The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-05-11
Miscellaneous.

Petroleum has been discovered in
Wilkes county, Ga.
Atlanta anticipates a population of
100000 at the end Of ten years.
The Cincinnati Times was sold last
week to the Chronicle for $13S,550.
The Congressional Library at Wash
ington City contains 1868 volumes
The Camanche Indians are disguised
with the employment of colored troops
on the frontier, they are so difficult to
scalp.
One California grape grower has a
vineyard valued at S250,0O0. 1t yields
annually 100000 to $4,000 worth Of
grapes.
At Worcester, Massachusetts, there
are now lis divorce suits pending in
the Supreme Court. Pious Massa.
chusetts!
Coffee county, Georgia has a curl
osity known as the "Confederatc Ba-
bv." He was born in 1861, and weighs
210 pounds.
The State of Maryland has given an
order for a colossal statue of the late
Chief Justice fancy, which is own
modelling in Rome.
Mr.. Eben Hill, Jr., has dissolved
his connection with The Fayetteville
News, and Mr.. VIM. 7. Tolley is now
the editor and proprietor of that pa
per.
The New York Tribune declares
Beast Butler "has not discretion
enough to keep out of quarrels,
nor pluck enough TO carry them
through"
People who "would not die in spring
time should exercise a great deal of
caution in regard to the taking down
of stoves and laying aside of warm I'M
der garments.
Andrew Johnson, Ex-President of
the United States, has consented to
address the mechanics Of East Ten
ncssee on Saturday, the 9th of May,
at the Fair Grounds in Knoxville.
Five Kuklux, says the Press and
Herald of Knoxville, were discovered
about dark on Monday evening, seven
miles from Tyner's station. The citi-
zens in the nelghborhood, having Wis.
ion of the late Kuklux bill before them,
pursued the party and captured them.
They proved to be amendents in dis
guise.
The second volume of the life OF
Nathaniel Greene, just printed, con
tains a letter from General Greene, sta
ting that he had dinel at a table in
Philadelphia where 100 different dishes
were served at the meal. This was
previous to 1870. Greene also says
that Washington was a vigorous dan
Ger, and at one ball danced three hours
with Mrs. Greene without once sitting
down. In another place he declares
that great luxury prevailed in New
York and Philadelphia during the most
gloomy period Of the a
The Atlanta Sun says this is the way
a Georgia witness explained it i" THE
plaintiff altered, amended, explained
end expounded, but all to no purpose,
as the lawyer either could not Or would
not understand. Il want you,' he said
to show me how the assault was CON-
mitted. so that l may have a correct
understanding of it, The plaintiff
sprang up instantly, sliced the legal
gentleman by the with both hands
pressed him back across the bar, and
shook him violently, to the amusement
Of all present, and to the aforesaid
lawyers entire enlightenment.
The London Court Journal tells
about the very curious mode of fatten-
ing for the imperial harem practiced in
Morocco. You take a plump young
damsel of about fourteen, With q ten
dency to obesity-few Moresqus girls
are destitute of such a tendency-and
you shut her up in a room of which
the windows are carefully darkened by
heavy curtains of green silk. You
cause your plump young damsel to sit
cross.legged on a divan, and then, hav-
ing by your side a bowl full of "ton-
cossou," o: moistened meal rolled into
balls, you cram her during a certain
number Of houls every day with as
many Of these as she can conveniently
swallow. Well crammed, the Empe.
ror of Morocco will pay an exceeding
y handsome price for her. That no.
hing may interfere with the due con-
luct of the fattening process, o black
Nurse standp behind the inc:piant ia
'orite with q "~matrank" or big stick.
much used in Moorish domestic econ
'my; and, if the patient manifests any