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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28

DR.. Shepard pointed out to me the po-
sitiOn of Gen. Gilmore's Swamp angel"
battery, and said that onl v recently his
workmen dug up one of the unexplcded
shot in the medical college yard. 1t was
rather large for war souvenir, and about
as dangerous as rattlesnake. The cap
was set already for the light tap that
would explode it, No soaking would
ruin the powder filling, and after looking
it over he had it carefully and deeply re.
buried, hoping beyond resurrection. A
negro some time ago found one of them,
and thought he would destroy it and sell
it for old iron. He got sledge hammer
and struck it on the point. 1t exploded,
blew the house roof off, and dealt de-
struction in every direction, but strangely,
Sambo wasn't injured beyond being
stunned by the conclusion. He reused
himself looked wildly around, and ex-
claimed: "Lordy, massy, whars dat
from"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28
Ages of the European Soyereigns.

Queen Victoria has just attained her
ffty.eighth birthday. Only twelve
others of the reigning soveleigns of
Cbristendom tout of thirty.eight in all)
haze attained to this age. The Oldest on
the list is the Pope, who was eighty. five
On Nav 13. OF temporal princes the
German emperor has seen the greatest
number of years, his eightieth birthday
having been reached few years ago
The ear is older than the queen by
about year, having been born on the
10Th of April 1918. The king of Italy is
some ten months younger than the queen,
the date of his birth being March II,
1920. The emperor Francis Joseph is
not yet iorty.seven. He was born in the
year of revolutions. 1880, and asce nded
he throne in the year of revolutions.
1913. The youngest reigning sovereign
$ Alphonso XII, of spain, who is not
ret twenty.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28
Journalistic Amenities.

The war correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune slipped on an orange peel while
walking down Clark street yesterday, and
was 50 injured by his fall that he wa
unable to furnish cable dispatch iol
this mornings paper.
The reporter who sends cable dispatche:
to the Chicago Times from Turkey was
detailed to report dog fight at Bridge
port yesterday. As consequence the
eastern war news of the Times will be a
light crop in the mornings issue.
The rumors of a possible peace between
Russia and Turkey seriously disturb the
war correspondent of the Inter-Ocean.
This thing of sitting in Madison street
saloon and writing special cable DIS
patches is the most comfortable SITUATION
he has had He wants the war to Procee''
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28
AdultCratCd Food.

The Canadian commissioner of internal
revenue has been making an analysis of
various articles of food entering into
popular consumption, and the result OF
his Investigations is anything but pleas
ant. In the course of his inquire, the
commissioner anayzed one hundred and
eighty articles Of food, ninety-thrcc OF
which, or more than fifty per cent, were
found to be adulterated. Coffee was not
onlymixcd with chickory but with roasted
peas and beans also. out Of ten samples
examined, but a single one was pure
Tea was found to be adultcrated with
various noxious weeds and with willow
leaves artiticially colored by drugs.
Twenty samples were examined, and but
four Of them were found to he pure.
Two specimens were pronounced by the
commissioners to he "unfit for human
consumption" Out OF tifty-eight SAM
pies of milk thirty-four were adulterated,
and out of nineteen specimens of pepper
but two were free from foreign admiX.
lures. All the samples Of ground cloves,
cinnamon, ginger and mustard were
aduIterated. The last named article was
discovered to be composed of turmeric
and wheat -four. Allspice had large
proportion of roasted pea meal it its
composition, and ground cloves were eked
out with Glove bark, woody fibre and pea
meal. Cinnamon proved to be composed
of cassa bark, pea meal, mustard and
buckwheat husks. The other articles
examined were found to be made up in a
similarly fraudulent manner. Such de
velopments 20 to show to what an eX
tent the ordinary every day articles of
food are tempered with by interruptions
dealers, and to prove the necessity for
frequent inspection, to prevent the frauds
thus practiced on the public.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28

The neutrality of England in the
present war in Europe has assumed such u
shape that the foreign Office has decided
that any British officer in the service of a
power which enters into hostiItics against
another power with which England is at
peace, must resign either his foreign APP.
pontment or his commission IN the British
service.
Reports from Erzeroum say that the
Russians continue to make determined at.
tacks on Kars. Continued fighting at that
place for three days resulted in the repulse
OF the Musoovite troops with great slaugh.
ter The Sukumkaleh rising in Caucasus,
which had been languishing, has suddenly
immensely revived.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28

