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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-23

The biggest tree in California is not in
the Yosemite valley, Kings river valley in
FIesno county is $500 feet above the sea-
aud It's walls, which are about 5000 feet
hIgh, are very prccpitous In this valley a
new grove Of colossal redwood trees has
been discovered. One OF them eclipses all
that have been discovered ON the Pacific
coast. Its circumference, as high as a MN
ran reach and pass a tape line around, is a
few inches less than one hundred and fifty
feet. This is beyond the measurement of
any tree in the CNlaycraS grove. The height
is estimated at one hundred and sixty feet
and n part Of the top, lying on the ground,
is over one hundred feet in length.
-Four years ago two Californians plant
ed 1000 acres in walnuts and almonds, and
their crop this season will yield them profit
of $25OOOO.
A most dastardIy attempt was made
ast week to steal the bones of president
Lincoln from the cemetery vault here. The
plot was suspected some time since, and
Elmer Washburnc, United States detective
Tyrell and assistants, watched the vault. |
The sCoundrcIs broke in the outer and inner
doors of the vault, opened the several cases
of sarcophagus and were about to make of
with the remains, when the detectives
sprang ont. The accidental discharge Of
pistol alarmed the robbers and they fled pre-.
escaping in the darkness. a slight
clue to thei identity remains and their cap.
turc is probable
A drove Of 10000 horned cattle was
recently driven from Texas to Kansas, by |
seven hundred drivers, The outfit alone cost
10000, and the herd brought $S2O,OOO
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-23
FACTS AND FANCIES.

4 CYNICAL lady, rather inclined to
flirt, says most men are like cold, very
easily caught, but very hard to get rid Of
A PRETTY reply of French mother:
(which of your children do you love
most" "Always the one that is absent"
SOME boarding schools fit young ladies
for keeping boarders after they marry
and have husband to support.
\ DAUGHTER of Mary Fairfax Som
mcriield, the mathematician, is about to
erect a monument to her mother in
Naples,
MAJOR PAULINE CusINGtN, who was
a spy in the war and afterwards an ac.
trcss, has opened hotel at San Gabriel
California.
10 get up Il handkerchief nirtaton-
rule first, get two handcrchiets and two
fools. The other five rules are unncccs-
sary
A CLEAN of delight passes over the
anxious brow OF the housekeeper like
wintry sunbeam falling across a stock
yard, rs she sees the flies that have made
life burden to her, Ilattcncd hopclcssly
against the ceiling with chilbiains.
"WuEN wa, president ! did not 90
hunting. wrote sixteen hours Il day
--Ihicra "iIe loved books aud was 4 his
torian by trade War is my profession,
and make war on what can hunt
--MrN,loo.
CulpGrN must have love inside the
house and fresh air. and good play
and some good companonship outside
otherwise Young lie runs the greatest
danger in the world Of withcring or
growing stuntcd, or at best prcmaturcly
old and turned inward ON itself.
con-, mamma that's Capt Jones'
knocked . | tno~ he has come to ask me
to he his wife"
"Wcll, my dear, You mustacccpt him
"But thought you hated him So"
"IIate him do--so much, that |
mean to be his mothcrin.Iaw. ~
CERTAINLY never said anything
against woman, rights, and they always
seemed to me to be kind Of rights, that,
if might Judge Of my practical eX
pcricncc, are very APT TO take care of
themselves. say this rs a married man
OF long standing,--JnHr Ho1r
A MILWAUKEE paper reports "onchun-
drcd and twenty thrccdeaths from small
rox, Of which thirly-threc were fatal.
The disease must have assumed an cX-
tremely violent form if this statement is
Trustworthy. When, in the course of an
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-23
Tho Nnnycnnce Of Il Ely.

