The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13
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Judge Swain lectured at Tracy City
recently to crowded house.
The season for pic-nics has gone,
and "sociables" are now in order.
Preserving time IS about at an end
for this year, and husbands are hap
pier.
The prospects for lively and inter
esting canvass for county offices next
year are promising.
When you see n merchant sitting
around his store half asleep, you may
know he don't advertise.
Some of the sentimental young men
in our town still decorate the lappcls
Of their coats with shrubbery.
1t is said that cartridges are plenti-
full this fall, and hunting promises to be
better than for several years past.
Every man should take his county
paper, but he should take it from the
publisher-not from his neighbor.
Wheat continues to be sold in our
market in small quantities, though the
farmers part with it very reluctantly.
Now, that our schools are under
Roadway, the demand for slate pencils
will increase, for the average school
boy or girl wiN eat 'em.
This is splendid weather tor cbills.
All fellow has to do do is to throw
up one hind foot, give a cape or two,
and they've got him.
"How soon we are forgotten when
we are gone" Only two persons ten
dered their services last Saturday to
clean up the Cemetery grounds.
The Dyersburg Gazette boasts Of
a pig in that town with n human face
and head. That's nothing. We have
lots Of 'en in our town.
An exchange boasts that some Of its
citizens are good because it pays 'em
TO he good. We have several in our
town who are good for nothing.
Young men who are in the habit of
getting their sweethearts to pin DO
Iuets on the lappels of their coats had
better leave their pint bottles at home.
Esq. Martin denies every word of it,
and the other fellow says he "didn't
see anything but pint of ginger 5ran~
dy and Wallace EStill during the whole
trip"
Why don't some Of the owners Of
vacant lots in our town build neat cot
tages thereon2 They would rent
well, and add much to the beauty Of
the town.
Fertilize your wheat lands. 1t costs
rs much TO make seven or eight bush
els of wheat on an acre of poor land AS
it does to make twenty-five bushels on
rich land.
We have heard it universally OBJ
served that for "6y time" the summer
just passed was never excelled within
the rec election of the oldest inhab,
itant.
Sam. Logan found sure enough
snake on the Square last Sunday. 1t
is of the adder species, and can be
seen in bottle of alcohol at Hutchins'
Drug Store.
Our streets are daily thronged with
school children going to and returning
from school. The spectacle is an en-
joyahle one, and makes us almost wish
that we were child again.
Several of tue "b'hoys" went to the
river on a fishing excursion last Fri
day night Well talk little about
the affair in our next, a. one Of the
party is going to elbow" on 'em.
Mr.. Harvey Brazelton has our
thanks for q lot of ine peaches. They
were the best We ever tasted. If you
don't believe they were good, call
around and we'll show you the seed.
We understand that several citizens
from the lower part of our county ex-
pect to 20 to Texas this Fall. We dis.
like to give them up, but hope they
will meet with success and-subscribe
for the Home journal.
Some Of the boys who attended the
re union at Lvnchburg. got mighty bad,
ly scattered on their return, and we're
dropping in in ones and twos for two
or three days. Ills pity that they
have such bad roads in Moore county.
We know of three young men who
are deeply 10 love with certain lady.
We learn that one of them got "slisht
ed very recently, and mas been
up TO his boot-tops in gloom ever
since. Take somethin soothin' young
man.
1t is strange what an effect a change
of water will have on some folks. Sew.
eral who visited Lynchburg last
Thursday and drank of the limestone
water IN that town, were complaining
for two or three days after their re-
turn home.
Our fashionable boot-maker, John
Turner, has changed his location. Hel
can now be found up stairs over Judge
Ill.,. W W;llionot saddle chm Givn