The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-01-23
State News.

Elder Kelley, late pastor OF the Christian
Church at Gallatin, is now located in St.
Louis.
Lincoln county is to have a new Court
house at Fayetteville, at Il cost of thirty
five thousand dollars.
Mr.. Loddy Holt, Of Ly nchburg, Moore
county, died at his home, January 9th,
aged 81 years.
Robertson county issued lS2 marriage
licenses last year.
A Rutherford county firm exported
$40, 900 worth of fruit trees to Texas last
year.
The Murfreesboro Monitor learns that
many negroes are e%migrating South and
West from that county.
There are 10 pupils in the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum at Knoxville.
The past due taxes in the city Of Mem
phis, January lst, amounted to S9ll. G77.
The assets of the city of Memphis
amount to sl,O60,OOO, against 100000 of
Indebtedness.
Haywood county will decide by q popu-
lar vote the LIST Saturday in March whcth-
CT they will have q system OF free schools
or not.
The Moore County Pioneer, at Lynch
burg, received one hundred and eleven
new subscribers the first week in Jam
uary.
Rev. Mr.. Shearer, late of North Carolina
has been called to the pastorate Of the
Presbyterian Church at Gallatin, and has
entered upon his duties.
Senator Coulter, of Gibson county. the
other day introduced bill to make COM
mon carriers responsible for injuries sus-
tanned by their employees.
John W. Chcairs. one Of the wcalthicst
and best citizens of Maury county, died at
his home in Spring Hill, last week, aged
about IS years.
George Mcknight, formerly depot agent
at ~Sweetwatcr, East Tennessee, has been
appointed Postmaster at that place.
Samuel c. Clage, who was stabbed by
man named Griffith in McMinn county,
about three weeks ago, died OF his wounds
last week. Griffith escaped.
Brownsville shipped, to the 1st of Jan
uaIy, l0,7G2 bales of cotton, against 1882
to same date last year. The falling Off is
attributed to the heavy roads.
The Gallatin Examiner says quite q
number of negroes have left Sumner coun-
ty lately for West Tennessee, to work on
railroads, at SLIGO per day.
A married man named Ruff Ryan. late
ly elopcd from Columbia with a widow
named Mrs. Chunn. They registered at
the Nelson House, Nashville, as Ryan and
lady, and have gone to st. Louis.
Rev. VIM. Burns, a local Methodist
preacher Of the most irrcproachablc char
acter, who lived near College Grove. Will
hanson county, died the first week in
January. very suddenly, aged about 20
years.
Gov. John c. Brown has commissioned
John W. Burton, Esq, of Rutherf~rd.
Judge pro tenn of the supreme Court, to
supply the temporary vacancy occaSioncd
by the accident to Judge Nicholson. Mr..
Burton is a good lawyer, and was Il prom
incnt candidate before The Convention
which nominated the present Court.
Hardcman county pays her Chairman
$50, az Financial Agent, and So per diem
for holding Court, and the Associates So
each day for holding Court. The Justices
are allowed SO per diem for holding Quar-
terly Court.
According to the Lebanon IIerald-irst
rate authority-thc Clerk Of Wilson County
issued nineteen marriage licenses for the
week ending Tuesday January It'll.
Closing up leap year cnSagcments-proba-
bly,!
Professor J. G. II. Buck. who has been
associated with our friend Westbrook. in
the editorial conduct of the Brownsville
Bee, has retired from that position. He is
a gentleman of high culture. and we wish
him success in whatever he may engage
The local ofthe Brownsville States has
been visiting some friends, who received
him in n "hostilc" manncr-that is we
gather rs much from the following para
graph: ut Is not exactly the thing. to
hand around wine in a cocouut dipper
from a water bucket. We don't know
who i%naugurated the fashion, but we
noticed its effects were worse on feet than
hereditary govt. We are not prepared to
say, at the time we write, whether 1t was
the dipper orthe paint on the bucket, but
we incline to the latter opinion.
The Pulaski Citizen says that but little
over two hundred votes were polled on the
llth. "A great many persons were re-
fused the privilege of voting because they
couldn't show their tax receipt, in consc-
quence of which the vote was much small
er than it would have been otherwise"
The Chattanooga Times says: A COM
pany has formed for the purpose of open
the immense iron ore beds near the foot
of Walden's ridge. six miles east ofJasper.
The plan is to extend the Jasper branch
road to the ore, and ship it to Cowan,
where a blast furnace will be put up. Any
amount ofcoal can be brought to Cowan
from the Sewanee mines at small cost.
and there is hardly room to doubt but
what the enterprise will be very success
flu"
From the Ist Of July to the 1st Of the
present month, the Chattanooga Car Shop
Turned out two hundred box. and ten coal