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RETRENcHMENr.-Georgia and

RETRENCHMENT.-Georgia and
Alabama have taken the lead in
embodying retrenchment and re-
form in their new constitutions
The reduction in Alabama is fully
20 per cent. 1t would be well for
our impoverished people to become
familiar with the salaries in that
state. The governor is allowed
$4,000; secretary of state $l,7O0;
state auditor $500; attorney gen.
eral 81, 800; superintendent Of edu
cation 81, 800; judges oftbe supreme
court $4,000 each; circuit judges
So, $50.
Under our present Radical con-
stitution, we give judges $4,000;
some of whom cannot make $500 by
the practice of law. Our judicial
districts must be enlarged, the sala.
ries reduced, and more work i'm
posed upon the judges, and then we
will have no difficulty in getting
sound practical lawyers to fill the
places Shreveport Times.
The President is aroused, as we
see by some remarks in the Wash.
fington Republican. This is the Sec
ond time within the recollection of
some people now on earth that the
President has been aroused. The
other time was when he went into
| the civil service reform business,
and then commenced to build up an
Old Line Wing party in the South.
When thoroughly aroused the Pres
ident is almost as terrible as a Pat
ent office report.-[ Philadelphia
Times.
# SHREVEPORT, Nov. 26, 1875
For the As ending yesterday at 3 P.
NJ, the government observer reports
a rise of inches, in the river at this
place, making it one foot and nine
inches above the low water mark of
1872. The chances for rise are
good, says the Times.
Cotton: Ordinary, nominal; good
ordinary, "A; low middling, e; mid
ling, 8; good miadling So.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 25.-Cot
ton: Good demand; sales 5000
: bales; good ordinary Sac; low mid
) ding sar; middling Ole; good mid
ding 9ac; niddling fair 104c; ne
receipts 5000 bales; gross A, %;
=
bales; stock 103 $50 bales. a5a +
9 There was never a nobler senti
t ment more eloquently or earnestl.
| uttered than that of Sam Houston
e in his immortal speech at Nacogdo
!, ches July 8, 1850. Houston said
!, s'Eyen though Texas cast me of
! to her fortunes will cling-upo1
j her soil will l end my days. Life
e sand is stunning fast and is almos
: out. Ere long it will cease to fo1
d and / must take my last look upo
!. earth. II / can behold my countr
still happy and the liberties of th
! people secure If I can behold til
end of sectional strife and harmon
restored, I will die content"
l. .bss3 SPECIAL NOTICE. 81
~
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It is affirmed that the Lieutenant
Governor Of Kentucky takes eighty
newspapers, and pays for them in
advance. Now we are prouder than
ever of our ssbluen {grass) blood
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BELLEVUE, La, l
THURSDAY, ::::::::::November %, 1873.
The country has hundred and
twenty millions of bushels of wheat
to export this year. n y.
A sfour-acre orange grove in Or
ange county, Fla, has realized 81
200 for three successive years.
George NJ. Robson, the l,rofigate
and dishonest secretary of the navy,
under Grant, goes to Congress from
New Jersey.
According to salesman of expe-
rience in one of the largest houses
in that city. the average New York
woman wears a 81 shoe. .rr.
The Arizana, Claiborne parish,
cotton factory will be sold at Sher-
if IS sale on the 21st of December.
The factory cost about 500, OOO.- =
It is affirmed that the Lieutenant
Governor Of Kentucky takes eighty
newspapers, and pays for them in
advance. Now we are prouder than
ever of our "bluen {grass) blood.
est io--------- j y
Not. a single one of the Republican
Congressmen, elect from the State OF
Michigan, was chosen by majority
vote. That is, had there been per,
feet harmony between the two wings
of the opposition, the delegation
from Michigan would have been sol
idly anti Republican instead Of sol
idly Republican. aqA b.1 isae
~ - q - - lazg 81 &c IS
The public official is the servant
of the people, the great agent and
not the principal, the creature of the
public will and not the creator
amenable to the party electing him
andin matters of greatdpublic con
Germ the conduit as it were through
which the public voice must have
expression This principle of re
publican government denied ant
republican governments at an end
The only States the Republican
have carried by clear majorities, ar
Rhode Island, Vermont, Nevada
Colorado, Massachusetts and Ne
braska. In the States OF Connect
cut, New Hampshire, New York
New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania
Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Kan
sas, Minnesota and Iowa, the ma
jority Of the popular vote is agains
the Republicans. The majority @
the people chose the electors. 81 3
Thanksgiving Day was originall
adopted by the Puritans as an of
SO - "a . f.tA
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THE FARM DEPARTMENT.

