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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19
FfllOwcralt's FOur-Mile Record
Beaten,
From the Spirit OF the Timel.

Wednesday, Sept. q, will long be
memorable in the annals of the Amer
ican turf, as the day on which the
renowned racchorse Ten Brock achieved
his great performance of beating Fellow
crafts four mile record of 49,, which
was the fastest time that distance had ever
been run in. The Louisville Jockey
club had offered Il special purse of 81 900
for any horse beating that record, and
two horses, Mr.. F. B. Harper's Ten
Brock, four years old, by imp. Phaeton,
dam Fanny Holton, and Mr.. ID. j..
Crouse'a Add, four year old by Revolver,
dam Skylight, each carrying one hun
drcd and four pounds, started. How
Ten Brock successfully accomplished
the great feat, wiping out Fellowcrairs
record of 7:19l, and installing in its
place his own imperishablc record Of
7:lji, is fully described in another
column. Twenty-one years before Mr..
Ten Brock had matched the wOrld-re-
nowned Lexington, for twenty thousand
dollars, to beat Lecompte's four mile
time of 7:26, and on the Metaire
course, at New Orleans, the great son oi
Boston inscribed 7:l9j on the record.
For period of nineteen years this time
stood unequaled on the record, when
Fellowcraft, his own grandson, eclipsed
it at Saratoga, by running four miles in
7:l9l. 1t must have been source OF in
tense qualification to that veteran
sportsman, Mr.. Ten Brock, who years
ago figured 80 prominently on the Amer.
can turf, to see horse named in compli'
ment of himself, and sired by stallion
he himself imported, achieve this won.
derful performance. Ten Brock and
his rider, Walker, have covered them
selves with undying honor by this
achievement nor must Ten Broeck's
rival and companion, Add, be forgotten
although he failed to accomplish the
task which Ten Brock 50 successfully
performed.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19

Would we not better feel that the Father
is still in the sunbeam that plays around
our pathway at noon and in the moaning
winds that sigh at midnight 1t is high
time that those who break the laws Of
right, whose loves are full of all inuS-
ticc and vice, should feel that there is
an omniprescnt mind and power whose
empire they insult and whose very pres
cncc they pollute with their deeds and
character The human soul needs for
its virtue n ruling mind never to he ab.
sent, never to be cyaded, but always
present with reward or punishment the
religious heart needs to have its love in.
ilucnced by the thought that the Bcing
II worShips is in the ycryair that touches
the cheek, and is mysterious agency in
the very tomb where the earthly body
returns to dust such Il Deity, rescued
from the iron.likc form of the past imagi.
nation, can become incarnatc in Christ,
can enter the soul of the pcnitcnt, can
explain the mental and moral phenomena
OF earth, explain its learning, its pro.
grcSs, its love, its beauty, and then can
enter the chamber of death and make it
the gateway Of second existence,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19
POOL BETTING.


One of the most serious evils Of the
turf is thus discussed, Cditorially, hy the
Turf, Field and Farm.
That the trotting associations receive
anything but small revenue from the
tax on pool sales are not tObe questioned
for II moment. At some Of the track,
the tax after dividing with the poo.scI-
Ter, frequently amounts to five aud six
thousand dollars. The commission
which the pool buyers pay in the march
from Cleveland to springfield amountSto
a small fortune. Capital would soon be
eaten up 10y the percentage CHARGED on
the in and ont speculation on heat races,
did not the winnings largely outnum-
bcr the losses. The tax would ruin any
man whose aggregate winnings only
cQualcd his aggregate losses. Almost
every speCuator knows this, and there.
fore he is not particular aN to the means
by which he wins. The odds are so
great against him that he is tempted
into schemes which will not bear tine
light of day. All the knaycry practiccd
in the trotting turf is hatrhed in the
interest OF the pool box.
There are thousands Of people whoarc
fond of racing, but who will not coun-
tcnance sport used to foster gambling
spirit. We might as well took thctruth
in the face first as last. Whcnproicssional
drivers lament the evils OF the day, it is
time for park managers to be up and ON
guard. The question tOr them to take
into serious consideration is whether they
can best afford to do without the five
per cent. tax ON pools, or the one dollar
at the gate.
Those who believe in moderate instead
of extreme measures have suggested a
plan which possibly might work we'll.
They propose to retain the pool stand, but
to allow no pools to bc sold on race
after the race has been called. They ar
que that this would breakup the Combi-
nations, as the speculator would have no
chance to hedge after placing his money,
If the Judges believed that holsc was
not trying TO win they could take him
out Of the hands of his driver and put
some one up behind him in whom they
had confidence. When made to realize
the fact that honest Judges would see to
it that horses were honestly driven, the
spectators would back their candid iudg-
ment of the capacitic, Of the contending
horses, instead of lending his support to
A lob. lie would be without protection
should he attempt to pursue any other
course. To give force to this plan the
telegraph would have TO be looked after.
1t would be necessary to instruct the
operator on the park grounds To refuse
every dispatch offered him giving the
betting odds. Unless thiSwcrc done the
lorscs would he manipulated in the in
.ercsts of jobs put upin the pool rooms
listant from the sccncoi action.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

