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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12
The Famous Elcho Shield.

The Elcho Shield was presented i'll
1862 by Lord Elcho for annual compe-
ttion between England and Scotland.
Ireland was afterward allowed to COM
pete for it. Since the competition com
menced the shield has been won eight
times by England, four years by Scot
land, and now twice by ireland. No
eights from the British colonies or else
where were ever allowed to compete for
the Elcho Shield, the simple reason be-
ing that it is restricted to Great Britain
and Ireland nor would it be allowed to
90 out of what is called the United King
dom.
This remarkable trophy is about forty
eight inches high, and twenty-six wide.
As it stands in tho exhibition tent on
Wimbledon ooumon, supported on an
appropriate pedestal covered with GRIM
son velvet, the beholder would scarcely
desire to look on finer piece OF work
manship. 1t is embossed solid silver,
and the workmanship is OF exquisite
touch and finish. The surface has a
dull tint, like oxidized silver-which IN
fact it is, The shield is divided into a
number of compartments, each one en-
blazoned with some brave tradition OF
British history. Queen Elizabeth and
the present reigning sovereign OF Great
Britain are given prominent place among
the bold knights and fair danes OF his
toric celebrity who serve to illustrate
certain passages of English history. The
~, o,t , ,rt;ufic cbiaalin0 iS nmDlOyeu to
bring out the details OF battle pieces
which adorn the borders of the field, and
figures of men in armor on horseback and
on foot are made asplain and palpable to
the eye as the artists cunning hand can
cut them. Battle and hunting scenes are
composed and executed with great fidel'
ity to nature. The price of this exquis'
ite piece of workmanship is said to b(
$10,000.-N Y. Herald.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The number of deaths from yellow
fever at Barrancas havc bcon 25 ont Of 70
cases. There have been three new cases and
one death since Saturday,
That Keely motor appears to be a
sad misnomer 1t is decidedly stationary. No
application has been made for patent, and
the coal dealers feel relieved.
The public debt statement shows the
decrease OF the debt eirce July 3Oth to bo
?1,27i, SS7; coin balance, !GS, ,0i2, 700 cur
rency balance, 34316,9G coin certificates,
s27, 1926 100.
The assistant treasurer at New York
has been directed by the secretary Of tho
treasury to sell gold during tho month of
August as follows :l,500,OOO on the first
and third Thursdays each, and ?l,OO0,OOO on
the socond and fourth Thursdays each. Total,
$5,OOOOOO.
The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly
review of the corn trade, says tho cereal crop
just reaching maturity, has been saved by
fine weather. We may yet have moderate
harvest in good order. Tho upward move
mcnt has stopped and prices have rolapsed,
partly in consequence Of foreign arrivals,
which arc unusually free; but current rates
scarcely reach the average, and are still below
those OF last year Tho harvest in France is
progressing rapidly, but general reports indi-
cate less than n fair average yield, although in
Paris and Marscilles prices have fallen two
shillings. Belgian and German markets show
similar change. Official accounts OF crops
in Austria and Hungary show there is moro
likelihood of u deficiency than surplus.
From tables prepared by the depart
mcnt of agriculture it appears that tho aver
age price OF farm labor with board in the
United States is 5l2 10 per month being a
decline Ct nearly twenty per cent. since 1869.
Part of this difference, however, is found in
the disproportion in numbers OF aborors of
the higher and lower classes in efficiency and
money value. The calculations are based on
the numbers given respectively in the census
Of 1860 and 1870, and in the latter the slaves
of the former PERIOD who had no place in that
enumeration arc included AZ farm laborers,
increasing the proportion OF low-priced labor
and reducing the average. The average prico
OF labor, with board, in the southern states is
:l0.17 in the western, s12.GG in the middle,
:1GSl; in the eastern, 5lS.5S; on the Pacific
coast, :2S.l2; and in tho territories, :lS2j
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12
WEST

