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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-15
conc RESSlONAL.- Extra Session.
THE SENATE.

In the senatc,on the Goth, the following bills
were introduced and referred: To fix the
date OF meeting OF the regular session of the
forty'iiith congress upon November lSt.
Providing for the coinage OF silver dollars
and for making same legal tender, To es.
tablsh the territory Of Lincoln and provide
temporary government. 10 authorize the
secretary of the interior to declare forfeit
ures OF RAILROAD giants in certain cases.
he senate then Vent Into executive ses-
sion and after sitting thrce-quarters of an
hour adjourned till tomorrow.
In the Senate, on the Slst, Mr.. Gordon
presented petition praying that congress
take action in regard to the Freedman's say.
ing and trust company so as TO restore TO
them their deposits. Referred, The follow.
ing il the special committee to consider the
subject Of ascertiining and declaring tho
vote for president and vice president Of the
United StAtcs. Messrs. Ednunds, Conkling,
Howe, Mcmillan, Teller, Davis, (lll.l, Bayard,
Thurman and Morgan (Ala.l, The follow.
ing bills were introduced and referred: BY
Mr.. Burnside-rO remove all restrictions re.
garding the enlistment of colored citizens in
the army. by Mr.. Ingalls-To provide n
building for the poStonce, courts and other
public Offices at Topeka, KS. \ number OF
unimportant bills were introduced, when
the senate went into executive session, and
after session OF ten minutes, adjourned.
In the Senate, on the ist., Mr.. Arm
strong presented a memorial of the Kansas
City board of trade favoring the repeal OF
the specie resumption act, and II remonetiha.
ton of silver. Also resolution of the st,
Louis Merchants exchange favoring II repeal
of the bankrupt law, Referred A number
of bills were referred and the senate then
went into executive Session. When the doors
were reopcned the senate adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 3rd the death OF
Senator Morton was announced by Senator
MDonald. A resolution submitted by him,
providing for the appointmentof of a eommiitec
OF six senators to attend the funeral, was
agreed to, and the vice president appointed
benators MDonald, Davis ILL.,, Burnside
Bayard, Cameron Penn. and Booth. The
senate then, as a further mark OF respect Ia
the memory :of Senator Morton, adjourned
till Tuesday next.
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FORESTS Challenge TO Fitzpatrick.

In sketch of the late Gen. Forrest
the y. Y. World says:
Gen. Forrest was not an educated
soldier, but he had that within him
energy, dash and pluck-which goes to
make a successful cavalryman. That he
WIS successful, his remarkable marches
and numerous victories fully attest.
More than one unwary federal general
went into camp in fancied security think
ing the enemy hundred miles away,
and before morning was awakened by an
attack in force, against which he was
powerless. His excuse at headq'iaiters
would be that it was Forrest who had
made the attack. The cavalryman.s
movements we're as rapid aud eccentric
as those OF n guerilla, yet he carried with
him always large and we'll organized
force, Some one asked him just before
the close of the war, when his victories
made him particularly conspicuous, what
was the secret OF his success. In MS own
homcly way lie said that it was by
"ritting the most men thar first, sum
mer before last, when Gen. ,Iudson XII
patrick was canvassing Indiana for the
republicans, he spoke of Gen. Forrest ~
such way that the latter challenged
him to fight duel. As soon as the
challenge was sent Forrest wrote to Gen.
Basil Duke, of Kentucky, that, IN case
his invitation vas accepted-whlch ne
did not doub. TOR a moment'''he would
call ON Duke to be his second. The let
ter further said that in the necessary
arrangement he would like Gen. Duke
TO insist that the duel should be toug Int
on horseback with sabres. as that was the
way for two cavalrymen to meet. Gen.
Duke a. once engaged for his principal
s,eed for the encounter"-a horse
recommended by his owner to go over a
church stccple, if necessary---and awaited
Gen. Kilpatrick's reply. kilPatrick,
however, declined to fight, on the ground
that he and Forrest "did not move in
the same social sphere" Had this duel
taken place, it doubtless would have been
conducted in style delightfully."-
dramatic
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The SmItan's Hero.

