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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

Flour is falling, and the price will
soon be low enough to justify us in
biting q half moon out of u biscuit
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

We will take wheat for subscription
to the Home Journal. allowing one
dollar per bushe for No. | article,
delivered at the Office.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

There are seasons when we would
delight to be a Hottcntot or Warm
Springs Indian, bu. at present we
prefer being a Coolie,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

Eggs are selling in our market at
cents per dozen, or, six dozen for %
cents.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

The boating business in Boiling
Fork shows what q little enterprise
will do.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

"What is the greatest want Of the
agc?' We'll, our greatest want is the
want OF funds.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

The way to sell land, or any other
kind Of property, is to advertise it in
the Home Journal
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

The numerous Ollie ers Of the eel.
N Jane" ale up to their elbows in
business.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

Paregoricaliy speaking, old 200
FOUNDER, what did YOU eat to make
your paunch obtrule like bay win
dow?
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NOTICE !

NV son. Geo. l.. Walmslcy, is my duly
authorized agent Tor the Transaction Of all
College business.
Mrs. Il. WAiNlsLEY,
Treas. Mary Sharp College.
August 10th. lSIG-ly
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

When you argue with fool, he Is
certain to be similarly employed.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

"What's in name 7" About twenty
nine letters, if its n Russian name.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

Most of our farmers have "laid by"
their crops.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19

With increased facilities for Manufactu-
ring Printing and Lithographin~. we are
better than ever prepared to ill all orders
WELL, and ut the LOW EST PRICES.
Being the only firm in the State that
deal in or publish
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
JOHN SIMMONS,
Attorney at Law
Winchester, Tenn.

viii practice in the Courts of Franklin
and adjoining counties. and in the Sn-
prcmc and Federal Courts ut Nashville.
Prompt attcntion given to thccollcction
Ofclairls. tcbJ-ll-ly.
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LAW BOOKS,

it gives Us an extended trade. and enables
us to furnish any work rs LOW rs it
could be bought anywhere in the United
States.
For the entertainment OF the young
folks. we have large assortmpnts ef Gro
quct. and Base Balls and Bats. which we
are selling very low.
TAVEL. EASTMAN IL HOWELL.
Al Union Street
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BAACKWOJDS EDINDuGG MAGAZINE,

The most powerful monthly in the English
Language, famous for Stories Essays and
Sketches, OF the HIGHEST LITERARY
MERIT
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Circuit Court next Monday.
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Dissolution of Partnership.

II Barclay ST. New "
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-17

FANNIE WATERS, the California school.
teacher who distinguished herself by marry
ing Chinaman, Chew Coon Poe, has already
approved herself success as married wo'
man. On the day of the wedding the friends
OF the groom concluded to give him fair
start, he not being largely endowed with
wealth, and each visitor brought to the ban
quet, wrapped in the usual pieces of red pa
per which inclose Mongolian wedding favors,
a sum OF money ranging in amount from So. so
to $40. At this point Caucasian thlift and
feminine tact asserted itself. Instead of hid
ing herself in the obscurity of the bridal
chamber on the evening of the reception, the
new-made Mrs. Chew Coon Poe decided up.
on startling innovation upon the customs OF
the Orient, and moved upon the Mongolan
works, so to speak, by taking the head of the
table, pouring out the tea. and pocketing the
money. The oblique protestations OF the
male heather were of no avail. Mrs. p.
didn't understand the Chinese language very
we'll, anyhow, so she prudently banked in her
own name the post-nuptial cash thus ac-
quired, and has promptly drawn the interest
on it up to date. This, the husbands friends
assert, has led to prolonged arguments be-
tween the parties in interest, the only practi-
cal result of which. so far, has been that the
English language has been fearfully murdered
by Mr.. Poe in the attempt to secure divi-
sion of the money.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-17
Books Received.
All for Her; or 81. Jude's Assistant.

