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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-13

Fifty thousand dollars have been re-
covered froM the wreck Of the German
steamer Schiller.
Many lives were lost by recent ter
ribe railroad calamity at Ill., France, caused
by the breaking Of bridge. Thirty bodies
have already been recovered.
The London Times Berlin special says
that two more st. Petersburg journals-thc
Golos and the Vcdomosti-assure the south
ScIavonians that although Russia is hardly
in position to succOr them Immediately
she will neither coercc by violent measures,
nor allow another power to coercc them.
Encouraged by this, the south Scavonlans
will, it is expected, keep up the existing rev,
outionary spirit until ii ends in the annihi'
lation of the sick man.
Tclcgraphic advices from Mexico indi-
cate a crisis Mt Matamoras. The Mexican
city to his office and gave them tounderstand
that they would be forced to come down
with 100000, to put the city in state OF de-
fense against the revolutionists, who are ap.
preaching it, ten thousand strong. One
merchant was thrown into prison for non.
compliance. American merchants there
have been so enormously taxed that they
have been compelled to resort to an appeal
to the United States consul for protection.
The situation in Mexico is becoming seriously
interesting.
Amid the Herzcgovian troubles, new
complication has arisen in Turkey. llitil-
erto the Christian subjects OF the sultan
have been exempt from military duty, but
required to paya special tax as an equivalent
The war spirit is up among the Christians
and they now refuse to pay the tax, offering
their military services in lieu. The patri-
arch Of Constantinople is represented as en-
couraring this change of front on the part
of his spiritual flock, who base their demand
on a recent proclamation of the porte, prom
ising them perfect equality with Mohamme-
dams. The Turkish government will not
listen to the change, because it dare not
trust Christians in the army, and the latter
will have chance to fight the tax.colletors,
il not the rebels,
The London Times hopes that the
ministry may yet be better advised than to
persist in recommending to the queen the
assumption of empress of India. 1t de.
clares it has been unfeignedly alarmed by
the rapid decline in the authority and repu.
tation of the government since the begin
ming Of the present session. 1t does not
pretend to any special affection for the min
istry, but it ca annot help seeing that the op.
position is thoroughly disorganizet, and that
the energies of the other members are ex-
hausted, while the younger men are chiefly
remarkable for an immaturity Of mind which
threatens never to ripen, and the attempt to
form n government out of such materials
would threaten mischief to the country.
Even those who think its fears fanciful and
overstrained must hesitate to push this new
title forward when they understand that it
does in fact provoke discomfort.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-13
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND w EST.

Additional kilograms from Fort Fct
tcrnan state that General Crooks victory
over Crazy Horse was complete one, aud
that many Of the Indians who escaped mus
stNrvc, as all their provisions, ammunition
etc., were destroyed.
The impeachment articles preferred
against Governor AmCs in the Mississippi
legislature have been withdrawn, AmeS re,
signed his Office aud is once more II private
citizen. President Stone Of the senate has
been recognized as acting governor.
Columbus, Ga, claims the position Of
the Lowell Of the south. She is now run.
ming $4,000 Spindles and 1000 looms, besides
many iron and other industrial enterprises.
The city was destroyed in 1856, and all these
have been replaced since with southern
money
The hog cholera is becoming a matter
Of serious concern ont west, the terrible raw
ages Of the disease rendering it a subject Of
grave consideration alike for producer and
consumer. The Illinois state board Of agri.
culture has Just taken steps to gather all the
information possible as to the nature and
causes Of the disease, and the various meth.
ods Of treating it, for the information Of
breeders and others who are experimenting
in the hope of fndinga remedy for the NAL.
ady, or II preventive.
General Merritt, just returned from
his cavalry command in the Black Hills, has
been interviewed, and says, in brief, that the
gold excitement is an awful dcuSon; that
more people are there already than could
find remunerative digging under any circum.
stances; that beyond Laramie the adventur-
ers, being on an Indian reservation, have no
that produce is high and hun.
drcds will be very likely to starve to death
this very spring; that the snow is still deep
On the ground and the streams frozen over
with ice so thick that they will not thaw till
June that going to the Black Hills at all is |
l prcposterons folly, and that the working
ip of the excitement in order to tempt pcO-
Dle who have failed in cities to go into il as
forlorn hope is "an infamous traffic."
General Merritt says he met as many return.
ng as going-miserable hungry, disap-
pointed creatures.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-13
EANT.

