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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

RICHARD WAGNER has sold the copy.
right of all his musical productions to
Schott, the Mayence publisher, the con
sideration of the agreement being the
yearly payment to the composer Of 150,
600 marks (about $35,OOO). This an
nuity is also to DO paid to Wagner'i
heirs for thirty years after his death
And still it is thought the publisher hat
made profitable contract.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

DRUNKARDs are suffering in the rural
counties of Wisconsin, where the local
option law of the State enable the total
abstinence people to vote down the pub.
lie sale of intoxicants. Heretofore the
traffic has been continued out of sight,
but now the railroad companies have
prohibited their employees from taking
liquor as freight, and the dealers can
therefore obtain only very limited sup
n1ina
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

Gu1rEAu's skeleton is not yet articu-
lated. 1t is ready for wiring with the
exception of the thigh bones. which are
Lot vet sufficiently bleached. They are
submerged in an ether bath where they
will remain for some weeks before the
process Of preparation is completed. II
is not likely that when articulated the
skeleton will be placed on public exhi.
bition. 1t will probably be consigned
to repose among other ghastly relics o.
the Medical Museum, upon which thu
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

PROFESSOR REESE, an astronomer, de-
MES that the comet OF 1882 is identical
with the comet Of 1913 and 1880. From
data given after Ck:c-Yotien of its orbit.
he says it will not return to our system
in less than four thousand years. 1t i.
not necessary, therefore, to lie awake AT
night dreading u catastrophe.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

A man and woman lived together
as man and wife for nine years. At the
expiration of that period the man
claimed to have discovered that the wo-
man had another husband living. 10
offset this the woman protested to have
discovered that the husband had anoth-
err wife still in existence. Then 1t was
ascertained that the first--or second
husband of the wife had in the interval
married again. Then it was attempted
to be proved that the first--or second
wife of the original husband had died,
and at last the much muddled suit was
dropped by mutual consent.-N. T.
Herald.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

A BOOK has just been issued in Yer.
mont entitled "The Resurrection of
Christ from Lawyers Standpoint" It
is IN investigation according to the laws
OF evidence, and it ends with q full &C.
ccptnnce of the resurrection of Christ as
IN historical fact.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

TIE Hon. Levi p. Morton, Is giving
hudable attention to the interests of the
American colony in Paris. lie has re.
Gently been chosen as warden of the
American Episcopal Church in that city,
and has become patron or the paris,
British and American Schools"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

CONFEDERATE bonds still have some
value in the South. A large quantity Of
them belonging to the estate Of Jacob
Barret, of Charleston, South Carolina,
were sold recently at auction. The
whole lot, s149,6OO, was bought by Ed
ward Moreland at $3.50 per $1,000.
The bidding, which started ut $40 per
$1,000, was quite spirited. S6,45O Of
Confederate bank bills we're also sold OF
go for the lot.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

JAY GOULD stopped at Rochester re-
Gently ON his return from the West. On
Nlighting from car at the new depot,
he stepped on sidetrack in front of a
moving locomotive, and would have been
run over but for the outcries of those
standing near.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

Mss GABRIELLE GREELEY has begun
making improvements on the Greeley
swamp at Chappaqua, and has given
plot of ground to the Episcopal Society
of that village on which to erect
chapel.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

lN THE high school of Dedham, Mass.
aclusetts, the experiment is being made
of using daily newspapers instead of
textbooks in the reading class. The
Principal thinks that the plan is sue.
cpSsful
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

OYE of the benevolent New Workers
who helped introduce the English spar.
rows here, has had to remove every
bracket from his house and GO to an ex.
pense'of 800 for painting.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

a NEW underground railway is pro.
posed for Paris, TO cost about $50, OO0,-
600. The central station is to be ut the
Palace do la Eourse. In all, the lines
will be twentY.fOnr miles.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

IT Is asserted that in the three years
ending 1880, there were no fewer than
2j2 theaters destroyed by fire, or partly
SO, resulting in 1870 deaths, and about
3, 400 injuries.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

