The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-09-19
IN GENERAL.

IRON mas advanced again IN Eng
land.
A SHARK has been hNrpooned at
Norfolk, Va.
DEATHS in New York last week,
7SS; increase, 3G.
WATER MELONS arc eight for dime
in Coviugton, Ga.
New ORLEANS WAS never healthier
than at present.
BEARS destroy the cotton in the
Nowbern On, O. section.
FIFTY Bahamian immigrants have
arrived at Key West, Fla.
DENVER is one of the healthicst
cities on The continent
ANOTHER new star, the 12lth aste-
roid, has been discovered.
MuD is said to be u sovereign
remedy for rattlesnake bites.
A CITY street railroad company
has been organized at Dallas, Texas.
CoAL is higher now in London
than it has been before for forty
years.
The victims Of the famine in Per-
sin number over three millions.
kING WILLIAM of Germany wrote
excellent poetry when no was Young.
AN immense cigar manulactory
has been completed at Key West,
Florida,
The Third National Banl, of Balti-
more lost only $4,000 by the recent
robbery. I
THE underground railroad in New
York is to be begun next month.
A NEW bank, with a capital of $l5,-
100000 has been established i'll
Chill.
A Brownsville, Tenn J company
has raised $GO,O00 to build Il cotton
factory,
A THoMAsymLE, (Ga.) merchant
has pipe which once belonged to
the great Napoleon.
The republicans of South Carroll
M have nominated f. NJ. Moses, it,,
Tor governor.
CHArTANooGA adds u two-lcggod
goat to the ain General museum of
living wonders.
Bullock, late Governor Of Geor-
%ia, is said to be travelling in Cana
dN under IN assumed name.
I'ur Madison (Ga.) Appeal says
that crops IN that section are better
than the Oldest farmers ever saw.
"UNcLG John Harper has prom
ised to show Longfollow on the turf
at Louisville, Kyr once moro.
TuE receipts of wheat aCSan Fran
cisco are very heavy and the crop is
the largest ever harvested i'll Cali
fornia.
GEORGE Law has bought the Staten
Island railroad property sold by
auction Tuesday, for 1896, ,OOO.
Ir Is rumored that six cases of
cholera have developed themselves
in Cynthiana, Ky, two of them al
ready fatal.
GEY. John G. Brockinridge has
declined an invitation to deliver the
agricultural address ut Charlotte,
n. G., i'll October.
A gentleman at Cairo, Ga, has
rather peculiar bird, cross between
guinea fowl and IL turkey, with u
voice like monkey.
A Sourn American Hoodo recent
ly captured aeu Columbus, Ga, by
II negro woman. 1t is supposed to
have escaped from some managerle.
Ok account Of the lack of tho ne
ccssary appropriation, no postal
cards cun be issued by the Post-Of-
flee department this year.
SEVERE and protracted droutn is
complained Of in many parts of Tex
us, cutting short the cotton crop.
The corn is made, however, and is
very heavy.
THERE is mountain i'll North
Georgia which has the "vernal belt
on its eastern side. That is that
portion of the mountain is never al
fected by frCst.
SERIOUS trouble between tho U. S.
soldiers and negroes is reported from
JacksborO, Texas. 1t began ut Il
negro dance where sergeant was
killed and a corporal wounded. The
soldiers then went out cunning and
baggcd several darkies.
THERE was II rare iox-chase in Nir-
gina the other day Tnree natives
of Albermale county, all named
Brown, aged respectively ninety,
eighty-two and seventy years, follow
ed tie hounds nearly all night and
ran down three foxes.
The Boston Times has had l,3OO