The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-05-19
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A life size statue of Stonewall Jack.
son is to be erected in Memphis.
The lith ofJuly next is the time fix
ed for .he sailing Of the new Atlantic
Cable Expedition.
The small pox has made its reap
pearancc in Huntsville, Ala.
They have q chicken in Rome, Ga
with Il double head, two beaks, and
four eyes.
The Agricultural Bureau is in receipt
of swarm Of stingless bees from
Honduras. They are said to be excel
lent honey makers.
The Senate, in Executive session,
has confirmed the nomination of Henry
A. Smythc to be Collector of Customs
for the District Of New York, vice
Preston King deceased
| Admiral Raphael Semmcs was elect.
ed Judge Of the Probate Court of No
bile, on Monday, by 26l plurality.
The Secretary of War has ordered
Gen. Terry to regard the Presidents
Peace Proclamation as doing away
with martial law in Virginia.
President Johnson recently remark
cd to the wife ofa Union officer that he
did not consider Clement G. Clay as
culpablc as Thaddcus Stevens and his
clan.
a new Jail is to be built at Shelby
vile, and Il discussion is going on as to
whether the old or new site shall be
elected
Gems. Beauregard and Writ Adams
have gone to Europe to negotiate for
the bonds Of the Jackson Railroad.-
President Johnson modified their Con-
tcdcratc paroles 50 rs to go and re-
turn.
W. f. Prall, Of Knoxville, has inven-
ted Il cotton-picling machine, which
has found so much favor with the Bos-
ton capitalists and manufacturers that
they have purchased the patent.
An exchange says one of the chief
cnjoyments Of an editor is, to know
that people who do not pay for their
papers, are about the only ones who
are continually finding fault.
DR.. s. III. Stout of Giles county,
Tennessee, delivered the Introductory
lecture at the opening Of the eighth
summer course ut the Atlanta Medical
College, on Monday last
The Board Of Trustees for the Leba-
non Law School have secured the ser
vices of Judge Robert l.. Caruthers for
the chair vacant by the death of Judge
Nathan Green, senior.
In Louisiana Judge Abel OF tie First
District Court has decided the Civil
Rights bill to he unconstitutional, and
not binding on the Court. He argues
that the present Congress is unconsti-
tutonally constituted.
The New York Commercials Wash
ington correspondent says it is rumored
that the President advocates the call
ing of Il national Constitutional Con-
vention, to settle the issues now pen
ding.
1t is understood that Mrs. Davis is
now to remain with her husband till
his fate is decided one way or the ofh.
cr. She is said to be in possession %
ample means, which enable her ~ nm
main ut the Fortress without o.f Worn.
additional burden upon 'no
mcnt.
r,, ,ost office department has made
ING for the conveyance of the
q c1r - 1.l,m New Orleans to Mobile, anil
,aah . daily in suitable steamers also,
the mails from New Or.
cans, via Galveston to lndianolia anu
ack three times o week in suitable
teamcrs.
Some ofthe London merchants have
,stituted custom of charging an ad
Mission fee on their stores. The lady
ight- seers can enter by paying small
ee, and examine all the latest styles
md customs without making any pur-
,hascs, unless disposed to do so.
DEs ARC, Arkansas, boasts ofa ne
gress aged eighty years, who is the
mother of twenty-four children Sns
has not been sick, or taken medic,ne,. ~ ~
twenty years, and now doe: Sbs
work for her old mssters 9 - AZ
mas llasus oesn J . cool, and says she can do "a
years as y - snv negro in town, and
nnen !. a ~ Inconvenience from it.
Mr. L. G. 'Bodie. messenger for the
dams Express Company, was killed
tely near Cave City, on the train com
Z to Nashville from Louisville.