The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-08-18
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NEWS ITEMS.

The population of St. Louis, accord.
ing to the census just completed, is
2Ot,32I.
Gov. Isham G. Harris was in Selma,
Ala, on the 9TH, registering from Mex
leo.
Gen Stccdman unqualifedly declines
the Office Of Superintendent Of Public
Printing
The receipts Of internal revenue from
the lst Of July to the 2lst amounted to
nearly Sl9,000,o00,
The negroes Of Huntsville, (Ala.)
and vicinity celebrated the abolition Of
slavery in the British Colonies on the
lst
John Ross, Chief Of the Cherokee
(In1iaNs) Nation, died at Washington
on the lst inst, after two months i'll
ness.
Gen. Grant has rcscinded his order
Of February 7th, for copies Of news
papers to be sent to him which contain
disloyal sentiments, dc.
Hon. Geo. W. Julian, Of Indiana, was
caucd in Washington on the 9th ult.
Wonder if he, too, felt it was the
proudest moment of his life,'
There are now eight hundred and
eighty eight prisoners in the Ohio Pen
tcntary, being thcIargcst number con-
fined at any one time since the war.
The total number Of alien cmigrAnts
that have arrived in New York thus far
this year is 127,6Sl, being 10000 more
than during the same period last year.
John Nichols, OF Danvers, Mass, 50
years of age, has just gathered in, with
his own hands. his 73dsncccs3ivc years
/ hay crop, and he thinks himself good
for a few more years to come.
We regret, says the Charleston Cou
riev, to announce the dcceaSc OF Mrs.
John c. Calhoun, the widow of South
CaroIina's great statesman, at pcndIc-
ton, $, C., on the night Of the 18th OF
July,
\ Washington special says the ID
| Comptroller Of the Treasury is ofopin-
ion that the bill for the equalization Of
hountjes is imperative in consequence
Of serious defects in the wording ofthc
/ first section.
The Frecdmcn'a Bureau in Princess
Ann county, Va, have decided that n
negro who stole a gcntleman's breeding
SOW and kept her until after she had
pigs, may keep all the pigs if he returns
| The SOW
The army bill, as passed finally, pro,
vidcs for the addition to the regular
army Of - companies OF infantry, two
companies to be added to each of the
existing y battallions; eight new rcgi-
mcnts of infantry, four Of which shall
be Veteran Reserves, and four colorcl
troops and also four additional rcgi-
mcnts Of cavalry.
The receipts from customs a, the port
of New Iorl. during the two weeks
ending July q were 81, ,94S,4Sl.
Thirty families were rendered house
less on the ID inst in st. Louis by the
burning Of block oftenemcnt houses
Loss $4,000.
Governor Patton, Of Alabama, has
ordered the distribution of twelve hun
drcd bushels Of corn amongst the star
wing families Of lic(iens county.
A twclyc-ycar old nigger has been
creating quite an excitement in his
ncighhorhood, in Chicago, by whipping
his mother and all her friends.
The bricklaycrs ont West are on Il
strike for five and Il half dollars per
day.
Hog thieves out West hush the
squalling of their victims by admins
tering chloroIorm to them.
The business men of Houston, Tex
as, have resumed specie payments. All
transactions are based on specie csti-
mates.
A United States cavalryman has
been tarrcd and ieathered by his COM
rados in Texas for attempting misccgc.
r nation.
Twenty-Five conjugal knots were un-
tied ut the recent session Of the Supc-
rior Court at Hartford, Conn.
Telegraph poles in South Australia
are made Of mahogany, because other
wood will not stand the climate and
burial in the ground.
A BAND Of Indians lrnsscl in I'ni.