The most popular man is Osman Pasha,
the hero OF Plevna. The sultan has beer
pleased to confer upon the wife of the
said Osman the sum of $4,000 piastres,
and uron two of his children, aged eight
and six, the sums of 5000 and
4,OOO piastres respectively. Even the
servants of O5man Pasha have received
handsome presents. in contrast with this
liberality the soldier is not paid, and the
daily pisstre he is supposed to receive
has been for months past myth.
Two meals day--not very sumptuous
at best-arc his allowance, coarse black
bread and weak soup, to which Il small
piece of mutton is added at the chief
repast. And yet the sultan can afford to
shower presents on a commander whose
principal merit consists in keeping his
men in almost impregnable trenches and
fighting them with the Martini Henry in
opposition TO the Russian steel Oh . the
pashas. Talk OF the,corruption at Wash
ingtonl The exposures of the past years
in the United States sink into insight
ticancc compared with the exploits in
the same line of these oriental dignitares
Goryed with plunder and ever grasping
at more, they grind the faces of the poor
and while the people grOans under the
burdens laid upon il, and the hard-earned
pay o! the soldier is kept back, these
bloated officials revel in luxury and ease
palaces in the capital and kiosks up
the Bo.phorus-wiyes surrounded by all
that eastern opulence can devise. Snd
slaves 20 forestall :heirsslightest wish.-
Coustantin0phc Cor. Ncr York |Iorld.
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How Prairie Dogs Get Water.

1t has always been subject of cnrios-
ity aud inquiry as to how and where
prairie dogs, living on the prairie far
away from any river or stream, obtain
their water. F. Leech, formerly of Mer-
Ger county, Pa, and frontiersman of
experience, asserts that the dogs dig their
own wells, each village having one with
a concealed opening. 1t matters not how
far down the water may be. the dogs will
keep digging until they reach it. he
knows OF one such well two hundred feet
deep, and having circular staircase lead
inc down to the water. Every time 4
dog wants to drink he descends this stair
Gaze, which considering the distance, is
no mean task. In digging for water the
animals display as much pluck as in re.
sisting the efforts of settlers to expel
them IRON the land of their rrOgenitors
-Sqn francisco Chronicle.
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MlSCELLANE EOlIS.

The total registration ~ New York
city is 1885, against lH3,O6a registered last
year.
\ New York society, which calls itself
the Crescent and tho Cross" is raising
money for both the Russian end the Turkish
wounded.
Among the topics discussed by the
Christian tallroad mems conference at Cleve-
lind, Ohio, Saturday, was How to use the
Bible and increase its study"
The editor of newspaper in .'itts-
burg, called The Gatling Gun, has been tried
for libel, found guilty and sentenced to pay
fine of $1,000 and undergo Imprisonment
in the Allegheny county workhousc for one
Year.
The owner of one of the most fashion,
able bar.rooms in Chicago is bankrupt
Among the claims against him is one of Il
druggist for $1,000 :" for materials used in
compromising liquors" A clersytren madc
this fact the theme for an uhcomnionly efiec-
tive temperance sermon
There were six.y.6ne failures reported
in New York city during the month oil Octo.
ber, the largest number of any month this
year, but the liabilities, which are in round
| numbera $S,6OO,000, are not 50 great as in
some other months. The number OF failures
has increased about thirty per cent over the
record for the month of September, while the
aggregate liabilities is smaller by 100000.
High taxes have began to tell in New
York. A recent letter from that city says;
"The fact that the registration has fallen of
nearly 10000 compared with that OF last
year, has given rise to the suspicion that the
true explanation is not to be sought fer in
the decline OF political interest on the part
of the community, but in a positive falling
ing rf of our population.
White sugar, the very find kind that is
affected by some housekeepers for powder.
| ing the tops Of cake, ETC.. is almost always
adulterated with flour, starch and plaster OF
Paris. The coafser grained sugars, such ~
the coarse granu tied, are as general thing
| pure Faur or five years ago u number OF
eminent physicians published card in the
newspapers warning the people against the
use Of brown sugars, which were declared
"totally unfit for human consumption, y
Boston BD|letm.
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WAR NOTE.S.

The bomhardment of pcvna continues
in desutory way.
4 special dispatch from Shumla seys
Silistria is threatened with investment, but Is
exceedingly strong in defenses and full
armed. The garrison is commanded by
Salama Pasha, one OF the ablest turkish
generals,
>kobeIef the Russian general, swan
the Danube on horseback to show it could be
done, and has had five horses shot under hlm
during this campaign. During one of his
reconnaissance near Plevna he came in view
of a delicious spring Of water, apparently
inaccessible however, because of the hail OF
Turkish bullets that battered round it. The
soldiers Shrank back from facing almost GER
tain death, till Skobelef dismounted, lels.
urely walked to the fountain, drank freely OF
its waters and bathed his face and hands.
S;ung by this implied taunt the soldiers
rushed forward to shield him; Skobelet' or.
dered them under arrest for leaving their
ranks and calmly walked back.
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Egyptian Self-Mutilation.

