The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-05-19
NEWS ITEMS.

GON. UT, Oh SOuLn CofOllnl, pTOpO-
ses to organize the common school sys-
TEN for colored children.
Many Indiana farmers are blowing
up their wheat fields and sowing oats
and flax.
1t is proposed to hold q great South
ern Educational Convention during the
coming summer
Two deaths from cholera were re-
ported in the New York quarantine
Monday, No new case had occurred.
The Cork Constitution states that wo-
men are travelling from town to town
in Ireland as Fenian emmissaries.
The Memphis August is hard on Gen.
Fisk and the free niggers' sidaboard in
that city. 1t thinks both are a nuisance
to the city.
Gen. Braxton Bragg is living on a
farm in Alabama, acting as agent for
another man. He has lost all he owned
DSiolN INV wal.
The whole Of the sugar region in
Louisiana will be inundated by the
great crevasses at Morganza and
Grand Lerees.
Gen. d. II. Cooper, c. S. A. has
been pardoned by the President, upon
the recommendation Of several L. S.
officers.
A western paper says the be9o way
to kill bed bugs is to chain their hind
legs to Il tree, then 60 round in front
and make mouths at them.
The citizens of Montgomery, Ala,
have appointed a committee to visit
Nashville upon the subject of q direct
railroad connection between that city
and this, by way of Decatur, Alabama.
Secretary Seward is on a visit to his
home in Auburn, New York. 1t is
given out that, on his return, he will
visit Santa Anna, who is now in New
York.
The GovernorofGeorg has effected
Il loan Of four hundred thousand dol
lars in New York, at a low rate Of in
tcrcst. This will relieve the Governor
in his financial matters.
The Memphis Argus proposes ma
king Il new State out of West Tennes-
see and North Mississippi, to be called
the State ofJacl.son, with Memphis for
its capital.
Gen. Grant, it is said, has been pre-
sented, by different parsons, with as
many rs sever hundred and eighty box
cs Of cigars in a single day. At this
rate he will have to open a cigar store.
The Cleveland Leader says that at
Cory, Ohio, the same gentleman is
owner and editor of the two local pa
pcrs, n of which is thoroughly Radi-
cal and the other strongly Democratic,
The Paymastcr General has issued
a special order directing the pay Of.
about one hundred officers to be stop
ped until they render satisfactory nc
counts to the Government.
Gov. Jenkins, of Georgia, has com,
mcnccd Il large purchase Of corr and
provisions for the benefit Of widows
and orphans of deceased Confederate
soldiers, in accordance with the act Of
the Legislature.
The wife Of Gen. Robert Toombs
has recently reached her home in
Washington county, Ga. Her hus-
band will go to Europe, there to re
main until he thinks proper .to return
to his native State.
Gen Cable, who was captured with
General Marmaduke during the Con-
icdcrate invasion Of Missouri, is keep
ing Il boot and shoe store at Fort
Arkansas. At Corinth, as a
Brigadier, he led his column to the as
s@ult with reckless courage.
The Southern Baptist Convention
will assemble at Russellvillc, Ky, on
Tuesday next. 1t will be composed of
the most distinguished Baptist minis
tiers of the South, and it is expected
that the attendance will be unusually
large.
Both Houses have passed Il ill fix
ing upon Oxford, Mississippi, rs the
future place for holding the sessions Of
the United States Courts for the North
ern District Of Mississippi. This is the
bill that has passed Congress re
to Federal Courts in Southern
ADMIRAL SEMMEs will soon prepare
his adventures on the high scas-while
command Of the Alabama-for the
press. He has been offered $1,000, in
England, for the copyright of the
work, but the offer was declined. 1t
will probably first appear in numbers,
n a Southern monthly, and attcrward
up and published in book
It is given as q reason why Senator
was recently defeated for re-
nomination to the Senate, that his wife
5 a conservative lady, and influenced
lis action in the Stockton case, and
Who induced him to issue all order set. [
ing apart a certain portion of the Sen.
tie gallery exclusively for negroes, and !
llus preventing them from mixing !
With white people.
a fish was caught in the Tennessee
t Chattanooga OH Tuesday which j
measured eighteen feet and some inches !,
n length, and weighs one hundred and
pounds. 1t has the shape of g
'orpoise, bu, is covered with long
hair, and has a beard around
IS mouth, which resembles a bung.
ole more than anything else. 1t has
paddle in the centre of its body, and !
tail like a rat. .,
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