the brain. The symp-
toms are sudden nausea, followed al
most Immediately by severe and sharp
pam along the spine, proceeding from
its lower extremity to the head, and de-
scribed MS feeling ~ though blunt
knife were scraping upward. There is
then--when the pain reaches the back
of the head-a sharp and poignant dis
trcss there which makes the patient de-
lrious, although it never produces un-
consciousness or loss of the right uses
of the senses. The eyes are bloodshot
and wild, with pupils greatly contract
ed. The sensitiveness to light IS in
tense, so that even in parOXysms OF OK
cruciating agony tho patient Will rise
and seek dark place. This state lasts
commonly not more than from thirty
to forty minutes, during which the pa-
tient feels as though his head was
splitting; and when this condition has
lasted for about half an hour the
Uranium actually bursts open at the sut-
ures, as is sometimes the case with in
fants whose heads split thus after death
from water on the brain. The sound
produced y this rending asmdcr Of
the bones OF the skull can plainly be
heard iull ten feet from the patient. 1t
is said that in some instances the dis
ruption is extremely sudden, and ac-
companied with Il noise still louder.
This occurs, too, ut moment when the
sufferer is in full consciousness, and it
is most terrible to witness. The dis
ease broke out at the silver mining re-
gion Mt BoIanos about two weeks ago,
and its cause is unknoAn. About three
hundred persons-generally adults
have already died OF it and it If yet
spreading. The sickness is, SO far as
| know, as unique as it is singular
T0icnango letter to ~ Y Graphic.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
ThaCkeray on Female Society

Il is better for you to pass an even
ing once on twice week in iady's
drawiug.room, even though the couver-
sati0n is slow, and You know the girls
song by heart, than in IL club, q tavern,
or the pit OF theatre. All amusements
OF youth, to which virtuOus women are
not admitted, rely on it, are deleter Gus
in their nature. All men who avoid
female society have dull perceptions
and are stupid, or have gross tastes,
aud revolt against what is pure. Your
club swaggerers, who ore sucking the
butts of billiard cues all night, call
female society insipid. Poetry is unin-
spring to a yokel; beauty has no
charms for blind man; music does not
please poor beast who does not know
one tune rom another; but as q pure
cpicure is hardly ever tired Of water,
sancey, and brown bread and butter,
protest | can sit for whole night talk
ing with a well regulated, kindly wO-
man about her girl Fanny or her boy
Frank, and like the evenings entertain
ment. One of the great benefits man
may derive from woman's society, is
that he is bound to be respectful to her.
The habit is of great good to your NOR
al men, depend upon it. Our educa,
tiou makes of us the most eminently
selfish men in the world. We fight for
ourselves, we push for ourselves, we
yawn for ourselves, we light our pipes,
and we say we won't go ont, we prefer
ourselves and our case and the great
est good that comes to man from wO-
mans society is that he has to think OF
somebody to whom he is bound to be
constantly attentive and respectful.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
A Test Case.

In 1869 the Louisiana national bank
shipped by the Southern Express com
pauy at New Orleans Sl3,52S to the
bank of Kentucky and S3 600 to the
Planters national bank. The money
was delivered by the Southern Express
company at Uumbolt 10 complete the
transportation, and the last named com
plny was bringing it to Louisville on the
cars Of the Louisville aud Nash',iil" rail-
road, when, at Budd'screek, in Tennessee,
a trestle gave way while the train was
passing over it. This precipitated the
express and other cars III the bed OF the
creek, the cars caught fire from the en-
CINE, aud all express matter, including
the money mentioned above, wasDufned.
In the receipt take, by the Louisiana
national bank for the two Louisville
| banks there were various printed cOndl
tions, among which was condition that
the express company was not to be lia-
BILE for loss OccasiOned by the damages
OF railroad transportation or by lire.
Various interesting questions arose III
the case. but the most important one
decided was that if the express agent
was not himself guilty of negligence IN
caring for the money, if the express
company was not itself guilty OF ncGll-
gence in selecting the Louisville and
Nashville railroad as the vehicle with
which 10 complete the transportation,
then the express company was not liable
to the banks, although the falling OF
the trestle and the consequent Hre may
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
Rules for Keeping Cool

