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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

PRoT. HENRY S. VENNoR has published
a card in the Cincinnati Commercial
declaring that he is success as n weather
prophet. However, instead of predict
ing weather year in advance, he will
hereafter print monthly paper at Mon
treal which shall contain predictions,
weather maps, etc, for the ensuing
month. Thus you SEQ when q man
gets so he can't tell the truth, he turns
to editing q newspaper.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01
TRAILING.

One of the most remarkable features
of uncivilized life is the power savages
show of tracking men and beasts over
immense distances. Many travellers
have spoken of this as something almost
miraculous, yet it is only the result Of
careful observation of certain well-known
signs and we have here before us col
lection of very-common-sense hints on
the subject In countries like ours every
trace or footprint or wheel-track on
roads or paths is soon obliterated or
hopelessly confused but it Is otherwise
in the wilderness, where neither man
nor beast can conceal his track. In
Caffreland, when cattle are stolen, il
their foot prints are traced to village,
the head man is responsible for them,
unless he can show the same track going
out. A wagon track in new country is
practically indelible. "More especially"
say the authors Of "Shifts and Expedi-
ents of Camp Life, ""i is this the case if a
fire sweeps over the plain Immediately
after, or if wagon passes during or after
q prairie fire. We have known fellow
traveller in this manner recognize the
tracks his wagon had made seven years
before, the lines Of charred stumps
crushed short down remaining to indi-
cate the passage Of the wheels, though
all other Impressions had been obliter-
ated by the rank annual growth fully
twelve feet high. Sometimes, the origi-
nal soil being disturbed, q new vegeta-
ton will spring up along the wagon
track, and thus mark out the road for
miles.
Even on hard rock mans bare fool
will leave the dust caked together by
perspiration, 80 that prachced eye will
see it; and even if there is no track, I
stone will be disturbed here and there
the side Of the pebble which has lonl
lain next to the ground being turned up
If it is still damp, the man or beast tina
turned it has passed very recently. II
shower Of rain has fallen, the track Wi
tell whether it was made before, durin
or after the shower; similar indication
can be obtained from the dew and othe
indications Of the time that has elapse
since man passed by is furnished b
the state Of the crushed grass, which VI
be more or less withered a. the time
, longer or shorter. Other indicai1ccs I! 6
/ drawn from the direction N wn1en ~
: grass lies; this tells how ne 49, -
q Blowing AZ the time The Nv
4 crusbe3. and BY noting previous y ~
r wind. one learns the ume =
part Of tho track - n'Aa~
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01
India's Black Holes OF Jails.

The amount of sickness and mortality
in some of the jails Of India is stated,
with good reason, in the official reports
to be very deplorable. This is particu-
larry applicable to the Punjab. In the
year 1879 more than one-third of the
average strength Of the unfortunate in
mates of the Rawal Pindi Jail are stated
to have died, being at the rate OF nearly
1901 per 1000. At Umballah the death
rate was nearly as high, though in this
Jail there was no case Of cholera. In
the Jail at Belgium, in the Bombay
Presidency, nearly half the average
strength was swept off in 1878. In 1879
the rate had diminished, though it still
reached the fearful proportion Of 200
pei 1.0OO.-London Net0a
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

CHARLEY WRIGHT, the colored boot
black, who saved two men at the recent
New York fire by climbing telegraph
pole and cutting wire rope, has re-
ceived medal from the American HUI
name Society which makes him col
onel in the life-saving brigade. Another
gold medal will be shortly given to him.
He has received in money $50 and the
Humane Society will present him with a
purse. He has saved eight persons in
the surf at Cape May, for three sum-
mers past. His father is an African. his
mother Sioux Indian.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

REV. TALMAGE's charge that the father
of Robt. J. Ingersoll, in life, fed and
clothed his family sparingly and "never
spoke a kind word to his wife," has re-
ceived the attention Of Mr.. John +. In
gersoll, of Waukesha County, Wiscon-
sin, who has printed most scathing re-
ply. He says that his father was min
lister on $500 a year, and had to live
sparingly, that he was kind to his fam
lily, and as to Robert, while he did not
believe the doctrines the father taught,
was cas- good and obedient boy as he
ever knew" Mr.. Ingersoll endeavors
to shame the Rev. Talmage for going to
the grave as o ghoul, to tear up the
ashes of the white-haired dead.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

A BRUTE, by name John Wilson, Of
Taunton, Mass, has been in the habit Of
tying heavy rope around the neck OF
his grown-up daughter and dragging her
around after him. For this he was fined
ten dollars, and the girl paid it with her
own money. She is one of the Chris
tions who returns good for evil, although
when it comes right down to carrying
out the doctrine, it don't seem to be just
the thing according to the common way
Of thinking.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