GENERAL BRADY, of Star.route motto.
riety, is said to have lost $3.50 in op.
Grating his Canadian lumber mills,
which he is now trying to dispose Of to
avoid further loss
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

ANY Roman Catholic who can prove
that the Apostle Peter had no wife, can
obtain a $1,000 prize offered in Scot
land.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

DANIEL SEALS, of Cleveland, is said
to be tho wealthiest colored man in
America.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15
TOPICS OF THE DAY,

A TELEPHONE has been run into o
church in Olean, n. Y.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

The new directory for Knoxville,
Tenn, places the population Of that city
nj l715l.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

MINISTER HANNIBAL HAMLIS will pass
Inc winter at Bangor, Me.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

The revision Of the Old Testament
will be completed in few months.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

Those footprints in the sandstone
at Carson, New, turn out to have been
made by beaemoth. The women
folks will now breathe easier.-Detro,t
Past
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

LIEUT.. THAcKARA has resigned from
the United States navy.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15
Didn't Want q Pass.

The other day an Arkansaw man Sc
cured a free pass over q railroad. He
was very much pleased at first, but after
discovering that If injured in an acci-
dent he could not recover damages, he
approached the Superintendent and
said: "Look here! how about this
thingp" "What's the matter with itp"
"What II I get killed on the road, my
wife wouldn't recover damages" "No,
sir" "Then I don't want the pass. I
amt got no wife nor no relations, but
want to feel that II l had q wife she'd
get pay for my death. I'm much
obliged to yer, but reckon I'll have to
walk. "--Arkansaw Traveller.
lit is said the Horseshoe Falls 81
Niagara have lost the shape which won
for them their name, and now resemble
q letter V, -
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

On a sm1ll island near Fiji n soft
material Is found which on expoSur,
hsrdens and looks much like friedrich.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15

Coarse salt, in crystals, Is the best
to use in picking
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-02
Bows Will Be Rows.

An exchange says a boy will
tramp two hundred and forty seven
miles in one day on a rabbit hunt
and be timber in the evening; when
if you ask him to go across the
street and borrow Jones' two inch
auger he will be as stiff as poker.
OF course he will. And he will GO
swimming all day and stay in the
water three hours at time and
splash and dive and paddle and
puff, and next morning he will feel
that an unmeasured insult has been
offered him when he is told by his
mother to wash his face carefully
so as not to leave the score of the
ebb and flow so plain to be seen un,
der the gills. And he'll wander
around q dry creek bed all afternoon
piling up pebble fort and nearly die
off when his big sister wants him
to please pick mp basket of chips
for the parlor stove. And he'll
spend the biggest part of the day
to corner stray mule or a bald
backed horse for ride, and feel
that all life's charms have fled
when it comes time to. drive the
cows home. And he'll turn ten.
acre lot upside down for ten inches
of angle worms, and wish for the
yoiceless tomb when the garden de.
mands his attention. But all the
same, when you want a friend who
will stand by you and sympathize
with you and be true to you in all
kinds of weather, enlist one of those
same boys.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-02

MosaicS.

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness
itself.
Who bravely dares must some
times risk a fall.
The bearing and training of a
child is woman's wisdom.
Time and the sun will make vine
gar without any shouting to help
them.
The most miserable pettifogging
in the world is that of man in the
court of his own conscience.
He that wrestles with us strength.
ems our nerves and sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Be thou like the bird perched
upon some frail thing; although he
feels the branch bending beneath
him yet loudly sings, knowing full
well that he has wings.
1t is astonishing how soon the
whole conscience begins to unravel
ifa single stitch drops ;one single sin
INDUCED in makes hole you could
put your head through.
Where God hath put exquisite
tinge upon the she'll washed in the
surf, and planted a paradise of
bloom in child's cheek let us
leave it to the owl to hoot, and the
frog to croak, and the fault finder
to complain.
The lustre of diamonds is invig-
GRATED by the interposition of darker
bodies; the lights Of picture are
created blythe shades. The highest
pleasure which nature has INDUCED
to sensitive perception is that of
rest after fatigue.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-02
SIX Hundred Victims of Whisky.