A ary has instructed its read
ers how to keep cool in the heated term
We propose to try our hand :
Never so in the sun; it heats the
blood.
Clothes prevent the escape OF heat
from the body; wear none, or only u
loose shirt and drawers.
Work heats the system do nothing.
Sit in draft.
Reading, talking and thinking gener'
ate heat do neither.
Battle every hour OF the day, and take
a shower bath between.
Wear a cap with ice in it.
Sit with your feet in a tub OF Ice
water.
Call your wife and daughters WE"
you want anything it IS a geoa op
tiOn. ,Is;p so5a.
and such have q cool stream running
III Rx S,i observing these simple directions
py ,an ne cet along without going away.
oniees orI the effect sends him oil. - Cdnein.
,,rii gazette.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23

portion and the whole effect is singu-
larly unpleasant A large woman in
France, where women have u taste for
the becoming in dress conferred upon
them Ly Providence, wears ample dra-
peries, lo)se'y Citing garments, and a
corset which does her h best possible
service, for it makes her look aud feel
at her ease--no labor,d breathing, no
unnatural redness, no fear Of sutfoca-
ton she is simply large, beautiful
object, instead OF pillow tied in the
middle, with general air of asphy xia.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
The Poor Arab Women,

A writer on the Women of the
Arabs" says "GirIs in Syria may be
married at the age of ten and grand
mothers at twenty-one. The Moham-
medans Oh ject to girl being taught to
write, lest she should take to write
clandestine letters. The Druzes OF
Lebanon are most dcspotic towards .heir
wives; but among the Nusairiyeh wo-
men are worst treated, being excluded
from all religious communion as unclean
beasts. This miserable race of Nusair-
iyeh believe in transmigration of souls,
and hold that the spirit OF n wicked
man is punished by his being born again
dog or woman, whereas IN obedient
woman may be rewarded by being re-
generated man. And thepoor degrad-
Ell pitiable lasses comfort themselves III
their servitude with the dim hope OF
becoming men after the short life.
Amongst no class is much care mani
tested for woman's life. Until recently,
in Syria, women were poisoned, thrown
down wells, beaten to death or cast into
the sea. aud The government made nC
induisi,ion into the ,mattcr On the
whole 1t is better to be camel iu Ara
bin than a woman the quadraped i
mnic kindly treated"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
A wOMAN,S BIRTuDAI.

II il the summcrS great last heat
II IL the falls first chill; they meet.
Dust in the grass, dust In the ar,
Dust in the graye-and everywheIe
All, late rose eaten 10 tho heart
All, bird, whose southward yearnings start
The one may fail, the other ny;
Why may not G? Why may not |?
Oh, life! that gave me for my bower
The hushing song, The wCrm-guawed flower.
Let drop the rose from your shrunk breast
And blow the bird TO some warm nest
Flush out your dying cOlOrs fast;
The last dead leaf viii be the last.
No? Must | wear your pteOus smile
A little while, a little while?
The whitening world accepts her fate
OF mist and moaning, soon or late
She had the dew, the scent, the spring
An upward rapture of the piOg
Their time is gone, and with it they.
And am wOuing youth to stay
In these dry days, that still would be
Not fair to me, not fair to me?
If time has stained with gold the hair,
Should he not gather grayness there?
Whatever gifts he chose to make.
If he has given, shall he not take?
His hollow hand has room for all
The beauty Of tho world to fall
Therein. give my little part
with aching heart, with aching heart.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
Browsing in Libraries as a Means of
Culture.

