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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22

The Turkey carpet, as it is made in
the haudlooms OF Ouchak, is n fabric
that in durability, wearing qualities,
and softuass of texture cannot be sur
passed. II is made in square pieces OF
various dimensions, but generally of
size to cover an ordinary room. The
colors are so stable that it is said bar
rel of vinegar upset on it will not
change color. For wear, time seems
to make no impression on 1t. Beneath
my feet is a Turkey carpet which is mt
least thirty years old. and it is, at this
writing AZ fresh as the day the last
thread was woye into it at Ouchak.
There seems to he no fixed patterns, for
have never seen any two alike. The
weayers fancy determines the figures
and arrangement OF co'ors, and that Is as
fantastic as an Oriental imagination al
waysis. The carpets are 30 heavy that they
rest on the floor with their own weight,
aud need no tacks to iasten them Down.
As they are not secured to the floor,
they are frequently taken up and duS'"'',
and are always thu, kept clean Wh"n
the staircases, a4 well as the room are
laid in these solid ileecy carpets, the
house is Il, still rs if it were nnin-
habited 80 far ~ the movements OF lts
occupants are c, nc'rned. 1t is curious
fact that while everything else has
declined in price, Turkey carpets hold
their own in the east, one quarter of a
century old selling near on to its
original cost - Cor. PhiladeIphm Press
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22

comes n physician, lawyer a journalist,
q minister, turks only in heads TOO
stupid to understand their own better
instincts, or too base TO value in woman
that which is dearest to her in man and
most esteemed to her own cycs-the
power to win and To keep mans love
through his respect for her and her re-
spect for herself. There is no lasting
love without respect and, looking ever
the face of society, who are the happiest
mates A? Whose are the attractive homes ?
What class of women make, by universal
consent, the tenderest and most faithful
wives, the most devoted and efficient
mothers? The women between whom
and their husbands there is the closest
bond of intellectual sympathy lia'gc'
ret Buchanan.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

The center of population of the United
States is said to have Travelled westward
keeping curiously near thirty.ninth parallel
of latitude, never getting more than twenty
miles NORTH or two miles south Of it, In
eighty years it has Travelled Only four huns
dred miles, and is still found nearly fifty
miles eastward of Cincinnati
AS many persons suppose that the sill.
yer dollar is not receivable for duties, the
New York World publishes the treasury or>
der of February, 1875, which commences
with these words "The silver dollar of the
United States, other than those known as the
"trade dollar" will be received for payment
Of duties on imports to any amount what.
eunrD
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22
THEIR ANIECEDENTS.


The greater portion of the new mem,
bers from the south were in the con'cd.
crate army. Representative Charles VI.
Shelby, of Alabama, is the only architect
in the house, lie was enough of an
architect of his own fortune to get elected
to congress
Senator Dorsey, of Arkansas, is an
Oberlin CO., boy. Dorsey, since his
recent financial troubles, is said to have
been fortunate enough to obtain large
tract of land in New Mexico.
Garland, who succeeds Powell Clayton
from Arkansas made the test oath case as
to lawyers in the supreme court of the
United States, and gained it.
Senator Sargent, of California used to
be a printer NJ Newburyport, Mass lie
has always had a kindly side for printers.
Senator Booth studied law in 1errc
Haute, Ind He is a sort of carpt bag.
ger in California
Representative Page, of California,
once owned "A good many stages.
Senator Challee, Of Colorado, is a
banker.
Senator Teller, of Colorado, never held
an Office until elected to the United
States senate.
Senator Barnum, of Connecticut, il
largely engaged in the manufacture Of
iron, and has interests in Chicago.
Representative Landers, of Connect.
cut, is also an iron man.
Representative Warner, Of Connect
in ntEpa ,,,l;I ,,In,,nI L.,
congress.
Senator Bayard, of Delaware was
trained for mercantile life.
Representative Loring, of Massachu.
setts, was once Maine hospital surgeon.
Representative Ferry, OF Michigan is n
lumber merchant.
Alpheus :. Williams OF Detroit, used
to own and edit the Detroit Advertiser
way back in 1858.
Representative Willis, of Michigan,
was an editor before the war.
Representative lIubbell, of Michigan,
has large mining interests in the upper
peninsula.
Senator Mcmillan, of Minnesota,
studied law with Edwin NJ. Stanton,
formerly secretary OF war.
Dunnell, of Minnesota, is early life was
n school teacher.
The first name of Bruce, the colorcI
senator from Mississippi is Blanche.
Armstrong, the new senator from Mis-
sourl, was n teacher for eighteen years.
He has probably learned to make those
dreadful - in his speech since that
time
Ittner, of 81. Louis, was brickIayer
and builder.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, "Golden
Jones, was born in lercfOrdshra, Eng
land, in 1880. He carpet-ha gcd to
America when less than a year old, and
received Il common school education in
Cleveland.
Sharon, the other golden senator, was
also an Ohioan. He was brought up ON
farm there, and studied law with Edwin
NJ. Stanton.
Frank Jones, Of New Hampshire, is a
brewer by profession and practice as
much as Terence Quinn, of Albany, is,
but Jones puts it that "he has been
engaged in mercantile pursuits"
PeGdie, of New Jersey, is Scotchman.
Senator Mat. Ransom, of North Caro-
lima is related to Gen. John A. Logan.
Stanley Matthews is f(ty-thrse years
DID, Washington Letter.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
TIIE SOUTyI.