A dispatch, from Athens, o, says
the Hooking Valley is completely submerged,
and the rise is within throe inches Of the
greatest ever known. Crops arc total loss
and reports of other losses come in constantly.
The recent storms in central Illinois
havo done immense damage to crops, bridges
and railroads. The loss is estimated to amount
to million of dollars; that Of Morgan county
alone is nearly quarter Of a million.
Advices from Rio Janeiro report that
the Argentine government has made moder-
ate and pacific reply to the Brazilian note in
regard to Paraguayan treaties, and fears OF
war have been dispelled. The steamer Fara-
day. which was engaged repairing the United
States direct cable, has arrived at Deal.
Late reports from the Black Hills
state that tho gold discoveries reported by
Prof. Jenney and miners are daily confirmed
by recent prospecting. Prof Jenney believes
that mines in Jenney's gulch will average
three to four cents pan, which is considered
a cautious figure, while miners along Spring
creek place their lowest rate above that figure,
and the maximum is without limit. An i'm
mensc ledge has also been discovered seven to
eight miles in extent north. 1t promises to
be of great yalue.
Gen. Crook and escort has arrived at
Camp Crook, as commander, and carried out
the orders of President Grant and Gems. Sher-
man and Sheridan. Gen. Crook has issued a
special order requiring all miners and all un-
authorized persons to leave the Black Hills
before August 2S. Two companies Of cavalry
and one Of infantry are now eR route to carry
into effect this order Tho miners in different
parts Of the hills have held meetings and
decided to abandon their claims until they eau
lawfully resume work. 1t is believed no
trouble will ensue.
Reports from Indianapolis, Ind,
August 3d., say the floods in that region are
very devastating. The Wabash river il some
twenty inches higher than during tho great
riso OF 1868, and fow inches higher than the
still greater inundation Of 1923, which is OF
record and is in the memory OF tho "oldest
inhabitants" The river is fully three miles
wide opposite tho city and is still slowly rising.
A few small houses have iloatod down. Some
live stock and millions Of bushels Of wheat in
stacks and shocks have hoated past. Large
quantities OF hay have also gone down. There
is little driftwood alloat, or tho bridge could
not possibly remain. Over six million bushels
Of corn reported drowned out between Terre
Hauto and Hutsonville. Sugar creek town
chip Is wholly devastated. Not thousand
rails, very little corn and no wheat left III the
township. Every house in Bloomstown is in
undated
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12
A Man Of Mystery.

The Chicago Inter. Ocean says: Ash
tabula johnson is q mysterious man
and he lives on Aberdeen street. Ash
tabula is one of those eccentric indi
viduals who buttonholes you on the
street, leads you carefully to the edge
of the sidewalk, and then looking about
him, says very cautiously:
How's Spriggins ?"
"Spriggins, Spriggins," you reply
"what Spriggins ?"
"Lonzo F."
"Oh dunno anything about him."
Drawing you still nearer tho edge OF
the walk the mysterious man says
"This is between you and me, now. "
"WeIli"
~ heard that Spriggins was going
into oats heavy. Now he's got reasons,
see," and he holds up his foreiinger and
looks as wise aB an owl. You get away
from the mysterious man, and presently
you see him collar Jones in the midst
of large company and march him off
to whisper about an equally important
matter. AS near as can be calculated
johnson has no other business but this.
Well, the other day Ashtabula dropped
in to see Philo Martinberger, who tips
back his chair in front of livery-stable
on State street. He found Philo in
conversation with some parties from
the country, regarding the sale of a
carload of horses. Taking the dealer
by the arm Ashtabula led him through
the stable, out of the back door, and
round the corner to blacksmith shop.
Then he sat down on box, took out
his knife, pried off silver from the
box, and says he;
"Phil, | understand you've got a
COW to sell. Set down."
Philo looked at him n moment and
then said very qaietly, "Oh, you heard
had COW to sell?"
eyes" responded Ashtabula, "sit
down and talk her over"
Philo looked at him n minute then
said he, "Come here, Johnson"
Johnson came, and his companion
took him by the coat-sleeve and started
into the street. He went down to
where that six.story unfinished build
ing stands between Dearborn and
State, and, crawling through the boards
that are nailed over the doors, led Ash
tabula up five flights of uncompleted
stairs at the imminent risk OF breaking
his neck. Pulling and blowing they
reached the top, and Philo led the way
over the piles of rough lumber to the
extreme east end of the building, Then,
after stopping to take a breath, he put
his mouth close to Ashtabula ear and
softly whispered: "Tve sold her !"
1t has been nearly week since that
occurrence, and MIR. Johnson is still
full of wrath but large circle of his
acuuaintances declare that Philo Mar
tinberger deserves u medal and shall
have one.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12
Only about IS, ,OOO,O 900 acres, out Of q