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Silent Love. A Poem. First American from the
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Co. Portland: Loring, Short 81 Harmon.
The Life and Industrial Labors of viii.
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By j. B. Alberdi. Translated from the Spanish,
with additional memoranda. With an introduc-
tion by Caleb Gushing. Cloth, 81 pp., price $3.50.
Boston: A. Williams s. Co. Portland: Loring,
Short s. Harmon.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-17

HOUSES of cards are no longer to be cried
down, nor will they tumble with their PROV
erbial facility. A company in Wisconsin is
manufacturing sixteen tons day of paper
for building purposes. This paper consists
Of thick and hard pasteboard, massed to-
gether in rolls of twenty-five to one hundred
pounds, and generally thlrty-two inches
broad. In the manufacturing it is subjected
tosa pressure of several hundred tons, which
condenses the fbres together into firm
mass, Theoretically air-proof. AS paper is
one of the worst conductors of heat, it resists
heat and cold alike. A building, constructed
of this material, is consequently warm in
winter and cold in summer. 1t does not
shrink like wood, and is not affected by heat,
frost or dampness. 1t does not burn so quick
as wood because It is hard and firm. 1t is
much better for the maintenance of warmth
than house of one-inch planks. 1t is al
ready coming into extensive use on account
of its superior cheapness and Its excellent
qualities.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-17

On the 26th of last month Victor Hugo
celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday by the
publication of two volumes of his "Legende
des Secles," and announced that the conclu.
sion will soon appear, "unless the end of the
author arrives before the end of the book"
AS poetical composition, the "Legende des
Siecles'' is reported scarcely to rise above
mediocrity, but it is vehement to degree,
like all of his later written and spoken COM
positions. 1t was fifty-6ye years ago that his
first publication, "Odes and Ballads" ap
peared. He has been prolific writer, but
his title TO enduring fame rests on that mar
vellous romantic fiction "Notre Dame de
Paris" and on the world celebrated Lies
Miserables,' story which has been trans
lated into nine languages.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-17

AUTHORS, popularly suppose d to write only
when they feel like it, are thought to have
easy times. 1t is true that he who only Whites
when in the mind for composition has great
leisure-which he can employ in starving.
But even the masters are like children teeth
ing, and accomplish their end only through
pain and difficulty. Dickens, when engaged
on story would shut himself up for weeks
and come out looking as haggard as his own
remorse-tormented villains. Balzac wandered
about the streets collecting the material for
one of his romances, and then would shut
himself up and be seen no more until the
book went to press. When he appeared again
he looked, says his publisher, like his own
ghost. His manuscript once got into type
was altered many times. The beginning of
Plato's Republic" it is said, vas found in
his tablet written over and over a variety of
ways. Addison, we are told, wore ont the
patience of his printer; frequently, when
nearly whole impression of the Spectator
was worked of, he would stop the press to
insert some new proposition. Lambs most
sportive essays were the result Of most in
tense brain labor; he used to spend a week at
time in celebrating a single humorous letter
to friend. Tennyson is reported to have
written "Come into the Garden, Maud"
more than fifty times over before it pleased
him; and "Locksley Hail." the first draft
of which was written in two days, he spent
the better part of six weeks, for eight hours
day, in altering and polishing. Moore thought
it quick work if he wrote seventy lines of
"Lalla Rookh' in week. Kinglake's
'Eothen," we are told, was rewritten five or
SIX times, and was kept in the authors writ
ing desk almost as long as Wordsworth kept
the "White Doe of Rylsone," and kept, like
that, to be taken out for review and correc-
ton, almost every day. Buffon's "Studies of
Nature" cost him fifty years of labor before
he sent it to the printer. "He composed in
singular manner, writing on large-sized pa
per, in which, as in ledger, five distinct col
umns were ruled. In the first columns he
wrote down the first thoughts; in the second
he corrected, enlarged and pruned it; and so
on, until he reached the fifth column, within
which he finally wrote the result of his labor.
But even after this he would recompose a
sentence twenty times, and once devoted
fourteen hours to finding the proper word
with which to round off a period" John
Forster often spent hours on single sentence.
Ten years elapsed between the first sketch of
Godsmith's ''Traveler" and its completion.
La Rochefoucauld spent fifteen years in pre-
pairing his little book of mayims alterino
some OF them, Segrais says, nearly thirty
times. Rogers showed Crabb Robinson a
note to his 'Italy," which, he said, took him
| two weeks to write. 1t consists of very few
lincs
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-17

