The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-07-18
BTEVITIES.

TaIteI hyaH VIII spchu Ilc suHllleI
at the Lookout Mountain House, near
Chattanooga, and will hold regular re-
ligous services there.
works were prohibited by the
Chief of the Metropolitan Police in
Memphis on the Fourth ofJuly.
First-clas farm hands are getting 50
per day in Augusta, says the Valley
Virgiuan, and are in demand at that.
DR.. Talley, Of Columbia, and Gener-
nj A. c. Haskell, of Abbeville, have
been elected Professors in the South
Carolina University.
The Sheriff Of Tishimingo county,
Mississippi, says there are 800 per-
sons in that county who have failed to
paytaxes, and if they do not come to
time, he will put them to work on the
roads.
w. G. Cannon, a photographer, was
shot at Pulaski, Team, last Monday,
by S. l.. Richardson, and died Tuesday
morning, Richardson was lodged in
jail.
S. Il. Morgan, Esq, well known
citizen Of Memphis, formerly promi-
nent Alderman, died suddenly last Tues
day night in the Commercial Hotel, of
that city, in an cpileptic tit.
Mr.. L. S. Perryman, who killed C.
Landon Hall, Of st. Louis, in Mobile a
few weeks ago, was tried last Tuesday
and acquitted on the ground that he &C
ted in self defense.
The Natchez Courier, underline pres
sure of the times, has suspended it,
daily issue. 1t will be continued as a
weekly. Many Southern papers and
some from the North, now come to us
in reduced form.
The Nashville Gazette announces the
first wator-melons Of the season, which
arrived " Wednesday, the Sd Of July
Also, Horace Maynard, Barbour Lew
is, John Eaton, Sam Arnell, 10. Coop
cr, and several other green things.
A party of Pennsylvania capitalists
have recently invested largely in real
estate at Smccdsvillc, on the Nashville
and Northwestern Railroad, and exten-
sive iron manufactures are in pros
pect
BY resolution OF the City Council
of Atlanta, the ordinance prohibiting
the burning of rockets, crackers and
fireworks, within the limits Of the city,
was suspended on the Fourth of July.
The same ordinance was suspended
there about three years ago.
On Tuesday a man named James
Snyder, whose home is near Richmond
Va, after pulling off his boots and coat
put loaded Mississippi rifle to his
head, pulled the trigger, and blew his
brains far and wide. lie was in state
of beastly intoxication at the time.
The Fourth ofJuly passed off quiet
ly in Chicago. There was no public
demonstration.
The English Government has post
poned the grand Hyde Park review on
account of the death of Maximilian.
The Brazilian Government has sent
to the United States for five thousand
breech-loaders for its army.
The French Court has been ordered
to put on mourning in State form fol
the death of Maximilan. Napoleon
should put on very deep mourning.
Some of the members of COngrcs:
have agreed to short session, but it is
not probable that they will adjourn
soon.
Five cases of yellow fever have been
reported at Galveston, Texas, and two
deaths from black vomit, but no fears
Of an epidemic are entertained.
A SILVER mine, two miles above
Smithland, Kentucky, on the Cumber
land, yields three hundred and twenty
ounces to the ton, and is increasing
rapidly, there being seventy-three pc
cent. of lead The owners, iron
Louisville, believe it among the riches
prospects in the Unior.
-Four Young men have sailed from
Galveston, Texas, for Padre Island
where they intend to dig for Lalitte''
treasure. 1t seems that an old maj
named Harvey, said to have been con
nccted with Lafitte, died short tim
since near Goliad, and revealed to on
Of the party certain landmarks an
bearings by which they might find tn
buried treasure.
The Indians continue their depreda
tlons in Idaho.