Only about 100000 acres, out OF a
total area 5O7, OOO,O ,OOO are under cultivation in
the southern states.
The present season will undoubtedly
prove the necessity of constructing imprcg-
nable levees on the lower Mississippi
Jno. Phillips, colored, one of the
murderers OF Frank Williams near Shawnee
Village, Ark, and who escaped from tho mob
which lynched his confederate, Jno. Ran
dolph, has been arrested. He was found
mortally wounded.
M. II. Stowe, a Virginia mineralogist,
says that II tho state was worked with the
same skill California is, the profits would be
as great in proportion. The gold fields ex-
tend tho whole length Of tho state, in come
places forty miles WIDE
A convention will be held in Rome.
Ga. on tho 9th OF October next for tho pur-
pose of securing an organized and united
effort for tho opening of the Coosa river and
its tributaries to navigation, and uniting them
by short canal with the waters OF the upper
Tennessee. All persons feeling an interest
in the enterprise are invited to attend,
North Carolina furnishes three -fourths
of the dried blackberry crop of this country
5000 barrels OF tho 10000 raised. The
Augusta, Ga, Constitutionaist docs not wish
to see its state waste any longer crop that
paid North Carolina 100000 last year. 1t
contends that drying blackborrios at SIC.
pound is moro profitable than raising cotton
at 15c.
VIM. Gilmore Sims, the distinguished
southern novelist, buried in Magnolia ceme.
terry, Charleston, S. O., is to have monu-
ment. The committee having the matter in
charge has adopted the suggestion Of bronze
bust on granite pedestal similar to that
erected in Now York Central Park TO Hum
boldt. When completed it will cost about
f25OO.
The United States Economist of last
Saturday has this encouraging item out the
trade prospect in our section 1t is tho
opinion of wcll-informcd business mon that
the southern and western fall trade will be
moro than usually active. Indeed tho largo
crops in those sections promise this result
Trade with the middle and eastern states il
not expected to be moro than fair, they being
rather manufacturing section nd the last to
rec1vcr after Il scason OF commercial depres-
sionn
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12
Executive Order on the Death OF the
Ex-President.

The following executive order has
teen issued:
WAsHNaTsN, July 81, 1875. 1t be-
comes the painful duty OF the President
to announce to the people of the United
States the death Of Andrew Johnson,
the last survivor of his honored pre-
decessors, which occurred in Garter
county, East Tennessee, ut an early
hour this morning. The solemnity OF
the occasion which called him to the
presidency, with the varied nature ana
length of his public services, Will cause
him to be long remembered, aud ocea-
s;or monruipg for the death of dis
tinguished public servant. As a mark
of respect for the memory of the de-
ceased, it is ordered that the executive
mansion and the several departments OF
the government ut Washington be
draped in mourning until the close Of
the day designated for his funeral, and
that all public business be suspended
ON that day. 1t is further ordered that
the war and navy departments cause
suitable honors to be paid on the oc,
casion to the memory OF the illusirlou'
dead. U. D. uHANi'
By order os the President.
JoHy l.. CApwALADER, ,p
Acting Secretary OF S'a'e.
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FOREIGN.

A London dispatch states that hun
dred thousand dollars in specie has been re-
covered from the wrecked steamship Schiller
Eighteen additional cotton mills in.
voved in the Oldham strike closed their
doors, and the number Of operatives idle is
increased to 10000.
The London Times, in its obituary
article ON Andrew Johnson, says his career
illustrates both the strong and weak points Of
tho American social and political systems.
During his tenure Of Office he showed himself
wanting in tact, refinement and knowledge Of
mon, yet he had some qualities which are not
so abundant in American politics as to be
despised when found. Ho had dauntless
courage some political insight and honesty
never Swallowed by suspicion.
No arrangements have been made
with tho Union bauk for redemption of Dun
can, Sherman d Co.'S letters Of credit in tho
hands of travellers. Negotiations pending
since the failure OF the firm have not been
completed, and the longer arrangements are
postponed there is less probability of a
successful result. Letters from Paris say
over 1000 holders Of the firms letters of
credit have been heard from in Germany
alono. Many arc utterly destitute and have
been compelled TO apply for relief to local
authorities or to American consul4. One
woman, a teacher, OF Massachusetts,, had but
thirty francs when she heard Of tho failure.
The American and English people wherc she
was staying subscribing funds to pay her ex-
penses TO Hamburg, from which place she
took storage passage homo. Appeals for aid
from persons holding these letters come from
all directions. A document stating these
facts, and denouncing the house is preparing
for publication.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12

