The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1869-05-20
Varieties.

Washington Il TO have q hotel for
colorsd people.
Sickles' commission as Spanish Min.
lister will soon be issued
Private houses in good localities ia
Paris rent at from eight to thirty thous.
and dollars in gold.
Jacob D. Enos (colored) has been
appointed postmaster at Valdosta, Ga.
Methodist campmeetings are about
to be revived in some portions Of
Georgia.
Judge Breckenridge, Surveyor Of
Customs OF St. Louis has been asked
by the President to resign.
BY blast in the Richmond granite
quarry, Virginia, last week, stone
weighing 10000 tons was moved.
A paper to be called the Irish West
| is projected in Cincinnati, to be devo.
ted to the interests of the Irish, Ameri.
cans OF that city.
| A man died suddenly from intern.
perance, and Western jury found
that deceased came to his death BY
drinking between drinks"
An able bodied negro died Of starvs.
ton recently at Columbus, Ga, the ev.
idence at the inquest showing that he
starved rather than work.
Minister Motley will sail for Eng.
land on the 10th inst, with milder in.
structions about the Alabama claims
than even Reverdy johnson carried
out.
Rev. Pearne, of the Knoxville Wing
declares that he never drank spoon
full Of whiskey in his life. We sup.
pose he takes it by the pint.
E. A. Pollard has instituted proceed.
ings for divorce.
Twenty eight thousand two hundred
and twenty-one marriages were solem.
nized in Ohio during the year ending
December 81, 1868.
General Carey is lecturing in Chioa-
60 on temperance.
Gen. jeff. C. Davis has been punish.
ing the Alaska Indians by burning
their deserted villages.
Mountain trout over two feet long
lhave been found in the inland streams
of California.
The fare from New York to San
Francisco, by the Union Pacific Rail.
road will be Si53,9l-3,229 miles.
As late as the 2lst u,timo the sleigh.
ing in New Hampshire was still good.
A spring has been discovered some
seven miles north of Dahlonega, Ga,
the medicinal properties of which
promise to render it famous.
A Rochester paper states that the
trotting horse, George Palmer, is re.
ported to be sold to Commodore Van.
derbilt for $4,000.
A clergyman in Ohio who recently
ran away with the wife of aparishioner
has brought libel suit against the
husband for telling it, and actually had
him put under bonds.
A dispute on the trotting qualities Of
their mules, causen Jack Eastep to kill
Mr.. Seals, near Oxford, Miss, a few
days since.
The Spanish Mission is again an
open question. The President has
yielded to the pressure against Gen.
Sickles, and decided, at least for the
present, not to appoint him. In the
meantime Gen. Butterfeld, of New
York, who was originally intended for
Minister to Spain, hiss arrived at Wash
ington, and is in conference with the
President. The friends of Hale ara
also actively at work, asking for his re.
tention at Madrid, until he can answer
the charges that have been made agains
him.
Saint Domingo is clamorous for an.
nexation.
The Potomac has been accidentally
stocked with gold fish.
!, Ladies want hoes, as well as hose,
; especially adapted for garden use.
There are still over a million acres
of swamp land in Arkansas unsold.
Cooking the food of cattle is pow.
erful agent in the extirpatiou Of
weeds.
Pine tar applied to the tits will pre-.
vent COW from sucking herself
}. St. Joseph, Mo-, is in danger Of be.
ing left an inland city, bya change in
the channel of the Missouri.
Leached wood ashes make an excel.
} lent top dressing for old orchards,
which are denominated hide ground.
A movement is now on foot which
looks to the transfer in body to this
country of all the unemployed cotton
operatives in Lancashire, England.
A rich and pious old citizen of Gene.
va, Switzerland, fears food, and has
begun the construction Of an ark in
which to save himself and his house.