The 18th birthday of Victor Hugo was sig-
nalized by the publication in all the Paris
papers of extracts from the new installment of
the Legende des SiecleS One passage is meant
to illustrate the behavior of the Paris roughs
during the civil war. While the tocsin is ring
ing out its maddening notes, bullets are flying,
shells burstng, the mob get hold of "sergent
de vllle," policeman and hurry him off to
death. Amid the maddening crowd of men
and women, frantic from spirits and gun
powder, child's voice arises, "Its my father;
won't let you hurt him." He parleys and
puts the child aside, and says,!' Shoot me now
but don't let her see it." And the heroic
people, ever magnanimous, bid him go home
unscathed
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-17

CHINA, the oldest empire in the world, has
just lost its greatest hereditary nobleman.
Kung, the Goth representative in the direct
line of Conlucius, is dead, at the age OF
twenty-eight. He traced back his ancestry to
the moralist and law-maker, in lireal descent
through 2317 years. Beside this family the
Oldest houses of Europe are of mushroom
growth. The most ancient of the existing
peerages of Britain, the Barony of Kinsale, is
more recent by eleven hundred years. The
French noble who traces his origin TO the
fairy Melusine is parvenu in comparison.
And the noble British family which sprang
from the loins of Roman Emperor is a
gourd by the side of the family of K'ung.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-17

BRITISH journalism has trebled in quantity
in the last twenty years, and there are now
published in the British Islands 1862 news
papers, of which England has 1911; and
London has 320 of these. But the number of
journals published in the United States is
more than five times as great as that pub
lished in the United Kingdom.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-17
THE PRESS
SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH II.

we DO not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
put as a guaranty of good faith.
we cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-17

OUR readers may be interested to know
that the bright and entertaining story Bellies
Beau," copied into the Press Of the Sd instY
was written for Harper's Bdzdr by Miss H.
r. Hudson. Credit to author and journal
was omitted through ignorance of the source
of the story.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-17

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
win cara certificate couDtersigned by Stanley L.
fuiien Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
lnanasers will confer favor upon us by demanding
innrfal 80 - = -
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-17
The Russian Dream.

