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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16
Gcorgla's Gold Mines.
From the Atlanta Constitution,


1t is certain that few people have any
idea OF the amount of gold that Is dug
ont of the north Georgia hills and ship.
ped to Atlanta every month some days
Ngo we published news note in which
we stated that Messrs James K. Wylic,
" Co., Of this city received about three
thousand dollars a month in gold dust
from that region. We learn that Messrs.
Moore, Marsh Il Co. receive double ~
much, and that Others receive fully that
much. In fact, it pours in a yellow
stream from the rich mountains into our
favored city. There are single mills at
DahIoncga that get out six thousand dol
lars worth Of gold per month. We do
not believe that less than thirty thou
sand dollars worth Of gold per month
reaches Atlanta from north Georgia, pos.
oibly fifty thousand dollars, Around
Dahloncga there Is Il perfect nest of mills,
The Hand gold mining company are run
ming at present twenty stamp mills the
Bcnnng mine ten stamp mills, the Law
renee mine five stamp mills, the Fnd'cy
mine tNenty-ninc stamp mills, the Huff
mine five stamp mills. Then we have
siXty.iour stamp mills working within
less than two miles Of Dahlonega Mr.,
Lombard has an eight stamp mill, and
the Ogle mill with five stamp mill, are
within two or three miles Of the Others.
Besides these, there are several mines in
White county being worked successfully.
There are Others in Hall county doing
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16

\ girl in Charleston has dark blu,
hair.
The shopgirls Of Boston number nearly
one-tcnth OF the entire population of tho
city.
Out of the fifteen applicants for adms.
sion to Michigan university, none were
rejected
4 Young man on the West side, Chica-
90, has been Tilted by his girl for singing
Meet me by moonlight Her father
* stakeholder in a gas company.
Miss Alice Kingsbury il chiselling her
way to rcnown as sculpture in San
Francisco, after making her mark as an
actress.
Miss Lucy C.. Brieden, a graduate of
the Medford Mass high school, has be-
come hopeles.ly insane. This high pres
sure system of education is more disa,-
trous 10 health than tight lacing and It's.
sue.paper shoes.
Ladies who have plants to protect are
informed by the -. Louis Democrat that
q So Overroat will not cover more
plants than two 2-ccnt newspapers.
Grace Greenwood rode ona cowcatchcr
for forty miles, and when she was
helped down it took her half day to
get the wrinkles out Of her nO-c.
Miss Ogden, Of Pittsburgh, graduate
of the Philadelphia medical college, has
received an appointment from the Amer
lean board Of commissioners for fore;au
missions ~ the missions at 2Iadurs
India.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16
FOREIGN,

Dispatches from Europe received on
the 3lst ut. were very conflicting III re-
| lation to the European war, but according to
an official telegram the terms OF the armis'
tice are being finally agreed upon, and their
execution is hourly expected. The London
Post, spcaking upon the authority of its
own correspondent, thinkI the question Of
armistice is settled, and that conference OF
the powers will shortly be held The Lon
don Times correspondent at Belgrade tele-
graphs there is no longer any delusion.
The Seryians are now at the feet of Russia
or the mercy of Turkey.
A battle was fought on the 29th, in
which the Turks drove the Servians from
Diunis after n crushing defeat. The Tchernay
eh's army is cut in two and completely demor-
allied. Aorvatovtch's command has retired
on Krutci.evatzi. 4 great panic prevails at
Belgrade.
The Pope having desired to divide the
Archbi hoprc Of Lyons into two dioceScs,
without the consent OF the French govern
ment the latter has issued decree forbid
ding such division.
Foreign adyices from Havana describe
the effects OF the last hurricane As very dis.
astrous. The sugar crop, which promised to
be exceptionally abundant will be much re-
duced.
The Official Gazette of the Slst ut,
states that Gen Ignatief, Russian embassa-
dor at Constantinople, has been instructed
IN demand the Porte's acceptance within
forty.eight hours, of an armistice and sus'
nension of hostiIites, otherwise diplomatic
galatians between Russia and Turkey will
ho broken off, and Gen. Isnatieil, with the
whole personal OF the embassy will leave
constantinnple. This ultimatum oil RUSSIA
to Turkey was disnatched from Luodia'
where the Russian court is solourning, 10
Constantinople on the 3Oth LONDON
Times correspondent at Vienna says th're Is
no reason TO suppose the Porte VIII resist
the Russian ultimatum and refuse the
armistice. It's consent to the latter was eX'
pected every moment before the ultlmatum
arrived. It remains to he seen how tar
Russia's concliatory attitude in regard to
the conference will be affected BY the Incl
dent OF the ultimatun'.
The next annual conference association
,or The reform and codifcation OF the laws
H., :. ,,nounrrd TO he held at Ant
werp on the ,wenty,fr't Of August next.
The burgomaster and authorities oi Aut'
,rc,n will receive the association, assisted by
a reception committee from Brussels
The grcat marine canal connecting
,o,,erdam with the German ocean, was
opened Nov. l,t ".'h imposing ceremonies
Al which member, Of the aahine; and foreign
,esre.eatatiye. we're present
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16