Raleigh claims population of twelve
thousand,
Geo. ii. Bell has been awarded the con
tract for The confederate monument at Mem
phis for 1926.
VIM. Thedford, OF Tyler, Texas, in
trying to drive hog into n pen, fell and was
attacked by the hog and killed.
A corn medicine man was sentenced in
Richmond TO five days imprisonment and
ten lashes well laid on for swindling.
The Galveston News says the work OF
clearing titles to the stolen lands of the Kan.
sas-Texas ring will produce five thousand
Lawsuits.
The fund left the city Of New Orleans
by the late =. V. Sickles, druggist, to estab.
lish free dispensary of medicine for the in.
digent poor, now amounts to t25,S2223.
The greatest cotton day Charleston for
seventeen years was last Thursday, when the
receipts aggregated 6,S23 bales. The next
heaviest receipts for any one day were in
1875, when they reached 6,5l4 bales on Octo.
ber2 20.
The Houston Ago, in an interview with
Captain wells, just from the Rio Grande,
learns from that officer that the war feeling
on both sides of the river is intense, and that
the Mexicans are prepared for and are by no
means averse to war
A sea.cow, caught in Indian river,
Florida, is on exhibition at the Montgomery
fair. 1t is nine feet eight inches in length,
and measures six feet around the body and
rs so gentle that it bears handling while eat.
ing its food, without being the lest dis.
turbed thereby.
The valuation of property in North
Carolina has increased near $30, 100000 since
1870, and that, too, in spite of the long panic
and low prices. In 1870, as the auditors re.
port shows, the property of the state was
valued for taxation at $l2O,alO,2l9. The re.
turns this year shows q valuation of $ldS,-
56l,557.
OF the situation at Fernandina, the
Savannah News says: Only twenty whites
who remained in the town escaped the sick.
ness. The fatality has been heavy. Accord.
ing to the census taken September 2Sth, 1877,
there was population OF whites, five huns
dred and eighteen; colored, Lila; total
white and colOred, 1852. From August 2lst
to October 3lst, there were nnety.four
deaths, making fatality of five and half
per cent. of the total population. The death
rate among the whites was abont sixteen per
cent, tnere Delng only about ten deaths
among the colored. The whole population
depend exclusively on the shipping for a sup
port. They are all poor, and have no means
or other business, but are depending solely
on the proceeds of their labor for d livel.
hood; and now that there is no shipping
they will have to be fed by the city for at
least month to come; or the suffering will
be fearful. The sanitary committee have
received but $4,000 from all sources and
with this sum they have paid for medicines,
nurses, funeral expenses incident to an epi,
demic of yellow fever, besides feeding nearly
the whole population. On the 3Oth Of Octo.
ber they had in the treasury one dollar and
fifty cents, and were in debt $1,000
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22
Relics OF the Ashtabula Horror.