The Corwin during her voyage ia
Alaska landed on st. Lawrence is
land, having orders to investigate
the wholesale starvation of the ma
tives. At the first village at which
they landed all were dead; SO also
at the second, where fifty-four dead
bodies were counted; nearly all full
grown males. At another place
$50 persons-men, women and chill.
dren-were dead. At the next set.
Element, twelve dead bodies, and at
the following thirty were found
All the inhabitants on the north
side of the island, where whisky
traders sold liquor, are dead moi
one escaping. The general starva
| tion occurred two years ago last win
ter. Since the presence Of the Cor
win in the Arctic has broken III
this inhuman whisky trading. Tht
empty whisky kegs are seen strewr
lall about, The total number o.
dead bodies found on st. Lawrencs
island was over 600. The survivor.
say that white traders from Homo
lulu sold whisky, which the natives
bought and got drunk, remaining
50 during the season for laying il
their winter supply Of Walrus AM
lseaL .
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-02
The Men Who Succeed.

The great difference among men,
of all callings, is energy of charac-
ter, or the want of it. Given the
same amount of learning and integ-
rity, and the same opportunities,
and energy will make one man a
conqueror.
The want of will see the other q
failure. Dead beats are all men
without force of character.
They had as good a chance as any
Of their companions. Others went
ahead and carried off the prizes,
while they were lying by the way
side dispirited and Respondent.
1t takes nerve, vim, perseverance,
patient continuance in well-doing to
win a great prize. And the young
man who goes into profession
without this pluck and force will
not earn salt to his porridge. He
will drag through life with The help
of friends, getting some credit with
them for being a well-meaning man
in delicate health and unlucky.
The real trouble is he lacks energy.
All the learning in the world will
not qualify man for usefulness.
1t requires push, stamina, vigor,
courage, resolution, will, determine
tion-in one word, energy.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-02
verm,n in Fowls.

Notwithstanding the cold days
and nights we are now in the midst
of, and all the precautions which
the attentive poulterer has thus fal
adopted to keep the house vermin
under control, we should now watch
for the Temperance of this pest
within the building where the poul-
try congegate in January and for.
ward to spring again.
AS soon as the fowl-stock be-
comes accustomed to their new win
ter quarters, the roosts upon which
they rest at night will be infested
with lice, which accumulate rapidly
after they once get a foothold afresh
upon the perches.
Every one who keeps fowls is
aware how pernicious and how in
sidious are the assaults of this ac-
tive little enemy to domestic poul-
try, and those who have had the
largest experience with this nuis-
ance will appreciate our repealed
hints regarding continual effort to
keep this foe at bay.
In winter, then, as in the summer
season, we shall find it good econo-
my to preserve the fowls from this
annoyance. as thoroughly as the
thing is possible. With regular
care in this direction, but little
trouble will be suffered; and the
nicer appearing flock, the healthier
birds, and the more profitable to
their owner will they prove if, as
often as once in fortnight through
the winter, the perches are washed
with kerosens and the fowls busted
with carbolic powder. This is the
best plan we know of, to keep ter-
min under at any season of the
year.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-02

rrne Greatlles

1t matters naught, my friend, how rich you
are,
How grand or great,
How brightly DER you shines ambitions star
With high estate;
1t matters not though rarest silks enfold
Your stately form,
Or marble walls inlaid with cleaning gold
Shut out the storm;
But whether you have proved your noble
birth
BY noble deeds,
Regardless OF the snares or sneers Of earth
And useless crecds;
Whether your soul has scared in courage
high,
Erect and free,
With resolution that could dare or die,
Is much TO me.
| care not whether you have won i'll fight
A warriors fame,
Or graved in silver letters dazzling bright
A stausnian's name;
! It matters not that people bow the head
In faifering fear,
0r naiious trenahle with assss9 ,aess dread
hen yssu afe Iieff
But whether soa have spoken words most
And sJwn tl,e seed .....
That bears rich fruitage inthe human mind
'7s 0f thought and deed;
Whether your heart has triumphed DER its
pride
With courage true,
And mid the lowly-hearted turned aside
Its work to do;
Whether your eyes have learned to look in
love
On all around,
And turning other eyes and hopes above
Their bonds unbound,
Beholding all the rich rewards that waits
For those who see,
Beyond the portals OF the golden gates,
Is much to me-
For he who learns to labor and to wait,
Unvexed by any fortune, any fate,
Thus truly good, is truly grand and great
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-02
Nhe.egireside
To Wives.

