The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-03-09
General News.

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They have n new National Bank at
Chattanooga, with a capital of $780,
900.
Judge Marks has appointed N. b.
Black Clerk and Master of Rutherford
county.
Joseph Hall, one Of the pioneers,
died recently in Bedford, aged seven
ty.nine years.
The rebuilding Of the Warren
House at McMinnvillc will soon be
commenced.
A young man named Geo. Rapps,
at Mulfreesboro, suicided because a
girl would not love him.
You can't eat enough in one week
to last a whole year, and you can't ad-
vertise on that plan either.
Hardly a fourth as much land will
be planted in cotton, about Spring
Hill, this season us was put in last year.
The Chattanooga Times notices
that the willows and grass are out in
green, and the naples are budding
out for spring.
The Wing and Tribune says that the
court house yard has been plowed up
in Jackson, for the purpose Of being
sown with blue grass.
DR.. w. H. Wharton. State Libra
rian at Nashville, was stricken down
with paralysis, last week, and nc hope
is entertained that he can recover.
The poll tax law requires every vo.
ter to have paid his poll tax before vot-
ing. Its provisions apply to all sub
ject to said tax, unassessed as well as
assessed.
The Knoxville Wing and Register
predicts that Knoxville will double
its population in the next ten years,
q~uadruble in twenry, and will be
ahead Of Pittsburg before a quarter of
a century.
The Memphis Appeal states that
"Descendents of Indians whose fathers
once held lands in this country have
employed a lawyer in Memphis TO sue
for broad acres in the southern part
of Shelby county"
VIM. II. Hunt, an old honorcd mer,
chant of Memphis, formerly in the
Qucensware business, committed sui
ciGe Monday last, by shooting his
brains out with a pistol. Pecuniary
embarrassments is given as the
cause.
1t is a fact not generally known that
every cabbage stalk is capable of pro
ducing two heads. After cutting off
the fms head, strip all the leaves from
the stalk and it will produce a second
head equal to the first. If the leaves
are suffered to remain, the stalk will
rot. 2. IAE-f 1"'.
Now, we call this decidedly neat.
1t is from the Boston Transcript, and
is worthy the attention OF all whom it
mGy concern elsewhere than in Boston
Spring CLOTHING of superior quality
can now be bought at reasonable pri-
ces in this city. The best places are
named in our advertising columns"
The Gallatin Examiner says: awe
have conversed with a good many Of
our farmers and other citizens, upon
the subject of common schools and a
dog law, aud they were. nearly all in
favor of our County Court levying a
tax ON dogs, and Of submitting the
common school question to q vote Of
the people," 70 .7a
The Springfield Record says: "At
the Maxwell House, a few days since,
one of our Clarksvllle tobacconists
made use of the following language.
which we commend to all who do not
wish to be troubled with scanning a
lengthy bill of fare: oh give me an
equal distribution of the products of
the land-don't bother me with your
papers,"
The last number of the Paris Intelli.
gencer says: "a noted physician, of
this county, oflciated at the birth OF
twelve c~hlldren-nine boys and three
girls-la last week, and not a good week
for children, either. If all the doc.
tors of our county did as well in
their practice as the one above allud-
ed to, we will have no need of immi-
grafton societies for Henry county"
The Franklin Review of the I'd inst.
has the following item:
"Mr. w. G. Clouston has just de.
posted upon our desk halt q dozen
Irish potatoes ofthe Early Rose vari-
ETY.. These potatoes are of this years
growth, and were raised by him. This
IS the I'd day Of March, and we can
On fol,, affirm TINT ontsida of q hot