We have never had more painful
duty TO fulfil than that which we per
form TO day in chroncling the death Of
Mrs. Wal pole, wife OF our esteemed
friend and confrerc, Mr.. James NJ. Wal.
pole. The simple notice which appears
in another part Of this paper, announcing
the marriage Of Mr.. WaIpoIc TO Miss
MOnne NJ, Pritchard, of this city, at
half past five O'Clock, and the death of
the bride at half past eight the same
evening, will tell the sad story, and
awaken the sorrowing sympathy OF many
who arc strangers to BOTH The engage
ment had been announced some months
since, and the wedding day had been
fixed for the 10Th of the present month.
But few days ago, the future of these
two seemed bright with the promises of
a happy welded life, and their friends
looked forward with pleasure to the
event which was to celebrate the union
of two hearts already united in the most
loyal and devoted affection. But an
overruling Providence, whose DEGREES
man may not iathom nor question, had
willed otherwise. Wednesday night the
deceased was attacked by a sudden illness,
and its fatal course developed 50 rapidly
that yesterday the attending physicians
pronounced the case beyond the reach of
human skill. The marriage ceremony
was solemni2cd in the death chamber,
while the hue Of life faded from the fair
face of her whose earthly existence had
seemed but few short hours before 80
full of joy and hope, and in barely three
hours afterward death had claimed the
bride at the hand, of the grielstricken
husband. --Ncm Orleow PiayUnc
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28
THE EAST.

The centennial of the adoption of tho
United States flag was celebrated at New
York, June H. by the raising of the banner
over the national and city buildings, In
Washington many business establishments
united with the government in commcmo.
rating the event, while in Boston there was
u general display of the "stars and stripeso
and firing Of salutes on the common.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28

The first number of the new niehtnI!
statistical Bulletin of tho French MIN nm:
istry of finance contains some interesting interesting
tables showing the annual consumption
Of salt in France from 1916 to 1870.
The lamentations seems to have been
due principally to changes in duty, al
though the tendency has all the time
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28

been toward a gradual increase Of con.
sumption, In 1916 the amount OF salt
consumed in France was is pounds per
head OF the population. After that il
increased slowly, and between 1918 and
1918 it never fell below 1872 pounds per
head, but never reached 10 pounds,
these being the extreme limits. In 1919,
owing to reduction Of the duty, the
average amount consumed rose to 20.
pounds per head, and in 1878 to 2l.S
pounds. The average amount consumed
in 1876 was 1874 pounds.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28

IT makes farmer mad as wet hen to
see a potato bug with pick on its
shoulder crawling over his garden fence,
and when it pauses on the top rail to'ask
why in the name of julius Cesar he
didn't plant it earlier, only mortal
fear Of the pick prevents him from or
dering it off the premises,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28
THE WEST,

The Emery arcade, opened June II,
at Cincinnati, is novelty on this continent
1t is four hundred feet long, connecting two
principal streets through the center of the
square. The arcade was brilliantly lighted
and decorated, and was visited by forty
thousand people.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28

A CHICAGO pork packer whose pew
rent was raised to S25, exclaimed !:
"Great Caesar, here's a nice state OF
aiiairs-the gospel going up and pork;
going down, What's to become OF u.s."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-21
THE S4NC7ITIES OF PRITATE LIFE.

The recent discussion between The World
and Surrogate Calvin-in which it seems to us
that the newspaper has clearly got the better
of the .Judge-cals attention once more to an
unpleasant symptom of our social condition,
which has long been the ridicule of foreigners
and the shame of decent Americans. When
Punch described the special reporter of New
York newspaper the other day, forcing him
self into the company of Mr.. Gladstone, and
submitting to a kicking as one of the Ordi-
nary incidents of his business, the Brit
ish satirist may have done injustice to
Americas journalism, but he touched new
eItheless one of the most offensive weak
nesses of our national disposition. The null
tltude resents privacy as an interference with
its legitimate amusements, and looks upon the
aristocrat who bars his domestic apartments
and excludes reporters from the family bed
rooms with some such feeling as the English
Radical may entertain for the Squire who
strictly preserves his game or enclOses a com
mon. When the pert young gentleman with
pencil and notebook intrudes himself into the
house of sorrow and the very chamber of
death, and proceeds to make catalogue Of
the furniture, setting down the holes In
the carpet and the darns in the sheets
and table-clOths when he puts insolent
questions to women, and crOss-examines the
sick and afflicted as If they were witnesses
under strong suspicion of perjury, his excuse
for the performance is that =" the public takes
ga great interest in their case, and the readers
"Of The Morning BIatherskite have a right to
"expect of it the earliest and fullest intelli-
"gence." When celebrated foreign preacher
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-21
ln0ct TO advertisements.