4 letter from Key West, giving The
experience of the United States steamer
Ossippce in the storm of the nineteenth
and twentieth Of October, says "Thc
men, In getting about the decks to at
tCTd TO their duties, were thrown yio-
lently trolG their feet and, blinded by
the salt spray, were obliged to 90 group
ing about as if they were in total dark
ness, They could only stick to their sta
tions by the most desperate struggling
against the hatchcs gratings doors,
dcck-bucketN ard many other articles
that were being swept back and forth
across the decks by the rushing Of the
water as the ship rolled and tossed
Breathing was difficult, aud the air taken
into the lungs was 50 loaded with sea
salt that it caused excessive irritation,
producing violent coughing and vOmit-
ing. The suiicringS Of the men were
intense, especially among the Iircmcn
and coal-heavcrs, who were not only de.
privcd of ventilation, but obliged to in
hale the saltwater steam produced by
the seas rushing into the fire room. 1t
NdS lIlNIl lllDNHllt lNlN lSiDlt W VllCuNliHt
the men by the II e OF stimulantS, and
the surgeon ordered a sufficient quantity
to be given to all hands and sent it to
the cabin to be distributed, The effect Of
the storm on the animals ON board was
peculiar. Thccats disappeared the morn
ing before the storm, and were not seen
for five days aiterwaGd The dog Dan
icl, a splendid pointer owned by the
captain, exhibited the greatest dread at
being left alone, and was only appeased
when some one was patting him. The
hens and turkeys, usually the most hui
cry and voracious and quarrcIsomc on
board, forgot their hunger, and barely
opened their eyes when food was thrown
to them Two birdg-bahos, a species
OF pcIcan-camc on board while we were
lying in the yerteX. They must
have been drawn down while at
tempting to fly over us. The parrot was
the only thing which at all seemed to
enjoy the surroundings"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16

The great question is at last settled
A Pennsylvania woman says she car
walk twenty miles a day in mems clothes
and only twelve in female apparel,
Mrs, liycmore wecps because she i,
u woman.
Mrs, Miller Of California, has line Of
stages,
\ woman came slowly along the main
building, She was in great pcrplexity
but being wisq woman, she stopped 10
ask for information, and this is what she
asked "Can you tell me, sir, Is this the
other end of the buiIding?' "a think
it is" "Well, sir" she cried, "can you
tell me where ! shall 20 next"
The grandmother of the late Gen. Nc
PherSOn, whose monument was unveiled
at Washington by the society Of the
army of the Tennessee on "Wednesday,
was invited to be present at the ccrcmo
MICS but died the day before the invita-
ton reached its destination. She was
nincty-nine years old,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16

\ dispatch from Rome to the London
DAILY News says that Cardinal Antonclli is
dying His holiness, the pope, ON Sunday
ordered consultation OF physicians, who
declared the cardinals ease hopeless. Iii,
relatives were summoned to his bedside,
and found him unconscious.
\ London dispatch dated Nov. lst says:
a Cabinet council has been summoned for
Saturday next, the fourth in,t.trl. a dis.
patch from Belgrade announces that diplo.
matte officials there state that the Porte has
accepted an ulmstice Of two months aud or,
dered It's army commanders to suspend hos.
tjiir..
The London Post publishes, in official
form, the following paragraph; "Turkey
having accepted the armiNtire, we under.
stand Russia has taken immediate steps TO
press forward negotiations for the arrange.
mcnt OF all pending questions on Il basis Of
the English proposals"
In the chamber Of deputies ut Paris,
on the 3D., the duke de- Ca1es, minister of
foreign affairs, made 4 statement in regard
to the policy Of the French government in
the east lie dwclt principally on the
country's need of peace, and concluded as
follows; "lf, contrary to the expectations
OF the government, complications should
arise, "" shall never ask YOU to compromise
the honor and safety OF France in a struggle
which does not involve her essential inter
est Thus having used our best rndcnvors
to maintain the peace Of Europe, We shall
at least be sure Of being able to maintain it
for ourSelvr>,n
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16
CONVERSATIONS OF NEWS.
THE SOUTH.