\ poor man died a few years ago in
the hospital at Paris from carbuncle
produced by the poisonous punctnrc OF
a hy. Deceased informed some friends
that one night 4 large green fly kept him
awake with his bu22ing; to punish it he
plucked off three OF its Legs ard set 1t
free. -Four days afterwards he fell asleep
after his breakfast and was awakened by
A sting On his cheek he raised his hand
to the spot and picked Of the insect that
had been sucking his lesh and iound II
to be the very fy that had been mutt
lated. This time he crushed II past sur
gery, but forgot his wound I'LL mortlii-
cation set in and resulted in death.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-23

beaten spot, Early in spring the whole
surface was narrowed, which scattered the
manure and mixed it with the soil. This
mellowed the soil and destroyed the weeds
that were Just ready to come up, leaving
a clean surface till the young raspberricS
were half a foot high.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-23

Who hath seen q Mulc die
IIarh the vision Of Man ,ncompa,sed one upon
hi. Last Legs and about 10 Keel over
Nixy, my boy, lDr ihy mule Is immortal,
lie lived a thousand yrir' aud th,n Br1coth
II ami takuth Fresh Hold for years
twenty Thousand.
Such /, the va,.n,s,, the Grandeur, the Greatness
OF the auimilc He isa lh- Thing
Why i, he a Thing that is Big
Thou fool go To- the Ant and Consider
re IL Big hrc,usr he is not Little, aud
Rencss diturrth from Lttl"uess even as the Flea
dllerrlh from the Earn door.
Rc wise, oh Mau, Fad out thy skull with Kuowl-
edge and learn Wisdom ol me- the Poet Of
Nature. -Mi''r f. E-PP-E
Ir is great thing to be able to see a
point. Here is a happy instance OF abili-
ty in that line. \ countryman, wander
ing with his wife through the art gal
lerics Of the Philadelphia exhibition,
stood before Riyierc's picture OF Gree
and the companions OF Ulysses. lie
pazed earnestly at the painting, wondered
what was meant by the handsome young
woman PLAYING on her Tyre. while herd
nr swine walIowed ard tumhled about at
her feet. HE then looked up the pic
turc in his catalogue and pondered over
the title, It companions VI lISSCS'
Said he: "Well, it that ism the hardest
slap old Grants got yet"
The Scientific American prints the
following comforting intelligence for
persons who are daily annoyed by tobacco
hends: The effect, OF tobacco-smoking
are disculoring Of the teeth by carbon,
excitement OF the salivary glands by the
ammonia. headache and lIssitudc from
the carbonic aci! disease of the heart
nom the carbonic oxide, nausea from the
l;..gr extract, and tainting OF the
breath by the volatile cmPyreunatiG
substance. The system may become used
TO these thing yet Is made liable to
consumption, nervous exhaustion, pat
! alysi. and other ailments"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-23

g,ykFY is accustomed to tell "a the
or.in Of Hold the Fort" about Shor-
mans mc. sage signalicd to Gen. corse,
At Altoona, Hold the Fort am con-
ins." The evangelist, however does not
quote Gen. Cor,e's reply, which wits ::
Il am short cheek-bone and an ear, but
am able to whip all hell yet"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-23
TIE EAST.

The crbles of the East river (N. W
bridge SIT tches across height of from one
hundred nd seveutv-fve to four hundred
leet above high water,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-23

AZ old Scotch woman recommended 4
preacher who arrived at the kirk wet
through 90 get at once into the pulpit
Yen be dry enough there
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-23
Not Too Much, I onsidcring.