So 1T is that Mr.. Emerson tells rs
again to "read in the line Of our
genius" If, alas every boy md every
girl knew what the lines of their genius
were. There is the exact Difficulty.
Many of us have not found out what
the line Of our genius is. indeed, most
of us do not. Ind, ed, we have very do
cided genius, it would have SO taken
possession of us, that we cOnld not get
away from it ; it would have forced our
lines of reading before this time. For
those, then, who have not found out
what the lines of their genius is, the an
swer is to be given. For such people,
il is very great advantage to bsturued
loose in large library-not for long
time, indeed, but for time long
enough TO determine what is best for
them, what they take to most thorough
ly and heartily. Here, it may be said
by the way, is one of the advantages
which the small colleges have over the
large ones. Your large college, with
its large library, has set and special
librarian, who invariably aud infallib Y,
by the law of his being. considers the
tool of more importance than the work
it is to do, and shuts up the books from
those who would otherwise handle
them. In such browsing here and
brow, ing there an intelligent boy, girl,
man, or woman finds out what is good
for him, or what he is good for. Fail
ing this, which is, of course, out OF the
question for most readers, the best rule
we know is, for the student to make one
bold plunge into the thickot, with the
best intention, and from the best fight
he can get, and then follow brayely and
steadily the path which opens. A the
end of the week, for instance, look
steadily back upon the varied interests
of the week, aud choose which, on the
whole, has been that which moved, at.
tracted, or compelled you most.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
CLEOPATRA TODAY.

A correspondent who has been to the
British museum writes: L" Full of
strange speculations and sober thoughts
| paused at last before tho case con-
tanning the mummy o; Egypt's royal
hirt, Cleopatra. The soft light of The
English twilight was falling through
the dingy windows and chasing long
shadows around the cases and into the
dark corners. The sight-seers lad eX-
hlusted themselves and withdrawn and
the apartment was deserted and silent
as the tombs, and | was all alone with
my reveries and the dead. Before me
was the short, dumpy figure of the
queen, the flash of whose eye and the
witchcry Of whose smile had intoxicated
the mighty Caesar and unnerved the
brawny arm of Marc Antony. She was
wrapped thousand times in linen bands
and seemed bundled up to keep the
cold air ont. On the outer covering
was IL portrait of the woman as she ap-
cared in life. The colors were nearly
as bright as when put there. The
cheeks were full aud rosy, the hair dark
as the ravens wing, and there was a
look of ineffable grace in the face,
blushing with an expression that be-
spoke Knowledge of her beauty and
power as woman rather than that Of
queen. There were the charm y
before me that had seduced score Of
lovers, and the lips that it was delir-
ium to kiss. / stood there, and thought
and thought until thinking became a
burden and the gloom of my feelings
warned me from the spot. But a
strange fascination held me there to
hold communion with this awful thing. "
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23

heard aud never dreamed OF hearing.
Such execution, too! Well, I was in
ecstasy. The girls debut, although
made in backwoods town and attended
by not more than n hundred people,
was grand enough for qunn,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23

About thirty applications for bank
charters under the new law have been
filed with the comptroller of the cur.
rency since congress adjourned. They
come mainly from Illinois, Wisconsin,
Indiana, Kpnsa7 and Iowa, with few
from the southern states. The amount
applied for is in the neighborhoOd OF
three millions of dollars. This leaves
one million therefore reported "not
called for"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23

1t is curious to note the origin Of
the sayings in common use. The ex-
preston "too thin comes from the
following hitting sarcasm in Henry
VIII.," net ), scene 2: "You were
good at sudden Communications, Birho1
of Winchester. But know, come not
to hear such fiattery now, and in M
presence they are too thin and bare &
hide Uifenaes."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23

--rho vari,us government bureaus
are generally adopting Il machine which
prints all letters instead of writing
thom, and which can print, Il is claimed,
faster than person can wri.e. a CLERK
in the postoliice department has written
tifty-six words per inmate Win TINS ma
chine.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23

"A Mississippi pilot saw the comet
the other night, and Immediately cried,
"I've got 'em snakes I've had before,
but now the stars have got tails on EN-
I'm dead man"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23

Pearl river, Mississippi, furnished
the lumber for the st. Louis bridge.
Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1874-09-12
MouLToN,s FRESH FILTH

