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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

The towns and cities that have 30 far
gone for the "dry" ticket in South Caro-
lima, represent 1912 votes, and those
for the "wet' 10 3G6.
LAST Tuesday was said to be the
coolest day Key Westers have felt for
many years. The thermometer stood at
81. In 1870 it fell rs low as As.
THE LeConte pear trade Of Florida is
increasing very much. The growers in
Jefferson county will put out over two
hundred thousand cuttings this year.
In January twenty-six permits were
issued for the erection of new buildings
in Charleston, and seventeen permits for
the improvement of buildings already
erected.
THE Supreme Court of Florida decides
that railroad owners in that state who
want the lands of individuals for their
tracks and depots, must buy and pay for
it like private parties.
IMPORTS of merchandise at New York
have largely fallen off this year as com.
pared with last. Last week the imports
were only Sc G5G,S23. Since January |,
imports aggregate SS2,S72, ,5G5 compared
with 1876, ,241 for the same period last
year.
The annual report of the 'YaratiOnf
of the patent Office for the calendar yea
shows an increase of II per cent in tht
number of patents, trade marks, anC
labels issued over the preceding year
The cash receipts increased $l37, 600
The excess of receipts over expenditure
was 100000. Cash on hand, S2,HG, ,47G
SEVEN members of the house VIII
were elected to the forty-eighth congres
have died since their election. They ar
Herndon, Alabama; Cutt, Indiana
Haskell, Kansas; Heron, Louisiana
Pool, North Carolina Updegraff, Ohio
and Mackey, of South Carolina. Nj
Mackey was the only one of the seve
who lived long enough to occupy h
seat.
AMONG the new applications Of cotto
is its use, in part, in the construction
houses, the material employed for tn
, purpose being the refuse, which, wh'
q ground up with about m equal amou
of straw and asbestos, is converted in
, paste, and this is formed into lar
slabs or bricks, which acquire, it is sai
n the hardnessof stone, and furnish Il real
=. valuable building stock.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

IN France pork is a power, especially
when it is salted. The law against the
importation of salt pork from the Uni
ted States is regarded by Johnny Chapau
as an unmitigated nuisance. 1t is main
tanned that the fear of the introduction
of trichinosis has been intensely eXagger-
ated, and it is suspected that the crusade
against American salted pork arises from
the intrigues in France and Germany OF
people who are interested, that is to say,
butchers and sausage manufacturers, In
Kidding themselves of the fierce compe-
tition which comes from the article so
abundantly produced in the states, The
effect of this prohibitory legislation was
keenly felt in the states, and measure
o. rcprisal is now agitated. 1t is pro-
posed whenever a foreign government
restricts the introduction of cured pro
ducts made from the flesh of American
cattle or swine, the President shall pro
hibit the importation into the Unite'
States of the wines, liquors and mer
chandise of the offending country, tn
prohibition continuing until the obnox
ious restrictions are removed. Such
retaliatory measure would fall heavily o
France, and would be the making of tn
wine growers of California.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

The House adopted the report on the new
rules after two days debate. Mr.. Randall
reported the naval appropriation bill, and
gave notice that it would be called the next
Tuesday. 1t appropriates Sl4, ,93,O 600, being
s., ,392, 900 less than the amount estimated
for, and 81, ,G3l 900 less than the amount APP
propriated for the current fiscal year. Mr..
Willis introduced bill temporarily provid-
ing for the support of common schools IL
provides for an annual appropriation OF
from slO,O0O,0Ol to 81 100000 for the next
ten years, the appropriation 10 be reduced
81, ,0O0, 900 each succeeding year Mr.. Bayne
introduced bill repeating all internal taxes
on domestic tobacco. Mr.. Con introduced
joint esolution appropriating 800. 900 for
the relief Of the sufferers by the overflow Of
the Ohio river and its tributaries. Mr.. Fin
erty, Of Illinois, offered resolution declar,
| ing that the House "laments the death o.
| Wendell Phillips as a national bereavement
Mr.. Eaton bjected and the resolution went
| over.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE

