The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-10-03

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city has been swindled out Of - 500 in
city Skies Certificates. That amount /
belonged to Mrs. Charlotte S Parker
and mysteriously disappeared from the
Treasury office and turned up in n
brokers' office, where they were pre-
sented and sold by woman calling
herself Charlotte S. Parker. The
transfer WAS made through Farmers
and Mechanics Loan and Transfer |
agent and the cash obtained. a
Wealthy lady Of this city named Mrs.
Fury IL said to have vouched as to the
identity of Mrs. Parker. Mrs, Fury |
and Mrs. Johnson are IN custody on |
suspicion connected with the swindje |
A train of ears on the Boston and !!
Maine Railroad jumped from the track |
between Havcrhill and Lawrence, and
the smoking-cir, containing eighteen
persons, went down an cmbankment |
and turned completely over, though |
fortunately no one was seriously i'll
jurcd.
The farmers of Minnesota will |
have not less than 10000 O00 bushels OF
surplus wheat TO put in the market.
The jOnrneymen carpenters of Chica-
go have formally notified their en-
ploycrs that their wages must he :i
per day, or they will suspend work.
poses to honor the memory Of his
father by erecting 5000 600 monument
to his memory in Greenwood Gene
terry.
The steamer Merrill, which burned
at Warsaw, ILL.,, was valued at $4,000, |
aud insured in Cincinnati 1lices for
$4,000.
In sinking shaft for coal at Chaplin,
Morgan county, ILL.,, when u depth of
80 feet was reached Il vein of lead was
struck.
The contact, has been let for
the completion of the foundation and
basement walls Of the now Lndell Ho-
tel in st. Louis, to be finished in seven
ty days. The hotel will be push
ed vigorously, aud the entire structure
completed in two years.
The Annual Fair Of the Illinois State |
Agricultural Society, was the most
successful that has been held under
that Society's auspices for many years.
Tho aggregate receipts were in the
reighborhood of 500, ,OO0
The Grand Lodge %. O. f. of the
Baltimore.
An iron church for the town of
Ancon, Peru, was shipped from New
York last week. The entire expense is
l0J,0oJ
Matilda Heron has been refused
alimony by the court at San Francisco
The fishing schooner White Eagle,
of Gloucester, Massachusetts, is given
up as lost on the Grand Banks, with |
her entire crew.
The rate of taxation for State pur-
poses this year will be seven and a half
mills on the dollar reduction
of one and one half mills from that
of last year.
According to the monthly report of
the Agricultural Department, the cotton
crop Of the present year promises a
very small increase over that Of last
year.
At the trial of the Rev. Mr.. Rob-
ertson, in Louisville, he made con
fcssion of faIschood, but denied any
other criminal acts. The case goes
over to the next Presbytery
Ornell and Seymour, two lunatics
died "a few days ago at Wards Island
Lunatic Asylum, New York. An in
vestigaton proves that their deaths
were caused hy the brutal treatment of
man named Farrels, who had charge
Cf their ward.
The following official telegram has
been received at the War Department:
Capt Kellogg, who left Colonel
Stanley's command Oh August Il, has
arrived at Chicago. The expedition
has been to the mouth Of Powder
River, making only Il general cXami-
nation in going out. On their return,
they were making an instrumental
survey, and had located thirty four
miles coming cast from Powder River,
and were so working eastward at the
rate of about four miles II day. They
found very practicable route for the
railload, part of it being entirely new
to the white men. They were
threatened with the Indians, and had |
some slight skirmishcs but no one was