The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-11-13


sumption.
-Lorenz Paul, an aged resident of Rich.
mond, Va, who was present when Blucher ar
rived at Waterloo, has just died. He bequeath-
cd his pension to tho widows and orphans OF
the late Franco-P -Prussian war.
-Ex-Nayor Phil. Tomppert, of Louisville,
died last week. He was Mason in high
standing, member Of the state legislature in
former years, and served in an official capacity
many years in Louisville as councilman, may
or, etc.
"A firm of contractors, who claim owe
$40, 900 due them for work on the Mississippi
Central railroad extension, have attached the
property Of the Southern railroad association
in Millard county, Ky., and work on the road
is suspended.
The Masons Of Augusta have sent four
hundred dollars to Memphis and Shreveport.
A bale of cotton which sold for $500 for Mem
phis sufferers has been re-donated and shipped
to Baltimore, where it will again be sold for
the same object.
Subscriptions of Louisville for Memphis
and Shreveport sufferers reach S22, 900 beside
number Of private remittances not reported.
Private letters depict great and urgent need
for food and shipments have already COM
mencod to meet tho demand.
Mrs W. G. Luke is sueing Calhoun county
Ala, for S. 900 under the KukluX act. Luke
was hung at Cross Plains in 1870 for melting
negro riot against tho people. late Ku-
klux law D." of Alabama authorized suit against
the county for not preventing the hanging.
"A dispatch from cambridge, Ga, says a
great many new cases of fever are reported
400 persons have left tho place and the streets
are deserted. Outgoing trains this evening
are crowded, and vehicles cannot be had for
lovo or money. There are indications of rain.
Attorney General Williams has received n
report from United States Marshal Ochil-
tree, OF the Eastern District of Texas, giving
a detailed account of serious hostile feeling
between party of desperadoes led by one
Sam Roam and the colored people on the line
of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio
railroad.
The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago
railroad company are considering the building
Of ranches to the coal fields of Martin, Owen
and Green counties, Indiana, and to the iron
deposits in Martin, Monroe, Putnam and Green
counties In this connection they propose to
establish blast furnaces at New Albany, and
extensive coal yards at New Albany and Louis
vile, to supply Indiana coal at low prices
"A special from Cave City, Ky, states that
a difficulty occurred between D. L. Graves,
the proprietor of the Mammoth Cave hotel,
and Z. Wilcoxen, an agent for the cave, in
which pistols were used and several shots fired
by both parties. Graves recelNod wound in
the bowels which is thought will prove fatal.
ers witnessed the shooting, but were unable to
prevent it,
The bale Of cotton which was donated by
Col Creed Taylor, of Arkansas, for the bene-
fit of the orphans of Memphis, and sold in
that city for 81 800. and subsequently shipped
to ST.. Louis and sold there for ninety dollars,
was forwarded to Cincinnati and sold on
change and purchased by the mombers of the
Chamber of Commerce for two thousand and
thirty dollars and cents. 1t will be shipped
to some other cities to be sold for the same
purpose.
The war department has received dis
patch from Fort Jefferson, Florida, giving an
account of severe hurricane there on the 9Th
inst Nineteen beef cattle were washed to sea
and drowned, the cattle yard damaged and the
L. bla Ia,.t
carried away and windows broken, and many
rooms were flooded, doing great damage to
clothing and stores, and making necessary the
removal of sick. One hundred thousand dol
lars will be required to put quarters, barracks
and storehouses in good repair and make the
fort habitable for troops.
"A dispatch from Greensboro N. G., gives
the names OF the counterfeiters brought there
by deputy Bosher and Shavender and ar
raigned before United State, Commissioners
Harden, rs follows William r. Blackwelder,
Flynn Bradshaw, Daniel Lipe, Edmund Lipe
William A. Houcke and G. +. Louder. Five
were bailed in the sum of $4,000 each to ap-
pear on next Thursday before Commissioners
Ball. G. +. Louder, in default of $40, 900 bail
was committed David Earnhardt and j. A.
Louder escaped on their route hither Sixty
eight arrests have been made i'll addition to
the names given above, all of whom have ar
rived at Asheyille in charge of the officers
These offenders belong to the band whose
leader Ohe notorious McI'eo) was arrested
a year -ince.
The Southern Claims commission, having
spent the RUNNER months writing up some
thing like 1900 reports on claims prepared for
their decision, have resumed their sessions,
and have taken oral testimony in proof of the
following cases From Little Rock, Ark,
claims OF James b. Keats, s107,S75; H.
Keats, deceased s64 200; Marie Z. Thibault,
deceased, s46, 700; from Fort Smith, Ark,
claim OF Joseph Brogan, $40, 1876; Dalton, Ga,
Nathan P. Harden, S57, 43S; DR.. Benz. Hamil-
ton, $i4,Sl4; Lake Providence La, Julia H.
Morgan, sl39, ,297; I. o. Van Tassen, s65, 1000;
Natchez, Miss, Andy Brown, deceased, S9l,-
900: James Bontura s3l,773; Charlotte L..
Brandon, 517,2O5; Vicksburg Miss, Zebalon
NJ. Lawrence, "a, 926; Raleigh, N. c., United
States Marshal T, T. Carron, 81, $40; AleIsn-
dria. Va, Allan Pierce, s6,552; Nelson Pierce,
1896; Norfolk, Va, J. L. Fines, deceased,
s14, 4,410; Allegheny county, Va, John Kelly,
s94O7; Parquhsr county, Richard Stone, IS,
ss2; Nelson county, Daniel W. Kennedy, sl1,-
472. They will continue to take testimony un-
til the middle OF November, when they will
suspend until after their report is made up
and in possession Of Congress
FOREIGN.
Tho Spanish government is preparing to
send 5000 more troops into Cuba.
"A dispatch from Valencia says the intran-
sigentes vessels remain of that harbor, and
have captured and plundered more Spanish