ARAB PoLTrENEss. The courtesy of
the Arabs to each other and to strangers
is far superior to that of many nations
even in a more advanced state of civlli-
zation. A queer example of it was
given on visit of tho Slit to an Arab
functionary. During dinner she con,
stantly addressed him as "Oam Azee,p,,
which she had always heard him called,
but was shocked to find that 1t was
nickname meaning "mother of beauty,
annlied TO the chief because he was old,
n,Iv lame. and had but one eye. Not
withstanding tho droiiness ,S oi tho .1;htas. mus
take, the Arab took not the slightest
notice of the occurrence. This polite
ness is carefully inculcated in the
children.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12
A MUsSEL SHELL.
by CELIA TllANTER.

Why ant thou coorcd like the evening sky
Sorrowing for sunset? Lovely dOst thOu lie,
Dared by the washing Of the eager brine,
At the SHOWS moiiOnlCsB aud wind-caryed line
Gold stretch the SHOWS, cold throng tho waves, the
wind
Stings shsrp,-an icy fire, q touch unkind,-
And sighs as If with passion of regret
Tho while mark thy tints with violet.
beauty strange! shape Of perfect grace
WhoreOn the lovely waves Of color trace
Tho history Of the years that passed me by,
And touched thee with the plthos of the sky!
The sea shall crush thee, yea the pondcrous wave
Up the loose beach shall grind and scoop thy grave
Thou thought Of God What more than thou am :?
Both transient as the sad winds passing sigh.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12

ties and the general bad management
was large proportion of deaths among
the convicts. The circumstance that
some United States prisoners were con-
fined in the Penitentiary has served to
bring to light the horrible facts, but
there is reason to fear that no change
has been made in the system, aud the
cruelties are continued at the present
hour.
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SOUTH.

A Georgia paper says tho state has
several million acres of pine lands still un-
toushcd
The "prayer test " is being invoked
in favor OF cessation Of rain in many Of the
Memphis churches.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12
TIMELY TOPICS.

The death o. Hans Christian Ander-
sen, the poet and novelist of Denmark,
is announced. His was gentle, genial
spirit, and his works have helped to
better the world. ...
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12

BRIGHAM YoUNd has filed his amended
answer to the complaint Of Ann Eliza
Young. He says his relations with that
lady were ST polygamous nature, and,
therefore, she has no claim on him.
This is cool confession that all his
children are bastards, and his wives by
Mormon marriages concubines, which
would seem to be the fact.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12

RHUBARB was first introduced into
cultivation in 1735. 1t came originally
from China. The root, used medici-
nally, came TO be called Turkey rhubarb,
because it got into Europe through the
hands of Turkish merchants, who pur-
chased it from the Chinese, among
whom it has been used for many cen
turies. The first attempts at cultivat'
ing it were made in 1760.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12
LATE NEWS SUMMARY
EAST,

EAST,
One hundred children are dying in
New York daily of cholera infantum.
From May 22d to July Oath the num-
Der OF deaths from smallpox, in New York,
was 1,Os2, or fraction over 12O per week.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12

AN almost incredible story OF cruel.
ties to prisoners in the Texas Peniten-
tiary is verified by report to tho war
department. A variety of tortures
worthy Of the fiendish ingenuity OF the
middle ages has been inflicted upon the
unhappy inmates. Those selected espe-
cially to undergo such treatment were
mostly convicts who had been employed
by contractors for railroad building,
and by owners of plantations who were
aleo lessees of tho penitentiary. The
crime Of the unfortunates was their in
bility to endure overwork, hardship,
and bad food. The result of the cruel.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12

