The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-15
NEWS SUMMARY.


There are seven competing models
for the Richmond Lee statue.
The mayor of Fernandina, telegraphs
that he needs $500 to keep the well from
starving aud to supply the sick with neces.
ssriss.
Three cargoes of wheat have been
shipped TO England from Charleston, ), G.,
this season, being the first in the history OF
the trade.
Nashville requires drummers to pay q
License of So. Five were arrested the
other day, bnt released ON the ground Of the
ignorance Of the law
An order has been issued to the prison
officials of North Carolina to desst from
using the rod ON conyc.s under any crcum.
stances. Unconstitutional
Sarah johnson, a young girl sentenced
to be hung at StatesvIle, n. G., for killing
her babe, has had her sentence committed to
ten years in the pententary.
Alex. w. Pryor, who killed negro at
Columbus, Ga, three or four years ago, and
was sent to the penitentiary for ten Years,
has been psrdoned by Gov. Colquitt
A dressed wild turkey gobhler, weigh,
ing ia that condition twenty-five peunds,
graced a Richmond dinner table Sunday.
Ihe beard that had bsen taken from his
breast was ten inches ions,
Florida oranges this season are re-.
markably thin 'sklpned and unusually sweet.
" Is SAID that tbe fruit from the same trees
last year were thck.skinned and more acid,
ana at'routh produces the latter and much
yam tpre former condition.
IA September one hundred and twenty.
one emigrants settled in Tennessee under the
auspices of the Immigration bureau. A
large colony Of Quakers from Pennsylvania
is settling in Bount county. The Coffee
county landholders ore donating fifty acres to
actual settlers.
The San Antonio Herald of the 10th
has private advices TO the effect that the
predatory bands OF Indians on the Staked
plaiTs, as well as the dissatisfied Indians on
tlM reservations, are preparing togo to Mex
Dco en- moSSc to Join the greasers preparatory
to a brush with our army.
New Orleans Democrat: People will
begin to think that we of Louisiana are get
ting Puritanical if this sort of thing goes on
much longer Parish after parish is falling
in line under the prohibition banner, and now
the largest parish in the state comes ont with
aSunday law fully equal to the blue laws
oj Connecticut,
Vickshurg Herald The present season
snas been very bad one on cotton planters
In the hill lands, by this date. the larger
S'Ntson OF the cotton should have been picked
nut instead OF this being the case, only a
very small portion has been housed, and yet
the bad weather continues.
ST. Augustine (Fla) Press: About
fifty Indians from the fort took n ramble on
the north beach on Thursday, aud picked W
several hundred sea.beans. The beans have
been washed ashore by the strong east and
southeast winds Of late. They grow on the
West India islands, and at this season of the
year ripen and fall into the sea.
Wilmington On. ca Star; The
herviest hail storm ever witnessed in HalifaS
county passed over a portion of that county
last Sunday. Some cotton fields were liter
ally stripped OF boIls leaves and limbs, and
the cotton beat into the ground so as not &c
be worth gathering ur. Piles OF the hal
we're in fence corners two days after it iel
The time Tor hing applications before
the Hot Springs commissioner, has expired
Nine hundred aud fifty claims have beer
'iled. One hundred and sixty.two OF these
nave been examined and ten dismissed
she commissioners are now engaged in tax
ing testimony. All claims not now fled ar,
barred. The claims have all been surveyed
The survey o. topography is twothird
done. The plan Of the future city is yet TO b,
adopted and the claims for new lot
awarded.
A Fernandina, Fla, correspondent
gives distressing account OF the suffering
of eight hundred helpless families in tina
locality from the yellow fever plague, nov
devastating the country. The temperature
has been up to 1867 for many days, and thu
pstients have been greatly reduced and un
Htted to withstand the ravages Of the dis
ease. The poverty OF the afflicted region ha
entailed additional troubles, but has heeI
greatly relieved by the generous contrbu
lions of Sl7 ,S02.iS from syDipathizing north
erp and other cities. Over $4,000 of thl
amount have already been expended.
Eads' new iron dredge-hoat, costin,
10000, for use at south pass and en- rout
from Pittsbury to the ietties, has reached
Cincinnati and has created considerable in
terest and curiosity there. She somewhat re
semhes a gunboat, her hull, deck and bulk
heads all being built of iron. In the cente
"l the boat are three hopper-shlpped tanks
each twenty-five feet square, in which tn
mud is pumped up and deposited, and whe'
full the boat will he taken out to sea and dis
charge them. Her pump is an immens
affair, and is worked by two cylinders tweH
by thirty inches, set in the hull of the boa
between the cylinders for propel'ing tn
boat. She has fifteen engines in all on board
WARRINGTON.
The letter carriers have appointed
committee to confer with postohcc commi