of the WEEKLY HERALD gives the latest as
we'll rs the most practical suggestions and dis
coveries relating to the duties of the farmer,
hints for raising CATTLE, POULTRY, GRAINS,
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SKILLED LABOR
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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-12
Some Of the vagaries Of COal OIL
Johnnie,


A
Coal Oil Johnnie" who made him.
self AS well.known in Detroit Ms in any
other town he entered, was the son Of a
poor farmer IN Pithole, Pa, and his
real name was Steele. The miserable
farm, which had never yielded the
family a subsistence, proved TO be one
of the richest oil locations in PenDsyl-
yania, and when johnnie arrived at
manhood he found himself an orphan in
possession of fortune Of some " 1900.
900 which he commenced to fling away
with mad recklessness. Rose was on
hand and helped him to get through
with n goodly share oft in the mad
dest excitement Of gambling, riot and
fast life. Coal Oil Johnnie used tothink
he never could get 10 the end Of his pile.
He would sit down and calculate the
thousands he owned and swear that he
could never get rid Of it. Heidi, though,
in a little more than two years, and now
he is a station.agent on the Atlantic and
Great Western Railroad. Rose tells
some characteristic stories Of his com
paniOn, with whom he Travelled all over
the continent, wherever sport and eX'
element were to be had. Once, when
sitting with steele and Murphy, n vari-
ety actor who used 70 play at Boilers
place on Randolph street, a TELEGRAM
came for Steele. Murphy took it and
opened IT.. The dispatch was from Hart
ford, Conn, and read Twenty thou5.
and dollars here to your order. What
shall we do with it?" Coal Oil Johnnie
refused to take the dispatch after Muir.
ply had handed tito him.
Write 'em an answer, telling ZEN
that if ! don't call for il in FIVE years to
give it to an orphan asylum" said the
magnificent spendthrift.
Two years later Johnnie called for the
money. He had spent all but that sum
and it only served to keep bun in DISH
patton for a few weeks.
Rose had at that time something over
$40 600 that he had acquired himself,
and felt entitled to travel on Il footing
Of equality with this remarkable fool.
Once Johnnie got on a spree in Detroit,
He went to a bagnio on MacOmb street,
and to make the orgie sensational, com.
pIetely destroyoda $3.50 piano, by stamp
ing it in with his feet. The next day
he sent the madam" an $500 Steinway.
In Philadelphia he saw a pair Of horses
being harnessed in Il livery stable and
wanted to drive them, The stable
keeper refused, as the horses belonged
to another party who boarded them,
but who would sell them for $1,000,
Johnnie paid the money, drove the
horses furiouaIy for two hours, and then
sold them to the colored coachman for a
dollar bill. Lighting cigars with 500
notes wasa favOrite diversion. He was
charitable and generous, with all his
p~rotligacy, and often did much good
with his money
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-12
The So.Called Valley of the RedsRi,er
of the North.

For wheat culture, the experience of
two years has shown the Red Riyercoun-
try to be the most favored portion Of
America. In the extreme north of
Dakota, in latitude forty-sevcn degrees,
within one hundred and fifty miles Of
the British boundary, the best and most
bOuntiful wheat harvests on the cont.
nent are found. On the banks of the
Red River this wheat crop will command
within fifteen cents of the price of the
same grade on the Chicago market. 1t
can be placed at tide-water at a cost not
exceeding one cent a bushel more than
the cost of placing the crop of Eastern
Iowa at the same place,
The word valley conveys to the
general understanding no idea of what
the Red River country valley is. 1t is
not bordered by ranges of mountains,
or hills, or bluffs Of any considerable
dimensions, but only by trolling
prairies" slightly higher than this
enormous level prairie. 1t is a vast
t%reeless plain, from sixty to one hundred
miles wide and four hundred miles long
an area larger than that of Lake
Michigan, with a surface almost as
level, in appearance, rs that of this Gun
sailed sea in a calm.
It's the bed Of an ancient shallow
lake, whose outlet was southwark,
through the Minnesota River, into the
primeyal Mississippi. 1t received the
waters of the Assiniboln and other large
streams that now reach the ocean by a
shorter route through Hudson's Bay. At
length it's waters broke through the
range of hills that confined them, be-
low the present mouth OF yhe AssinibOin,
the lake was emptied into Lake Winni-
peg, and gave place to the sO-called Red
River VAlley-the richest wheat-pro-
ducing land in the Northwest.
The soil, from two to four feet in
depth, is a very rich loan, resting on a
bed of deposited clay and mari from
twenty to fifty feet in depth. Neither
ledge nor boulder, nor gravel nor sand,
in even the smallest quantity, have
been anywhere found on the surface or
in the substance of this formation. The
bed Of the Red River is simply a
tOrluOus gorge worn by water IN the
clay and the water, even at the lowest
stage, is still deep y colored by clay held
in the solution. The Cheyenne and
other tributaries Of the Red River
present the same feature. The evidences
of formation, by deposition from the
waters of Il good lake, are conclusive.
The plain is not wholly t~reeless. Thin
belts or ribbons of timber skirt the
principal streams; but the quantity of
timber is too small to be Of any econom-
ical value. When within the range of
vision it serves to break the oppressive
monotony of a landscape otherwise
without limits, and it also serves the
useful purpose of a windbreak in the
immediate vicinity of the streams; but
there is too little of it for any other
purpose.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-12
History of Il Dead Letter.