The Lancaster Pa) Examiner says ;
\ IAbanun contractor had some men
working for him in the rural districts,
At the end OF each month he usually
pald their wages. Some time ago he re
rciycd the following bill and letter from
a man who had been furnishing the staff
of lie to one Of his workmcn;
souSc Mounting + rotc
l,biuon kounte
September 2-t lNln
Mix punirrn toP-- D., ESQ deter
10 wa,hrn Close months IL cents
to I} times cad at 20 scnts 10 doler- "a
-rnts get drunk doIer
Mi,trr-hcr is \. duniscu his bort bill, it Is
j. dorrs charged get drunk, it Is shrap h,
mag 50 mutch mu,ScnS ven lie vas tldc as
not hcv agan for dwisS 50 much cny more
he preak my Iookcn class, and trwo my pigs
MT shtuue- and prcal. his pa", and mag
my vic scharcd Diet putty ncarwit shot
run. and yjl 80 mi cl ,houdiug around kig3
up de- devil 50 as pcrpcl prlrvc my hous
vas "a lone,irk aslem ; d"erS j church ven
you dand pay il charch 10 dolcrs.
Npur4 I---l l-u.
, 1876-06-25
STOKh AGE.

STOlkA&sEs
-~*-N~~~'-<s<-e~-S>>~--@>~-
I'M EAST WASUIyGT0i-ST.. CLEAN, SAFE
" place; money advanced on goods u desired THIS.
\. HILL, 1e3 Dearborn ST.
c7ToRaGR FOR FTESITURE, BUGGIEs AND
. merchandise In nrepruof warehouse 1eO West Non
roe.st Mouey loarGd. ChaFK61 loWes6 IN to4 city.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-07-29
lndisputable Evidence.

BT. ELMo, Ill.,, July 9, 1874.
II. v. IEncH, NJ. D., Buffalo, N. VII
with to add my testimony 10 tho wonderful
curative properties OF your Alt. Ext, or Golden
Medical Discovery. have taken great inter-
s est ~ th,s medicine since arst H.ed T. was
and IN almost perfect pros ration Of the ner.
yous systom. 30 rapid and complete did the
Discovery effect perfect cure that it seemed
more lie magic and perfect wonder 20 my
self, and since that time We have never been
without . bottle OF Discovery and Purgative
Pellets IN the house. They arc . solid, sound
family physician In the house and ready At all
times TO fly to tho relief Of sickness without
charge. Wo havo never had doctor In the
house since We first begun tho use Of your Pei.
lots aud Discovery have recommended the
use Of these medicines Ia several severe and
complicated cases arising from, 40 l thought,
IN impure state Of the blood, and Ia n, ono
al they are claimed TO- do. ! will only mention
ono ~ remarkable (though could give You
dczens). Henry Roster, furniture dealer, Of
this place, who was ono OF tho most pitiful OBJ
jects ever seen, his face swollen out Of shape,
scales and eruptions without end, extending TO
his body, which was completely covered with
blotchts and scales. Nothing th.t DO took
him to try few bottles Of tho Golden Medical
Discovery, with daily uso Of tho Pellets, ASSURE
ing him It would surely cure him. He COM
menoed its use some six weeks since, taking
two Pellets each night for week, then one
zach night, and the Discovery ~ directed. Tho
result is, to-day his skin 10 perfectly smooth,
and the scsly eruptions are gone. He has
taken some seven or eight bottles In all, aud
considers himself cured. This case had baf-
fed tho skill Of our best physicians. Messrs.
Dunsford 4 Co., druggists, Of this place, are
selling largely Of your medicines. and the de-
mand steadily increases, and thoy give perfect
satisfaction In every case
Respectfully, W. H. CHAMPLN,
Agt. Am. Exp. 90.
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SoHENck's SEA WEED ToNIc.-In the atmosphere
sIperienosd here during the months. the lsh
arsy produced BY the heat takes away the desire fol
wholesome food. and frequent perspirations reduos
bodily energy particularly those suffering from the
effects Of facilitating diseases. In order to keep a
natural heathful activity of the SYSTEM must resort
to artificial means. For this purpose Schencks Sea
Weed Tonic is very sneotua few doses will GREATS
appetite and give fresh vgor to the enorvated body
For dyspepsia. 1t IL invaluable Many eminent physi
clans have doubted whether dyspepsia can DO psrma
nenty cured by the drugs which generally employed
for that purpose Tho Sea Weed Tonic In its nature
totally different from such drugs. 1t contains
sive minerals acids; in fact. 1t assists the regular
operations of nature, and supplies her deficiencies The
tonic in ts nature much resembles the gastric juice
that 1t Ia almost identical with that fluid. The gastric
juico the natural solvent which, In healthy condition
of the body. the food to be digested and when
this juice Is not increased In sufficient quantities. ndi
geition. with all its distressing symptoms, follows. The
Sea Weed Tonic performs the duty of the gastric juice
whom the latter IL deficient. Sehenok's Sea Weed
Tonic sold by all Druggists
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Order OF the American Union,

