The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-06-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Eastern and Middle States.

fifty-Gfth nnnyersorv wall ~ thop n n, tno
Sunday school union ' D'0A''n
Ex- I,,no, ur,,,,a
voors ~ od. vi" ,, .ohh ~ bEEBE, seventy
fInited s,a 49, tno uiaes9 pacntioher III the
stn,cl Inv lC on,ritt ana circuit courts WINS
and crushed TO death ''' -
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Street Jail, New York. md INSTALLED in the
quarters once occupioI Inv William NJ
Tweed. ''-" 49,
~,
ul rsE new bishops Were consecra 81 Mt the
PhiIaJai,Li np'Scoi"i oehcfai conference, IN
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a., Cn IN. o; -. hINShlEf paying teller OF
,oroI | rs n"'e pa UNI, oa hew ioTk, disop-
~ ~, i, ,t III "esh nilu holne' ihvestlsa-
,.os D ~" d'' n'iin Sil''In hi2M% Iiint there
ance. ms he Lnd stolen ss5 OGo If thn nlti,,,.
'ioh iuh'E
BY collision between two trains at eros
| Ing near Rochester, n v, seven sleeping cars
were thrown from the track, and twenty Der.
sons were injured, including Prince Yana.
shina, a japanese youth of sixteen on his way
| 10 study in England. and eleven of his suite
S,,v
| SENhToRS iENDLEToN, Hampton, Butler,
| vance anu Ransom, and Representatives
Dowd, Evans anu Bennett were present at
Charlotte y. T., where Senator Pendleton
delivered an grafton on the one hundred and
hlnth anniversary oi the Declaration OF indie
| penaehSe, sgnsi ny residents Oh that neigh
oorhocn AMY ~, 100.
THE late Cyrus II. Mccormick, Of Chicago,
oft nm estate valued at S!0,000,O00.
EIGHTEEN boys after nlaying ball near Har-
| ro,lsburg, Ky, started in search of wild
parsnips, but got hold Of the deadly hcmlock
Instead The boys were taken violently i'll.
Two OF them died alnp3t immediately, five
| were not exp"ctSi to 1--we, ani tho Others suf-
Tered severely
| A WOMAN and her three children were
drowned, and two young men were injured by
the fall of bridge across the Scioto river at
| Portsmouth, Ohio.
| Washington.
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ITnitoJ StoioS ,toamor Woui, n mam 'I IN
L action with the Confederate steamer Mcrrimac
"a HAMPTON Roads ON March md o 1852
Tux a,.,, aouo,,,,o,,, hn. uaaa;,,,J -,
from or "SStpr 4" ME- rN tbo, ,hs MoY IOau
government appropriat.i slOlOpD for the
purpose Of taking part in the Worlds Indus
trial and Cotton Exposition at New Orleans
next December.
Ar n meeting Of the Hons, committee on
military affairs, Representative Slocum was
instructed to report favorably his bill provid-
ING that honorably discharged soldiers or
sailors shall be preferred for appointment to
civil Offices hen they are found to possess
the necessary JUSTICES capacity.
A STATUE Of Martin Luther was unveiled
IN Washington, few DAYS since. before u
great thrOng Suprme Court Justice Miller
presided and the openiny Grafton was de
tiyered by Senator Conrcr. Of Mirhiron.
THE House committee on agriculture de,
cided to report adversely resolution appro-
| printing $500 for the lrlrchas.. of scc,is for
distribution among the sufferers by the over
Cow of the Mississippi river and its tribu-
taries.
A MORTGAGE by General Grant to William
II. Vanderbilt, on the generals two houses il
Washington, has been filed The mortgage
is to secure the sum of $4,000, loaned L
Grant by Vanderbilt.
The HOUSE committee Oh pensions agroct
TO report favorably bill providing for the
payment Of pension VI $40 per month to tho
widow VI Captain De Long.
The sevrc,ary OF the treasury mas isS,i,S
The call is Tor 500 1900 three per cent. bond,
issued md.r the act Of Congress approved
July II, lsS2 Notice was given that the
principal and accrued interest would he pad
at the treasury Of the United States on Junt
30, 1881, md that the interest on the bomb
would cease Oh that day.
GEoRGE III. LEWIS openel n banking an
brokers' office in Washington year ago an'
was remarkably successful, many govtaLrieh
officials putting their surplus cash WIN mn
for Investment lew days ago Lewis llS,l
peared, AMI his customers are Cut about S"o,
wv.
THE report OF the Senate committee ol
postoilices and post roads, prepared by Scna
tor Hill, on the subject OF the postal TELEGRAPH
has been ihaiiy ndopted. lhecohlhi'''nH" az
parently IN favor OF pullaing governl',nrh
line, and sets forth the advantages OF sucl
PROJECT
Mr. CoRcoRAN, the washington philai
thropst, mas aske1 congress 70 ercyV ilioi'V
ment 10 flerre LEiiaht, ue french eiiSl''e
VINO hld OUT inc Guy Oh washington
r GENERAL SHERIDAN advocates the conccr
a | tration Of the greater part of the army to cc
/ tain central posts, from which troops ca
. easiy w 'eh' "he'e'ef 'lc' ai0 n'Nuo'
Foreign.
: . ,, .,
"A SERIOUS collision took place in Llnare
= Mexico, between government troops an
: officials and the people
THE Spanish cortes was opened by specc
from the throne III winch kinS Alfonso sl
!. that hereafter the representative ut Ionic
would nave the rank Oh minister instead
! ambassador.
GEORGE PETERS, n latorer living ut Shn
q bot Lake, village in Ontario, while drur
= threw lighted lamp on the floor, and u
a next instant MS frame mouse was on nf
!, Peters, MISS br9sden anu Ellen refers,
n eisnVyear-om giri' were pui"ah ~ uea ,a
l. MIS- refers ana heT SISTER massie VIC
n injured Deyoh nope OF recovery