The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-02-17

gress,
The printing office Of the Browns
vile Bee was sold at sheriTs sale u few
days since,
A State Convention Of Stock Breed
crs is to be held in Nashville on the
18th of next month.
Senator Christiancy, aged 81, has
lust been united in marriage to a young
lady Of nineteen.
The Southern Life Insurance Com
pany, Of Memphis, has gone into
bankruptcy.
An effort is being made in the Ken
lucky Legislature 10 fix tho legal rate
of interest at six per cent,
In Washington City the use of coal
oil in lieu Of gas is becoming almost
universal, and shops are Hooded with
patent lamps.
A Washington paper is of the opin-
ion that accepting the experiment OF
woman suffrage in Wyoming as n cri
%terion, is absurd.
Every member of the Kansas House
Of Representatives is provided with
twenty daily newspapers during Its
session, at the public expense.
An ex-tax collector of Upton coun'
ty has been arrested on q charge OF
being n defaul.er to the amount OF
$4,000.
John M, Fleming, formerly of the
Knoxville Press and Herald, has is
sued a prospectus for new Democrat
ic daily at Knoxville, to be called the
Daily Tribune.
The Morristown Gazette d%enounces
the ten per cent. law as ''the greatest
and most inexcusable outrage inflicted
upon the people of Tennessee"
DR.. BEDFORD. of the Methodist Pub
fishing House at Nashville, says, ave
now have n capital of more than
$780, 900 over and above our liabilities
as the basis of future operations"
The theological school Of Vanderbilt
University has fifty students, nearly all
of whom are licensed preachers. The
whole number Of students in the Uni
versity is $50, and steadily increasing.
The Knoxville Age, which is the es-
pccial champion Of the Patrons OF
LIusbandry in East Tennessee, thinks
the time has come for that order to
take a hand in politics.
According to the Nashville Amcri-
can, reports sent to the C~omptroller's
office show that the cost ofthe tax sales
of Shelby county property last year
amount, in the aggregate, to 100000.
The Court of Appeals at st. Louis
has affirmed the decision of the lower
court, that the Missouri State Lottery
is illegal. The case is to be taken to
a higher court,
In Brownsville, Tenn, a few days
'ince, Deputy United States Marshal
Boyd was shot and killed by II. M,
editor of the Democrat of that
own. The tragedy was brought about
" n political discussion originating in
est.
The pulaski Citizen says that the nc
ualJ figures show that the negro crimi-
lals are more expense to Giles county
han the whole negro population pay
n taxes, and thinks that the whipping
post should again be %inaugurated, and
The halter more frequently resorted to.
Gen. w. b. Bate is the Tennessee
member Of the National Democratic
which is to assemble at
Washington on the ODD inst, for the
purpose of naming time and place for
convention to put before the country
Presidential ticket.
During the past year the city Of At
.nta, Ga, has reduced its debt over
10000, and has paid all bills upon
resentation. 1t is impossible to in
ease the floating debt, as the charter
,akes the city fathers personally liable
any balance against the city ON ex-
ense account at the end OF the year.
United States troops have been dis
'ibuted as follows lately: Five com
to Alabama; six to Mississip
|; nineteen to Louisiana. and two to
.rkansas. The Government surely
links that the South needs additional
construction, or else they have sent
lem South to insure a'quiet election"
The Chicago Times is authority for
lie statement that more than a year
20, while the Federal revised statutes
ere being codified, many important