Tue Egyptian troops have fought
bravely tor the sultan, but some of them
evidently do MOI like the smell of powder
Two hundred and fiIty.iour of them are
in the hospital at Adrianople with +, the
tops of their right thumbs missing. This
selfmutilation will prevent them hand
ling easily the breeeh- loading guns.
Mehemet Ali, the founder Of the present
Egyptian dynasty, once had a similar
Egypt. Hundreds Of the conscr,Pls "tis hs
found to have only one eye, ara ~ 10
without the right forefipger-she Iriegs''
finger. Mehemet Ali st once oruersa ;at a
certain number of regiments raised OF
one.eysd and nine-fngered mep, and
there were no more mutilstions,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-15

In the Japanese religion, tho first
human being born on earth WAS wo-
nan.
" Two and two never make more shaE
four" said public speaker " Ie" they
do" cried boy in the audience, 4" Fer
hars our young friend will kindly tell na
when two and two make more than four"
blandly said the speaker whereupon the
isJy cried When there side by side,
YOU old stupid-then they make twenty
two, don't they"
WHEN people ask Gordon II. Gid
dins, one.lcgged commercial traveller
how he lost his leg he generally replies,
/" Lost II on election" and that aatisiea
the most Curious.- Utica Herald,
Gidtngs seems to have got on new
track, az he used to take pride in iniorH'"
ing his friends that it was bitten OIL Dyn
COW p Roch. Union The last time
he was in Rome he ssid he lost his leS
through hole in his pantalOons pocket
lSome Sentinel. On the contrary he
has frequently said that when he lost IL
he was going on the stump n. Y
Herald. What he really did say was
that he wanted to aec tie boot on tlle
other leg.-.-CouTter journal.
PRAIRIE dogs are nuisances pure and
simple, and they are capable OF doing an
immense deal of damage in any country
where they permanently locate thew
selves, They eat of all the grass-roots'
and make desert in every place where
their towns are located. never saw SO
many as / did while on my way hither
and, in my opinion, it isa NEST i0rtn-
nate thing that the rattlesnakes eat 80
many Of the young ones, or they would
in few years overrun the whole country
They may do this in any event They are
pests of the worst order, and have al"
ready done great deal OF damage near
several of the water cour5cs.--Chlc' N'o'
Big Horn Letter.
A STRICT Turk is obliged not only 10
wash his head, face, neck, ears and feet,
hut also his teeth at each OF the hvs
daily calls 10 prayer, Sc he very soon
wears out his toothbrush, and those
articles are generally sold in packets OF a
dozen. They arc made o! olive sticks
about ten inches long and half an inch
in diameter. At one end for about halt
an inch they are split in all directions, 80
as TO form Il brush 1t is easy TO zee that
thpv are not calculated TO endure hard
ware The less, ss,particuar Turks use
ordinary European toOthhrushes, hut ~
even the most lax amsng Them look on
the pig and all belonging to him as vile
and unclcan, they would as soon think OF
defIing their mouths with a Russian
bris.le toothbrush ~ OF eating a pork
chop or rasher of bacon. The shop
KEEPERS, therefore, swears by the head
and souls Of his father and mother that
the hair of which his toothbrushes are
made grew oa the back of the camel, The
cow or the horse. lfark7.
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WASHINGTON.