The comptroller of the currency has
called for reports from the National banks
showing their condition at the close Of bus.
mess on Monday, the ID inst.
Orders have been issued by the post
office department to-day for weighing the
mails daily for thirty working days, from
November 1, on the Elie, New York Central,
and the Lake Shore and Michigan southern
railroads. with a view to the rcadiustment of
their pay under the last appropriation act,
and TO ascertain precisely what changes IN
their respective services have been caused
by the disconlinuance OF the fast mail
system.
The comptroller of the currency has
dec; red dividend Of ten per cent in favor
of the creditors of the First National bank
of Mansfield, Ohio, and a dividend Of the
same amount in favor of the creditors OF the
First National bank of Anderson, Ind. This
dividend makes total of lorty.iivc per cent.
TO the creditors of the Mansfield bank, and
twenty-five per cent to those OF the Ander-
son bank.
The total coinage at the mints during
September was $7,0O0,O00, including $780,
600 in gold coin, $780, ,OOO in trade dollars,
and 81, 600 600 in subsidiary silver
The Canadian yacht, Countess of Dut-
lerin, has been lbclled in New York for va
rious small debts, amounting in all to about
seventeen hundred dollars. Her owners in
tended, after winning the cup from the MAJ
define, to sell her for large sum, as was
done with the Canadian yacht, Ina, in Chi
caro-. Failing in this, they are likely to let
her 90 for half the estimated value in order
to pay off the debts.
The erection of the much taked.Of
statue of Liberty in the harbor, at Bedloe's
island, seems likely to be referred. Alter
raising, by individual effort and without any
government aid, over two hundred thousand
francs, with which the cost of a great part oi
the work has been betrayed, the French pee
ple are waiting to see what the Americans
proposc to do toward aiding the project, and
meanwhile the work is temporarily sus,
pended.
General Newton did his work ON Hell
Gate thoroughly. An examination OF it by
divers reveals the fact that the reef was
thoroughly broken up, and that there are no
rocks that can not readily he removed. All
New York is delighted with the Job, and it is
proposed by influential gentlemen to give
the great engineer complimentary recep-
ton at Gilmore's garden.
Prof. Newcombc, OF the national OBJ
seryatory, has had his best observers en-.
gagged all day in watching for the transit of
Vulcan, which, according to the theory Of
Leverier, was to have occurred to-day. The
atmospheric conditions were favorable Tor
the most successful observations. a most
careful watch was kept during every instant
OF sunlight, and the result was nothing.
There was no transit oil Vulcan observed
here, and Prof. Newcombe is more than
ever confirmed in his belief that the theory
that such transit is possible is utterly base
less Washington Speejd (Od. 2.)
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19