ARTHUR. The President is titty-four years
old weighs two hundred and thirty pounds,
and is six feet tall.
MURPHY. .--Francs Murphy, the great tenn
perance worker, has Just been paying his
first visit to Boston.
Cox, Representative s. s. Cox is TO be
paid s15. 90 by Norwich Conn., publishing
house for his "reminiscences
OFFUr.- Charles $. Oirut, the new speaker
of the Kentucky house of representatives, Is
only twenty-scven years of aSe.
JACKSON N--Dr. Lois o, jackson fills the
| position of resident physician in hospital
| for children in Philadelphia. She is pretty
blonde, twenty-three years OF age, and is
| giving entire satisfaction IN her position.
RnorEs Lieutenant Rhodes, the hero OF
the GAY Head disaster, has been in the rev.
enue marine service for eleven years. Ills
age is thirty-three, he is II native of Con.
pecticut and has the record Of flist-cass
man.
| ARMoUR.--P. ID. Armour, leading man IN
tbe Chicago pig-packing business Is certaln
that France aud Germany ought 20 De p,n-
ished without an instants delay yt ,ot e Ersucbs
American pork. and reJoices tha'
men arc easily frightened.
MAsoN-Colonel Macomb Mason, natlve
of Virginia, and graduate of the umted
| STATES Naval academy, who went WIN us
State in the cival war, and since then mas
been in the Egyptian service, Is the mi;
Masonn whom Baker Pasha has appointed
military governor of Massowah.
SHAw.-Mrs Quincy Shaw. OF Boston,
spends S5O,OOO annually out OF her private
income in support of thirty kindergartens
and twenty nurseries which she has estab-
lished in those parts OF the city where the
toughest and most squalid features reign.
In addition to this she spends 100000 year
in other charities.
SMlrH.-The steamer Of Leigh Smith, thu
arctic explorer, was crushed in the ice, an'
he was forced to live in snow house on sea
and walrus till rescued, but went again IN
mediately on Dutch steamer, that we
sunk. He Is now trying to make arrang
ments to 90 again. He has spent his entii
, fortune in exploration ventures.
CApRoN.-The emperor Of japan pas ooo =
: ferred upon General Horace Ca AZ Rlslns
n Washington, the second order q s sn1 nv1sinsbls
t Sun a mark Of appreciation for .n1 - Jspsn,
: S% s"rvcss rendered BY the latter 10 so rescur,
serSSei 0er IN the development Of st .ns north
!. espf oSp of the island of Yesso, nne This Is the
d ces ,1 y, ~ AZ, the Japanese group. ,,srred upon
v erny ent ytin,e IN the order has been con's'
'r a foreigner.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

AN English paper says that penal ser.
vitude is, MS now carried ont in England,
u very dreadful punishment ind ed.
From the dock the prisoner is carried
away in the prison van, and on his arri-
val at the Jail the heavy gates are shut
to with n horrible sound behind him.
He is thrust into a narrow cell, there to
remain without companionship for nine
months. Scarcely ever hearing human
voice, save the warden's, fed on coulse
food, his fate is sealed for thirty six
weeks and after that he will probably
be sent to another establishment
where the discipline is somewhat less Sc
we're. The nine months solitary confine-
ment of n five years convict is hard to
bear. About five feet from the floor is
peep hole. The warder can look in at
any moment, and the dread of this con
slant supervision induces in sensitive
prisoners nervous anxiety, in such cases
the most severe part of the punishment
inflicted upon them. The period OF sol
itary confinement ut an end, they are
allowed to work IN gangs, under stric'
and purposely vexatious discipline.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20
ITEMS OF NEWS.

SEVEN varieties of coal are being
found in Alabama.
SALMON are being caught in Missis-
sippi out of the Yazoo river.
LARGE cotton seed oil mill will soon
be erected in Tampa, Florida.
THE Memphis Board of Underwriters
are reported as having disbanded.
THE population of Jacksonville and
suburbs, is now estimated at 1S, TAO.
ALABAMA is now building quite mum
ber of flourishing young townsand cities.
TENNESSEE has thirty-three cotton
mills with 1,46l looms and 1857
spindles
A Quincy, Florida, farmer has sole
| 500 worth of syrup from one acre o.
sugarc cane.
on wells have been discovered nea
Bladon Springs, Alabama, which promls
great results.
ROANOKE, Virginia, is to have cottol
factory which will give employment t
at least $50 hands. -,
The whole number of convicts in tn
Tennessee penitentiary footsup 1,342'4l
white and 942 colored.
: OnANGEDuRG, South Carolina, is
have an artesian well to supply the TOW
and factory with water.
PEARL buttons are turned out by I'll
bushel daily at the button factory
Rhea county, Tennessee.
- Two hundred buildings, ranging
= value from 81 200 TO $4,000 were erect'
in Chattanooga last year. !,
i JrFFERsoN DAVIS has erected Il
% monument to his benefactress, Mrs,
O y, A, Dorsey, at Natchez, Miss
=. NASHVILLE is organizing a compa
40 90 with a capital stock Of 100000 for (
~ 70 manufacture of sorghum sugar.
ell. THE Lee monument fund in Virgil
a. for building monument in the city
on Richmond to General Lee now amou'
it. to $4,000
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20
South and West.