The letter carriers have appointed a
committee to confer with pOstOfhcc commit.
tees of the senate and house, and urge that
yearly salaries in all cities be placed at
ST. 0 for the highest grade, and $500 for the
lowest.
The coinage executed in the United
States, mints for the month of October, 1877,
IS as follows: Double eagles, S5,l5l,sO ;
half eagles, $1,000; quarter eagles $4,000;
total gold coinage, $5,I79,SO0. Trade dollars,
dollars, S55i,Ol2; twenty cent pieces, $40 ;
nimrs. S16,i05; total silver coinage, 81.
4l6,7O3.
POstmastcrs confirmed-Kentucky-
Mrs, V. {. Thompson, Louisville; Ms. Mary
l.. koss, Newort; B. Ii. Carpenter, Shelby
d. vile; Jas: s. Linney, Danville; AdolPh y.
hlipp, Lebanon; J. f. Warren, Stanford j.
NJ. NJ. Stockton, Maysvile. Tennessee. A..
Ihohpson. Memphis; Wm. p. Jones, Nash.
Vile. Registers of land office--Louis Dou-
gal, Denver Col; II. $. Stewart, Sheridan,
Dakotah BeDj F. Hanna, Hays City, Kan.
SIS; W. j. Town, Evanston, Wy; Henry e..
Olney, Lake City, Col; n W. Gibbs, Little
Mock. Neceivers of public monies-W.
Hsyan, Of Grand Island, Neb.; Edwin :.
-. i'dutoNu, wy 'o'iu ioi'J ~ ~
Platt, Neb.; G. n Bond, Lincoln, Neb.;
Sohn +, McKenna, Sheridan, Dakota I. B.
Hickman, Lake City, Col. George W. Frost,
agent Tor the Indians of the Grow agency,
Mentanna; Wellington Bird, agent for the
Indians of Milk river agency, Montana
BENZ. j. Lang, of Ohio, secretary to the
president to sign land patents.
Burnside's bill, removing all restric
tions now existing in regard to the enlist
ment of colored citizens in any arm OF the
United States army; provides that hereafter
the word "color" shall not be used to desig
nate any soldier in the United States army
that colored citizens shall be entitled to al
the privileges and rights Of any citizen {,
enlist in any arm of the United States army
and no distinction shall hereafter he made
in the assignment OF soldiers on account o
color or previous descent; that all arms o
the service, engineers, artillery, cavalry, in
fanirv, signal corps, Irrespective of colo
shall be open to him. 1t further authorize
the epresident to fill the Ninth and Tent
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'Olhello,' WIN the ioiioWh'B "N'No'
dnary cast
Othello So,hern
Iago ,...... .,.....,.. .,..n.nMr, W.J Florence
Cassie ii. Crisp
DeHdelnonn Lol'"
Etrila. ...,....." .,uoMrs, John Drew
Everybody, including the actors on
the stage apparently, YRS on the tiploe
of expectation, Nobody knew whTt, was
going to happen. Would Mr. Sothern
lisp and limp a Ia "Dundrcary?" or
scowl and grunt Ia 'Fitzaltamount;,, 7,
Would Florence gag" Or would
little Lotta pull up Dcsdemona's
skirts and break out into dance and song
That's the sort of thing most people cx.
pccted, Hnd before half n dozen words had
passed between Cassie and pesdcmona
there was many litter and many a sup
pressed roar, nv the comicality of the sit
uaton struck the onlookels. Miss Lotta
herself could not conceal her enjoyment
of the fun, and did not attempt to resist
the temptation to increase it. She
waved her arms in melodramatic style,
bowed rpasmodically, and kicked her
long unaccustomed skirts about in most
amusing fashion. Presently sOthcrn ap'
peared magnifccntly attired IS O'hello,
with face duly darkened, and stridlhg
about with trngic aspect, frownlng more
terribly than does the crushed tragedian.
The audience thought it immensely
! funny, and refused to believe that Sothern
was serious. But he WAS. And SO was
| Florence, who made n most amiable and
lovable lage. Both continued TO speak
their lines in the approved manner, until,
almost congucring the risibility OF the
audience, Mr.. Sothern gave a genuine
specimen Of his ability as a tragic actor.
1t was curious to watch how the terrible
ealousyof the Moor oyercame all thought
of the absurdity of Mr.. Sothern's assump'
ton of the character in the minds OF the
spectators. The house grew still and be
gan to grow crtical-n0 mean tribute to
Mr.. Sothern's skill. But Lolita came
again, end there was no more seriousness.
Evidently Mr.. FlorcGce's greatest effort
was to keep his c0untenance. lie no
longer did more than 10 speak his lines,
but Mr. Sothern seemed to grow morc
and more serious, until his seriousness
was precisely the seriousness OF titzalta-
mount or any other Crushed Tragedian." "
Just as the scene was closing Lotta had
succeeded in destroying every particle OF
gravity in the house, and rs they went
off the house was in a roar. Recalled,
they plunged into burlesque, and as tina,
waa evidently expected of ,hem every
body was satisfied. On second recall
before the curtain Mr.. Sothcrn, on hehal
Of the managing committee, returned
thanks for the support given and ex
pressed his belief that the sum nctted 10
Mr.. Edwin Adams would amount +
0,OOo, whercupon there was grea
cheering ". J. IfOrM.
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cavalry, Iwenly,fourth and Twenty.ffth in.
fantry with enlisted men, without reference
or distinction Of color; that he shall use his
discretion in keeping these regiments above
the minimum srenglh required by law, as.
signing men from the general recruiting and
general mounted service, al they are required
be regiments, without regard to color. II
further provides that nothing in the net shall
he s" construed that the Ninth and Tenth
cavalry, AMI Twcnty'fourth and Twenty>lilth
infantry are not part of the United States
army
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-15
THE window. glass manufacturing in

TIE window-glass manufacturing in
terost is now one of the principal in.
Sustries ol this country, and is destined
eventually to check the importation
f,om France and Belgium. In fact, large
quantities o! glass and glassware have
been exported from the United States
during the past year. There are in TINS
country seventy.two glass tactonee, OF
which twenty seven are in New yeiSy,
in which state there Is a caPl'"' Vi
e., COO 600 invested in the business.
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PERSONALITIES.