B. =. Rogers, receiving teller of the
Fulton bank, BROOKLYN, has abscondcd, being
II dcfaulter to the extent Of twenty-five thou.
sand dollars.
Thomas W. Piper, formerly sexton Of
the Warren street church, Boston, and con-
victcd Of the murder Of Mabel Young, in
that building on the 23d of May last, has
been sentenced to be hanged.
Rysdcck's famous stallion, HamDle-
tonian, died at Chester, N. j., Sunday night,
aged about 90 years He was sire OF the
most noted and valuable trotting stock in the
country.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-13
40! !tTI'

lNlmmcd from dust, q layer lor each day,
| find thy letters Ol year NgO
Before me now,
lhoy, M turn them idly o'cr display
ribbon here, and there q lOwur, and-lp'
A broken vow.
'Iis said that, In tho early years oi EuthI
EIcman had wclgh'd the worth Ol man, II state
Oi wOndrOus light
Among It's gcnllcr Kind had sudden birth,
And threw 20 icrca glare that other far
Were lost from sight,
liut, after man had drunk the draft ol pain,
Aud lcl the passion Ol nCW-hurn woe,
The star went out.
Each rny that had been hid tOlr forth again,
And hcnuty more than one can ever know
Shonc round about.
within the sky u star like this has died,
Whose gcam had pierced the very soul Oi me
And II was thou!
But II this peace unto thy loss replied -
II thou enhanced the love that was to hC
| thank thee now,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-13

We are glad to silence one slander
against Gen. Schenck. 1t is this story
that he came away from England with
out waiting upon The queen and making
his official adieus. He met her majesty
while he was streaking it down to the
ship. "By-by, Vicky," he said, chceri-
ly. "Fm o. p. h." "Well, 30 long
Bobby" the dear old girl replied, and
they parted friends,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-13

CUSTOMER" What did you think of
the bishops sermon on Sunday, Mr.
Wigsby 2" Hairdresser-" Well. really.
sir, there was gent settin' in from to-
me as 'ad his 'air parted that crooked
that couldn't ear word %
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-13

Taft, has requSted this, and Sherman com.
pies.
O'Donoyan Rosa informs Il reporter
that there IL now no Fcnion movement on
foot, but that money is raised to keep up n
system Of skirmishing." at wculd be in.
tcrcNing," says the New York Herald, "to
know what share Of this 'skirmish' fund
goes to Mr. DemOnicO."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-13
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATR

Q sENATR
In the senate, ON the 9th, Mr.. Spel
Ger, from the committee on District Of G.
lumba, reported back the petition Of 60
orcd citizens, praying that the llh Of Apr
be set apart as II holiday for government en-
: ployes, favorabIy accompanied with ioi
) resolution providing that all persons cmplo,
ed in the various departments in Washing
ton be granted n holiday on the nth Il
April, 1876, to attend 10 the unvcilng of th
Lincoln monument, in Lincoln park, Wash
ington. Passed. The senate then proccedc,
to the consideration Of the consular and di
plomatic bill. The question was taken on
the first amendment proposed by the scnat,
committee, as follows; For salaries Of envoy
extraordinary and ministers plenipotcntarl
to Great Britain, France, Germany aud Rus
sia, fixed by the house at $li056, committc,
moved to strike out "Sli,0j6" and inSer
"Sl7,570" and the senate agreed TO th,
amendment The senate then went into cx
cCutivc session, and after an hours session
adjourned.
In the senate, ON the 2Sth, Mr. Ed
munds called up the bill to relieve S. j
Shotfon, of Mississippi, Of political dsabii
ties iuposrd hv tbr fourt.cuth nmcndu.rI
M ,ho no,,,,n,ian p,naoI A.. r.',;,,.
W WV ''''''''"'''''' "'''"' "'' r''''"s
huyscn called up the senate bill of the 18Th
to amend the lth section OF ae net to es
tablSh judicial courts of the United States
approved September a. 1889. debate
ensucd, but the morning hour expiring, the
| bill went over, and the chair laid before the
SeN"le 'he consular ana ulploha'lc Diil as
nm roSinr;n, It,Iv rhicI, w,. strioLor ''"S d'',
by the house. on a nay and yea vote it was
restored. The next amendment, restoring
Sc'cral PorlS wllrh ia" beeh stricken ont
Wy ,he hpnSr, was laken up MesSrS oher'
nan an" ''"'ll''i "rGeu 'he necessary OF con
,pr'lihe TO ehiS'lnG law' ana spoke against
'hc Scher"i PrnciP'e 0i ENGRAVING new laws
upon appropriation pll'S; Pehdlhg whlcl
'hc senate went INTO executive session, ana
soon ADJOURNED
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thr limited States treasury all sums now held
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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-13
MIS('ELLANEOUS.