The Order of the American Union has
adopted the following platform
l. We accept the Bible rs the basis OF
all moral, religious, governmental and
educational undertakings.
2. We yield an unhesitating support
to the Constitution and government OF
the United States and OF the several
States.
3. We urge that the present system OF
one general unsectarian free school Or
ganization shall be maintained inviolate.
4 We claim that no part of the public
funds shall ever be used for the support
and maintenance of any sectarian school
or institution whatever.
8. We are opposed to any interference
in political affairs by any man or body of
men acting in behalf or by direction of
any ecclesiastical body or power, yet we
make no war on any mans religious
creed.
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Tho Fourth Great War.

Tho Americans have had three great
Indian wars, each raging coincidently
with q foreign war. Tho first was with
tho Algonquin nations 10 whom the
Ohippeways belong, led by Pontiac Il
Immediately followed the overthrow Of
French power In America The second
was with the Ir0quois, allies OF Great
Britain in our Revolution. The third
accompanied tho second war with Eug'
land, when Tecumseh reused all tho
tribes between Lake Erie aud the gulf.
Tho Apache war In Arizona was o conse-
quent OF the Mexican war and our occu-
patton OF the Southern plains. II there
arc twenty-five thousand Sioux. OF oil
kinds, they arc equal to tho whole mum.
Dor OF Indians east OF the Mississippi
when we mot Pontiac in war. one hun
bred and twenty years ago. That was
the number Of Indians computed be-
tween the Mississippi and tho Atlantic IN
l755 by Mr.. Parkman. Pontiac attacked
every tort from Niagara and Pittsburgh
TO Detroit and Mackinac. The Sioux
are now fenced out from our settlements
by line OF forts built along tho water
channels OF the Missouri. Yellowstone
aud Platte Fort Reno. Fort Lincoln.
Fort Rice, Fort Sully, Fort Russell, etc.
The removal OF the Eastern Sioux to the
plains was promptly followed by run
ming railroads to the Pacific, and to
Sioux City and Bismarck, on tho Mis-
souri, river. The former and the latter
roads, designed to go through to the
Pacific, were obnoxious to the Sioux, as
they crossed tho hunting region, the
subsistence for the Dakota in state Of
nature. The end of the Northern PA.
cihc railroad, Bismarck. is tho base OF
supplies for the posts in the land OF
the Dakota, which are communicated
with by steamers running once month.
These steamers go several hundred
miles up tho current to reach tho juno.
ton OF the Yellowstone with the Mis-
souri,. Both rivers are navigable. The
Yellowstone and its branches. Of which
the Big Horn and the Rosebud are two,
Aow northward, and all its leading
branches come from the south side, as
the Rocky Mountains lie there, and
emit the SHOWS and springs. 1t is three
hundred miles from everywhere to the
spot where the Sioux have encountered
Sheriden's officers-three hundred miles
north OF the Union Pacific, three hun
bred miles from the Missouri, three
hundred or more from Helena and Bis
marck, or Fort Lincoln. The Black
Hills are far to the southeast and much
nearer civilization. The Yellowstone
Park, OF which so much has been written,
is two hundred miles to the west. The
game OF the continent has been driven to
that lofty region Of streams, canyons
and mountain ridges, and twenty lesser
tribes, seeking to get subsistence there,
are kept in mortal fear of the Dakotas.
Their numbers, radical difference OF
race from other Indians, skill as riders,
and superior size and courage make
them overbearing. Intelligent, restless,
unprincipled and despotic, they are
made up of bands who have seen civil
cation and others-which seldom or never
saw white man-of outlaws and barba-
rians, many sided as Mohammedan'
sm.-Erchange.
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A Greeting from the Jews.