| DO not quarrel with your hus-
oand II you can help it; and if YOU
40, make it up as soon as possible.
lfyou married because he loved YOU
and you loved him, all the.tiffs in
the world cannot separate YOU, and
no matter what You may believe
him to have done, lie will be nearer
to you than any one while you live.
In moment Of Indignation you
may think that you can cut the
bonds that bind you and be free,
but there are invisible chains that
you can never sever.
cannot believe that the father
and mother who have kissed their
child together could dwell apart
without suffering agonies of regret
and remorse, and all the arguments
that could be produced could not
convince me that while a man
neither used personal violence to
his wife nor jeopardized her soul, it
could be right for her to leave him.
If this character is not perfect, as
it might be, she has "taken him for
better or for worse" She should
remember that, and fulfill her VOW
and strive, if possible, to reform
him.
Women who bear patiently with
husbands who vex them sorely in
their youth are often rewarded by
affection and happiness in after
years. The older a man grows the
more he values good wife.
Put out of your head all fancies
of the possibilities of divorce
from husband. even if his conduct
draws tears from your eyes; and re-
member also that it is sin to live
together without love or kindness.
Those who consider marriage a
bond that only death can break will
try to make it happy state. 1t is
the woman who is imbuded with
the new ideas regarding divorce
who quarrels with her husband
and makes home unhappy. She
who says this life is for life, will
even make the best of bad bar
gain, and so often turns it into
a good one.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-02
eMisreMany.
A Remarkable Struggle.


One of those curious and danger
Gus episodes that characterize the
miners life in the snowy mountains
of Colorado was brought to the at
tention of the reporter yesterday
Tom Cox and Jim Null are two mi,
ners working far up on the bleak
snowy slopes of Mount Ebert, near
Twin lakes. They sleep in tent
near the mouth of Golden Lode, in
which they were working all night,
when they went into the tent for the
purpose Of going to sleep. One OF
them got in bed and, envelopine
himself with the blankets was snug
and comfortable and drowdy in a
moment. The other, not in so great
a hurry, noticed that the melting
snow was dripping through the root
of the tent and right where he had
to sleep. He couldn't stand wet
couch, and, arousing his companion,
asked him to get up so that the bed
might be moved to q position where
the melted snow would not touch it.
His sleepy partner growled out re-
fusal. There was 4 hot reply, and
in less time than it takes to write it
the two men were engaged in fierce
personal encounter. They were
both clad in THEFT night shirts alone.
and in a small tent is but limited
space for two angry men to fight each
other in. They had hardly clinched
before one carried the other through
the front flaps of the tent.
Right here it is necessary to say
that the tent was pitched on the
fearfully steep slope of Mount. Ell
bert, and there wasn't more than
two feet of level ground between the
front OF the tent and the precipitous
slope of the mountain. This slope
was covered with four feet of soft
snow, and it extended down for 9, ,00O
feet before there was resting place,
In the fierce fight between the two
miners they were carried down the
dizzy slope, and, with their hands
upon each others throats, they went
whirling down the mountain like a
pair of howlders. They had gone
but a short distance when anger
vanished IN the presence of pos
sible death, and each man turned
his attention to the paramount work
of saving his life. Down they went
along the fearful slant of the great
mountain, and at each revolution
they sunk in the soft snow some
times head first and sometimes feet
first. They were paralyzed with
fright, and no sound escaped their
lips. The further down they went,
the greater the momentum Of their
bodies, and when about 500 feet
from the point where, they bounded
in the air and alighted in snow SO
deep that they struck fast. After
arduous efforts they managed to ex-
tricate themselves aid get back to
their tent, bruised and bleeding and
their quarrel healed. No matter
what the future has in store for these
two men. they will never forget the
time when they were whirling down
the snowy slopes of the continental
divide of North America, and snow
drift saved them from landing 1900
feet below, in a condition in which
none but the Coroner and the under
taker would feel any practical inter
est in them. They are the best of
friends now, and will doubtless, con-
tinue so.-Leadville Chronide,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-02
Found HIS Match.