Barbour Lewis, formerly II member O
congress from the Memphis district, ha,
been appointed register Of the land office al
Salt Lake, vice o. \. Patton
The British bark Crown Jewel, Of st.
Johns, arrived AT Galveston, on the 3Oth
bringing the crew Of the rhomas Winans, of
Port Richmond, n. Y, which went down of
"rand Caymar island during the late hurri.
cane. The vessel and cargo were total
Loss. No loss Of life.
A despatch from Brrrytown, twenty
two miles northeast OF Woodville Miss, re.
ports that Mr.. Sturdvant, wife and til @
children were murdered in their beds and
the house burned to conceal the horrible
deed. Before his arrival two negroes, who
planned and executed this crime, we're can.
tured, one hung and the other shot in at.
tempting TO escape, Two are still at lar,e
but can hardly escape arrest. Many colored
citizens assisted IN the capture, md were
with great difficulty preyeD ed from tbrow.
ing the prisoners into Il e BURNING emLers,
In the federal court at Little Rock, on
3'St "lt, Jud se II. c. Caldwell on the bench
benJam-.n D. Watkins was convicted of
"."ing counterfeit nckles, AMI ,entcnced
TO pay fine OF one thousand dollars and
one year in the peni,entiary.
The number of postal cards issued
during the month just passed was 90, 10000,
being an increase of 2077,5OO, or nearly
fifteen per cent. over the issues in October
last year. This is the largest issue of cards
'occu,cing in any one month since the intro.
'dnt1len of cards. some three years ago.
John Strothers and Samuel Wilson,
both colored, got into a quarrel at a negro
ball at st. Louis Tuesday night, during which
Wilson drew a large pocket knife and
plunged it into Strothers breast, killing him
instantly. Wilson is said to have killed a
man in Chicago about year ago. He was
arrested.
\ fire occurred in wholesale drug
house at st. Louis OIL Thursday evening do
ing damage to the amount of $4,000.
w. ID. Stewart, a desperate and citi-
en- Of the Indian Nation, who murdered
man named Henry, was arrested near Cotton
Plant, Ark, on Tuesday, by federal deputy
marshals lie attempted to escape and was
shot dead.
Marshal Leiper has arrived at Little
Rock, from Texas, with two Pope county
n,uyderers ior whom there was $4,000 re.
ward.
Will Heilman, promising''young man
living near Little Rock, Ark, recently fell
sixty feet from pecan tree ard was in.
stantly killed.
A party OF negroes brekc into resi-
dence near Aiken, South Carolina, on the
Sd, and murdered Mr.. Hanslson and his
nephew named Postman. After robbing the |
premises the muMercrs fired the dwelling.
a special to the GlObe-D Democrat, from
kaufman, Texas, SAYS Eugene Catchings and |
VIM Payne, who murdered John Love near
Terrell, Texas, in May, 1875, have been
hanged.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16
TIRE EASY,

\ railroad accident near GoIdhoro.
Pa, On the 30th ult., was the cause of the
death OF five persons, and serious injury OF
thirteen Others
Forty thousAnd people visited the CEN
tennial on s.dnday, Oct. 29th. Over 100000
cash adj Missions were taken the following
Mon(.ay.
The jewelry store of Stern Bros, GG
Nassau street, was entered by burglars Sat.
urday evening and the safe broken open and
$4,000 worth Of the most valuable portion
OF the stock stolen.
Mr.. Walter B. Palmer, for several
wears president of the Tenth national bank
of New York, died on the 3lst, aged forty
:hree years
Charles Williams, alias Charles Stew
ems, convicted some time ago on tive indict.
ments, charging him with forging bonds on
the New York Central and Buffalo, New
York and Erie railroad companies, has been
sentenced to the states prison for fifteen
years.
4 raid was made recently on num-
her of lottery places throughout New York,
going under the name OF the Kentucky lot.
terry, and controlled, it is said, by Simmons,
Dickson " Co., and arrested the parties in
charge aud carried their stock to the sta
lionhouscs.
Harry Hardaker, noted English
thief, jumped from train near Utica, y. u,
while u1der arrest, on Wednesday last. and
was killed.
The works of the Buffalo Hardware
60. have been destroyed by fire.
Another railroad accident occurred on
the PENNSYLVANIA road near Center Valley,
on the lst inst, in which three sleepers were
cipsized, and two persons killed and several
injured.
In an Official report of the recent acci
dent on the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western railway, superintendent Halstead
SAYS the rear brakeman, whose duty 1t was
10 ne pUth WIN l"-i h"' ''''
since the accident occurred.
Another accident occurred on the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad on Thursday One
person was killed and several injured.
The entire front Of the residence OF
augustus Juppies, Of Rondont, Ne" York.
was recently blown out b. charge OF pow
der placed in the window by some malicious
person. The occupants OF the house were
uniujurei.
VIM. Wheatly, once favorite actor
died in New York on the Sd inst.
Weeden, Goodwin and Colvar, were
found guilty Of mansnughier by AIDING III
ne L'Iing Of the prize fighter walker, al
,,s',u. Tsu Jersey and have been sentenced
ios,. ,rs iuprisoneut each III the ireh'
too ;e..,entiary The .renailips $50 prs
oasrs dark and Nears, we're serreheed %
an imprisonment Of tive ysar',
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16