g rwas moonlight night" the tmpper began,
Az We lay by the BRIGHT camp fire
" Come, III up your pipes and pile on the brands,
And draw little higher,
"Twas moonlight night when Bet aud l.
Bet. she's the old galr, You know.
started for camp on our lonely route
O'cr thcdrcTy waste Of snow,
4" ! had been to the clearing that afternoon,
For powder and ball, and whisky too
For game was plenty, furs In demand,
And plenty Of hunting and trapping to DO,
" | had no fear of the danger that mrkci
In the region through which my journey lay,
TIL bet Of sudden prickcd up hcrcarS
And SMILED the air In curious way,
Z" knew at once what the danger WAS,
And Bet struck out at q forty gait;
Twas life or death for the mare a,Id me,
And all could do was to trust 10 fate.
Wolves on our track, ten miles ir N home
A pleasant prospect that, eh, boys
could see them skulking among the trees,
And the woods re-cchocd their hldc0us noise,
" At last, nS their number began to swell,
They holdcr grew and pressed us close;
So Old Pil-Driycr' brought to bear,
And gave the leader lcadcn dose,
" Now you must know, II you draw the blood
On one Oi the sncaking, raycnOuS crew.
The rest will turn on he double quick
And eat him up without more ado,
This gave me a chance to load my gun,
with just chance to breathe aud rest,
When ON they came a-ainng fast,
Though Bet was doing nCI level best.
" began 10 think II was getting hot;
Pill Driver says !, hi, will never do
Talk Ia 'cm again. You bet She did,
And right in his tracks lay number two
b" Well, boys, TO make a long story short
picked them on Till but one was left
But he was u whoppcr, you'd hcttar hclcyo-
a reg lar mammoth in size and hcit,
" Yes, he was the last Of the savage pack
Fer, as they had followed the nat raj law,
They had eaten each other as fast rs they fell,
Til NIL were condensed in his spaC Gus nav,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19
FOR EIGN.

M. A. Rouilct, the French political
economist, has made calculations as to the
increase Of population in European countries
from 1860 to 1870, and finds that Scryia
comes first, altcrwhich follows Russia, Sw,z
erland, Norway, Prussia, Great Britain,
Denmark, Saxony, Holland, Baden, Wurtcm-
burg, Austria and Hungary, Belgium, Greece,
Spain, Italy, Bavaria, Roumania, Portugal,
and last of all France,
The admiralty has a letter from Allan
Young, commander Of the steamer Pandora
making voyage to South Sound to bring to
England dispatches deposited there by the
Arctic expedition under Capt, Mares. 1t an
nounces his arrival at Upper Narim on the
18th of July. He reports all well on board,
and says he would proceed northwNrd on
July 10. The winds during the sumner had
been from the southwark, and were there.
fore not calculated to clear the ice from
Melville bay, but as far as visible from Up.
per Navik the sea was clear. There was no
news of the Arctic expedition.
The statistics presented by Prof Nir-
chow, of Berlin, at the recent anthropolog.
cal congress in Jena, upset the popular no.
ton that majority of the German people
are blondes. He showed that in the central
regions of North Germany about One-third Of
the school children are blonde, in Prussia
thirty.fve per cent. and in Bavaria only
twenty per cent The population grows
darker southward. OF the German Jews
eleven per cent. are blonde.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19

Too MUCH FOR ENDURANCE.-An
English visitor to the centennial, says the
New York Herald, wandered into cheap
restaurant in Shanty Town and ordered
steak. After desperate efforts to over.
come its toughness he next called for a
napkin. The landlord came out from
the kitchen in his shirt sleeves and adj
dressed the astonished guest in indignant
terms: "Sa-ay young feller, this amt
no centennial. The next thing you'll be
wanting, suppose, is grand pianer."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19

81 sYMrATnllE sincerely with your
grirf.. said French lady to Il recently
widowed friend. "To lose such a hus-
band as Yours" Nh, yes, he was very
GOOD. And then, you see, such mis-
fortune is always great, 'or one knows
what kind of a husband one has lost, but
can not tell what kind of a man one will
find to succeed him.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19
VIII the Washington Monument Stand
or Fall 4.

Members Of the United States commits
sion to supcrintcnd the completion
of the Washington monument do not
expect to see any work done tins
fall. No work by act of congress can he
proceeded with until an examination Is
made of the foundation by the army
commission Just appointed by the ~ecrc.
tary of war. II has been stated that the
stone in the base of the monument IL not
strong enough to bear its weight when
finished. This, however, is not believed
by those who should know, The main
point of examination will bc the quality
of dirt around and underneath the mon
umcnt to depth Of eighty or ninety
feet. 1t il Sieared that about twenty feet
under the surface there is Il sort OF quick
sand, the monument being hut 4 short
distance from the river. In that case
the great weight would probably press
the Uuicksand out into the river and 50
sink the monument. There is another
fear that the different strata OF earth III,
cline downward toward the river, and
that by the slipping out OF one OF these
LAYERS the monument would either come
down, or on the supposition many have
that the leaning tower of Pisa was not
built as it now stands, Washington would
have leaning monument.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19
A Son Dives Three Times Tor His
browning Mother, and Rcscncs
IInt.