ANrsEMrNTs- Sd P0ge-5th and 9th columns.
BoARD AND ROOMS-:id pGJe-5ia column.
BrSlNrSS CHANCEs--7h IGJe-6th column.
BUSINESS NOTICfs-4M PGGe-lst column
Coal AND WOOD-;}d I0Qe-3i column.
CORPORATI NOTICEs-1h Pgge-Gth column
COUNTRY BOARn-3d Pdgc-5th column
pANCINO ACADEMlE>-6b Pdgc-3d column
DENIIsTUY-3d Pdge-6th column.
DRY GOODs-3d PGge-3d and 4th columns
EUROPEAN AuvEETIsEMENIs-3d ldge-3d column
IINANCIAL-7N IOGc-6ih ana 9TH cOiuhbs-
fUKNIIygE--3d IGJc-3d column
HEIP MANIED-3d Pd0c-ith column.
HOUSES AND FARMS WANTED Sd Pdge-2d Columns
ICE CREAM-3d PGGc-3d column.
INsTRvCrON-GM Fdgc-2d and 81 columns.
NJ lRBLE AND SLATE MANTEiS-3d FGV-0 c'lumu'
MAnRIAGE- AND DEATHs-jM Pdgc-6th column 80,
MfsCFIrANEOUs-3d FGQc-6th column; oW fdge-oth
and 9th columns
Nlw PUEBLO aTIONs-6M Tdge-lst and 2d columns
pgOPos Ats-3d P00e-2d column.
RAJ ESTATE For SALE-ClTY-3d PdOc-2d column :;
BEOoKiNN-Sd Tagged column; COUNTRY sd age
cd column: AUCTION SALEs-3d Pdge-2d column.
SANS BY AUCTION-6h PGgc-3d column.
SAVINGS BANKs-7M PGgc-6th column.
srFCIN NOTiCls-jh Tdge-6ih column
SITUATIONS WANrED-NALE>-3d Fdge-lth coiuinh {;
FtNALEs-3d Tdge-3 ami An columns.
STEAMBOATS, AND RAILROADS -Om IdGc-5d and an
columns.
srr,wFns. OcrAN-lH Pagc-Gih column.
TEACHERs-GM PdOc-3l column.
To LLT-CuY PROPEBTY-3d ragged columns :;
COUNIRY-3d Pd0c-2d column.
To WHOM II MAY CONCERN-6m Pdge-3d column.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-21
ELTCTTAIING LILIES.

We have endeavored to show "An Old Reader
"of The TRIBUNE %, that promises to pay
money at fixed time with interest cannot be
honestly discharged by giving other promises
10 pay money without interest, and at no
time in particular and (2) that increased
issues of demand notes, used as a legal-tender
currency, must of necessity lessen the value of
all such notes, rob laborers and those who
have saved their earnings, shake the confidence
of those who have capital, lessen the supply
for the support of industry, and thus bring
harder times than we now endure. But there
are men who cOnfessing that the logic of
these positions is impregnabe, attempt TO
evade it by advocating the use of some sort
of paper money which shall not be promise
to pay anything; which, therefore, shall not
be essened III value by an issue exceeding the
possibility of payment; which, they claim, may
be issued to an indefinite amount without
breach of faith, because il will not be the sort
of currency the issue of which has been linn
tied by law; and which, being put out in ex-
change for services, and representing them,
shall be an absolute legal-tender in payment
for all other services or debts.
What would induce anybody TO take such a
paper Nothing but the fact that it will pay
debts. Except the legal-tender quality. it has
absolutely no other element of value. But
that gives no fixed value. We saw that proved
during the war; the purchasing power of the
legal-tender danced about wildly. Its debt
paying power remained the same consequent
" debts swelled or shrank in real amount.
The same debt meant a thousand grains of
gold to-day and twelve hundred tomorrow
when contracted, 1t meant a hundred barrels
of flour, and when paid, perhaps eighty and
perhaps one hundred and twenty barrels. Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-21
REFORM IND BLACKNAIL.

