The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
ISlk AsbSll 70.

Fred. Terrence, a colored man, who
took an active part in the last election and
gained quite reputation by his funny
speeches at the Tilden and Vance clubs, re.
Gently died near Charlotte, North Carolina.
and was buried on his former masters plan
iation, honored by the presence of large
number Of whites and blacks.
The water.works in Dallas, Texas, have
reduced the rate Of insurance there at least
10000 per year.
The colored schools Of Mississippi are
reported to be in a hourishing condition.
The latest assessments of property
in Knoxville is $l,O92,Cl2 less than that of
1877 70.
Turtle eggs are retailed in Wilmington
\. G., at 10 cents per dozen.
Fayette county, Texas, is out of debt
and has 5000 in her treasury.
A forty.eight pound watermelon sold
in Key West, Florida, at auction for So.
The century plant at st. Augustine,
Florida, about to bloom, has reached height
Of twenty.one feet, and is still growing, 1t
has twenly.four branches.
A whale thirty or forty feet in length
was recently seen off Santa Rosa island, This
is said to be the only specimen ever seen in
Pensacola bay.
The peach crop of Marion county, Fla.
promises an abundant yield. The trees are
now so heavily laden with fruit that they
have to be proppea up
The Charleston 6. c. News and
Courier says: At the recent FIRE at Union
twenty-seven boxes Of confederate archives
were destroyed. The papers were brought
to Union by the train which followed close
upon the retreat of president Davis, who,
finding the enemy pressing hard upon his
rear, ordered them to be left with Col Young
of that place. Col. Young had faithfully
preserved them, and was upon the point of
sending them to the Southern Historical soci.
ETY. ut Richmond, when the fire came aud
destroyed them. The valuable historical
facts which these papers would have divulged
are thus lost to the world.
The revenue officers raided illicit dis
tilleiies in Putnam, jackson, White and
other mountain connties of Tennessee, and
broke up fourteen, and got into a fight and
killed an illicit distiller named Sam John.
sou, and badly wounded two named Morgan,
and captured twelve prisoners, recently.
The southern bound freight train on
the st. Louis, hon Mountain and Southern
railroad, ran over man lying on the track,
near the old arsenal, June %, and killed him.
The mans name was subsequently learned
to be John Duffy, recently from Galveston,
Texas. He has relatives in Lynchburg, Nir.
gina. 1t was on the same day and at nearly
the same place, an old man named Henry
Hoffman threw himself under an express
train and was instantly killed.
A Clarksville special to the Courier
journal reports that Major j. P. Flood, cdi.
tor o the Stewart county (Tenn.) Re ord,
attorney at law and postmaster in that sec.
ton, has confessed having stolen several
thousand dollars from registered letters.
His reputation has been the very best and
his popularity the very highest. Flood was
elected vice.preslient OF the Tennessee
press association, recently. The discovery
of the crime produces quite a sensation,
At special election of members to
the legislature for the Charleston district,
the republicans put no ticket in the field,
aud the democrats had a wak.over, eecting
fourteen white and three colored men.