Mouton has made public his further state
ment, concerning which he had been Boosting
and bleating for some time. 1t comes out with
q great flourish of trumpets, and bears the evil
dence of having been ingeniously and artfully
constructed throughout, the work being per-
formed, as it is limited by enemies of Mr.. Beech
er-among them the Philadelphia Press--by
that master of such jobs, Ben. Butler. The
new statement adds nothing of value, ex'
cept that il attempts to fortify what has
been already changed. For instance, Moultor
decided, in his previous statement, that Mr.
Beecher had verbally admitted to him his guilt
he now says the admission was made in the
presence of witness, who can be produced
In his next statement, he will probably remem
Der that it was in the presence Of two witnesses
or twenty. Like Tilton he remembers ad
ditional evidence and evolves new charges a
fast as the old fall into discredit.
Beyond this, even the bitter antagonists of MI
Beecher, whose temper and traits of characte
led than to believe him guilty, OF course, a
soon as he was accused, find nothing of signiii
canoe in this fresh belching. Aswe have said
it is arranged and stated with plausibility as al
attack by desperate gang Of blackmailerr ant
conspirators naturally would be.
Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1874-09-12
Effects OF Low Temperatures on
Plants

Our attention has repeatedly been called to
the fact that plants Of the same species when
submitted to equally low temperatures, suffer
very unequally During last Spring, some of
the early planted corn, when on low ground,
was more or lessknjura1sss late frosts. In many
cases we noticed that two or three stalks in a
hill were killed to the surface of the ground
while the others appeared to be uninjured. De-
easionally whole hill was killed while the ad
joining ones escaped. From our garden, toma-
to plants protected by shingle stuck up go to
keep off the sun, were uninjured by the frost
while those not thus projected were killed Had
the shingles been put-into the ground at
gle 30 as to have afforded cover to the plant
We might have accounted for it under the plea
Of shelter but they were merely intended as
slight protection from the sun and were straight
up not leaning over the plant in the least
All will remember the effect produced upon
the out door ivy by the low temperature of the
winter of 1928, and not few have noticed that
those having an eastern or Southeastern ex-
posure suffered most. In one case, which came
under our notice, two of the same species occu-
pied opposite ends of a house fronting the South:
if there was any difference in the temperature to
which they were exposed it would seem that the
one at the west end Jared the worst for ut the
time the greatest damage was done cold North
wester was blowing. In spite of this the one
with the Eastern exposure suffered the most-so
much so as to be remarked by many who saw
both.
In the case Of our tomato plants and the
two ivy clad walls we can account for the
difference in thta way our unprotected tomato
plants and the eastern exposed ivy while still
frozen, or at least at very low temperature, re-
ceived the full effect of the sun as soon as il
rose and sudden change in temperature was con-
siderable, while the tomato plants protected
by shingles, and the western IVY had their tenn
perature gradually raised before the suns rayl
reached them.
But this reasoning fails to account for the es-
cape of some of the stalks of corn while others
no removed two inches, suffered to the full ex.
tent. Constitutional weakness" fails for the
frosted stalks were to az outward appearances
AZ strong as any and often the strongest ant
most vigorous we have never had this satsfac
torily explained and now direct the attention o
our readers to it, hoping that they will furnish
solution.
We are satisfied that the simple fact of beinl
frozen does not necessarily kill our hardy plantl
if the increase IN temperature is only proper
attended to. Any plan which will gradual
raise the temperature-cold water if applied
before the sun shines OIL them-will answer til
purpose. Temporary shelter fiom tile sun
rays will produce the same effect
Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1874-09-12

A PEACEFUL SOLUTION OF THE FoRMorA QUESTION
EXPECTED.
SHANGHAI, Sept. IL.
The ambas sador from Japan las arrived here
and pacific solution Of the Formosa difficulties
is anticipated
LATER DISPATCH SERIOUS Loes OF LIFE
LONDON, Sept. IL.
Later adyices state that twenty persons were
killed by the collision and fifty wounded, many
go badly that additional deaths are expected
every hour.
The railway is completely blocked by the
debris of the wre. ked train. The scene at the
point of collision is described as terrible and
tho cries Of the wounded heart-rending.