All is not reform that pretends to regener-
ate. One of the most familiar figures in poll
ties is the man who organizes an association
i'll behalf of reform, demands no end of re-
forms in his platform, and then sells the votes
he has collected to the highest bidder. Almost
every agitation for a praseworthy object
is obstructed by the presence of such
OfliciOus workers, who are anxious either
for notoriety or for money. and where
they do not labor IN the interest of the
men they are pretending to oppose, are ex-
tOrting money from them. The curious con-
troversy over the Excise Law now in progress
in this city, shows that the Temperance move
ment, which has always afforded good oppor-
tunties for hypOcrites and corrupt men, has
suffered much from the accession OF re-
formers whose reforms tend to the sole
advantage of rogues. Here, for instance,
is the Law and Order League, of this
city, headed by one Mundy, and aided by
one Drake DcKay, and comprising, no doubt.
some worthy though misguided men, whom
these two reformers control. What is this So
cety doingi Attacking the thousands of low
grog-shops which sell poison and breed crime
Not at all. Messrs. Mundy and DeKay are at
work trying to break up such Infamous resorts
as DelmonicO's restaurant and, say. the Fifth
Avenue Hotel and in the court yesterday
the mouth of their chief witness was closed
with the sudden revelation that he was an ex-
convict. Does any one seriously suppose that
Messrs. Mundy and DeKay think the cause of
Temperance will be aided by forbdding Mr..
Delmonico to serve wine to his guests, while
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-21

necessity. all business became gambling. WIDE
snrpad corruption and decentralization followed,
for which those are paying now whose banks
and insurance companies are breaking, ana
whose railroad stocks prove worthless. All
who had credit gambled and became corrupted
more or less the poor, TO whom the legal
tender was only purchasing tool, were con-
tinually plundered, for prices rose quickly
when the dollar shrank in value, but wages
did not rise as quickly, and savings dwlndleu
in amount nor did prices fall as quickly Whcn
the dollar sweled in value. Did we not try
this changeable dollar long enough to know
that it was not good An absolute legal ten
der. promising nothing, would only vary sllll
more wildly in value, would make business
more risky, and industry more uncertain, ana
plunder the poor more remOrselessly
The notion that the legal-tendcr quality
can give any steady value to currency Is nj
orce exploded, if we consider that every sell
Ter. when he names a price, fixes his own yaiu-
alton on the dollars to be paid. If he needs
the legal-tcnder for instant use, or thinks IL
will be worth 90 cents when he will need IL
he sells barrel of flour for, let us say, %o.
If he needs it less, or thinks it will be worth
only 60 cents, he charges for the same HOUR
50 per barrel. If he sells on credit, he charges
for the risk that the legal-tender may De
worth less when the day of payment comes.
when currency is cheap and easy to get, credl-
tors are in no hurry Tor payment, ana not
anydebtors are prudent enough to refuse re-
newal of loans When currency becomes more
valuable and harder to get, then creditors III
sist on payment. In every conceivable way
such currency plumbers the poor, the LABOR
ing classes and the debtors, and makes III easy
for the rich to get richer, while the poor get
poorer. Do we want Il currency more nuctiia-
ting than any we have ever known, because
utterly without value except as debt-payerf
Such a currency may become worthless when
ever it becomes too plenty. Nothing but scar
city gives it any value. If there were more
iackbnives than could be used, nobody would
buy. and if the debt-paying tool becomes more
plenty than the debts to be paid, VINO VIII
want it! But there is no method conceivable
by which excessive issue of a legal-tender
paper can be prevented. Any law that Gov
eminent can make, it can also change. Issues
of currency which are demanded and thought
to be absolutely necessary to-day, may be
found palpably in excess, and sink swiftly in
value tomorrow, as soon as the pressing need
is over Because it is utterly impossible to
limit the quantity of such a currency. no man
can count upon its future value.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-21
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 81, 1877

