The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-12
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

Savannah had received money contr;.
buttons amounting to $36,5ll.SS up TO the
twenty.flth
There are six hundred convicts in the
Mississippi penitentiary, aul of the number
five hundred and thrty.r.ine are Africans of
the male persuasion,
Charles Hend.ick, of Dcs Are, AK,
was snatched t,y the strong arm Of the law
from twe'.ty minutes sleep with his bride
ana sent to the penitentiary for swcarsng
laser about her age,
At Powhattan, Ark, one day last
week, Mrs. Morrison aimed blow with a
hatchet at the head of cold man Scott" her
stepfather, and killed her mother an old
woman eighty years old.
Savannah (Ga) News: There are
now more than six hundred lunatlcs in the
state Lnatic asylum. The institution is
greatly crowded, and there are between sev.
enty and one hundred applications for the
admission Of patients for whom the author
tiles are wholly unable to provide room.
Captain ?. +. Murphy, died near Mo.
bile last week, Of apoplexy, whilst taking II
bath, When the war roihmenced he was
commanding the receiving ship Pcnnsylva.
MIA, nt Norfolk, but resigned and entered
the confederate service. He commanded
the Selma in the naval engagement below
Mobile, where he was wounded and cap.
tured by the federal forces.
Dispatches announce the sudden death
At Galveston, on the twcntyscvcnth, of Gen.
Braxton Bragg. lie was born in Warren
county, North Carolina, in 1915, and gradu.
ated at West Point in 1887. His earliest
military reput ton was gained in the Mcxi.
can war, "A little more grape, Captain
Bragg" making his name household word
throughout the union. In 1855 he retired
ate leader are still fresh in the mind Of the
country.
The Cherokces and other civilized In.
dians Of the Indian Territory are greatly ex-
cited over the proposed removal OF the
Sioux into their country. They say the gov
ernment is again preparing to violate the
treaty stipulatons by removing these In.
dians to their country without their consent.
They characterize the action OF the commits.
sion, in agreeing TO give the Sioux homes in
the territory Of Oklahoma, as being similar
tho the one made by Satan ON the mountain
1900 years ago. There will be n united and
solemn protest made by all these people
against the cOnsummation Of the alleged
outrage against the rights Of the civilized, as
well as the Sioux Indians
1t has been permanently settled that a
cantonement will be established at old Fort
Reno this winter, consisting Of four companies
OF infantry two Of the Fourth, Captain Won
llerman's, from Fort Bridge, and Captain
Bisbee's, from Fort iIartsuh'; one of the
Twcnty.Ihird from Camp Brown, and Clp-
tain p llock's company OF the Ninth infantry |
from Fort Laramie; the latter will be per-
manen commander of the cantoncmcnt |
General Merritt, who is now in the vicinity |
of Deadwooa, has been ordered to scout |
across west to the Little Moon, on his way
south. Ry the time he reaches Platte, OF in
about two weeks, Crook is expected to have
a fresh command ready TO take the field in |
person for vigorous campaign. General
M'Kcnaie, with the Fourth an othcrcavalrv
will probably compose the expedition.