On Thursday, the 9th ultimo., Fred.
Bergman, aged twelve years, rowed ms
mother, Mrs. Bergman, and two of his
sisters, both younger than himself,
across the It. Croix, in New brunswick,
to Calais, in small boat. When they
reached their destination, Fred. helped
one of the little girls to Chamber up the
wharf, and took her to place OF sale
ty. When he returned for the other, he
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19

THE centennial exhibition will, judg-
ing from present indications, prove to be
the most successful of any international
exhibition. Last Saturday was the one
hundred and fifteenth day. At that
time 4,07l;3l3 paying visitors had been
present. The Vienna exhibition was
open one hundred and cighty.six days
and the totnl number OF paying visitors
only reached 9, 1872 ,622. The Vienna pro-
ceeds at the gate were 1904 ,025.25 while
at Philadelphia on Saturday, 81 ,SSi,534
had already been reccived-a sum nearly
double the Vienna income. The nom
paying visitors at the centennial cXhibi-
ton down to Friday last numbered
1,$GS, 300, making total attendance of
3, i39, S22 in the one hundred and fifteen
days. At London in 1856 there were
6,O39, l95 visitors in one hundred and
forty.one days; in 1862, G,2ll, ,l03 in one
hundred and seventy-one days, and at
Paris in 1867, S,SO5,O69 in two hundred
and seventeen days. The receipts at
Paris were $2,2O3,675. The receipts at
Philadelphia already approximate this
sum, and there still remains thilty-onc
exhibition days.-N, y. Tribune.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19

\ SEA SERPENT--A California paper
SAYS that an infant Sea-scrpcnt has been
picked up near cape Flattery and taken
10 fort Townsend, Oregon, whence it
will he sent to the centennial. 1t is
seven feet long, and its head is twenty
two inches in circumference. 1t has a
pair of formidable looking jaws, thickly
set with powerful teeth, and has prom
inent fin, above and below, running the
entire length of the body.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19

CoxyrBIAL BLIsS-A henpecked hus.
band declared that the longer he lived
with his wife the more he was smitten 10y
hT.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19

TIE problem of feeding the young and
poor physiologically is not easy, but is
simple if considered from the scientific
point of view. That the bulk of the
food Of the poorer classes must always
be bread is unquestionable. Peas, beans
and other like lcguminous plants, how
ever rich in albumen, can never be cx-
pectod to successfully compete with
bread first, because they require steep
ing in water and boiling for hours next,
they become hard so easily, and then are
indigestible, while at all times they are
not so easy to be digested as bread. But
bread is not so good food as meat-and
here chemistry comes in, and shows that
bread soaked in broth made from extract
of meat is as good food as the best meat
diet, Indeed, the most eminent chem
lists and psychologists arc now agreed in
the opinion that, when people will use
more of such simple vitalizing extract,
and little less tea, for their strength
and health, they will be willing to dis
pense with the present artifces of cook
cry as numberless as they are useless.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19

TIE excess of unmarried women should
be diminished, if philanthropy and
sound political economy alc capable of
grappling with the evil. There me two
ways of solving the difficulty. One is
an equalization of the sexes by means of
the aided emigration of surplus women
to new settlements. Coy. SHADES down
cast schoomistresses married so rapidly
after going west that their successors
were put under two thousand dollar
bonds to remain single for three years.
In many cases this proved no obstacle to
impctuous wOoers, who paid the pecu.
MARY forfeit that they might be united
to the object of their affection The
same thing is going on every day in New
Zealand.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19
TIMELY TOPICS.
THE Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians
will not allow negro children to attend
their schools.

