The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-08-15

'"sI week, ihcluulng two from chole q
A large number Of soldiers in the
garrison at Quebec whose term have
expired have re.enlisted. (.
CASTILLO and others have been order
ed to be shot.
Columbus, Miss, is Dragging of a
watermelon which weighs 4s pounds.
One fourth of the citizens of Nash
vile are said to DO out of the city
'"rusticating.'
A line Of steamers direct from St.
Louis to Mobiles proposed.
John II. Reagan, formerly Conrede-
rate Postmaster General, spoke to 2,
900 freedmen in Palestine, Texas, July
All,
Two thousand five hundred and SIX.
ty sacks Of damaged corr were sold in
savannah on Monday, at an average of
80 cents.
It's understood that Earl Carnaer.
Won instead of the Duke Of Buchanan
will be the successor of the present
Governor General Of Canada. '
The first bale Of new cotton Of the
season was received yesterday at Sa,
vannah, Ga. 1t was from Florida and
of superior grade.
Gen. Grant recently remarked that If
nominated for the Presidency, it must
be without exacting pledges.
The yellow fever is still prevailing in
Havana. There were one hundred and
twenty deaths in June and seven hun
bred and fifty cases.
The twenty third battery ofartillery,
suppressed in November, 1866, by a
decree of Emperor Napoleon, has been
rc-cstablished.
Awhitc man named Driscoll was bad
ly beaten by negroes at a meeting Of
theirs in Richmond yesterday. He had
no business there.
The Arkansas papers very generally
complain of shameful remissncss on
the part of mail contractors to do their
duty.
A large and highly respectable meet.
ing of Conservatives was held in Mem.
plis last Tuesday night. Leading citi.
zons addressed the assembly.
The Mayor of Boston gives his sala-
~ to objects Of charity.
Agassiz says the Florida reefs were
10000 years in being formed.
A gorgeous saddle, made for Maxi.
milan and used by him, has come into
the possession Of q hotel keeper in
W %ashington.
What's in u name" +. L. Barnum
and Chas. Dickens are two of the men
who recently broke out Of Danbury
Jail. sJ
a law has been enacted in Canada d.
recting that the doors of all public
buildings should open outw0rls.
1t is feared that Lucy Escott and her
opera company have been lost at seq or
.hoir voyage from Australia to San
Francisco.
The papers Of st. Louis keep Il stand
ing head for suicides, just as for telc.
graph news, market reports, river col
umn, DC.
Santa Anna was a prisoner at last
accounts.
The Montana Post, orthe 10th, says
the crop prospects in Gallatin Valley
are excellent The grass loppers have
not troubled the upper Wiley. Win.
ter wheat and barley look particularly
we'll.
The Indians cut the telegraph nea
Dug Springs on the goth, burning two
poles and carrying off six or sevc
hundred feet of wire. The lines bay..
since been repaired and are in working
order.
Gen. Dodge tclegraphs that a land
ofSioux, crossing Black Hills, came
upon O'Neirs surveying party on Sun.
day and were repulsed. One Indian
was killed. The party are all safe.
The wounds received by Assistant
Secretary Seward by the running away
of a span of horses at Auburn, New
York, are not ofa serious ~charactcr.--
He will probably be we'll in a few days.
The general rains in North Carolina
have resulted in great benefit 20 crops.
Accounts from the country represent
yield of wheat to be larger than at
first supposed. '
+. W. Crozatt, Register ofBirths and
in New Orleans, vas -rnpora,l
crnc A. Tavres, a colored veteran of \
1912, was appointed. Z
An old negro of 60 years a pros. 5
by coup de solisl in Petersburg,
Va, last week His recovery was i,
doubtful. !
A box of bright leaf tobacco. raised |