some time in 1877 Il soldier stationed
with the cavalry in Texas, died very
suddenly, and was buried with military
hOnors by HIS comrades and the spot
carefully marked. On his person was
a discharge which he had received the
day before for physical disability, and a
letter from his mother in England, and
one evidently from his sweetheart, but
signed only by her first name. These
were carefully preserved by the Lieu
tenant of the company and forwarded,
with a letterOf sympathy to the bereaved
mother in England. In due course of
time the letter was returned H. the
United States dead letter office ~ un-
delivered, the mother not being at her
former address. 1t was then opened,
and, after examination, returned in it's
open condition, with the suggestion that
the contents would enable the English
post officials to discover the person it
was intended to reach but in due course
of time it came back the second time as
unbelievable. The letter was then
turned over to one of the lady clerks in
the dead letter office, who, on reading
the contents, with a woman's instinct,
OWNED that the collie" who wrote the
one letter, and the Miss l., spoken
OF in the mother'sletter, were identical.
What is technically termed a letter
of discovery" was addressed TO the sup
posititious lady a 1.-THE address in Scotland
.post-marked on her letter. This letter,
reaching that office, was forwarded to
London whittier the young lady had gone,
and the dead letter oifii G here received a
from, her, with thanks for the
diligence displayed in e~ndeavoriDg to
the delivery of the letter, stating
that it was the first they had heard Of
he soldiers death, and giving the pres
mt address of the mother OF the soldier,
o whom the original package has been
orwarded, making its fifth trip across
he Atlantic Ocean.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-12

passengers, near slttingbourne Junction,
came in collision with some freight cars
while the latter were switching off the
main line. The train was running at ex'
press speed, and was completely wrecked.
Eight persons were killed and thirty Sc
yerely injured.
The Sultan sent u dispatch to the Car
requesting him 10 give orders to check the
Outrages upon Mussulmans in Roumella.
The Clar replied, expressing sorrow at the
anarchy prevailing, but declaring 1t his
belief the reports were exaggerated, AZ the
Russian generals had strict orders TO pre-
vent and punish such acts,
A dispatch from ~, Petersburg says the
police there fear that the Nihilists are in.
creasing throughout Russia, The Nihilists
are embroidered, and have stabbed four
imperial agents in Odessa, among whom
was the police agent who denounced
KodaBlki. The report that the a~sssbins Of
Mchentzo " have been arrested turns out to
be fglse.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-12
A Mule that Wasn't for Sale.

He was showing the maj the new bay
mule that he was working in a team
with the old gray. "You warrant him
sound and perfectly kind and gentle?"
the mar said. Perfectly" said Farmer
John. My wife and children drive
him, and he is a perfect pet. Comes
into the house like a dog Easy to
shoeT asked the man. Well, | guess
80; fact is, | never had him shod. !
don't believe in it; he works better with
out it," said Farmer John. "How does
he act when you put the crupper on?"
asked the man. Farmer John hesitated,
We'll, pretty good, | guess" he said (;
" fact is, | never put it on" Glow
does it get on?" asked the man " who
does put it on?' "Well, l kind of
don't know" said Farmer John; " fact
is, he had the harness on when | got
him, an it fit him SO well, and he
seemed TO be so kind o contented in it,
like, that ! sort of never took it oti'n
him" "And how long have you had
him?" asked the man. Farmer John
chewed a wheat straw very mcditatively.
Well" he said, " not to exceed morc'n
two year, mebbe.' And the man backed
a little further away, and said he would
" sort of look around a little further be-
fore he bought, like" And Farmer
John never saw him again, not even
unto this day,
In substantiation Of the theory that
sound hiss color, stands the fact that
pen have been heard to swear 3 blue
streak.-Rome Sentinel.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-12