ILLUSTRATIVE of the destitute condition
of people in Southern Illinois, n cor
respondent writing from Saline County
says: "In this county nothing was
raised not even grass. There are farm
ers who are Us near starvation rs they
well can come without actually starving.
Theyare living on anything they can con-
vert into food 10 keep soul and body to-
gcther. Their situation might be i'm
agined, but one would have to see it to
fully understand it,"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

ABOUT two-thirds Of the counties in
Indiana have been authorized to take
observations Of the weather. and as soon
as the instruments and supplies are for
warded by the General Government the
service will be inaugurated. Indiana
will be the first State TO mako these
observations by counties, although other
States are moving in the matter.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

ALL persons, including officers of the
law, are opposed to the brutality of prize
fighting, and the newspapers of the land
have great deal to say against it, but
all newspapers take the pains to publish
detailed accounts of such affairs, and
with hardly single exception, readers
arc not satisfied until they know just
how each round camo out, and who was
finally whipped.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

THE Memphis AppeH says new day
has dawned for the South, and that in
its light prejudices are vanishing, and
with them the hatreds and the narrow
ideas of the past, and that intelligence
reason and common sense arc ready to
make available tho resources which
science and experience have brought
within reach.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

The late Lord Beaconfeld paid "a
900, 900 for England's 177OOO shares in
the Suez Canal. Owing to the recent
wild speculative mania in France, the
price Of the shares was forced up to clio,
and if Her Maiesty's Government had
cleared out ut that figure, it would have
realized f24, 100000, or profit of co.
$50 O00
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01
NEWS GLEANIEGS.

There are LOO blacks and ll5 whites
the Georgia pcnitentiary.
The Mississippi State Grange favors
the repeal Of the agricultural lien law.
The Atlanta City Council has voted
$4,000 for tho purchase of a.site for a
city park.
Cen tenary Methodist church, at Rich
mond, Va, will have a chime Of bells
to cost $1,000.
A company, with capital of $780,,
900, has been organized to introduce the
electric light n. Columbus, Ga.
Commissioner Hawkins Of Tennessee
is making arrangements for experiment.
tai tests in the effect of commercial fer
tilizers on the crops in every county in
the State.
Some Chicago capitalists are negoti.
ating for the purchase $1,000 acres of
land in Sequachee county, Tenn, as an
investment. 1t is well timbered and
rich in coal.
The marble quarry neay Calhoun,
Tenn, has been leased, and 100 steam
drills will be operated there. A railroad
will be built and other preparations
made for extensive quarrying.
The Atlanta Constitution discovers in
the fact that the Eagle and Phoenix
mills Of Columbus, Ga, last year earned
rs per cent. on their capital stock, one
Of the most overwhelming political tri.
umphs for the South.
The Georgia railroad has compromised
with Henry Hill, whom the passenger
conductor put off near Madison last
summer for not wearing his coat in the
ladies' car. 1.-THE road paid $4,000 for
this treatise on etiquette.
Sturgeon fishing in the waters around
Georgetown, S. c., has become a large
and profitable industry. About 100 men
are employed in the business, and large
quantities of sturgeon meat are shipped
to Charleston in kegs every week.
A short time since a bar-room was
found hid in pen Of cotton seed near
Athens, Ga. 1t seems the proprietor
kept barrel secreted in this pen, with
rubber tube leading therefrom, and when
a customer wanted his jug filled it was
easily drawn. 1t was reported to rev.
cnue officer and broken up.
Atlanta Constitution: Columbus is
about to turn her attention to building
canal. According to all accounts it
won't be difficult job. With canals
in Augusta, Columbus, Macon and At
lanta, Georgia will have sufficient i'm
proved water power to run all the cotton
mill in the United States. But, really,
we don't won't all. We will be satisfied
with just half.
Columbus (Ga.) Times: There were
four bales of cotton brought to market
yesterday from the plantation of Col. f.
Terry, who lives near Waverly Hall,
Harris county, that was grown and
gathered in the year 1860, baled with
ropes, and have been reposing in his gin
house ever since. He was offered Az
cents for it in 1865, but would not sell
because he thought the revenue tax OF 8
cents per pound was unjust, and he said
he had rather burn the cotton than sub
init to such injustice by the government.
He had at the close of the war upward
of 100 bales Of cotton, and still has a
few more left.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

CEREAL estimates of the Department
of Agriculture Of crops Of 1881, as COM
pared with those OF 1880, shows reduc-
ton OF 81 per cent. in corn, 90 per cent.
in wheat, 81 per cent. in rye, and 0 per
cent. in barley. The total value of crops
in 1881 is 81, 4e5, 1000, 900, against 81 $751;
900 in 1880.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