Gen. Sherman has made up his mind
to return to Washington, and make it the
army headquarters. Secretary ofwar, Judge
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-26
Love or Finery.

Lucy Hooper writes from Paris
to the Philadelphia Telegraph :
Some months ago | gave an ac-
count of the arrest, at the Bon
Marche, for stealing, Of the Baron
oss de Ia K and her two daugh-
ters. Detected with their pockets
orammed full of abstracted articles,
they made no attempt to deny
their guilt and were consequently
brought to trial, the mother being
sentenced to two years imprison-
mont, while the daughters were
acquitted, These ladies belonged
to the proudest aristocracy Of
France, the mother being so lofty
in her ideas that she refused to visit
q former acquaintance because she
had lowered herself by espousing a
person in trade Being too poor to
purchase such dresses for her
daughters as would enable them to
make an appearance in society in
accordance with their station, she
unfortunately adopted this nefari-
ous method of supplying their
wants,
The whole affair has ended as
tFagically us possible, The mother
died, broken hearted, in prison q
few weeks ago. One Of the daugh-
ters was engaged to be married, and
her betrothed nobly lent her the
aid of his presence and support all
through the trial, never leaving hei
side till the verdict was pronounced
The engagement was broken off
both the girls entered a convent ol
the very striotest order, and the
young man has suddenly changed
from a gay and elegant society man
into a confirmed old bachelor, ne
gligent in his dress and misan
thropical in his habits, Thus, foi
love of flnery and for false pride
the existence of four human being
has boon wrecked,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-26
MEMPHIS, TENN. TUESDAY EVENING DECEMBER 26 1876

flying! 1t is her nature to "suffer
and be strong" to tire herself with
much serving, to give largely out of
the great income Of love. There
is a strength of far greater value
than that of bone and muscle or
even of brain, it is the strength Of
a woman's love which will survive
shame, sorrow, neglect and death;
for she will leave it as a legacy to
her children. This weakness is
the heroism that brightens the
pages of history and the hearth Of
the humblest home, and will out
last the mental force and physical
caliber Of the strongest man.
Circumstances have made it
necessary to hedge women in with
a thousand conventionalities. They
do not prove her weakness or the
need of barriers, for she can over
leap them all if one she loves is OH
the other side and sends up a cry
for help; but it would be well for
her did her duties lie serenely with
in their circumscribed limits. The
world is full of cheap protection
for woman which does not tighten
one actual load; and this sentimental
moralizing over her weakness is the
cheapest and poorest of all. It is
base disloyalty. too; for has she
not proved herself, from remote
ages, a patient and faithful yoke
fellow, strong to do, to suffer, or to
die for those she loves.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-26

millions Of francs. The bankers
and savings banks are being drained
of their deposits by this extraordi-
nary traffic. Hours before the bank
opens in the morning hundreds of
depositors collect, and the presence
of the police is necessary to pre-
serve order. In this case " nobody
is to know" how the money is en-
ployed, and on that point contrary
rumors prevail; some assert that
the capital is used in working mines
of fabulous wealth Others that the
woman is an agent Of the Govern
ment, adding that it is thus pro-
curing money on more advantage
GUS terms than with its regular
bankers The true explanation
will not be long withheld, unless
the police interfere to prevent her
running off with her plunder. This
is almost a precise repetition of q
case which took place in enlighten-
ed Germany four years ago-the
Spitzeder affair at Munich. In this
case enormous sums were confded
to a woman banker, who lived in
opulence, squandering the money
Of her depoators, and, as she coult
not repay them, she was sentenced
to three years imprisonment. Hel
time expired some months ago, anC
the likeness Of the transactions al
Madrid to her operations at Munich
is strong enough to suggest a com
mon origin.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-26
CREMATING THE QUEER.
An Immense Amsunt 20 be BestOry
ed at Washington.