TIN, great California land suit or Enierl0 |
against the heirs of Ex-Governor Alvarado
has been decided by the supreme court at |
San Francisco in favor OF the defendants |
The case has occupied the courts for seven, |
teen wears, and involves $4,000 acres OF land
In Contra Costa county, including the vii
lace of San Pablo, the whole being valued at
S2,000,0O0.
JouNC p. CoIIlNs, who robbed q stage
and killed W. +. Cummings, banker, while
robbng him of two bars OF gold worth
AZ 900, was hanged at Nevada City, CAL, In
presence of large crowd
THE boiler in Twichels shingle mill near
, Blanchford, Mich, exploded the other morn
ing, killing Henry Roop and John finlayson
fatally injuring man named Gerrod, ana
woundng several Others.
EIGHT persons were killed and as many
more injured by an explosion OF gasoli ne IN
a stove store ut Alliance, ONO.
THE two stages running between Whites
boro and Gainesville, Texas, were robbed
few days since by three road agents.
THE steamer Nutchez burst her boiler near
Baton Rouge, La, and was run ashore py
tbe uilut 4 colored boy was instantly
killed and one passenger terribly scalded.
"SANpYn ROBINSON, a negro imprisoned al
Crockett, Texas, for the murder or Deputy
Sheriff Iathrop, was taken out Of jail by
masked men and hanged.
AT Rendvile, Ohio, two men called Pete
Clifford brakeman, twenty.three year
old, to his door and shot him dead. Fou
members of the Hickey family OF despera
does were arrested, and at night crowd
men took Richard Hickey from the guard
and hanged him to tree.
CHARLES PALMER, &C Youngstown, Ohio
a railroad baggage master, was crippled IN
collision and the company has paid HIM SO
COO damages.
A NAsHvILLE, (renu.) dispatch says thu
Judge Henry Cooper, formerly United stat,
senator from Tennessee, has been kile
by robbers in chihuahua Mexico, where
was manager of silver mine.
AFTER long and desperate struggle in Il
. Kentucky Democratic senatorial caucu
u Coneressman Joseph c. S Blackburn receive
tbe nomination for United States Senate
{ obtaining on the last ballot 63 votes to 81 Il
d Senator Williams, the name of Speaker Ca
4 lislo having been withdrawn. Mr.. Blac
II bnrn was born in Kentucky in 1888, studio
" law served two terms in the legislature,
z INA was elected to Congress, and has serv
., there ever since
:. ny collision betN een two trains nc
n. lexington. Ky. i've colored section han
~ were instantly killed and fifteen Others
iurod.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

The manufacture of rope from asbes'
'" is likely to become On industry OF
considerable Importance in England, the
'fength OF the article being estimated al
about one-fourth that of ordinary hemp
rope Of the same diameter. Rope OF TINS
material Of one and half inches IN d.
aneter is stated to have a breaking
strength Of one ton. and twenty feet o'
ware "a calculated to represent weight oi
iospounds. Some Of the purposes, a'
enumerated, to which this kind OF rope
especially adapted are theaters, fir
Msads', and means Of escape from dwell
Jugs and public buildings, its advanta
s~oelng that it will not break and drol
"oufden II the fame bears upon II
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20
Foreign,

