The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-03-16
General News.

, A man was fined u round sum In Pc.
!, tersburg, Va recently, for failing tc
> commit suicide.
A cir! only twelve years Of age gave
f birth to a child recently in Yadkir
county, N, C,
Lincoln county boasts of calf that
weighed So! pounds when only twenty
four hours old.
Knoxville cruelty exults over the
fact that w. b. Stokes is to become q
citizen of Chattanooga.
The only female editor in Mississip'
pi is Miss Piney W. Forrest, who o
trolls the Liberty Advocate.
A Montgomery County Squire,
though in excellent health, has had
his coffin made, so as to be sure of a
good ft.
The Memphis merchants have had
a meeting, and resolved to sustain the
line Of steamers now plying between
Norfolk and Liverpool.
The Dycrsburg Gazette says Mr..
Giles Norment, Il Of the oldest set
tiers. OF Dyer county, died at his home
near that place a lew days ago.
The Chattanooga Times asks
"Whither are we drifting" To which
the Knoxville Wing replies: at
would be profanc in US to say"
One ofthc colleges at Memphis is
haunted by "a girl of about eight years
of age, with sunken, lustreles eyes and
~stnkingly cmaeiated form and fea-
lures"
In the Northern States, fruit trees
are prevented from too early budding,
by exposing theiroots in early Spring,
plan that might be successfully adopt
ed in. this latitude. r.
let every person who can pay his
debts, especially the small one.. Don't
keep the money in your pocket when
you owe q man q few dollars. He
wants it to pay somebody else.
Col. W. j. Hill was taken from his
house, in Giles, several days ago by
disguised men and roughly handled.
He charged his broAler in-law with be-
ing the chief actor, and had him ar
rested, but the latter proved his limo
cence.
We believe in advertising: think it
always sensible, but the most sensi,
bic one we even saw is the following
which comes from the New Bedford
Mass. Mercury.
INSTRUCTION IN CooKlNG.-Ruth
Russell is ready to receive Scholars
for instruction in Cooking. Special
attention TO be given to bread baking
and pure good yeast. Persons at scr.
vice can receive instruction in one or
all the various branches of cooking on
favorable terms.
Judge Flippin, of the Memphis
Criminal Court, is dt terminel to break
up the system OF professional jury
men," and last week fined a business
man Ten dollars and sentenced him to
Jail until the termination Of the case in
which lie was summoned as a juror,
and from the discharge Of which duty
he sought to escape by protesting to
have read a statement OF the facts
which he said would disqualify him
from do ing justice in thecase.
FIVE thousand families have, within
the last few years., emigrated from
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, most
ly to the South. A large. number of
these have taken up fasrps in Virgin
ia, especially in the S~n0aandoah Val.
ley. 1t is found very profitable to sell
land in Pennsylvaniaat from 800 to
$500 per acre. and reinvest at from 81
to $25 per acre in equally good OF
better land, and in a still more genial
climate, like that Of Virginia and Ten.
nessee.
/ From a late number of the Jasper
Sun, we clip the following:
/ T.. F. RedGeld has sold his entire
stock of goods to DR.. Byrnc and C,
II. Carpenter, both men of fine bust
ness qualities who enjoy the conf.
dence of the people. 70 Ed. Rodfield
we bid farewell with many regrets
He is one Of the most energetic men
Of the age. He has done more fol
the people ofthis val ley than any 9th
er merchant in it,. We are informed
that he goes to Nashville TO engage
in active business. Success is ouI
worst wishes for Ed.
A few weeks ago a dentist arrived
in Warrcnton, Virginia, and advertised
that he would "removo all Of q per.
sons teeth for So, and insert a new
set for $40. besides giving six months
credit" He was busy for two weeks
pulling teeth, and at the end Of tina
time half the people Of the town had
empty gums. But while the people