An Immense AmsunG 20 be BestOry-
ed at Washington.
On the 9th of November the
Secretary Of the Treasury appoint
ed commission to make a complete
schedule Of and totally destroy all
the counterfeit bonds, notes, frac-
tional currency, coin plates, roll
dies and apparatus designed to be
used in counterfeiting the legal
money of the United States, which
have been captured during period
Of about seven years. The COM
mission have since been engaged in
drawing up for future reference in
the secret service division a COM
plete schedule of the accumulations
Of the periods named. There are
300 engraved plates, covering all
denominations up to one hundred
dollars, many of which, on COM
parison with genuine work, are
quite equal to any engraved plates
made by authority Of the govern
ment. There are also about thirty
rolls or dies for duplicating in.
definitely any of the plates men
toned, as well as numerous
die moulds for bogus coin
The counterfeit notes anC
currency which have accumulated
within the period named are of al
denominations, from the smalles
factional currency to notes OF five
hundred dollars, and good many
of these notes are such faithful
limitations Of the genuine notes
issued by authority Of law tina
experts have been deceived by them
and the most careful Wall stree
tellers have been viotimised, show,
ing how extensive and artistic this
particular branch of crime hal
been brought within the brief timC
sinoo the issue of currency by the
government was commenced. The
total amount of spurious currency
captured is 100000; and in gold
silver and nickel limitations, $50,
900, The whole mass will in
few days undergo y cremating pro
cess, which will quickly reduce i
to ashes and relieve the treasury
officials of a grave responsibility
by placing it beyond the power o
any one to purloin or use the coun
terfelts.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-26
The meFoIsgl sC sex.


There is a pleasant fiction ABOUT
the ideal woman that invests her
with an unreal and intangible pres
ence as II she we're the creation Of
some higher sphere, borrowed into
this mundane life for a transitory,
charmed existence. To this end
poets chant her praise in immortal
verse; sculptors give her fame in
life-like marble; artists work their
souls into the canvas on which
ttoT Tecreate her, and the highest
skin Of the civilized world is evoked
in costly laces and fabrics that will
add to her loyeliness. To all this
is added a mysterious charm Of
weakness, dependence; as if this
beautiful pink k-qnd-whita dol were
a pnppet, to be moved only at an
owners willj or a dainty keepsake,
to be guarded under glass case Of
conservative possession. A splendid
atonement for the enforced seryi-
tude Of long past generations!
The weakness of women is fl,
yorite theme with men who are not
thoroughly conscious Of their own
strength. They turn contempta-
ously from tho advice Of wife OF
sister, and keep all th0iF business
and plans to themselves, until a
crash comes, Then they settle
back on that "weakness to help
bear the burden, and even conde-
scend to listen to some plans fol
the future, and receive sympathy
and help from those weak members
Of the family who work all day
and lie awake all night thinking,
planning and helping, while the
strong man breaks down. There
is no indication Of weakness then.
Some one has truly said that wo.
mans instinct is bctter than a
mans reason!, and when she sees
her dear ones threatened with
disaster she knows no weakness
but comes up with ali her colori
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-26
A Neu srstom Of n.nhing.
Popular Science MOnthly.l

Popular science mOntnly.l
A woman has opened a bank in
Madrid for deposits in sums Of a
hundred dollars and upward, on
which she pays interest as follows
Twenty per cent. on receiving the
deposit, twenty per cent. at the
end of the first, second and third
months, and then at the expiration
of the fourth, when eight per cent,
has been already paid, she reim'
burses tho entire sum lent The
payments thus far have been regu.
larly made, and the public are flock
ing in crowds with their money, the
deposits now amounting to seyeraI
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-26
How a woman Reads Newspaper
pr,nt.reS n;rc,,iar