BY excuses or imprudence in eating, we
can not hope to escape the consequences for
any great length Of time. The most robust
digestion must succumb to abuses Of thut
important function. But supposing that we
have been foolish enough to enfeeble the
stomach, is the damage irreparable? by no
means. The dyspeptic has only to do two
things to insure his ultimate recovery.
First, he should adopt All easily digestible
diet. Second, he should use with regularity
and persistence Hoste ter's Stomach Bitters,
the leading gastric invigoraLt of the age.
The multiform symptoms Of dyspepsia, and
the almost invariably attendant disorders,
biliousness and constipation, will assurediy
cease to persecute the sufferer il the above
advice is attended to. Who that has suf-
iered the orments that chronic Indigestion
intiicts will neglect to take advantage of II
remedy which, if the most positive evidence
of the medical profession and the public is
o be received with due credence, is an alb.
solute specific for the complaint.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-12
Thackeray and Douglas Jerrold.

London Correspondence of tho Baltimore 8 an
had often listened TO men Of letters
describe Paris literary life. Thackeray
on one occasion was most entertaining on
this subject. A Baltimorean gave II
dinner in London all the viands and
three Of the guests were from America.
At that time England was ablaze with
the red topic Of seceders from Oxford
and other recusants, The numerous
guests to this dinner were men Of the
original and graceful pen, and the topic
of the day interested them. AT this mo-
ment ] can recall them all to view, and
their names mark the literature of the
age. T~hackeray came in rather late
indeed, we had been waiting for him.
lie sat ~ris-0-CiS to Douglas Jerrold, who,
in his little figure and his wirey dis
heveled hair and thin voice contrasted
strongly with Michael Angelo Tit
marsh" as he was then known to the
outer world.
81 say, Thackeray," said Jerrold, ~
hear you, too, are about IL turn a Ro-
manw Thackeray calmly responded,
II hope | will commence in my noe"
To those who have seen the great
s%atirist, and will remember the broken
feature of his face. this retort will be at
once appreciated.
Thackeraytold stories of Paris literary
life Dickey Doyle sketched characters
well known in Paris, then not the least
of whom was that charming humorist,
the late Father Prout;" colbert a
Beckett told Jokes of Paris life, and
John Leech gave us portraits of Gavanni
and Cham" on the back of the menu,
Horace Mayhem told a capital anecdote
about that veteran Of the pen, now, ! be-
lieve, in Pennsylvania, DR.. Shelton
Mackenzie. Charles Kean described
Dion Boucicault as a "small boy" Just
as if he ever was a large one Mark
Lemon twitted old Cruikshank about
his /" soap locks" and finally the ques-
ton became general, "Where is the
'Grub-street' of Paris" "Why, there
is no Grub-street in Paris" said Sala;
France has not allowed literature to
come down to the Sums"
Thus, last night, when | asked a jour
nalist where could | find material for a
phonograph of the poor authors of Paris,
he contemptuously replied, "In Lon
don ~
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-12

all the property was saved except the hotel
building, a franc structure about seven
hundred feet long and three stories
high, which cost seventy'6ve thousand
dollars, II was completely destroyed.
Besides this, nine other buildings were de.
stroyed, and the total loss will aggregate
$i25,oOO or $4,000, The fire rs supposed to
have been incendiary. IT is thought a gang
Of thieves ret the hotel on fire for the pur'
pose Of robbery, as the rooms were broken
open ut the FIRST alarm, and hundreds Of
dollars worth Of jeweIry and clothing
stolen. A negro waiter at thaPutin.Bay
House IL supposed to have persisted in the
ilamea.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-12
EWS u M M
A 1shIpptap,

The Postofice Department has taken no
steps toward disenlccting the mails, The
medical authorities here have not agreed
that any disinfection Is necessary, or that
yellow fever can be conveyed by mail
matter. The authorities Of the Marine
Hospital Service seem to think that letters
do not communicate fever, and are in con.
'tant receipt Of mail matter from the in,
iec'ed districts in Cuba, which they do not
disinfect,
Dennis Kearney interviewed the presi.
dent a few days ago on the social condition
OF the nation, The President gave him a
little sound advice.