The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1869-05-06
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/ Cnariotte thompson will appear on
the San Francisco stage as soon as she
has gathered her cotton crop in Ala
bama.
John c. Clark ofTexas, having left
m estate Of several millions and no
known heirs, the State has taken pos.
session.
A western German paper says that
Senator Sprague inherited one-half of
Rhode Island, AMI the other be has
acquired since.
Melbourne, Australia, has news.
paper printed in Chinese characters,
edited by an Elgerine and corrected by
u native of Buenos Ayres.
A Texas paper says: The South
ern Enterprise comes 10 our Office
wrapped in $50 coupons attached to
$1,000 Confederate bonds, due in 1857.
The Earl ofZetland has held the Of
fee of Grand Master of Free Masons
of England for twenty-five years, and
is now 10 retire.
Two young ladies, on an average,
commit suicide in Paris every day for
love, and one man in consequence Of
pecuniary endorsements.
The project ofcutting canal through
the Isthmus Of Corinth, Greece, has
been revived. Its length would be
three miles and three quarters.
The London Saturday Review says
that the New York city government is
"the most corrupt body in the civilized
world"
A photograph Of the first colored vo-
ter of Minnesota has been taken franz
ed and presented to the State Historic
al Society.
Last week some individual stole
twenty-one blankets from the smallpox
hospital of Newport (Ky) barracks,
Mr.. Byron has written a new play,
entitled "Minnie or Leonard's Love-"
which has been played at the London
Globe theater.
"Osmyn, the Renegade; or, the
Siege of Salerno," is the title of trag.
edy, recently written by the Rev.
Charles Maturin, for Mr.. Edwin Ad-
ans.
The most successful go-between be-
tween Partisan managers and actors
is a former "bar woman" at the Odeon
theater. She clears 10000 francs a
year.
A graphic representation Of the auc-
tuations in cotton at Liverpool dur
ing 1867, and other cotton statistics,
with German and English text, pub
lished at Leipsic, has been received by
Mr.. L. w. Schmidt, in Memphis
Col. VIM. y. Mann, proprietor of
the Mobile Daily Register, married his
ward Miss Belle Jones, Of Alabama,
last Friday, at the Metropolitan Ho,
tel New York.
There is very fatal disease preva
lent among the hogs in the vicinity Of
Mckinney, Texas, supposed to be caus-
ed BY eating the roots of the young
cookie burr.
Princess Louise, daughter Of Queen
Victoria, is to be married on the 9th
of July, to the Prince Royal Of Den
mark This will leave the Queen only
one unmarried daughter, the Princess
Beatrice.
The most horrible case of suicide
occurred few days ago in London,
where man emptied can of parat-
fine oil over his person, and then set
himself on fire. This is as far as any
body has yet gone.
A sharp-shooter at Ogden, on the
Pacific Railroad, picked of scoundre!
who had outraged his wife and daugh-
ter, just as the police were conducting
him into the prison door.
A Pennsylvania farmer writes to his
county paper, that he cured his daugh
ter of the Grecian bend by pouring
water on her and holding her out III
the sun until she warped back again.
The prices of admission to the Bos-
ton Peace Jubilee have been fixed ut
five to three dollars.
DR.. Cummings is turning the recent
slight shocks of earthquakes in Eng
land to prophetic account.
Frasburg, Vermont, was favored
with Lightweight inches-or seven feet
four inches-of snow the past season.
Edmund Yates attributes the mater
nifty of the "Girl Of the PERIOD articles
to the wife of Mr. Linton, the en-
graver.
David Hope, an old citizen of Knox
vile, accidentally shot and killed him
self Monday. He was seventy years
old.
In Clayton County, Georgia, q house
occupied by negroes took fire, and two
colored persons were burned up with
it,