How n woman Reads Newspaper.
Printers Circular.l
%Somebody says that one who will
watch woman read a newspaper
will get some new ideas of the char
acteristics Of the gentler sex. She
takes it up hurriedly, and begins to
scan it over rapidly, as though she
was hunting some particular thing;
but she is not. She is merely TAX
ing in the obscure paragraphs,
which, she believes, were put in
outof-the-way places for the sole
purpose of keeping her from seeing
them. AS she finishes each one,
her countenance brightens with the
comfortable reflection that she has
outwitted the editor and the
whole race Of men, for she
cherishes a vague belief that the
newspapers are the enemies Of hel
sex and editors its chief oppressors
| She never reads the headlines, and
the huge telegraph heads she neyel
even sees. She is greedy for loca
news, and devours it with the keen
est relish. Marriages and deaths ar,
very interesting reading to her, an(
advertisements are exciting ant
stimulating. She cares but littl
for pointed jokes, unless they reaec
ridicule upon the men, and thel
she Delights in them, and neye
forgets them. She pays particula
attention to anything inclosed b,
quotation marks, and considers i
rather better authority than any
thing first-handed. The columns il
which the editor airs his opinions
in loaded hifalutin, she rarely reads
Views are Of no Importance il
her estimation, but facts are every
thing. She generally reads poetry
She doesn't always care for it, bu
she makes a practice of reading i
because she thinks she ought to
She reads stories, and sketches, anC
paragraphs indiScriminately, ant
believes ayary Wprd Of them, Fl
nally, after she has read all sht
intends to, she lays the paper dowI
with an air of disappointment ant
a half contemptuous gesture, which
says very plainly that she thinks
ali newspapers miserable failures,
, but is certain that if she had I
chance she could make the only
Irerfect newspaper the world haC
ever seen.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-26
ELORED:

A Massachusetfa Railway President
Runs of with IA Pretty Seam
stress.
Springfield (Mass.) special to Chicago Times
This city has a first class scandal
in the announcement that John w.
Phelps, superintendent Of the
Springfield, Athol and Northeast
ern railroad, President of the Con-
necticut Central, and e1 member of
the Legislature, has left town with
a woman not his wife, and may not
be expected to return. To a large
share Of the community the intelli-
gence comes like thunder-clap
from a clear sky; but those who
have known of the amours of the
railroad president for several years
past are not very much surprised.
His attentions to the lady for whom
he has discarded his wife began
about three years ago, when he went
SO far as to introduce her into his
family as a seamstress. She is a
Mss Thayer, a little black-eyed
woman; belongs to an excellent
family, who live near Norwich, Con-
pecticut, and is a person who
would generally be thought
of as engagihs in appearance.
At any rate, she won John
Phelps completely from his wlia,
and for three years past he has
dressed her like a queen, and unless
very much belied, kept her as his
mistress at different times in this
city, Greenfield and Hartford. From
the last place the escapade occurred
on Monday of last week. Leaving
this city ostenSibly on business
which would call him ont of town
till Wednesday, Phelps proceeded
to Hartford, where the lady Joined
him, and the two wentto New York,
into which metropolis all trace Of
them is lost. 1t is believed they
sailed by one of Wednesdays steam
ers for Europe. At all events,
Phelps, instead of returning home
on Wednesday night, sent letters
to his wife and TO his chief associate
in the railroad office, saying that he
had gone to stay, and they need not
expect to see him again. It is not
likely that he purloihed any of the
funds Of the railroad he nominally
controlled, but several notes at
the banks at which he had raised
money are left for the indorserS
to take care of. They may be
able to secure themselves, however,
by attachments on his real estate,
as he has q large and elegant house.
Ire Is now seen that he had been
preparing for this diSgraceflll step
for a long time, and probably did
not start out without having several
thousand dollars in his pc cket. A7
soon as the fear that he had fed
was confirmed, over his signature,
his friends ransacked New York
and Boston in the hope Of finding
him, and inducing him to come
back before the news of his escape
had gained publicity and his name
had been blasted by the tongue Of
scandal. All their efforts, however,
were unavailing, and they believe
that he is now out Of the country. A
great deal of sympathy is expressed
for his wife, who is a most estimable
woman, and for his father, Willis
Phelps, an old and prominent eiti'
zen and Democratic candidate foi
Mayor at the recent election, whc
is sadly broken down by his son'i
conduct.