The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-08-23

Inc hEkaIlsas central railroad, narrow
gauge, was sold by United Statcs' master il
Ghancery, Nichols, for $4,000 to j. II
iIornor, trustee.
The commissioner of agriculture o
North Carolina has established an agrcul
tnral museum, to exhibit the resources of tn,
state.
The colored Baptists are going to edu
cate their preachers and have established ar
institute for that purpose at Natchez Mis-
sissppi.
The North and South railroad, Of
Georgia, is advertised for sale by the gov
ernor on the first Tuesday in September
Columbus is Interested 100000 worth,
The Louisiana planters annually lose
about one.third of their cotton crop byreasor
of insufficient labor. They call for laborers
ilo ye idlers Of the north.
The railroad war at Little Rock goes
on as before. The ST. Louis and Iron Noun
tain road has made no reduction, and the
Memphis and Little Rock road gets all the
travel at its reduced rates.
The Office Of the Catoosa Courier, at
Ringgold, Ga, was burned recently, together
with the entire block. Solicitor.general
liackett lost his books and papers, and DR.,
Fowler lost his medicines and his library.
The "close season" for deer having
expired in Louisiana, the Cacasien woods
now resound with the music of the aorn,
hound and gun. The penalty for shooting,
killing or capturing during the season is
S25. The game law protectl turkeys until
September lst
A young man named Phillips was the
unfortunate murderer of his brother a few
days ago, at Lluderdalc, Miss. The brother
was quarrelng with and cursed his father,
whercupon the boy struck him on the head
with Il billet OF wood fracturing his skull
from the effects of which he died in about
an hour
The following constitutes the military
force now in Texas: The Sth cavalry regis
ment, consisting OF twelve companies; the
10th cavalry, twelve companies; two compa
MES Of the ith cavalry; the 10th infantry,
ten companies; the 18th infantry, ten COM
panes, and one company of the 10Th in.
fantry
The Fernandina (Fla.) shippers of
watermelons in u recent cargo, lost 81 $50
in freight. The freight was twelve cents on
each melon. The melons were stored in
regular swelt-box. 1t is difficult to get com.
pensation from ship owners.
The insurance company of North
America has entered suit in the federal
court at Savannah against the Central road
for S1S 600 worth of cotton burned at their
depot in that city on the 18th of November
last. The case will be tried at the November
term of the court.
Hon. III. w. EIilliard, of Georgia, re
Gently appointed minister to Brazil, was an
old-lne whg, commanded legion in the
southern army, was in congress several times,
supported Greeley was defeated by 5000
my ~ 'hicpcHueHt CaHuluHtt lOT con-
gress by the regular democratic nominee.
Besides, since early life he has been min
'ser OF the Methodist Episcopal church
south.
Augusta, Ga, had to abandon the old
system of giving reward of fifty cents for
every dog caught at large. The dog catchers
generally young negroes) got into such bad
odor, and were so numerically beaten by
dog owners, that the dog.catchers grew
scarce. Now it is the tin badge and one
dollar license. There are five or six hundred
lie nsed dogs baying the moon now in
August.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer gives
the particulars of an outrage in Russell
county, which should bring down severe
punishment on the head of the brutal parties
to it. A convict about nineteen years of age,
who had passed counterfeit money, escaped,
and stole a horse to facilitate his flight.
One Johnson, the owner of five or six dogs,
led in the pursuit Of him, and allowed the
dogs to laccrate him in Il horrible manner,
being allowed to continue their work on
him for at least twenty minutes.
The Charleston Is. O. News and
Courier says there was considerable talk on
the streets Saturday among the black people
regarding the exodus to Liberia. 1t seems
thar some prominent black men, who have
hitherto not concerned themselves much in
the matter, are now openly advocating the
scheme, as, what they declare, a measure of
oi relief for their race. It is hardly pos
sible to go into a small shop, kept exclusively
by black men, without hearing OF "the land
of the molasses tree" spoken OF in terms of
the widest intatuation.
The Mobile Tribune says that, not
wthstanding the extreme and constant heat
OF the weather, we are glad to announce that
there is 10 sickness in Mobile that is not
ordinarily of the season. In New Orleans
there is no sign of the approach of yellow
fever, and from elsewhere, where the disease
Is annual, there is no news that it has
fOethold. There is every reason to believe
that we shall this year escape it entirely
perhaps to have it return rarely in the fu'
ture, for it is now becoming well understood
and is supposed to be within the control of
improved hygienic methods.
THE WEST,
A Green Bay wis special says that