The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1869-07-01
All Sorts.

Firewood is IS q cord at Salt Lake
City.
Texas is luxuriating on roasting ears
Of corn.
Williamsburg, New York, has ;
weaver who is one hundred and TWEEN.
ty years old.
A Rome, Georgia, mill ground BIC
bushels of meal in eleven hours, on one
set of thirty inch stones, tnc other day
The Grand Army Of the Republic
have prepared u large list of clerks
messengers, ETC., whose removal they
are about TO demand from the Trcasu
ry Department.
Wine is cheaper than milk in some
parts Of California.
Only six days will be devoted to the
taking of The new census.
The Indian country continues to
yield its crop of catastrophe.
An Alaskan is unhappy unless he
has one seal q day for his own con-
sumption.
Eight thousand cmigrants left Liver
pool last week for the United States.
The judges Of the Supreme Court OF
Indiana complain of being overworked
and under-paid.
There is proposition that the wo
men shall themselves decide by vote
whether they desire the ballot.
1t is reported that the boll-worm has
appeared on several plantations in Ala
hama, and is doing great damage to
the cotton crop.
a singular mirage was recently seen
on Lake Ontario. The shore of Cana
da was visible, buildings loomcd up,
and vessels sailing keel uppermost.
Spain promises gold harvest.
New Orleans has q 'cLampian opti.
cian.'
Pensacola ships pine timber ninety.
five feet long aud two feet square.
Fernandina, Fla, ships turtles to
Liverpool.
A frog with Two heads has turned up
in Illinois.
A crocodile has been captured in
Florida the first seen in this country.
An English clergyman ofIiciates also
as organist. having a telegraphic key,
board in the reading desk.
The graduate West Pointers are TO
form an alumni association, after the
manner of our college graduates.
Jacksonville, Fla, is eating water
melons and pcachcs-the latter grown
about twenty miles from Lake City.
Charles Smell, of 81. Louis, blew his
brains out last week.
Crop prospects much improved by
the late raius and fine wcatecr in
Texas.
The Germons of Pittsburg want TO
celebrate the fourth OH Sunday, aud
there is an Outcry against them.
Forney says he has read Summers
speech second time. No wonder his
physician advises European trip.
From Decatur we have intelligence
of the accidental drowning of three or
four negro men in the Tennessee river.
Mr.. George II. Pendleton is still con
fined to his house by the injuries he
sustained in falling out of his BUGGY
some weeks ago. +
Small pox is spreading rapidly in
New York.
The Kansas Indians are being sub.
ducd.
The Kentucky fruit crop this season
is quite promising.
Too much rain lately in Eastern
VIM. Knox, prominent banker of
Montgomery, Ala, is dead.
The volunteers of Cuba are talking
Of uniting with the insurgents for The
independence of the Island.
A Georgia paper says the Hon. A.
II. Stephens is improving, and can now
sit up and attend to business most of
the day.
Tho wheat harvest commenced last
week in Southern Illinois. The grain
is good. and the yield is large.
In anticipation of legal tender issue
by the Mexican Government, the mer-
chants print on their bill-heads "Paya-
BILE in gold or silver coin.