the groggeries and dens arc left unmOlested
Can there be much doubt as to what these
gentlemen are after? Is. it reform, or black
mail
This association Of rcformers in buckram is
disavowed again to-day in the most explicit
terms, in our local columns, by DR.. Howard
Crosby, whose Society for the Prevention of
Crime is engaged IN a sincere and practical ef-
fort TO check incompetence. DR.. Crosby also
proves that the Endorsement of the local Law
ana Order League by the State organization
has been made public only in part, and that
the whole dispatch seems to show lack of
approval in the State League for Mr.. Mundy's
method Of work. The number of establish
ments in this city licensed as inns is
1913; the number of unlicensed saloons
is about $500. In the interest of these latter
there is some reason to suspect that Mr..
Mundy is acting Whether he is at the
same time extorting money from the hotels or
not. he is doing his best to break down all
efforts to enforce the Excise Law by pretend
ing to attempt impractcable things, and is
working no little harm to the cause he affects
TO represent. If he and Mr.. DeKay have
been hired to do this job, they are earning
their Wages
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-21

abandoning the exercise of craftsmanship and
the pursuit of official promotion. For, not
witbstanding the general impression that
his craftsmanship is vastly funnier than
his humor-indeed, nothing can be az
funny as his statesmanship-there is also
notion that he satisfies himself better as hu-
morist than as statesman, and the country
wants to see him enjoy himself. And if we
might be permitted to make a suggestion, il
strikes us that the next time he prepares
humorous speech, he will do well not to an.
nOunce it so far in advance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-21
/ GR1NDJURY THATDESERVES INJECTING

4 GR1NDJURY THAT DESERVESI NDIC1ING.
4 second reading of the PittSburg Grand
Jury's astonishing presentment only strength
ems our opinion that it is thoroughly dis
graceful document. A worse piece OF special
pleading to shift the responsibility OF crime
never proceeded from the most INSCRIPTIONS
lawyer, much less from twelve ministers of
the law, whose sworn duty it is to protect So
cicty and bring offenders to justice.
What are the facts9 Last July the city of
PIttsburg was cursed by riot so wanton and
destructive of life ami property that it re-
called the worst d0ngs of the Paris Commune.
The civil authorities with abiect cowardice,
delivered the city over to the passions Of the
mob. 4 small force of military sent from
Philadelphia to protect the property Of the
railway companies was asSaied with stones
and pistol shots, and when the soldiers fired
on their ASSISTANTS, supporting force OF local
militia threw down their arms. The mob, with
frantic clamOrs for vengeance. continued It's
attack upon the little band Of soldiers.
BesIeged all one night with cannon and
small arms, they held their ground until the
building they were defending was fired, and
finally retreated to the open country. Then
the carnival Of blood ceased and the carnival
of plumber began. All one long Summer Sab
bath day the rioters gOrged themselves with
the plumber Of miles of freight ears, loaded
with goods belonging to citizens of almost
every State in the Union. AS fast as the cars
were robbed they were fired. Machine shops,
engine-hOuses, depOts and grain elevators
were given to the flames. Meanwhile, the po-
lice and respectable people of Pittsburg gaz@d
upon the scene as they might have gazed upon
n theatrical spectacle. Only when the fire
spread to buildings not owned by the rail
roads was there an effort to check the con-
tlagratiOn and restore order.
Months have gone by, and the popular YER
diet on the riot has been made up, and has
gone into history. Now comes the Grand In
quest of Allegheny County, and seeks to re-
verse that verdict by labored excuses for the
murderous mob and by railing at the State Of
ficials and the citizen sOldiery who tried to sup
press it.. Even gallant and energetic Governor
Hartmnft, who FASTENED to the scene of the
calamity with a large force of troops, is ridi-
culcd by comparing him to the King of France,
who with twenty thousand men marched up
the hill and then marched down again! The
riot was disgrace and horror, but this Grand
Jury report is simply infamous. 1t is pity
that our system of criminal law affords no way
of Furnishing the men who made it. These in
dicters ought themselves to be indicted.