The digest OF the crop returns for Oc-
,ober, as prepared at the department Of
agriculture, indicates reduction in the
Weld of the wheat crop Of nearly one
sixth, while the quantity is somewhat su
perior. Every section of the union in
dicatcs a reduction of product except
the middle states. The figures point to
a yield OF about two hundred and forty.
FIVE million bushels. Rye is reported
four per cent. less than 1873, but the
quality il better. Barley is six per cent.
less than last year Buckwheat is full
average. Oats show falling oil OF
twcnty-three per cent. Every section ot
the union is deficient. The corn crop is
deficient but the figures are not yet OBJ.
tanned. The cotton crop will be large
and likely to approach the heavy yield
of 1875 Sweet potatoes are full aver
age crop. sorgbum-full production.
1osaeco-reaor1 shows assut an average
rroduotior.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16
TIiE WEST.

Fa'se alarm Of fire created panic in
Chinese theater on Jackson street, San Fran
cisco, on Tuesday night The building wa
crowded, and rush was made for the singl
entrance way, and many were uample,
down in the confusion. The police dragged
ont about twenty dead persons and the sam,
numOcr wounded. The Chinese refused I,
render any assistance, and the performers
continued playing until stopped by the po
lice.
One hundred Sioux Indians left Sid.
ney, Neh,, for the Indian Territory on q
tour OF inspection, on the last day of Octo.
| ber.
Dispatches received on the 3lst ult,,
. report that Gen. Miles had fight with Sit.
ting Bull on the 2lst ult,, on Cedar Creek,
and completely routed him. killing q mum.
Der of Indians and wOundng many, lie
chased the Indians about sixty miles, when
they divided, one portion going toward the
agency, and Sitting Bull toward Fort Peck
The Colorado legislature met the lst
inst, Webster Anthony was elected speaker
Of the house, and W. W, Webster president,
protein, of the senate.
The Pacific mail steamer Alaska
sailed on the lst, from San Francisco, for
Hong Kong, via fakahoma, taking over
three hundred thousand dollars in silver
coin and bullion, large proportion OF which
was sent by local banks on account of east
cn and European correspondents, who pre-.
fer to settle their Indebtedness in the Oricn.
tai markets through this channel, and have
recently purchased bills on San Francisco
to large amount for that pupose.
Two large buildings belonging to the
Miami, (O.) Powder mills, blew up on Wed
nesday afternoon. One person was killed
instantly and several others badly injured
Two inches of snow fell at Omaha ON
The lSt.
Three horse thieves were hung in
Wyandottc Co. Kansas, on Sunday morning.
The telegraphic report from Camp
Stainbaugh, Wyoming, says village OF fifty
lodges of Shoshoncs was attacked On Octo.
Der 18th by large Sioux war party csli.
mated at twelve hundred lodges, at Painted
Rock near the scene Of Capt. liatcs's fight
in July, 1874, and about ninety miles from
Camp Sainhaugh. As far as learned, only
one Shoshonc, by the name OF Humpy, cs'
capped, who was the Indian that saved the
life OF Capt Henry in Crooks second fight
this summer,
The city clergy OF Chicago have
joined with Moody and Sanliey in calling
grand christian convention at the tabcr-
nacle, to be held November 22d and 23d.
The United states marshal Of san
Francisco, has made a number OF arrests OF
parties charged With illega! registration,
mostly on the ground Of non-civiliaation,
and conviction of crime.
Warrants are out for many others. The
question Of law will be brought before the
Judges of the United States district and cir
ruit court.
The residence of Joseph Lick, in It.
PAIL, Min, with q portion Of the contents,
vas consumed by ire on the ID. Loss, three
thousand dollars. Two hours later the resi-.
lencc Of y. p Langford, Just completed and
not occupied, was also burned, and the adj
dining residence, that OF Chief Justice
somewhat injured. Both fires are
believed to have been incendary.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16
NPatncss at Home,