/. will interest all who lost friends in
the Ashtabula railroad horror last win.
ter to know that during the spring and
summer large quantities of relics have
been found, and are in the coroner's care
at that city. II will interest them more,
and should interest every one, to know
that, though some Of them have been in
the hands of the country officials but
two or three months, they propose to sell
these relics at public auction in January
next. They will sell them because orc
year will then have elap:cd since the ac'
cdent, and that is the length OF time
the law obliges them to hold such M.
tcles. Toys and little baby wraps, burned
trinkets aud garments of all kinds are
not of much money value, but would oe
priceless to mourning friends, many oi
whom have as yet absolutely no rehc OF
the lost ones. It il hoped that this
word will circulate all over the eonn'iy
that survivors may write for delay o.
nroc,elin,s or visit Ashtabula before 'ne
,sls "a a;ag1 Ia.er. Ocean.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22
The Woman of Culture.

The cardinal mistake which irrational
opponents of women's rights have made
is in lbeliDg their actual intention by an
apparent pretense that woman in the
professions is to be something less of a
woman and little more of man. The
women who have successfully entered
the professions of law, medicine and
journalism, and those who, like Mrs.
Liyermore, carry finer culture than
many men into the pulpit, are the best
answer to the charges so fippal ty made
that woman ceases to be feminine
when she turns her brain to account in a
practical, honorable and capable way.
The vulgar absurdity that she is I" "wo-
manly" who darns stockings, scrubs
floors and carries garbage; and she is
womanly" who devotes herself to
gossip, fashion, dissipation and vice (;
while she is not womanly" who be-
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.


Inc mouse, on tne 1Ii, passed., uuuer
suspension or the rules, biands biil tor the
recolnage ol SILVER IL PROVIDES that thete
shall be coined at the several mints OF the
United States, silver COLLARS OF the weight OF
four hundred and twelve ana one'hali grains
troy, OF standard silver, as provided IN the
act OF January lo' 1870 on "hich there snail
he devices ana suPerscrip'iohs PROVIDED by
SAID act, which COINS, toIether Win an SILVER
dollars heretofore coined by the onited
states, OF ike weight ana hncness sfa'l be
legal tender, at their nominal value, ior all
debts ana dues, puoIic ana private, except
where O'herWlse PROVIDED ny contract ana
any owner OF silver bullion may deposit the
same at any united states, coinage mint or
assay olllce to be coined to such dollars Tor
his beneilt,, upon the same terms and condi.
tons as gold bullion IS deposited ior coinage
under the existinG law. Sectlon provides
that AL acts or parts OF acts, inconsistent
with the provisions OF tnis act are hereby
repealed. Mr. ihi'iips lntr0duced Dill
to create postal savings bank. me house
then adJourhed, on motion OF Mr.. ualkins, In
respect TO the niemoryot senator Morton.
In the house, on the 5th, the following
bills were Introduced and referred By Mr..
Frye: To amend the bankrupt law; also to
make persons charged with crimes and
ohenses COM eient witnesses in unitedStates,
courts. BY Mr. Hewitt: Supplementary to
the act carrying into effect the conven.
ton between the United States and China,
to give the court OF claims jurisdiction in
certain cases. By MIR. Ward: Authorizing
the directors OF national banks to declare
quarterly dividends. by MIR. Iiunton: For
the recomputatlon OF accounts between the
United States growing out OF monies ex.
pended by them IN the war OF lSiz also, Tor
the construction OF bridge across the Poto.
mae river. by Mr.. Campbell: To reduce the
tax on manufactured tobacco. BY Mr.. Scales;
For the transfer OF the office OF Indian affairs
from the interior to the war department. BY
Mr. Shelley Approximate cotton tax for
school purposes. BY Mr.. Hooker: Authoriz.
ing the election of delegate from the Indian
territory. BY Mr.. Ellis: Defining the man.
ner in which certain land scrip may be
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22

imposing affair. Two hundred coaches and
twenty thousand people were in the process.
sion. The coffin was carried by the populace
for half mile.
There is be a lawsuit now about Cleo
patra's needle, and the casslon will lie in the
Spanish port Of Ferreol until the matter Is
decided. The steamer which picked up the
needle in the Bay of Biscay demands higher
rate OF salvage than the contractor can af.
ford to pay, and it is not unlikely that the
cowardice OF the captain of ,he towing ship,
who ran away from his charge at the FIRST ap.
pearance of supposed danger, will result in
keeping the obelisk away from England for
another year, il not in sending II to the bot
tom of the Spanish harbor in the next heavy
storm.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22
Observation-Disclosures in .Innnn.