PATTI and Minnie Hauk both got
laryngitis during the Opera Festival at
Cincinnati, and that's why things got so
terribly mixed up. All prima-donnas
get laryngitis once in while, and those
who do not hereafter complain of laryn-
gifts occasionally are not what you might
call great warblers.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

SENATOR HILL, of Georgia, who has
submitted to third operation for can
Ger in the mouth, reports that his con-
dition is now most favorable, and ex-
presses great confidence that perma-
nent cure has been effected.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

The State of Pennsylvania has begun
suit aginst seventeen railroads because
of their failure to return to the Auditor
their annual report within thirty days
after the expiration Of the financial year.
The penalty for each road is $1,000.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

IT APPEARS that, after all, the portrait
the temperance ladies had painted OF
Mrs. Hayes to hang up in the White
House, will not be used for that purpose,
President Arthur feeling inclined to dc
as he pleases about the matter.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

GENERAL CARR, against whom Gen
eral Wilcox preferred charges of SO.
rious character, has been released from
custody, the President refusing to en-
terrain tho charges.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01
A Fixture.

"You seem to have become fixture
here" said the young man, as he dropped
in to the old tailor's to have some re-
pairing done. "Well, perhaps 80" was
the reply, "for l have fixed your old
pants for you every spring and fall for
the past ten years,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

with q view to securing a "corner" At
the expense Of the masses-extorting
money from those who can least afford
tit is but justice that they should lose.
aud that heavily. One Hebrew citizen,
who had bought reserved seats heavily
ct big advance, stood about the door,
late at night, offering his tickets at SO
cents apiece, and not one Of them had
cost him under 81, and some of them as
high as $24. People, rather than pat
roiize him, showed him aside and paid
81 for general admission, went in and
stood up, so outraged were their feelings
over the affair. We never like to sec
persons losing money, but sometimes it
is good thing for the general public
for would-be oppressors to suffer So
verely the fruits Of indiscretion.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

THE Government Printing Office, in
spite OF the scarcity of money and the
agitation about the change of manage
ment, is at work at tremendous rate
turning out books, pamphlets, and other
printed stuff by the ton.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

SpEoUnAToRs in Cincinnati Opera
Festival tickets were gloriously stuck
some to the extent of 81 800, and others
for less amounts, but all lost more or
less in their speculation. This is as it
should be, When o lot Of men buy up
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

IT seems that Egypt is advancing
somewhat in civilization. The present
Khedive spends but $5Oo,OOO year.
whereas his predecessor spent $lO,Ooo,-
600. He has but one wife, and grants
concessions to all religious denomina-
tiOns.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

Mr.. ScovnnE proposes to lecture in
various localities on the subject "Mod-
ern Politics." In these lectures he will
refer incidentally to the Guiteau trial.
However, it is generally believed the
public have had enough Of the Guiteau
trial,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

A TOUCHING incident occurred at tho
Midlothian mines in Virginia, tho other
night. Superintendent Dodds mounted
a coal car, and addressing the wailinp
throng OF women and children around
him, said: "My poor friends, it grieves
mo to state to you that for the present
our search for the bodies of those you
know and loved will have to be aban.
doned. You know what fire in coal
mine means, and it may take months Of
watching to subdue it. We will close
the pit now" The speakers voice quiv-
cred with emotion. When he finished q
beautiful little girl Of fourteen years,
Annie Crowder, tho only daughter of one
Of the victims, uttered piercing scream
andrushed tothemouth of thopit, crying:
ooh, do not leave my dead papa to burn
down there. Let me get into the cage
and go down after him. Let me save
him." The strong arms of the miners
held her back as the fragile thing tried
to make her way to the cage, and more
than one blackened face was made
blacker as the hand went up to wipe
away the tears. Men sobbed aloud and
turned away to conceal their emotion.
Tho little girl, finding her progress
barred, swooned at the mouth of the pit.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

FRANCE seems not inclined to recon.
vene the Monetary Conference April i,
owing to n desire to avoid another fail
IRE in her efforts to secure uniformity
of views on the pert of the Powers.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

THERE is an incorrigible little darby
down in Washington, Ga. He is 8 years
old, and is known as q horse-thief, as
well as being willing to steal anything
else. His mother has tried to reform
him by whipping him for the first half
of the day, and hanging him up in bag
and smoking him the other half, but the
inhabitants Of Washington despair Of hin
being trustworthy citizen.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

The insurance on Barnum's baby Gle
plant is 100000. The insurance on the
average Congressman is $1,000. Differ
ence in favor of the babe, $295, 200.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