Mr.. Jones came home from the
lodge the other night at rather
late hour, and letting himself in
noiselessly, proceeded up stairs with
the utmost caution so as not to
wake Mrs. j., who is a light sleeper.
Each stair creaked, however, like
the crack of doom, and when Mr..
jones entered the room he fell over
table and a chair, with the same
startling distinctness. AS Mrs.
Jones had heard his step and recog-
nized it two blocks away, these pre-
liminaries did not alarm her, and
she kept still to see what he would
do next, in his noiseless style.
His next attempt was to strike
match; this he did in that quick,
of-hand manner which distinguish
ed man who is holding his breath
and striking a match at the same
time, but there was no light; it
failed to strike, or rather, it struck
and failed, and Mr.. J. tried a second
with like result, then he felt for
another, and drew it slowly y and
carefully down that part of the
wall where he usually evolved brim-
stone, but there wasn't glimmer OF
a light. The next one he dabbed
at the wall with sudden blow that
usually takes the head off the match
and sets fire to the furniture moth
ing, thank you, not even the ''blue
blazes'' which were uppermost in
Jones mind. Then with precis-
ion which brought out the cold per.
spiration on the back Of his neck
he struck three matches one after
the other, while the apartment re.
mained, to speak classically, in
ICimmerian gloom.
Then Mrs. Jones, nice little wo
man that she is, felt that another
satisfactory climax in her existence
had taken place, and sat up in the
darkness.
"Jeptha," she said-in q voice that
sounded ten feet high to that un.
happy man, ''if yon have used ur
all the toothpicks in that box you
might try the matches; you'll fine
them in their usual place on the
bureau!'
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-02
Obedience.

The best way to secure obedience
to commands is to make every rule
and regulation you lay down the
subject of careful previous thought.
Determine on the best course, and
be sure you are right. An unpre.
Imeditated or an indefinite command,
-one, the full significance of which
you yourself have not understood
often proves to be a mistake, and
has to be retracted. And every
time you retract an order your au-
thority is weakened.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-02
Success.


While it seems appropriate at this
season of the year to bring the
business part of farm management
prominently before our readers, we
would not convey the impression
that the accumulation of wealth is
the only or the principal, standard
of success. There are things in
this world of far more importance
than the amassing of riches, the
farmer who barely holds his own
from year to year. may, when tested
by the true and final standards by
which the work of every man must
at length be tried, before achiev-
ing a greater degree of success than
his neighbor who adds field to field
and whose undertakings invariably
prosper.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-02
"Home, Sweet Home"

In the spring of 1868, two great
armies were encamped on either
side of the Rappahannock River,
one dressed in blue, and the other
in grey. AS twilight fell the bands
on The Union side began to play
"The Star Spangled Banner and
''Rally Round the Flag" and that
challenge of music was up on the
other side, and they responded with
"The Bonnie Blue Flag" and "Away
Down South in Dixie" 1t was
born in upon the soul of a single
soldier iu Que of those bands of
music to begin sweeter and more
tender air, and slowly as he played
it they joined in sort of chorus of
the instruments upon the Union
side, until finally mighty chorus
swelled up and down our army
'Home, Sweet Home" When they
had finished there was no challenge
yonder, for every band upon that
further shore had taken up the
lovely air so attuned to all that is
holiest and dearest, and one great
chorus of the two great hosts went
up to God; and when they had fin
ished, from the boys in grey came
4 challenge, 'Three cheers for
home" and as they went resound-
ing through the skies from both
sides of the river, something on sol
diers' cheeks washed off the stains
of powder"