The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-08-04
"A society for the relief Of the poor
has been organized at Columbia.

"A society for the relief Of the POOR
has been organized at Columbia.
"A wooden factory, on large scale,
is to he established in Knoxville In few
weeks.
Cumberland University, in all ito
departments, will be reopened on the
first Monday in September.
The mail route, regularly oncea
week, from Shelbyville to Nashville,
ria Eaglesville, Unionville, ETC., has
been rcopencd.
The number Of registered voters
in Wilson county, up to this time, Is
eighty three
The Commissioner Of Registration
for Hardelnan county has issued certii.
Gates to onl y seventy-two voters.
The Trustees of Cumberland Uni.
versity haved leased the Campbell
Academy building, and are having it
fitted up for the preparatory depart.
ment Of the institution.
1t Is said the only letters which
have passed through certain postof.
flee in McDonough county, ILL.,, for the
last two quarters, consisted OF the cor.
respondence between the postmaster
and the department.
BY the confessions of two soldiers.
belonging to the 9TH Ky. Cav, made
during a drunken spree at Harrods.
burg, clue has been discovered to the
parties who fred the house Of Mrs.
Williams. on the Nolensville pike, q
few weeks ago.
The Murfrecsboro' Monitor, OF
Saturday, says: ave understand that
Mr.. VIM. Gosling, late Of Shelbyvlle,
intends starting Woolen Factory in
this city at an early date"
The Robertson Register says that
mails are now going regularly to Coop.
ertowh, Turnersville, Port Royal, in
Montgomery; and Tait's Station Tho
office at Barren Plains has also been re.
opened. Offices at Adams and at Fort
Stations will soon be opened.
Says the Shelbyville Union From
present prospects, there never has
been, within the memory Of the oldest
inhabitants, such corn crops in this
co lntry as will be gathered this fall.
The academic year of the Mallory
Female Institute, Springfield, Tenn.
will commence September lst. The
fall session ofSpringfeld Female Acad.
emy opens same day.
The wife Of the editor Of the Cleve.
land Banner got up before daylight a
few mornings since, cooked family
breakfast aud set up column OF long
primer type before 8 AM.
The concert and tableauX in Co.
lumbia realized S447, which is to he
used in procuring artificial limbs for
Confederate soldiers.
Tho Shclbyville News says that
aux prevails to an alarming extent in
the western and northwestern portions
Of Bedford county,
Mrs James, residing near Nolena-
vile, was robbed Of $500 on Friday
night. A freedman recently dischar.
!. ged from employment on the place, ID
suspected.
Arthur Peabody, formerly local
editor of the GAINESVILLE Courier, re-
Gently received present OF $4,000
from his uncle, Mr.. George Peabody.
The st. Louis Democrat says that
"while other cities are supplying them
selves with pure water, the people OF
st. Louis are gulping down such qaan.
titles of mud that half Of them are cor
pulant with sand bars III their stom.
achs."
Fifty removals have beeS made al
the New York Customhouse during the
past week.
Carey, clerk Of the SI,saeer House
Cincinnati, who was shot by Henley.
has since died.
The Bankrupt Bill was laid over
until the next session by the Senate by
a vote of II to IL.
Henry Stanberry was confirmed a.
Attorney General of the United States
on Monday and entered on his duties.
There are twenty mere ntile firms
in Cincinnati whose sales for twelve
months ending April 30, were over 81.
O6O, 900. Some Of them reach as high
as "a, 100000.
General Sherman WAS in Montreal
on Saturday, add visited Quebec on the
following day.
On last Wednesday evening two To-
comotives and five cars, loaded with
lumber, passed over the Cumberland
River at Clarksville. The passenger
trains will soon follow, and renew
intercourse with Memphis BY rail.