A letter has been addressed to the
President of the United States by mem
bers of the Universal Israelite Alliance OF
Paris, on the occasion OF the Centennial
celebration, dated Paris, which Gays:
In the celebration in which the United
States is about to engage the Universal
Israelite Alliance requests it may take
part. 1t especially behooves US to recall
with gladness that, the first Of all nations,
yours has proclaimed liberty. Besides
those born under your skies, the Israel
ties of our countries, who have crossed
the ocean, have received at your hands
emancipation, and have had their share
of the great blessing. Aud, in how
many instances, by their international
policy, by their management and choice
of their diplomatic agents, have not the
United States given to European Israel
ties the striking proof of their sym
patbyi Your flag carries the stars, which,
in our sacred literature, are the symbols
of divine benediction. With this au-
spicious emblem marching before you,
may this divine henediction shed its rays
over your beautifulrepublic with increas-
ing brilliancy during centuries of peace,
useful works and goodwill among men,
and fraternally among nations.
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Theodore TiltOn's Children.

An unpleasant controversy, says the
Brooklyn Eagle, is threatened between
Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton concerning the
guardianship of their son Ralph, which,
without raising any of the old issues,
will give pain to the better friends of
both parties. Mrs. Tilton, as is gener.
ally known, has refused persistently to
receive any pecuniary assistance from
her husband, although no was willing to
aid her, and her legal right to obtain it
is unquestioned. Out Of this disposition
to maintain herself by her own exertion
the present trouble in some measure
has arisen. Mr.. Tilton, it appears, after
his recent lecture tour, sent 81 900 to
Mrs. Tilton. Adhering, however, to
her resolution, she would not use any OF
the money, but put it in tho bank to the
credit Of her children. Along with the
1000 Mr.. Tilton sent 800 specially
for the boy Ralph. Mrs. Tilton made
the same use OF this as she did of the
larger sum-put it in the bank without
saying anything about it to the boy.
When Theodore learned what his
wife had done he expressed anger, not
so much at her refusal to profit person
ally by his labors as at the fact that she
did not acquaint Ralph with the pecu
mary evidence of his father regard for
him. Looking upon this act as an evil
dence, or making it pretext for be-
lieving that the mother could not longer
be trusted with the boy, he few days
ago induced the child to visit him,
when, putting him into a carriage, he
drove over to New Jersey, where he has
kept him until now, and still insists
upon keeping him.
Mrs. Tlton had no intimation OF her
husbands intention until she found
herself deprived of her child, when she
became almost frantic with gtief, and
is now in state bordering on distrac-
ton. Whether Mr.. Tilton's assigned
reason for taking away the boy is the
real reason admits of doubt, but that his
action will give rise to an unpleasant
quarrel seems certain at present.
It is worth noticing in this connection
and as perhaps indicative OF premedita.
ton, that under the law of New Jersey,
the father is the recognized guardian OF
boy after he reaches the age of seven,
and Ralph reached that age few days
ago, while in New York State no such
doctrine is entertained; both parents
being looked upon with equal favor.
Mr.. Tilton now says that Ralph desires
to remain where he is, namely, at Ocean
Grove, N. j., with his sisters, while the
friends of Mrs. Tilton and the boy Car
roll, who is thirteen years Of age, and
who lives with his mother, say that
Ralph wants to return to Brooklyn.
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with an axe and then out his own throat with

