The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-09-19
News of the Week.
At Home.

Edwards, the Jamcsburg bank rob-
Der, escaped from State Prison by Ill
ing the iron bars in his cell and letting
himself down outside.
In New York, Maurice DAILY defeated
John Deery in game of billiards of
five hundred points, for 81 600.
The whaling bark MilwOod, of New
Bedford, valued at $4,000 has. been
lost. Insurance, $4,000. The crew
and cargo were saved.
The Ohio State Fair, now bcing held
at Mansfield, has thus far proved de-
cided success. Twenty-Five thousand
people visited the groundson the open
ng day.
Considerable excitement was pro-
duced among depositors in the Peoples
Bank of Nashville by the announce
ment OF the suspension of that institu-
ton. It's immediate liabilities are re-
ported to be i70O,OOO while its assets,
which are nearly all available, amount
to S1ll,O00. The bank has been placed
in the bands Of G. p. ThurstoD, rs
trustee. The depositors are generally
persons of small means. Partial pay
ment to them is promised in thirty
days. 1t is expected that the bank
will be able to pay IS cents .on the
dolla".
A San Francisco dispatch reports
the selection of diamonds, rIbics, and
sapphircs recently exhibited there as
coming from Arizona, have been sent
10 London for dentiticatiOn, ifpOssibIe,
by the parties claiming to have recent
ly sold them to Americans. The dis
belief in the gcnuineness of the report
ed discoveries is increasing.
The number of cmigrants vino en-
barked at Liverpool for America du-
ring the month Of August was 10000.
A brakeman named Murphy was
run over by Il freight car on the Alle-
gheny Valley Railroad and instantly
killed
AT Canton, o., Mrs. Kent, wife of
William Kent, drowned herself and
child in East Creek, short distance
from the city.
Twenty-tnree thousand copies of
the public debt statement have been
printed in order to meet the demand
for them from all parts Of the country.
James +. Clarke, who was shot by
brother Of Miss Fewell, whom he had
seduced, died Of his wounds at Brcnts-
vile, Virginia.
This week, at London, Ohio, about
seventeen hundred cattle were sold
nearly all at from fourth to
half cent advance over last
month. Some horses were also sold
The total sales amounted to from $Gj,-
600 to SO, 600
A man named Patsy Harrington
was run over by an engine of the
Wcsterman Iron Company, on the
Mahoning Division Of the Atlantic
and Great Western Railway, at Sharon,
Pennsylvania, and was instantly
killed
A dispatch from Springfield, Clarke
County, Ohio, says that the county
commissioners found on examination
of the Treasury II deficit of between
$6O,0OO and $4,000. The retiring
treasurer, Odore A. Wick, became in
vOlvcd by the suspension of the Peo-
pies Bank at Nashville, and his Sc
curities are good for the amount and
will relieve the country from loss.
A fire broke out at Port Even, n.
T., and destroyed eight buildings and
three barns. Nine families were turn
ed hOuselcss into the street. Loss $2O,-
600; insurance unknown
The fire ut Erie, Pa, Wednesday
night, destroyed :2jO,0)O hotel with
$3S, 900 worth of furniture.
A collision at Pttsburg killed an
engineer, and smashed one locomotive
and several ears.
Henry Gnskcs, prominent citizen
OF Hillsboro, jefferson county, Mis-
souri, was found murdered In his bed
his head having been split open with
an axe. The deed is supposed to have
been committed by his wife, who has
been arrested.
Nine thousand four hundred and
seventy-cight German immigrants ar
rived ut Castle Gardens last month, a
considerable increase over the same
month last year.