The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-12-07
CONVERSATIONS OF NEWS.
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while Mrs, Street was absent in the cotton
field. These sorcly afflicted parents II few
months ago lost two other children by drown.
ing-mNking five in one year that have been
taken from them
lIenceforth in Virginia there will be
biennial instead Of annual sessions of the
lcgislaturc,Ind to vote one must first pay his
poll tax; and II he steals ever 50 little and
is convicted, he is diSlranchycd. The treas.
ury will be benefited SltOCCO per annum
which will be cgmtlyingnewsto bondholdcrs
The school fund.- which gets all the poll tax,
wll.alsO be largely benefited.
Official statistics show that from Sep
tcmbcr lst to October 2Sth there were
eight hundred and seventeen dcahSin Savan.
nah from yellow fever In Memphis during
the epidemic in 1873 there were 1900 deaths
from yellow fever,
The building Of sicquatchie Valley
and Tennessee rail oad has been contracted
TO Mr. u Callahan, contractor on the Cincn.
natl Southern.
a mail coach was stopped on Monday
night, ten miles north of Los Vegas, New
Mexico, by four masked men, who being well
armed compelled the driver and messenger
to alight. They took from the mail pouches
and express boxes every thing Of value ex.
cept some silver bricks, which they said were
too heavy. Thcyalso cut the telegraph line.
No further clue to the robber has yet been
obtained.
Frank Johnson, Il young white man, in
Charleston, Monday, shot and killed George
Shrewsbury, colorcd, chief of dectves, the
latter firing three and the former one shot.
The difficulty originated about Il colored
woman.
Two negroes, implicated in the murder
of lIousemNn and portSman, in Charleston,
Suoth Carolina, have been arrested, one cf
them being shot several times before he
would surrender to the officer.
The majority for Tilden in Virginia
foots up il21l one county not included.
Tilden's majority in Maryland is 1891.
David Torrence, of New York, and
John King, ir., have been appointed receiy-
er' of the Ohio and Mississippi railway.
The strikers on the Georgia railroads
have been induced to 90 work on a COM
promise.
Tennessee, the south and the whole
country can well afford to thank the English
gentlemen who have established an iron and
coal company on the line of the Jasper
branch railroad and on the banks Of the
Tennessee river. We understand that it has
$2,OO0O0O capital, only one.ffth of which
has been called in. The real estate pur.
chased by the company, so far, comprises
$500 acres at South Pittsburg, and llI,00O ON
the French Broad rvcr.-C ChaHdnOogH Times.
Prof Jas. H. IIorner, one Of North |
Carolna's most distinguished educators is in
sane. 1t is a singular double coincidence
that Prof Homer once taught Eugene Girls
som, superintendent Of the asylum TO which,
he has Just been committed, and that his own
instructor, and aiterward great rival teacher,
the eminent Wm. Bigham, also became insane
and died in the sasle lunatic asylum.
One hundred negroes left Atlanta on
Thursday for Louisiana to work on a sugar
plantation about fifty miles above New Or
leans. Three hundred more will follow for
the same destination.
A movement is on foot in South Caro-
lima for the ladies to make contribution Of
one dollar each TO purchase house for the
new governor.
One of New Orleans nurses that went
to Brunswick denies that they received 81 ,O00,
and says they were paid only three dollars
per day.
Lexington Gazette Old Luby is
on trial before the circuit court for
shooting his wife. He is still under bonds
for killing O'Bricn, and is still to he tried on
that charge. The commonwealth is prose.
cutting hlm, and his wife, who sits beside
him, an anxious and ,ymp0thising spectator
of the trial. 1t looks strange to see man
on trial for njuring person, and that per
son sitting by him aud doing all poor woman
can do to con1nc the jury that she wants
them to acquit him.
Only three members of the last lcgi,la
ture of Tennessee were reelected.
Memphis has received ljl 900 bales of
cotton since the 1St OF September
Owing to the troubles along the Rio
Grande border sugar planting has made but
little progress in that region, which is best
adapted to sugar OF any portion Of the United
States. The Ranchero states, however, that
sugar planting has begun there in earnest,
and that Mr.. Bruley has a fine sugar planta.
ton eight miles below Brownsville, where he
is grinding eighty acres of splendid cane,
from which he is making a large yield and cx-
cellent sugar. That is the only portion Of
Texas calculated to rival Louisiana in sugar
culture.
Chief Thompson, of the Cherokee ma
ton, demands that so much of the track of
the Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad as
has been laid in the nation he taken mp. This
will make the terminus OF the road at Van
BurcD, Ark.
The decision of the court that one Of
the principle gamblers Of louisville must
Ray fine and suffer six months imprison-
meni on account Of carrying on game Of
iaro, produced considerable stir among that
class of the community because of the prece.
dent. Heretofore by paying fncs the gamblers
were permitted to continue games. The pres.
ent case is, to be carried to the court Of
appeals, and there tested so far as imprison-
ment is concerned. Brethren from Chicago.
New York and elsewhere are to raise $4,000
by which to test the case.