Mo young girls, nowadays, desire to
MI ~ rich husbands, and in view OF that
pie san destiny, neglect to fit them
selves r the humber walks Of lie. In
the country, we admit that girl are
sometime brought up with an idea of
work, and with a suspicion that each may
chance to wed sober, steady good
looking. industrious young man, who will
be compelled to earn by severe laber the
subsistence of himself and family. But
city girls rarely cherish such lOwly ideas.
From the highest to the lowest class in
life, the prevailing idea with all is, that
marriage is to lift them, az oncc, above
all necessity for exertiOn and even the
servant girl dresses and reasons rs il she
entertained a romantic confidence in her
Cinderilla-like destiny of marrying, if
not prince, a wealthy man, at least. 1t
is because girls cherish these false ideas
that young men are afraid to marry. The
Young women they meet with are all 50
imbued with notions of marriage 50 ut.
terly Incompatible with the ordinary re-
lations Of life in their station they are
30 wholly inexperienced in the economy
of the household they have been taught,
or have taught themselves, such a mobile
disdain" for all kind, Of family industry /;
they have acquired such expectations OF
ladylike ease and elegance in the matri-
monial conrsctioD, thst 10 red any one
Of them i. to secure lifelong lease VI
domestic uGrlsssantne.s, and purchase
rretchedncs,, poverty and despair,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16
Rc-EstabIishmcnt Of the Fast Nail
Train.

1t is the impression of prominent post
office officials that the commission pro
yidrd for by congress to investigate the
subject of railway mail transportation
will take strong grounds in their forth
coming report in favor of the rc-cstablish-
mcnt of fast mail trains, and will support
their recommendation by the best evi-
dcnce of their necessity. The business
men of the country, especially those OF
the south and west, urge their re-
establishment, and it is quite possible
that congress will renew the service
This cannot be done unless the claim tOr
increased compensation is conceded, whcr
every facility !, promised by the railroad
companies.
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i Practical joke.

4 CharlemOnt markctmap, when de-
| liyering goods one morning, discovered on
leaving the house ola customer Il custard
pie setting in Il window where the lady
of the house had placed it 70 cool for
dinner He at once appropriated it, and
diving directly to the store Of the lady :
husban |, called him out and told him he
had hooked " nice custard pie, aud il
he would get some cheese they would
have nice time cGting it. OF course
the cheese was forthcoming, and after
satisfactorily di,posing Of the pic the
question arose what to do with the plate.
The merchant said that he would take
care of that, and, -uiting his actions to
his words, dashed it against the wall.
When the merchant went home to dinner
that day his wife apolOgizcd for not hay-
ing any desert, saying she made a custard
pie for dinner and left it in the window
To cool, and she supposed some boys
must have stolen it. Her husband wasn't
pie hungry, and seemed quite pleas d
about something, but kept "mum."
Next morning the merchant meeting the
markctman, sang out pie In reply
the other said Cheese! And whose
plate was that you smashed?'
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16

CONTRARY To the biblical law
there are now in the west a
man, Maricn TeraIbia Baker and
woman, Helen VI. Spaudlng, who
have been Joined together and put asun-
der and Joined together three separate
times. Thoy we're married at Knoxville,
III. in 1865, divorced in the follow.
ing wear, married in 1857, divorced
in 1873, married in 1874 and are BOW
again divorced At Galesbcrg, Ill. The
law il too lax in such matters; the ca
tcrIary curve between welded happiness
and single blcssedness is too great; it is
better for two lovers to take comic section,
aud be like the two lines that approach
forever and never meet. The Baker case
is too bewildering.
. q. I,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16
The Public Debt Statement.

The following statement Of Tic public
debt was made by the treasury depart
ment NOv lst
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-16

"MAs sheet. liz mcsher.ia.law, sh
Well, 1t Away. wa. and always will be-