! Inc lied SPECTRE which has so long dis
turoed the peace of mind OF Europe has van
| lsneu INTO thin air these latter days, but an
apparltlon ofa people in armor now haunts
the lmaglnations of the statesmen and think
ers OF the old world. The fear of the red re-
| public has died out of the minds of men.
| anu fan-Slavic empire has taken its place
as an opJecs OF terror The establishment of
great dominion reaching from the western
boundary of Austria to the Pacific ocean is
the dream OF the Russians, and the dream of
eignty millions of people, two millions of them
drliieo soldiers, is not to be laughed at. The
western nations of Europe certainly do not
Indulge in much jocularity when it is re-
counted, as it so frequently is in these days
in the Russian journals The Muscovite has
been an object of dread ever since the do wn-
fall of the first French empire, and the fa-
nous prediction of Napoleon is not easily
forgotten.
Much excitement and some alarm has been
provoked in Europe within few weeks by
the republication of map, originally issued
by the Russian Panslayists, marking the boun-
daries OF their contemplated empire. 1t in
eludes all Turkey in Europe, all Austria in
Guiding Hungary, and some portion of the
German empire. Englishmen apprehend
that the first step toward the realization of
this vast scheme is the overthrow of the Ot-
toman dominion to the north of the Bospho-
rus, and in their new fear their sympathy
for the victims of the Bulgarian atrocities is
last dying out. To men on this side of the
Atlantic the scheme seems too wild for seri-
Gus consideration, but in Europe the very
name OF Russia has something panicky in it,
and her great army is regarded as legiti-
mate object of dread. But so long as the
wonderful military power of Germany dom
mates the continent, a bar is placed to Rus
sian aggression which all her hordes cannot
overcome. Nor is it to be for moment be-
lieved that the naughty and warlike Magyars
would yield without an arduous struggle to
the race they have so long despised.
But .he Russian power has foe more to
bedreaded than German or Magyar. Through
all the European dominions of the Gear the
socialist propaganda is at work. The repub-
lican Panslavists have organizations in all
branches of Russian society, and both its mill
hary and its civil selyice are hopeycombed
with socialism. The possible social republic
is as much feared by governmental Russia, as
the possible Panslavc empire is by the rest of
Europe. The republican Panslavists, too,
have published their map. 1t includes por-
ton of Germany, Hungary, Servia, Monte
negro, and Roumania, and Turkey only so
far as the Balkans. To this it is proposed to
add all Russia west Of the Dneiper. These
are to be the boundaries of the new Repub-
lic Doubtless the rest of Turkey would be
gladly given to the Greeks. This scheme is
even wilder than that of the Gar, but it will
answer good purpose if it restrains Russian
aggression and makes it timorous.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-17

else of classical taste. The mantle of classical
Culture and intellectual refinement fell-not
exclusively, but in a marked and special mar
uer-upon the shoulders of France. But, Mr..
Van Laun warns us, it is rot to classical in-
fiuence alone, though it may be to it in the
main, that we must look for the dawn ofleaIn.
ing in Europe 1t is at most, he says, the
marriage of the North and the South 10 which
we owe the fertility of modern thought; and in
that marriage the South, with all her rich ap-
parel and dowry of lettered grace, was the
bride whilst the verile intellect and reproduc.
tive energy of the North was necessary to
bring to bi,th the upendous issue of their
union.
Broadly sketching tn, course of events by
which Pagan and Roman Gaul became Chris
tian France our author proceeds with wide and
hasty steps to the eIa Of Charlemsgne. For
centuries after the birth of Christ the only
written literature in France was II writings
of the Christian fathers and of few pagan
grammarians and rhetoricans. There are some
notable names among them, Irenaus, the au
thor of the Treatise on Heresies, Eumenus the
Panegyrist, Lactantius of the Divine 1nstitu-
tions. Of these writers Que certainly, Sidonius
Apollnaris, Bishop OF Arvernum (Cermont)
fifth century, claims attention as peculiarly
French. His writings abound in irreverence
and badinage. He makes joke ON the subject
of fasting; he laughs pleasantly at the rotion
of praying for rain or fine weather, suggesting
that the potter and the gaIdeser might not
agree about the matter. Mamertius dedicated
to him refutation of Faustus on the material
ity of the soul. Sdonius thanks him in a hun.
dred hyperboles, adding that he knows nothing
of the subject in dispute. Here certainly is a
spark OF the esprit gaulois. In these times, too,
a royal author flourished, ChIlperc, grandson
of Clovis, who set up as poet and theologian.
He distinguished himself 10 the one accom-
plishment by his false quantities and in the
other by his Aransm-heterodox in both poe
try and religion S richly speaking, however,
there was no French literature, with the possi-
BILE exception of q few ballads. But there is
evidence that the Gallo Roman civilization was
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-07
scenes I'm Cairo.