The japanese mode of raising mush-
rooms, AZ described by Mr.. Robertson,
British consul, is as follows: About the
beginning of autumn the trunk, about
five or six inches in diameter, of the Shu
or some other tree of the oak kind is
selected and cut into lengths of four or
five feet; each piece is then cut length
wise into four, and on the outer bark
slight ncisions are either made at once
with hatchct, or the cut logs are left
till the following spring, and then deep
wounds, seven or eight inches long, are
inCised in them. In the former case the
logs are placed in wood or grove, where
they can get the full benefit of the air
and heat; in about three years they will
be tocrably rotten in parts. After the
more rotten parts are removed, they are
Ilaccd against rack in a slanting posi-
ton, and about the middle of the ensuing
spring the mushrooms will come forth in
abundance. They are then gathered.
The logs, are, however, still kept, and sub
mittcd to the following process Every
morning they are put into water where
lilcy Tehidln tiil Hltt ihuoii, "Hth 'hty h''
taken out, laid lengthwisc on the ground
and beaten with mallet. They are then
ranged on end, slanting as before, and in
two or three days mushrooms again make
their appearance. In Yen-shin the Gus
tom is to beat the log 80 heavily that the
wood swells, and this induces mushrooms
of more than ordinary size. If the logs
are beaten gently, Il great number OF
small mushrooms grow up in succession.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22

THE present product of the oil country
is estimated at over 10000 barrels per
day.
Ar San Antonio Texas, the citizens
have requested the mayor to allow bull
fighting.
SOME woman says: "A brilliant man
il always less brilliant with his wife than
with anybody else. "
THE population of the City Of Mexico
has remained almost stationary since the
fall of Macmillan.
Ora block of forty.eight stores on
Division street, New York, forty-iour are
occupied by millners.
A TEXAS woman who was bitten by a
rattlesnake was cured by an external
application of salipctre.
Form little daughters Of Il resident of
Robson county North Carolina, died OF
diphthcria and were buried in one grave.
A New HAMPSHIRE girl wrote to a
Michigan farmer to send a specimen
potato bug. lie sent his son, and happy
marriage has resulted.
New YORK ladies' are wearing white
vests and npcktics in imitation OF the
gentlemen, and some of the dresses this
fall have regular claw coat tall.
TIE law makes witness swear that
he will tell the whole truth, so help him,
and then it imposes rules of evidence by
which he ia not permitted to tell it,
lr is a bad plan to divide sermon into
too many heads, for the reason, that there
may I've considerable difficulty on the
part of the congregation in finding cars
for all Of them.
TIE problem of buying ten dollar
Christmasprescnt.with seventy-tivc cents
available cash will present itself for the
cucida,on of the brave young man-who-
gocs.to.scc hisgirl.
4 QUEER mourner at boys funeral in
Orangcburg, Ky, the other day, was r
small pet pig. 1t followed its little mas.
ter's remains to the grave, trottlng along
under the hearse some seven miles to the
battle-ground,
THE Burlington lIawkeye asks
"What il the sinC;'lar. .ot mumps?
Well, all we can s'y is, that the most
singular thing abou; mumps is the swell,
In fact, we never saw tirst-class mump
unaccompanicd by aswell.
A wHAlER set sail from New York the
other day that has adoptcda new method
of securing whales. Instead of the Old
fashioned lance, a shaft provided with a
loaded bombshel is used, which, when it
enters the the body of the whale expodeS
and causes instant death.
Two men met one day on the piazza
OF hotel at North Platte, Nebraska,
when one claimed that Nebraska was all
a good country, or should be all it
lacks," said he, "is good society and
water. " My good lord !" said the other,
"that il all hell lacks.
Some of the features of our patcntsys.
TEN, such as the issue of periodical
containing particulars OF recent inven'
tions, have been adopted by the German
authorities. In opening the new i'm
pcria patent office. a circalar has been
issued explaining the plan upon which
it's business is conducted, and soliciting
suggestions from other countries where
systems for the issue Of patents have been
| tested.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22
ECHOES FROM DEAD VOICES.
Wonderful r0ssibiii,ie- OF Nr. Ehison's
Latest Invention. The Tones Of tho
Human Voico Ia bo Reproduced
Years Aficr Death by the Pho.


