The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-12-06
NEWS SUMMARY.


at San Antonio, Texas, Of the murder of a
peddler in 1857.
man in Louisiana married five times
in eleven months, and swapped his last wife
for u shotgun,
The famous e kOegan tunnel" on the
Cincinnati Southern, near Kingston, Tenn,
was completed the 10th.
Quarantine has been raised at all points
against Port Royal. and business has bean
resumed at that polnG.
A New York tramp applied to yhe
Rlchmond authorities to be sent n, the peni.
Tertiary as a means of getting y Livelihood.
The Lee monument committee of Rich
mond has decided to accept none of the
models offered, and to,postpone for year
the making of any contracts
The Lexington (Va.) Gazette SAWS q
deer chased by dogs fell in cettinr over fence
anu was pounccd on and held bv mule until
tho dogs came up and killed it..
At an indignation meeting of tbe ci,;.
z2ns OF Chattauoopa Tuesday night. rosol,,,
tions were adopted denouncinp in the seva,.
est terms the unknown Vandals who dpfaced
The confederate monument.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad will
10y December pay nearly 100000 into the
'depleted treasury of Virginia. The judgment
was 'or much lager amount, but the state
compromised IN order to get the much.
needed cash.
Inc southern Collegian says work on
,he Lee Mausoleum at Lexington, Va, will
NC pcsun soon. The spot chosen is & few
PAGES 10 The north of the memorial chapel in
"n'o'r Iue W1 remains now lie, and on the cam
md 4
In a proclamation announcing yellow
leVer III Jacksonville, the mayor SAYS; do
not rear that the disease can hcUome epi.
ue,hic, ana hope the community will not
os,hce ., anything like a panic, but remain
"o oneH homes, taking every precaution, after
'oas"'''r!, with their respective physicians.
me account of a few sporadic cases of
stemow :tn lever in Jacksonville has had an
'hlilg ehect upon the unacclimated citi.
:" AZ oi that place, and they are seeking other
races where there are no traces or signs OF
Ihe disease. 1--we hundred and fifty passen>
night. '
Savannah News: Drug stores are so
numerous in Atlanta that they are them.
selves dru; in the market. The four.thou.
sand dollar establishment recently advertised
in the Movnng News sold in that city at
auction on Thursday last for one thousand
one hundred and ten dollars, which was sew.
eral hrndred dollars less than the soda foun.
tain cost.
Charleston Is. C.) News and Courier:
The Spanish bark Carmen arrived in this
port yesterday, This is the vessel which car.
rlee Boss Tweed from Havana to Vigo
Strange to tell, the schooner Frank Atwood
which carried the same notorious individual
TO Havana, is still in port The captain of
the Carmen says that Tweed paid him $3.50 in
American gold.
Memphis Avalanche: Eight miles
south OF Ashland, north Mississippi, few
Iays ago, Homer V. Hunt was challenged by
y; Maso Lane for saying of young lady
lrlend OF the latter: flow loathe any girl
"n1 III her equal" He accepted and as
poth were excellent shots, the distance was
extended from fifteen to thirty.fve yards.
Hunt was Killed and Lane mortally wounded
at the iirst fire.
Newspaper controversy led to the
shooting of Chas. Matthews, city editor of
ne Hot Springs Telegraph, by mayor Linde,
last Wednesday. Matthews was unarmed
and received four wounds one shot breaking
mis- arm and another his shoulder. Alder.
man Davis and another man were acciden.
tally wounded by balls from the pistol of the
murderous mayor. Linde gave bond in 81, 900
Tor his appearance.
Nashville American: John w. Chill.
dress, president, and II. C.. Bransfeld, secre.
tary, of the Tennessee and Pacific road, YES.
tcrday acknowledged the transfer of the
roadbed, ETC., of that line, for $4,000 to
the Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis rail.
road company. The deed has been drawn
for some time past, but not registered until
yesterday. This does away with the Ten.
nessee and Pacific road us corporate ORGAN.
ization, all the stipulations of the sale of that
line having been fulfilled.
San Antonio Herald: While anxious
as any to encourage immigration OF the right
sort we are decidedly averse to encouraging
,he influx of an army of Micawbers, who will
ne tax on the public to support, and we are
no less averse to the indscrmnate and ex.
travagant praise of Texas that will raise too
nigh the expectations OF new, ,comers to our
state. poor man coming to Texas with
,amlly dependent entirely upon his labor,
mas about as lard struggle for u livelihood
rs men generally have elsewhere, unknown
and without means.
Savarnah News: There were in port last
week seventy vessels, of which four were steam
ships' eight ships, thirty.eight barks, five
brlgs, and seventeen schooners. Twenty.seven
car fied the American flag, sixteen that of
"feat Britain, seven that of Germany, nine
OF Norway, seven of Spain, one of Sweden
and one carrying the Italian colors. Seven
OF them are loading for New York, seven for
Llverdool, eight for Havre, ten for Ammster-
dam, one for Genoa, two for Barcelona and
the rest either loading, cleared or ready to
sail.
Memphis Appeal: Last week the
body of Col. Wiley NJ. Reed, of Forests
cavalry, was brought to this city and shipped
last night, by G. II. Hoist & Co., to Nashville,
Tenn, for reinterment. Col. Reed who com.
mnnded Mississippi regiment, was wounded
three times at the battle and capture of Fort
illlow by Gen. Forrest in 1864. His body is
IN almost a perfect state of preservation, al
though It has been thirteen years since his
death. The features preserve their identity,
while the complexion of the dead soldier is
not unlike it was in fe.
Reidsville Times: Sandy Palmer,
colored man, near Milton, N. c., fell from
his ox.cart, loaded with wood, and the wood
tell on him and the front wheel ran on his
breast, The OK stopped still and stood there
all night. The old mnn threw up his hands
and rubbed all the skin from the inside try
ing to push the wheel of. His child heard
the dog barking in the woods, and found her
iather next morning, his arms stiff and hands
up as he had grabbed the csrt>wheel. He
was buried in that position. His arms were
so stiff they could not be bent.