Estrada, the captured president of the
Cuban republic, will be sent to Spain.
Henry Bath, a newly-appointed West
Point cadet, has become heir TO $4,000.
DR.. Aida Avery, formerly physician
of Nassau college, is now practicing at Den>
YER, and has an income of SIC, 900 a year from
her profession.
Annie Preston writes from the home
of Moody, "People in Northtield nowadays
have more to say about Mr.. Moody's new
residence, servants, visitors, games, music,
dinners, toilets, horses, carriages, sheep and
other stock than about his religion"
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Ph0t0grapiling Col0rS.

Joseph Albert, photographer TO Che
court has finally succeeded in inYenting
photography to render to the natural col
ors in the picture by Photographic
steam press of his own construction,
without the aid of a pencil, have seen
some of the proofs of such coIured photo
graphs by the Albert press. An expert
painter could hardly give the colors OF
the object more faithful in living reality
and with a distnctnCss to the incest
shades. The secret OF the invention con
eists in the analysis Of the white light in
to the three coors--yelow, blue and red
and in their recovery Of the three col.
ors ready for the press. ona plate,
chemically prepared so as to receive but
the yellow parts OF the light, and the
tenes OF the coIors OF tho object TO be re
hectcd, the first photograph Is taken,
when negative of that plate is at once
rut under the press, whose cylinder is
dubbed over with yellow paint. None
but the tones of the yellow colors are now
seen in the impression. After that the
object is photographed on a plate made
to reflect but the blue colprs. The plate
now under the cylinder reflects blue
impression, the cylinder being dubbed
over with blue paint. In the same man
ner he receives but the tonrs of the red
colors by means of third plate. Print
ing the individual pictures of a yellow,
blue and red over each other, Il picture
is produced true TO nature, the colors
intermiying by having been printed over
each other. The idea, long entertained
and prosecuted by Albert, to photograph
colors, may no longer be considered as
not feasible. 1t is hard at present to
ioretell what revolution the new inven-
ton will produce in the many depart
ments of art.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-15

THE midsummer returns of paupers in
England and Wales Showed a diminutiou
Of 2IlO as compared with last year,
which. in view OF the rapid increase of
population, and the exceedingly de-
= pressed condition Of trade, is remark
able decrease,
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FACTS AND FASClES,


DFHF,
Oh dear vhst can the matter bo2
Bear dear, what eau the matter he?
Oh, dear what can The matter he.
Turkey IN chasing the Bear
He promsed io pomme the Turks II minute,
And now The Fear scoots--why the mischief IL Init
Uls cars droop, although he WAS Iirs, to begin IT,
Hes running away, decla,ei
Door, dear shat can the matter be
D,n,t YOU think i.rarig eycr will iaiter bc
OF victory corldn't nncb Hai er hs
II he was dead ia his lair.
lie promised to make II a midSunn'er ramhl",
lie promised 10 20 fast as pony could amhle,
lie promised to g0bble up Shumla ma S4nmbols
And knock down the ninarets there.
renr, dear what can the matter he
Why should she Turkey a' m ID asa halter hc'
" here oAp the Brar who was going to spat her he
Turkey IL chasing th' Bear!
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OTIIEIJ.O.
An Extraordinary Performance M Edwsn
aduiRA Heneft.

And now came !hS great attraction Of
the performance, the .bird act Of
"Othello," with the following "straor-
dinary caat.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-15
Southern Shoe FACTORY
OF JOHN HANSEN
m and 81 Canal street. New Orleans.
TO ALL SOUTHERN CITIZENS.

lam of the same opinion as yourselves any
am determined to help build up the manufac-
turing interest of our native State IN order to
which would otherwise 60 to the North. at home,
About year ago started my Factory. and 6y
using the best material and payins my hands
brsiness and support 500 women and children
that would have otherwise left the State. II
order still to increase my Factory. would
Earnestly call upon the merchants, not only OF
The city, but of the whole country. to give me
their aid and announcement. Come AHd sse ne.
de141y sNO. HANSEN