The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-01-27

though suffering from the very Wors'
cold we ever had In our life. But, the
people of Nashville, as general
thing, are so clever that it ought to
cure a sick man to go there. The State
officers, from Governor down; and the
co unity officers; and the railroad Off
Gals; and the hote! men and news
paper men and merchants and men
who do nothing at all-are all sociable
and clever. and we do believe that, in
proportion to population. Nashville is
the best, cleverest city in the world.
But we we're sick, and there was no
help for us. Advice was plentiful,
One clever friend told US to take ten
prains of blue mass before going to
bed at night, and two seidlitz powders
next morning, and so we went to
DorLch g. Haddox's old stand and
bought the medicine prescribed. On
our way to the Maxwell House we met
Col. B., who asked, in his usual, bland
manner, after our health, and when we
told him of the medicine we had pur'
chased in order to be a well man, he at
once convinced us that it would never
do to take mercury-that, once in our
system it could never be gotten out.
And 80, ve took his advice and went
and got some Compound Cathartic
Pills, and started again for our room.
On our way we met another friend,
who convinced US that wine of tar, and
q little nitre, and q little paregoric,
would be sure to cure us. or course
we changed our mind and went back
to the drug store, and chen started for
the third time to the hotel. This time
we got to the magnificent Maxwell,
where we knew that Messrs. LaPrade
and Crawford would have US carefully
attended to. But there we met anoth-
er warm friend, who persuaded us that
the best thing we could do was to 60
to a doctor at nee. At once We went,
and the doctor, benevolent man! gave
US a little bit Of paper on which were
several signs Of Jupiter and'a little hog
Latin. Each word was abbreviated,
from which fact we %innocen.ly snppos.
ed the NJ. DIS time was valuable. The
hog Latin was something like this:
"Cap. coch. mag. quacum, hor."
What in the devil it meant was beyond
our comprehension, and We feared the
apothecary might charge US at least
ten dollars for it. So, we resolved to
fool the doctor, and just get some ep-
som salts in lieu. Imagine our aston
ishment when the %apothecary told US
that epson salts and a little rose water
was about all our enigmatical prescrip-
ton meant. And we took the salts
light in the drug store, remarking to
ourself that this was surely an age Of
humbuggery and quackcry, and that
we we're not half as smart as we had
imagined ourself to be.
But Nashville is a clever city. She is
the capital Of nj State, and capital
people live there. And when we went
to the big fire on Market street, and
saw five business houses consumed, to-
gether with q vast amount Of merchan-
disc, to the amount of about $4,000
our heart was sorry. But the sufferers
were pretty fully insured, as we learned
afterward, and then our sympathies
went out to the Insurance Companies,
for whom, alas! there is very rarely
any sympathy felt. And we wondered
if the sufferers were insured in such
sound and noble companies as are rep
resented in Winchester by W. j. Stat
ter. And they we're, for some of them
had policies in the Estate" Of which
John Lumsden Is President and D. r.
johnson, Secretary.
Well, times in Nashville are hard,
just as they are all over the country,
and will continue to be under a policy
looking to q contraction Of the curren-
cy, which is fast bringing we'll TODD
men to poverty and poor men to star
walton. What fools the mallory OF our
legislators are! They pass a bankrupt
act that helps the rich and rascally, but
helps not the laboring man, who has
netting to bankrupt on-aye, not as
much as the law allows him. And yet
these big fellows take the bankrupt
act, get clear " their Indebtedness and
come out withmoney to buy up the
poor mans property at a ruinOus dis
count. Bah 70, such legislation!
We did not h,ar much discussion of.
politics, except that several wise men
told US the Hone journal was sound
in regard 10 tie main issues, which
was no news to 4s, OF course. Homes.