The traveller who desires to see the
Mohammedan at home cannot do better
than seek him in Cairo, and he finds in
the narrow, picturesque streets of the
old parts of the town scenes of interest
which he may seek in vain elsewhere.
When he emerges into the modern
quarters the change is remarkable.
Though all the tyranny of the Turks
has not sufliced to alter the indelible
characteristics of the place, and though
the wide squares, the fountains, the
gardens. the arcades, and the watered
roads, the rows of villas half-French
look, the people who crowd every thor
oughfare are as unlike anything Europ-
can as they can be.
Here, long string of groaning
camels, led by Bedouin in white
capote, carries loads of green clover or
long fagots of sugar cane. There, half
a-dozen blue-gowned women squat idly
in the middle of the roadway. A
brown-skinned boy walks about with
no clothing on his long, lean limbs, or
a lady smothered in voluminous drap-
cry rides by on donkey, her face COW
cred with transparent white veil, and
her knees nearly as high as her chin.
A bullock cart with small wheels, which
creak horribly at every turn, goes past
with its cargo of treacle jars. Hun
dreds of donkey boys lie in wait for a
fare; myriads of half-clOthed children
play lazily in the cutters, turbaned
Arabs smoke long pipes and converse
energetcally at the corners, and every
now and then pair Of running foot
men, in white shirts and wide short
trousers, shout to clear the way, for a
carriage in which, behind half drawn
blinds some fine lady of the viceregal
harem takes the air. She is accompan-
led perhaps by a little boy in European
dress, and by a governess or nurse
whose bonnet and French costume con-
trasts strangely with the yelled figure
opposite.
A still greater contrast is offered by
the appearance Of the women who stand
by as the carriage passes, whose babies
are carried astrlde on the shoulder, or
sometimes In the baskets so carefully
balanced on the head. The baskets
hardly differ from those depicted on the
walls of the ancient tombs, and proba-
bly, the baby, entirely naked, and It's
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-07
The Japanese.

The sovereign remedy for all ailments
is shampooing, and he who inherits the
trade is blinded i'm his childhood for the
sake of mOdesty. ShampOOers are in
constant demand; at almost every cor
ner one is met feeling his way by the
aid of a long staff, and blowing the
whistle that designates his occupation.
The women have graceful modest bear
ing; in public never forward. In mar
riage they shave the eyebrows and
stain the teeth AS tribute to the hus-
bands hsnOr.
Among the better classes much care is
taken in the education of women, and
time, pains and patience are expended
upon music. History, romance and
important facts are impaired by tradi-
tional poetry that is sung to the ac-
compartment of the samisen, an instru-
ment not unlike the banjo, but with a
| square body. The vocalization is harsh
and disagreea5le.
Crime is speedily and severely re-
buked. The capital punishment are
haru-kiri, beheading, and for parricide
and the gravest offences, crucifXiOE.
The haru-kiri has been much modified
of late; it is preserved for State Offend
ers to whom some consideration is due,
but death demanded. Ordinarily the
execution takes place in a temple, or at
the palace of some Daimio, who is or
dered to superintend the ceremony. A
friend or second is selected, who stands
by the offender with drawn sword, the
katana: salver is then offered the
principle, in which lies a knife for dis
embowling, and as he seizes it the sec
ond cleaves off his head at blow. This
is humane modification of the method
requiring the principal to cut into his
abdomen before decapitatiOn. This
form without interpOsition Of a second,
is quite popular as a method Of
seeking death when overpOwered
by grief for lost friend or
patron, or to oppose sea of troubles.
Beheading malefactors is done by State
agent, who has distinguished himself in
military life. The victim is bound in
kneeling posture, and the eXecutioner,
standing behind, delivers blow that
sewers the head. This is then exposed
on a cross-beam by the roadside, In
crucifiXion the culprit is bound to a
cross with thongs, and, after pre-
scribed time of agonized exposure, life
is tapped with spears. The TokaidO,
the great thoroughfare of Japan, is
thus ornmented with trophies of justice
to terrify the ill-disposed and to assure
the upright.
Sword making is considered an hon
orable occupation and connoisseur of
blades can indentify the handiwork of
celebrated maker with the certainty
some of us recognize the painting of an
old master, TO fashion cloyhes, make
sandals and household utensils, is igno-
bic and confined to the Etas, pro-
scribed class.