GREAT distress exists among the PEG.
pie of Sweden, the mildness of the
weather preventing tine transportation of
produce by means Of sleighs, as usual.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

CUBA, just now, is undergoing severe
drouth, to the great injury of the sugar
cane. We might spare her any quantity
of water and not suffer either.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

BELLE BOYD, the Confederate cores
respondent, spy, and blockade runner,
lives now in Corsicana, Texas, and fire.
quently delivers lecture or two.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

THE Prussian Budget is made to q sur
plus of 100000. This is chiefly due
to the working of the railroads bought
by the State.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

A YOUNG member Of the bar thought
he would adopt motto for himself, and,
after much reflection, wrote in large let
ters, and posted up against the wall, the
following, ",Su,na Cuiq,te," which may
be translated. "Let every one have his
own" A country client, coming in, ex-
pressed himself much gratified with tho
maxim, but added, "You don't spell it
right" Indeed! Then how ought it
to be spelt?" The visitor replied, "Sue
'em quick"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

SINCE Sullivan pounded Ryan he is
said to have had three offers of marriage.
He's great masher.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

POTATOES are being imported from
Europe, and New York dealers are some
what disguised. Such invasions inter-
fere with CORNERS"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

THOMAS MAST, the well-known carica.
turist, has a plethora of money, so we
are informed, and purposes retiring to
private life.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

THE Fire Commissioners of Boston
have ordered fire-escapes to be supplied
by all manufacturers employing five or
more hands.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

Mrs. GARFIELD will not reply to Mrs.
scoyille's letter, appealing in behalf Of
the assassin Of the President.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

CorroN returns indicate for 1881 the
loss Of 100000 bales by rayages of the
caterpillar.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

THE address to the throne in tie
House of Common has been adopted,
thus sustaining the governments Irish
policy.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

GEN. SHERIDAN favors the compulsory
retirement of all officers si1ty-two years
of age.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

The appointment of policewomen on
the New York force is now asked for by
tho woman suffragists.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

The English exports to America for
1881 were 20 per cent. less than those of
previous years.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

PATTI-Cincinnati Music Hall-twc
nights-$16,0OO.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01
TOPICS OF THE BAY,

THURMAN is said to be building his
fences for 1884.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

For military reasons England will op.
pose the Channel tunnel.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

The Pope recommends that the pro.
posed Spanish pilgrimage be abandoned
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01
An English RObbcr Mt Home,

A gentleman was standing in one o.
the shadowy arcades OF the Coliseum at
Rome, where he was somewhat brusqely
hustled by q passing figure. With
quick instinct he clapped his hand to
his watch pocket. His watch was gone
He darted after the thief, who turned
sharply round, at the same time clutch,
ing watch. "Give mo that watch !"
A dash the stolen property was re-
covered. The startled robber disap-
peared, and the gentleman went home
to boast of his adventure and his Prov
ess. What was his CONSERVATION, on
entering his bedroom, to find his own
watch, which he had forgotten to put
on, staring him in the face from the
mantelpiece He had been the thief
and the other wretchod man had Stun
bled over him in the dark, and when
overtaken and stopped was merely
clutching his own watch, which he had
not the nerve to rescue from the tourist.
That tourist is now known to q wide and
admiring circle of friends as the BAN
dit of the Coliseum. "-LOndOn Truth.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01

SINCE 1866 Tennessee has acquired
nearly 100000 additional population,
and has made crops every year OF an
average annual net profit of $27, 500, 900.
Since 1860 Memphis, in spite Of the war
and three epidemics, has grown from
$4,000 to $4,000, while Nashville has
creptuptrom II, OOOpopulation to 75, 700.
The growth Of Chattanooga, Knoxville,
and other towns, has been at proper
tionate rates,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-03-01
Too TrOo, Too TrOo.

Man that is married to woman is Of
many days and full of trouble. In the
morning he draws his salary, and in the
evening behold it is oil gone. 1t is tale
that is told, it vanisheth, and no one
knoweth whittier it goeth. He riseth up
clothed in the chilly garments of the
night and seeketh the somnolent pare-
goric wherewith to heal the colicky
bowels Of his offspring. He imitateth
the horse or OK, and draweth the chariot
Of his posterity. He spendeth his shekels
in the purchase Of fine linen and purple,
to cover the bosom Of his family, yet he
himself is seen at the gate, of the city
with one suspender. He cometh forth
as a flower, and is cut down. There is
hope Of tree when it is cut down that
the tender roots thereof will sprout again,
but man goeth to his home, and what is
he then? Yea, he is altogether wretched'
National Republican., 1882-01-14

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Monthly Drdiriig "a Soid, and consequently dR he
prizes Ia zach drdiciig sold and drdica and paid
National Republican., 1882-01-14
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