with IN axe ana thon cut Ms own throat with .
razor.
william A. Wheeler, In accepting the nomi.
nation Of the Republican convention for the
vioe-Presidency, says In HE letter that, "R
elected, shall endsavor to perform tho duties
Of tho ofioe In tho fear Of tho Supreme Ruler
and In tho interests Of the whole country. To
the platform adopted BY tho convention no
gives his cordial consent" Upon the question
Of our Southern relations, he say his views
wore recently expressed ~ . member Of tho
committee Of tho United States Houre of Rep.
resentatives upon Southern AffAirs. While
deprccating harsh Judgments which make no
allowance for tho peculiar difficulties and dan.
gers which besot Southern society, no 10,
nevertheless, nrm in maintaining tho right Of
oil American citizens to equal and full proteo-
ton. "This will be accomplished, Mr.. Wheeler
says. "only when the American citizen, with
out regard to color, shall wear this panopy Of
citizenship AZ fully and securely In the cano.
Lawrence" Tho obligation Of tho country to
its creditors, he says, must be religiously kept.
Tho public school system should DO preserved
and that systom kept FREQ from sectional in
auence or control, and the striotost economy
In the expenditures Of tho government are do
msnded.
Tho yacht Mohawk, OF the New York yacht
club squadron, oapsixed In tho NArrows, oppo-
site Stapleton, Staten Island. Twonty.one por-
sons were on board, six Of whom were drowned.
The yacht Was owned by Vice. Commodore VIM.
T. Garner, Of the New York yacht club, and
Mr.. Gamer and his wife, Mics Hunter, tho
second steward and two cooks were drowned.
M. Garner lost his lifo in trying to assist his
vito out Of tho cabin. Miss Hunter, . sister
Of Mrs. Garner, persisted with them. The
yacht had all her sails set. except the jibtop-
SAIL and Was getting under way to go down tho
bay to join the neet when she was struck by
violent squall that threw her ON her beam
ends. The squsll came from the southwest,
and lasted only two minutes. Mr.. Garner was
about forty years old. He was = favorite with
the members Of tho Now York yacht club, and
was familiarly known ~ WILL" He was the
owner Of the great Harmony calico print mills
ct Cohoes and others, and is estimated to have
been worth from 80, 100000 to $50, 900 900.
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Slavery In Turkey.

Inc Fera correspondent OF the Lon
don Times says: The Turks have come
to the desperate resolution Of enlisting
and armirg $4,000 Bashi -Bazouks
throughout the empire, who, if they
cannot do as much as soldiers. will be
available as brigands, and may prevent
the spread Of insurrection by the instant
menace of q general massacre of the
Christians. The awful work these saw
age irregulars, and especially the Circas-
slams, have been carrying on in Bulgaria,
is an earnest of the efficient aid they can
lend the government Of the Porte in its
straits. I have heard from several
sources during the past three days the
distressing report that Bulgarian chill
dren wero sold rs slaves by their Circas-
sian captors. A wealthy Greek banker
at Pera, whose name l could mention,
has, for humane reasons, bought four
such captives, of course with view to
rescue them from the fate which awaited
them in the hands of Turkish purchas-
ers. I am informed that many of the
pashas and beys are supplying their
harems with servants from this source,
and that at Adrianople this trade is
carried on with little, if any, attempt at
concealment. You are aware that the
Circassians have always been and are in
the habit of bringing up their children
to stock the harems of wealthy Mussul-
mans. No wonder if, together with
their own, they offer to the highest bid
ders the young creatures they have
seized in the ravaged villages of the
Balkans. I have been assured that a
poor Bulgarian refugee recognized his
own child in the hands of Circas-
sian slave dealer, and upon claiming it
before the authorities his claim was re-
jected on accounted the absence of Mus
sulman Witnesses establishing his pa
ternity-for, undoubtedly, many of the
magistrates, in spite of all the sovereign
hats, still refuse or disregard Christian
testimony.