| tus
nOgnph
The Scientific American contains the
| first announcement OF what may be the
most wonderful invention of the day.
Nothing could be more incredible than
the likelihood Of once'more hearing the
voice of the dead, yet the invention of
the new instrument is said 10 render this
possible hereafter. 1t is true that the
voices is stilled, but whoever has spoken
or whoever may speak into the mouth
piece of the phonogfaph, and whose words
are recorded by it, has the assurance that
his speech may be reproduced audibly in
his own tones long after he himself has
turned to dnst. A strip Of indented
paper travels through little machine,
The sounds OF the latter are magnificd,
and posterity centuries hence hear US as
plainly rs if we were present. Speech,
has become, as ii were, immortal. The
Scientific American says:
The possibilities of the future are not
much more wonderful than those of the
present The orator in Boston speaks,
the indentcd strip of paper is the tangible
result but this travels under n second
machine which may connect with the
telephone. Not only il the speaker heard
now in San Francisco for example, but
by passing the strip again under the repro,
ducer he may be heard tomorrow, or
next year, or next century. His speech
in the first instance is recorded and trans
mitted simultaneously, and indefinite
repetition is possible. The new invention
is pruely mechanical-..no electricity is
Involved. 1t is a simple affair of vibrat-
ing plates, thrown into vibration by the
human voice. 1t is crude yet, but the
principle has been found, and modifica-
tons and improvements are only matter
of time. SO also are its possibilities other
than those already noted, Will letter
writing he a proceeding of the past
Why not, if by simply talking into n
mouth-piece our speech is recorded on
paper, and our correspondent can by the
same paper hear us speak? Are we to
have new kind of books? There is no
reason why the orations of our modern
Ciceros should not be recorded and de.
tachably bound so that we can run the
indented slips through the machine, and
in the quiet of our own apartments listen
again, and az often as we will, to the
eloquent words. Nor are We restricted
to spoken words. Music may be crystal.
lized as well. Imagine an opera or an
oratorio, sung by the greatest living vocal
lists, thus recorded, and capable OF being
rpppatp ed IA we desire
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22
Present state of Virginia Battle Fields.

The battlelields around Richmond are
quite meadows now, reclaimed by nature,
with few signs of the days of blood and
iron" At Cold IIarbor, Fair Oaks,
Seven Pines and Malvern Hill, one sees
little to remind him of the terrible scene
enacted there T. and l5 years ago.
In the woods, hIlsides and river bluffs
in Peninsula, where no attempts has been
made to cultivate the land, sloping
emthworks are still to I've seen, but
everywhere the entertainments have been
levc,led. Below Petersburg there are
few traces even of such formidable forti.
fcatons as Stcadman, He'll and Damna-
ton. The Crater and the fields around
il are owned by Mr.. Griiliths, who was
born close by, and was in Petersburg
when the mine was fired. He has built
hou.c near the Crater, and now has
his fathers farm under excellent cult
vation. The Crater itself has been left
almost untouched, and thick under
brush of peach trees and sprouts has
sprung up from the pits thrown away by
the soldiers during the siege. The
ravine where the dead lay in great heaps
on that terrible morning has been brought
under the plow year after year, until
now only slight depression in the field
can be pointed out. The visitor has to
psy % cents for a glimpse Of the Crater
and the interior of shed stocked with
battle relics.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-22
WE LAY Nv Down TO SLEEP.
ny LOUISE CHANDLER NORTON.

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We lay us down To sleep,
And leave TO God tho rest
Whether TO wake or weep,
Or wake no more be best,
Why yCX our souls with care
The grave Ia cool and low,
Have we found life so fair
That we should dread TO go2
We've kissed loves sweet red lips,
And left them sweet aud rcd,
The rose the wild bee SIPS
Blooms on when he IL dead.
Some faithful friends wc'vO found,
Bu, tn no who love lls bost
When wenre under ground,
viii laugh on with the rest.
No task have We begun
But other hands can take;
Nor work beneath the sun
For which we need 10 wake,
Then hold ~ fast, sy,et death,
II 50 II seemeth best
To him who gave us breath
That we should so to rest,
We lay us down TO sleep,
our weary eyes to close,
Whether TO wake and weep,
Or wake no more, lie knows