The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1869-04-22

News and Other Paragraphs.
Gen. Early is in Lynchhurp.

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the label; "IhoN shalt not steal
Lexington, Ky, has thirts -four whis,
! ky mills, exclusive of five whisky GRO.
, cerics. "
Green peas are selling Mt 81 per
; quart in Savannah, Ga.
Crops prospects in Georgia are pro.
nounced favorable by the press.
A Chicago minister has been preach
ing on "oxygcn and the Holy Ghost"
A Texas railroad was recently sold
for five hundred dollars, ard was dear
at that price.
Over three thousand jesuit priests
are constantly employed on missions
throughout the world.
Longstreets confirmation was by
vote oftwenty-tlve to ten, many Sena,
tors absenting themselves during the
vote.
There arc 100000 Protestants in
France.
Paper collins are the latest Euro
pean invention.
Spangler and Arnold have returned
from Tortusas.
Geneva N. T., has COW which sold
last week for $4,000
Grceneyilc, Ala, has 5000 inhabi
tants, and ten business houses.
Straddle dresses is the name of
the female velocipedist costume.
j. j, Summers, an old Louisvillan,
was found dead in his chair one dav
last week
The ladies of Augusta, Ga, decorate
the graves Of the Confederate dead
with flowers on the Goth inst.
New York has wedding between a
groom Of ninety six and bride Of
eighteen.
Edinburg has classical circus, in
which the horses run around the ring
to the music of q Beethoven sonata.
A Cleveland woman has had seven
husbands within eight years, and is now
anxiously looking for the eighth.
The Vicksburg Herald is talking Of
a railroad from that point to Decatur,
Ala, via Canton, Kosciusko and Alb
erdcen.
The Illinois and Michigan canal was
opened Saturday, and eighty boats
loaded with corn left Lasalle for Chi
cago.
Mrs. Harriet Beechcr Stowe and
husband passed through Jacksonville,
Fla, on Wednesday last, en- route for
Mandarin
The latest sensation in Boston is the
Elmore Velocipede Troupe, composed
Of six young ladies, who perform in the
Kinks.
The Georgia State Agricultural So
ciety intends offering premiums for the
best athlete, the best gymnast, and the
best vclocipede rider.
The Bolivar Bulletin is offered for
sale, its proprietor having decided to
go West 1t is n paying establish,
ment
Mr.. Sixties, three miles from Tren
ton, was murdered few nights ago by
4 party Of unknown men, who called
him out.
The subject of tea culture in Tennes-
see is absorbing the attention Of sever
al cnterprislng gentlemen of NASH,
vile,
Mrs. Buck, wife of the editor of the
,lorvsy,,,c icnr..iiot, was severely injur
ed few days since by being thrown
from Il buggy.
The Slurircesboro papers announce
the recent demise of jennings Rouker
an old and we'll known resident of Ruth
erford county.
The government employees are to be
required to work ten hours n day, or
eight hours, and submit to reduction
Of twenty per cent. in wages.
Three ladies and a boy six years old
we're terribly burned at Wheeling, Vir-
sinia, on Wednesday, by the explosion
Of a can Of carbon oil.
There are only four ex-Governors Of
Georgia now living: G. W. Crawford,
lershel v johnson, Joseph E. Brown,
md Charles j. Jenkins.
Sim Reeves, the singer, Blondin, the
ope- dancer. and Charles Dickens, the
eader, each get a hundred guineas u
light for their performances.
Mr.. Vernon Harcourt, the "Histori-
u.s. of the London Times, has been
ppointcd Professor OF international
aw in.the University of Cambridge,
ngland.
In the libel suit of Captain II. o.
'lndsor against the San Francisco
vening Bulletin, for $50, 900 damages,
&c jury, in three minutes, rendered
,rdict for the defendant.
In spite ofall the statements to the
'ntrary, reports from Japan show
lat the persecution of Christians goes