SEVERAL mountain tribes In Albania have |
revolted and seized the relns of government.
They entered Montenegrin territory, hut
were repulsed with the loss OF fifty men
THE king and queen of Italy are al on to
visit the German court.
p. w. THOMAS, SoNs & Co., prominent
London stock brokers, have proven default
ers. They owe $i,O0O,QOO to customers.
A SUPPOSED plot to murder the emperor OF
Austria in his box at the Court Opera-houSe
has been unearthed A man was discovered
concealed near the box with number OF in-
struments and wires.
nIRTEEN school teachers have been dis.
missed in Seryia for promoting the recent
revolt.
LORD CAsTLEToN is the author OF scheme
which proposes the establishment OF land
hank for the relief of Irish landlords ana Tor
the assistance of tenants.
PLACARps have been posted throughout
Paris melting the disaifected policemen ana
starving workmen to arms.
A CoRUNNA Spain dispatch says thata
Spanish vessel was capsizcd during heavy
gale, and her crew Of nineteen persons were
drowned.
THE remains Of Commander De Long and
his COMPANIONS of the lost steamer jean
nette we're received, upon their arrival III
Berlin from the long journey through KuS-
sio Nv Tnited States Minister Sargent The
cofiins, which filled the floor OF one car,
were hidden by beautiful wreatDs ana
flowers presented by various corporations en-
| route.
Ell MAHDI's insurgents are reported TO be
| falling back from Khartoum. The False
prnnbet,s forces have made an unsucc essful
ottnrk unon tho fortified camp of the
Egvntans.
| N..io,,,,;. ,noo+;n,, in P,llvmote
IreIapd. n fight occurred between the Ma
tionol;sts and n body of Orangemen. Thre,
Navloha,'s0' Iaa "''' '"'
"ouhueu ,,-...,, r,,,,,;,,
ABORTION OF 'he ptlcnS,ie'uh ~ ~ pe'a !,
garrison ae olnnuV, nooV'e ,odae nm ottemnt +
their starving sltuatph n'a,o ;n, ~, "vY hrt yor
cuv .num Wa, ~, 'o' ,orga H bodv of rebels and a
! 1u,. s.aro ,,o ,ossacred
"',o , ,,,,,. -, ,,;s;tors cbiaa
I AN i,lii,pnSe Iqis. S,ito ,,,ora n,osent at IN
nnnn;nn lrom on0 - the annual winter carnival
Montrea, Jnon their arrival in the cit,
tho Marmis Of Lnndsdownc. governor-gcI
srol Of canada. and his wife, were cscorto
to their hotel by a procession. Triumph,
I oyohao cov decorations. ilhlminations, torc
I;gbt nrocessions and a brilliant bail wer
features of the first days festivities III
T carnival lasted week.
THE editor of newspaper at Posen, p
9 land Jankovski by name, has been sentence
to two years Imprisonment because he pu
n lished an address congratulatlns ,Cardln
Iedochowski, primate of Poland, on Il
0 birthday.
RWpp pAsp,'s force of Egyptians, VIII
= advancing from Srakim, were attacked
v the False Prophets troops and routed will,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

THERE are only four nations in the
world to-day that are paying their way.
England generally manages to make
both ends meet and show trifling sur
plus of 100000 or 100000 to be
applied to the reduction Of its enormous
national debt; the United States, in
spite of congressional extravaganza, puts
by nearly fifty times as much, and Hol'
land and Belgium keep about even
With these exceptions every nation in
the civilized world shows an annual de
felt of more or less millions,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

SOME idea of the magnitude of the
business of raising sweet scented flowers
for their perfume alone may be gath
cred from the fact that Europe and
British India consume about 100000
gallons of handkerchief perfumes yearly;
that the English revenue from eau de CO.
logue is 100000 annually, and that the
total revenue of other perfume is estl-
mated at 100000 annually. There is
one great perfume distillery at Cannes,
in France, which uses yearly 1OO,oo'
pounds of acacia flowers, 100000 pounds
ofrare flower leaves, $4,000 pounds jas
nine blossoms, 10000 of tuberose bios
'oms, and an immense quantity OF othe
material.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

SENATOR PLUMB has introduced n bill
to break up the system of favoritism by
which army officers get and keep easy
places by means of social and political
influence 1t merely provides that no
officer shall be detached from his regi-
ment Or company for more than thr, e
years consecutively, and that after his
return from such detached duty he shall
not again be sent upon such service un-
til he has seen three years. active service
with his regiment wherever it may be
stationed. Exceptions will be made in
the case of instructors in West Point
officers of the signal corps and aides.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

THE London Times says that compe-
tition between the United States and In
dia in the wheat trade has already be-
come so close, that the preference frc-
quently depends upon the difference in
the rates of exchange. India furnishes
third of the imports and the States
about forty per cent, but India is gain
ing and the United States is falling back.
The situation described by the Times,
however, depends upon a very variable
factor, as the crops of India are exceed
ingly uncertain, with the chances rather
in favor of drought as an average condi'
ton,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

