The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-08-01
GENERAL NEWS.

but for the Interference of the United
y States. The Mexicans killed him then
to assert their independence.
The numerous friends of the gallant
Col Harry Ashby will be gratitied to
learn that his trial in Anderson county,
East Tennessee, on somo trumped up
charge has ended in his acquittal.
G.. NJ. IIilliard, well known and
respectable citizen of Mobile, commit
ted suicide last Saturday by shooting
himself through the head with revol'
yer. Cause unknown.
A Radical speaker said at Savannah,
on the 4th of July: "The soldiers Of
the North and the South sleep in a
common grave, and our corn and
wheat fields will be greatly improved
years hence in blowing up their bones,
rs they arc the common dead OF a
common country.
James Brewton was killed in Bald
win county, Ala, a few days ago, by u
man named Bragg Bragg was arrest
ed and committed to JAIL but was sub
syqu,ntly taken out by n party dis
gui-ed, carried to the woods and hung,
Miss Charlotte Thompson has the
prospect Of splendid crop on her
plantation near Montgomery, Alabama,
She left there on the first Of last week
for her summer residence on the llud-
son, where she will remain until the
opening of the dramatic season
Count county, East Tennessee, has
hcc1 DISTINGUISHED by Brownlow. 1t
was ntcnsely loyal during the war, be-
ingHcxt to Brownlow's own county,
but, has become too conservative.
Col. Huff, of Major General Thorn
rs s,alf, is in Knoxville. He has been
or red there to investigate as to the
c.a uct of the State militia in East
Tennessee. He is taking the evidence
OF ominant men Of both parties.
TIC Wheeling Register says: A col
ored ''gemmcn' who does landscapes
In white-with bucket and q big
brush--displays quite pretty sign,
not hundred miles from here: "Pro-
Gessor johnson, Whitewasher and Car
petshaker."
The prize ofonc hundred dollars Of
tcred hy H. Rives Pollard, ofthe South
ern Opinion, has been awarded to Paul
II. Iavne, o. native Of Charleston, but
naw.lying in Georgia, His subject is
"Laudation Of the deeds, valor, sacri-
flee, DC, of the Confederate soldiers"
The poem fills two columns of the
Opinion.
, Several of the leading Radicals of
Tennessee go were formerly negro ira
ders--dealers in human flesh, who
didn't hesitate a moment to separate
the mother from her child if they could
make few dollars by the operation.
There are some of the same sort in
Georgia. They formerly used the ne
gro for their own personal profit
they are trying to do the same thing
now.
Fielding Hurst, "Brownlow's ours
ing judge" spoke to very slim crowd
of white and colored Radicals at Co
lumbia a few days since. The first
words of his harangue were, "you
have Cd d-n spies here; l see DIN
spy now, cd d-n him." pointing to
Young man standing in the crowd.
You have Cd DIN newspaper report
ers here. If they report anything it
will be les," &C., &c.
It is said that the registration in
Florida will be more difficult than in
anv other Southern State, owing % Tie
scattering population and the lack OF
promDt communication with the va
rious counties. 1t is estimated at the
Office of the Superintendent of Regis
tration, at Jacksonville, that there Will
he between seventeen and twenty thous-
and voters to register.
The Knoxville Free Press tells sto-
ry of an old woman in East Tennessee,
who. at dinner party latek, hearing
Of some fresh atrocities of the party in
power in our State, declared, with
great and emphatic seriousness that
ri Tat man Brownlop didn't de soon
he'd 90 10 hell alive."
The voting population of California
..abouL one hundred thousand ana II
has not increased any within the past
Twelve years.
The Young ladies Of the Central fe-
male College, Aberdeen, Mississippi
publish a weekly literary paper.