The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-29
General News Items.


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Chatagnir, La, boasts an eighty
eight-year old lady who has 2ss liv-
ing descendants.
New OrlealIs 10 remarkably healthy.
Only one hundred and twelve deaths
announced last week. 'u'
1t Is understood that the Supreme
Court now sitting at Jackson, will nd.
journ about the first Of July.
General Forrest has been summoned
to appear before the "Kukluy commit
tee now in session at Washington,
The yellow fever is disappearing
from Buenos Ayres, and the city be.
gins once more to wear the appearance
Of activity.
The California State Democratic
Convention met al Sacramento recent.
ly and nominated Governor Haight for
Governor.
Every edition of the London Times
is submitted to a lawyer, retained to
detect constructive libel, before it is is
sued from the press.
In the last forty-eight months under
Radical rule, the debt of the city of
Philadelphia has been increased six
teen million dollars.
The San Francisco Commercial Her
aid of the 18th says California to day
has the bright prospect Of a great gen.
eral harvest as good or better than
ever before.
General Edward f. Noyes, of Gin
.cinnati, a one,legged man, was nomi.
mated for Governor by reclamation by
Republican State Convention of
Ohio on the 21st inst,
Henry Harris, a negro, vas convict
ed at the last term Of the Marion coun.
ty (Arkansas) Circuit Court of the
murder Of John B. Crockett, a grand
son Of the renowned Davy Crockett.
The County Commissioners at Pitts
burg were recently sent to the work
house for granting licenses to people
who had made them presents; and yet
they have never received one word of
coincidence or sympathy from General
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: "A
believer in the Friday superstition
,alls attention to the fact that it
vas OH that maligned, if not unlucky,
lay, that President Lincoln and Mr..
Iallandigham both received the shots
hat caused their deaths"
Al the anniversary supper Of the
)~glethorpe Light Infantry of Savan.
'ah. the following toast was offered
General Joseph E. Johnston, the
,hevalier Bayard Of the Confederate
rmy the General who, when he could
lot win, knew how to save"
White laborers are cultivating cotton
nd sugar on Bayou Sayra and Crype.
nort, Louisiana, with no sickness or
Mortality above the average among ,
egroes. These districts, though the
lchest in the State, are swampy, and
bound in venomous insects. {
An Alabama editor, having read DR..
lalIs lecture advising that husband
nd wife should sleep in separate apart
lcnts, says that DR.. Hall can sleep
here he chooses, but for himself he
ltends to sleep whcic he can defend
is wife from rats and all other noe.
lrnal foes, as long as he has got one
. defend.
Only one of the Radical sheriffs of
Mississippi, in a recent settlement with
Auditor of that State, paid over
he identical money collected. The
theirs laughed at him as a fool not to
4 speculation with such al op-
ortunity. 1T is supposed he will act
future on the advice of bis com.
'anions.
Here is a short but pointed sermon
the folly of filling coal oil lamps
'hilc the wick is burning. We clip
the Pulaski Press: Mrs. Walter
loffit, while filling a lamp with coal
il a few days ago, was very badly
urned. 1t seems that she was flling
lamp without first having extin.
,uished the fire on the wick, and the
from the oil can isnited, and
aused an explosion Of the lamp, when
oil caught fire, and her hands were
nveloped in flames and were very
ably burned before she could extin-
uish the flames"
CHANcERY CoURT.--Chancery Court
in session in our town, and Hon. W.