REPORTS continue to arrive of the dis.
astrous effects produced by the recent
rains throughout the west, and especial.
ly in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Iowa.
Whole sections OF country are flooded,
and the damage to grain crops not yet
harvested or standing in the shock is
immense. Railroad tracks and fences
are washed away, and in many instances
houses and barns have been destroyed.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12

| SENATOR JONES, OF bonanza fame, is
making a great effort to create n sensa-
ton about his new town Santa Monica,
400 miles south east Of San Francisco,
on the Pacific. He is building rail-
road from that point to connect with
the Union Pacific railroad, distance of
eight hundred miles, and he has ar
ranged with the Pacific Mail Steamship
company to allow their vessels to touch
at the new port. This movement OF
the senator is not regarded with much
favor Ly the people of San Francisco,
who see in Santa Monica possibly
successful rival for commercial supre-
macy ON the Pacific coast, as che harbor
at that point is an excellent one. 1t is
said that there is strong probability
that the establishment of Santa Monica
as seaport will lead to the division of
California into two states, as the people
in the southern districts are growing
tired of their dependence on San Fran
cisco and the grinding monopoly of the
Central Pacific railroad
The duke of Sutherland's wicker
coflins, now attracting attention in Eng
land, where the undertakers have held
a meeting to protest against the use of
them, seem to furnish solution of the
much. .mooted question about the best
way of disposing of the dead. They
are simply coffin shaped baskets of
wicker, in which tho dead are laid with
evergreen boughs, flowers, resinous
wood, or whatever else is liked, placed
about them. They readily decay and
allow the body to return to the dust
from which it came. Their cost is but
slight-not comparable with that of
rosewood conins and metallic caskets-
and the thought of death and decay be-
comes less repulsive when we think of
being buried thus. The objections
against vaults and Theoretically sealed
coilins are great if their purpose is to
prevent dissolution of the compages OF
the flesh they do not accomplish it, and
the horrible scenes witnessed when old
vaults are opened-where water has
come through or the bodies are found
in loathsome deliquescence in which
they foat-are infamous if they can be
prevented, as they can be by the use of
the wicker coffin.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12

The committee appointed to count
the funds in the treasury on the retire
ment of Mr.. Spinner are about ready
to make their report. They have been
engaged for the past week in an investi-
cation of the $4,000 robbery, and after
taking mass of testimony without
inculpating any single individual, ex-
press the opinion that the money was
taken by an employe of the cash.room /;
and, further, that it is possible for such
robberies to occur at any time.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12

THE English having loaned the Turk
ish government several hundred millions
of dollars for the purpose of affecting
internal improvements" are now get
ting somewhat alarmed when they find
the sultan spending the greater part cf
the money on personal luxuries. The
sultan in fact has entirely too much fam
lily, his wives numbering eight hundred
and the household expenses alone
amounting to $10,0OO,O0O. This item
alone keeps him " sick, )" and the sooner
England can induce him to settle down
with one wife the better it will be for
all parties concerned.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12

The Army and Navy Journal, con-
menting upon the ravages of the yellow
fever at Pensacola, very sensibly sug-
gests that, as the soldiers stationed at
the two forts there are really not needed
in time of peace, the place should be
abandoned in the sickly season and the
troops sent to healthier locality, thus
avoiding the awful sacrifice of human
life which has characterized the summer
occupation of the Pensacola station,
and doing away with the danger to the
whole southern country and possibly to
several northern seaports through the
transmission of the disease.
THE Chinese are going to engage in
the foolish business of making war on
Kashgar. The dispatch states that
this movement is on account of "the
alleged discovery that the rulers of
that tributary state are preparing to
revolt against the Chinese authority"
The Chinese conquered Kashgar, in
eastern Turkistan, about the year 175O
from the Tartars. In 1868 tho Tartars
revolted, and under Mahommes Yakub
Beg drove the Chinese out, bag and
baggage. Yakub Beg has been ac-
knowledged as the ruler of Kashgar by
Russia, to whom he pays tribute. The
Chinese may collect some tribute there,
but Kashgar is quite an Independent
state and Yabug Beg IS brave and
dashing warrior, who will doubtless
whip the Celestials again if they Under
take to coerce him.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-12

AS Washington died before the close
OF the administration of John Adams,
there was, of course, no ex-president
living when he was gone /; ind now,
again, the death of Andrew johnson
leaves the country without n living ex-
president. Within three presidential
terms, five presidents Pierce, Bu-
chanan, Lincoln, Fillmore, and John
son have died. Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Fill
more, Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Lincoln, and
Mrs. Johnson, the wives of presidents,
are living. But two ex.vice presidents
-Hamlin and Colfax are living.