COLE YOUNGER, one of the rufians
of the bank robbing gang who recently
came to grief in Minnesota, has written
a letter, in which he says; 81 am proud
to say we were raised by religious pa.
rents and attended Sunday school regular
in our boyhood, and, too, had charge of
a hible.class while in Texas, at Seync,
Dallas county. | have ever respected
christianity. | have known the right,
and indorse it. condemn the wrong,
but yet the wrong pursued me-"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19

A MILL FOR THE GoDs.-Canon City,
(ColD Avalanche: \ camp OF pilgrims
were preparing breakfast under cotton
wood tree Yesterday morning, and a
small bow to whom the task of grinding
roFec with a worn out coiiee-mill had
been assigned, after twisting away until
he cot plumb sick Of the job, startled the
camp by the assertion:
"This ought to be the gods coffee
mill"
"What do you mean by such non
sense ?" asked the head of the family.
"Why," he replied, "they say the
mills of the gods grind slowly, and il
slows any object, they'd better come
and get this'n"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19
A THAPPER's STORY.

g Twas moonlight night" the tmpper began,
Az We lay by the bright camp IRE
" Come, III up your pipes and pile on the brands,
Aud draw little higher
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19

A cert,in bird ia 4 certain wood,
Feeling the Spring-time warm and GOOD
san, 10 IT, In meloiious mood.
ON other neighborins brarches stood
other birds who heard his Song;
Loudly he sang, and clear and strou-
sWeetiy he sang and 1t stirred their gall
There should b, a Nu.ue eel musical. ..,..t
They said to thcmselycs We must SOP inv '''"'
Hes the sweetest voice vas ever heart.
That n,h, deep chest-note, crysal.cltai'
|, a morityiug thing 10 hear
Ne have siarp heaks and harder wing
Yet we hut crolk this fellow sings p,,,h,tirI
81 they plauncl and Planned, any tI',rJ III" ''
With The sweetest voice was ever heltu'
p,..ip, hi, grave one happy May,
h,o,,gh, this English da y away ,,..,..-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-21
Condensed Locals.

Street lamps Will be lighted tonight at 6 IS
p m, and extin gUished at a. m.
James Bellew sends us GOGeyS Lddy's Book
for March.
, The Philosophical club had the subject of
cooperation under discussion yesterday.
Thieves broke into the store OF G. W. Nor
gan, No 81 Pennsylvania avenue, on Sat
uIdsy night and stole about $50 worth OF
boots and shoes.
An attempt was made by two men to rob
the conductor of car No. II, of the Belt line,
OF his fare box, at the corner of 10th and o
streets last night. but failed.
Tie voting at st. Aloyslus school fair for
The suit OF veStments closed at 10 O'Clock
Saturday night, Father Jamison receiving
266 and Father Ciampi S57 votes
Judge j. W. Moore, who was over two
weeks since attacked with apOplexy, has
1ully recovered and has resumed his prac
hurst, the well Known actor. must remem-
Der that he has benefit at GA Fellows
hall 10 N OITOw evening. See advertise
neDt. Give him roUser; he deserves il.
A tOy named Henry Harry, living on @
street, between north Capitol and 1st streets
northwest, accidentally shot b imself Satur-
day evening, taxing of finger OF the right
hand.
Alta meeting Of the Y. NC. A. Lyceum.
on Saturday night last, the question under
discussion was: "ResO'rei, That the Riole
should be excluded from the public schools"
No conclusion was arrived at.
The District officers of the Council of Sow
origins OF Industry. recently elected for the
ensuing year. are as follows: DIR. j. L. r.
Gleason, president; G. 6. Trevitt. vice presi-
dent; James A. Randall, secretary, and ID.
q. Green. treasurer.
TIE Centennial sCciable of the PennSylva-
MA Republican Association comes of on
Thursday next at Masonic hall, and pro-
misses To equal the former effort of the com
mlttee- The association only gives two So
eisbles this winter. and the first one was a
delightful affair. See adv.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-21
GEORGETOWN.

RELIGIOUS SERVICES will be held during
the present week at the Lutheran Church,
situated corner OF High and 4th streets.
The Rev. Mr.. Shaw. OF Baltimore aud Rsy.
Hr. Gray, Of Washington. viii conduct tue
meetings. TIE public are invited. For
further particulars see Georgetown adyer-
tisementS.
FIRE MATTERs.-It will be remembered
that some weeks ago request was made
through THE STAR for a donation OF books
and newspapers 10 make a library for the
Georgetown firemen-only about 25 or 81
volumes have as yet been sent in. Let the
public remember this request and help to
make Tire home for these useful members
ofthe community pleasant. An addition TO
the building, in the shape Of hose drying
tower, is being erected in the rear of the en-
CINE house which when finished will greatly
facilitste the work of drying and oliing the
hose. The tower is TO be 50 feet in height,
aud Will be completed in about a week.