ABOUT twenty five firms in this coun-
try make business Of publishing school
books. They do business of perhaps
sS,OOO,OOO year. Only three of the
school book publishing hoases are south
or west of Philadelphia or Baltimore.
Two-thirds Of the business is done by
five firms. 1t costs each of the larger
firms something like 100000 year fol
agents and other expenses under the
Mintroduction account"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

TEE Hon. J. B. Grinnell, for whom
the town of Grinnell, Ia, was named,
recently said: "In Grinnell there are no
saloons. and no one has been sent to
iail, to the poorhouse or to the peniten-
tentary for twenty-five years. We can
stand q cyclone occasionally if you will
ken whisky away from u.s."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20
1t is made like ordinary rope, and 10
spun from Italian asbestos thread.


THE market is full of adulterated but
ter and chemists are still at work on the
problem of making butter without the
COW and the churn. The adulterated
article, however, has come to stay, and
the question to be considered is how to
make the best and cheapest article at
the least expense to the manufacturer.
The use Of neutral lard is probably the
largestof all adulterants. 1t is tasteless,
easily colored, and gives good body to
the butter, and is inexpensive compared
with cream. Cotton seed oil is also
largely used. 1t has the natural advan-
tages of flavor and color and gives the
butter good grain. Oleo oil, fluid
obtained from tallow, figures largely in
the manufacture Of butter. Pure COW
butter is difficult to find in any market
at the present time.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

The Department of State publishes a
list of six prominent grain-producing ma
tions of Europe, which in 1871 to 1872
produced AS, ,756,0OO bushels of wheat,
and in 1878 to 1881 produced $40, $50, 900
bushels. Between the two periods the
production of the United Kingdom de-
creased by 10000, 900 bushels, but in all
other countries there were important
gains. The European crop of 1882,
which is this side of the dates of the De-
partment report, was greatly in excess
of any yield on record, and that of 1888,
while considerably smaller, was still
above the average.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

SPAIN now has an annual yield o.
about 100000 gallons of wine, which
places her in the fourth rank among
wine-growing countries, being surpassed
only by France and Italy, and Austria
Hungary. She has large export trade
with France, but it is not true that she
has developed this wholly or chiefly by
the prevalence of phylloxera in the
French vineyards, for in 1875, when the
phylloxera had done comparatively lit e
harm, she exported wines to the amount
of 151 900, OOOf. or one-third of her total
exports, proportion which was scarcely
exceeded in 1879.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

quired by iaw for the coinage OF standard
silver dollars.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has issued an order
announcing the retirement Of General Sher-
man, without reduction in his Iay and al
lowance, aud paying high tribute TO his
services while In tho army.
REPRESENTATIVES, ERMENTRoUT was in
structed 10y the House committee on banking
and currency to report a bill for the ex-
change of trade dollars for standard silver
dollars at par by January /, 1885.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

...r., annual convention Of the feo sa,
GRAFTON Of organiaiesst statss tsssue and Canada viii
4 q csssso The yDssd oa the first tuesday in o
tober
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20

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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-23

land YOU did not go away to have
revenge on me9" "ARd you did not
send home all those onions just to tease
me?' were some of the questions asked.
Then the ludicrous side began to appear
and they laughed long and merrlly.
Whatever shall We do with all those
onions?" queried Annette when she
found her breath.
1--WE will make sweet fragrance to
our names by means of them" said
Phillip. 1--WE will send gifts to the
poor-always of onions. We will be-
come famous as philanthropists, and
our eccentric charities will be the
theme of succeeding generations. But,
Nettie, l wish you would make a pic
ture of some of those silvery-skinned
onions. We will hang it up in the
dining-room, and it shall teach us
wholesome lessons that nobody else can
read but just us two Shall teach me
not to forget the small sweet courte-
sizes of life"
"And shall teach me-" said Annette
humbly, ''that anger dwellS in the
bosom of FOOLS
"And that greater is he that ruleth
his own spirit than he that taketh a
city," added Phillip.
''My darling" he said as their lips
met in the kiss of reconciliation, 'let
us never again misinterpret, misjudge,
or lose faith in each other, whatever
comes. Mrs. c. IL. Livingston, IN
Cbicd1o Interior.