The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-10-06
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NEWT ITEMS

Nallandlgham IS stllmplnS ONO for
the National party.
J. G. Aver d Co., Of Lowell, spends
annually for advertising 100000.
Minnesota laughs with harvest of
100000 bushels Of wheat
Pawnbrokcr's duplicates are turnpike
tickets on the road to poverty. Ira
The oldest house in the United States
is at Medford, Massachusetts, built in
1884 '.' -' ''"
The cotton crop in Alabama is said
to be much injured by catapillars and
boil worm.
The first vessel of the Brazilian
Steamship Company left Mobile recent
ly with 80 passengers. .
The Newburyport Herald predicts
that General Butler will he the radiccl
candidate for President in 1868, and
General Grant the conservative candi-
date
The corpses Of seventy eight negroes
were buried ut Richmond. Va, at pub
lie expense, between the lst and 10th
of September. ...... ...
The Legislature Of Sexas and Mis-.
sissippi have made appropriation to
purchase artificial limbs for their disa-
bled Confederate soldiers. '.
There are 264 convcts in the r, xas
Pcnitentiary, ofwhom o5,arc white n en-,
Al are MeXicans, 45 are Indians, III
are negro men, and 7 are negro wo-
men.
a case recently tried in Ware nton,
Va, has been decided in favor of the
validity of :he payment of Confederate
money for 4 lot of land sold during the
war;
a large portion of the business part
of Newbcrn, n. C., WAS destroyed by
fire on the morning of the 23d inst.
Mayor Washington has offered re-
ward Of 81, 800 for proof to convict the
inccndiurics. .a
We haze heard Of great gains for the
radicals in Vernon. The full vote
has some at last and shows: Radicals,
26,6T Democrat, l6,4l2. Last year
the vote stood: Radical, 1886 Dem
ocrat, 1857.
When Daniel Webster was q young
man, about to commence the study Of
law, he WAS advised not to enter the le-
GAL profession, for it was already crow
dcd. His reply was, "Thcrc is room
enough at the top
Copper has been discovered about
nine miles below Centre, in Cherokee
county, Alabama. The bed is consid-
cred richly worth working, and thor
ough testings are being made. The
specimen S Of ore are very rich.
In Ohio machine has lately been
introduced by which well sixteen feet
deep, and one inch in diameter may be
dug in forty minutes the machine sinks
an inch pipe. The water thus procur-
cd is said to be pure and cool.
The colored Baptist of the United
States have organized q General Mis-
sionary Association, which recently
met at Richmond. The 'colored Bap-
fists prefer separate donominational
organization to 4 union with the North
crn or Southern Churches. . ...t ...
The N. Y. World says the Democrats
made decided gain in the Vermont
Legislature. They have elected .thir-
teen Representatives, and last year they
had only eleven. On the whole vote
of the State they gain eight thousand
five hundred. ..f.
General Santa Anna made an affida-
Wit before the Superintendent Of the
Circuit Court, denying any completely
Ola knowledge about the letter writ
ten to Judge Barnard, in which bribe
was offered for release from some Of
his legal difficulties.
Tammany Hall, one of the landmarks
of the Democracy, and II building with
which are connected some Of the pleas
amt "reminiscences Of men ard things
in New York, will be sold to the high
est bidder next month The "Sachcms''
have determined to build larger
''wigwam." .... ...........s ..,..
The Darlington Southarnar says that
there is movement on hand among
the freedmen ofthat place, to get up y
petition to the President for the with
drawal of the military, the abolition or
Provost Courts, and putting a stop to
the interference Of the Bureau with the
blacks. .l....