The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-12
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"A happy occasion.
Several barrels OF fun u%nhcSdcd.
But they didn't have any LynchLml
in them.
The most perfect order and harmony
prevailed,
Less whlsEcy drank than was eve
known for so large 4 gathering.
The tables were filled with everything
that was good to eat, prepared n the bcs
possible manner.
Long may the members OF the Clio.
r!Ous Old lst Tennessee flourish. IL hal
been several thous md years since we wit
messed an occasion OF this Kind before. ant
II it should be several thousand years he,
fore another reunion takes place, we vii
certainly be on hand I we IRE alive, anC
we certainly will he alive II we live.
Nice moonlight nights. M,ssrs. G
G. Phillips, Y. j. Gaines, Henry Finch
Henry johnson, Ellis Days, Sim. VcnNble
ct. al. will please take due notice ano
govern themselves accordingly.
butter is exceedingly scarce in oUl
market. Eggs ditto.
Our young men still cling to The four,
story collars.
The plug-hat mania is Subsiding.
Fancy walking-cuncs are 'Hll the go
on Sundays. Nearly every lo-eIlow in
town carries one.
Business in our town pretty fair, con-
Sidering the hard times.
-Spurn the tattlrr from your uoor as
you would II lepcr.
The human family grasps Islander
much more eagerly than truth.
1t seems to us that our PEG lie are inn
posed upon IN the prices OF school books.
All the bal boys. and good ones too.
90 to school these lays. Now is your
time boys--"strikc while the IRON is hot
You will never regret it in alter life.
"A nee young man Of our town, who
"knows whereof he speaks tells us he
does notagrrr with tn" poet when he says,
Ills better III have loved and lost tuan
never to have loved at ALL"
Several of our young men have had
their heads moved and smd-papered
la ely.
We want l. distinctly understood that
the Journal Office is quarantincd against
small boys who can't keep their hands Of
the type
There is n Yong man in town who is
badly smittcn with Il piece OF calico.
There is no hope for him but in marrying,
but the remedy would be II bad one tor
the calico.
Winchester has superior advantages as
an educational point, but to sustain those
advantages OF people will have to lay
aside personal and local favOriliSm and
prejudice. "a house divided against IT.
SELF &c.
a bald-headed man always has a
grulgc against Il fly Ask Ba!dic Hen
derson about IT.
"I'm tired Of giving away matches 4
dozen Zines Il day" said one OF our mrr-
chants lately. If You don't see what we
are driving at. perhaps Till. ArIedge
would he a suitable person to 20 to Tor
further information.
A choir of angels passed our house one
night lately. on their return from Win
chester Springs, We guess. 1t was near
midnig ht. and we awoke to hear melodies
rs daintily raviSling IL the whispcringS
Of the wind, lulling us into an c%rStatic
slumber and tilliug Us with dreams where
in the most mclliilu0uS were blended with
hcatilic visions, and-thrn we got up and
ate corn-brcaG and fried onions for break
fast.
If it be true that none but honest per-
sons can laugh heartily, there is hardly Il
dishonest man in Winchester.
Old Sol continues to slime down upon
us with unwOntcd viyidneSs.
Numerous parties, composed of TIE
best citizens Of "Ur town, have been visit
ing Winchester Springs pretty often dI-
ring the past few weeks. As the greater
part of these visitors are young folk, We
can easily imagine the amount of cooling
and wooing that has been perpetratcd at
this popular resort.
Good time to set ont tall advertise
mcmtS. The larger the plant the more
certain it is to thrive.
The days are getting shorter at both
ends.
-WatermelonS and cantaleups have
about played out. and we are clad OF it.
For the past month they circulated pretty
freely, and SO did those persons who ate Of
them.
A "yOung man from the country" If
ter sharpening his appetite with some OF
Montgomery Il Fanning'S best visited
tie reunion of the lSt Tennessee last Fri
day, and proceeded to Satiate his craving
appetite in the most approved double
barrclcd order with Il variety OF catahleS.
such as shoat, beef, turkey. mutton, vegc-
tables, bread. pies, clstard, preserves, Nc,
&c. (Thc way he 1ormandizcd goes to
prove that naturu)iSts are correct in elias
styling one species of animals is omnivo.
rous.) Well, after our Young friend had
filled himself clean up to the mlIzzlc with
the articles mentioned, he returned to
town and qucnchcd his thirst with some
more of NJ. ~ F.'s best. after which. in the
shade OF the evening, he mounted his Stced
lit was Il l~ong-cared animal) and was soon
en- route home. But. somehow. after
reaching the suburbs oftown, there WAS Il
disagreement between some of the arti-
clcs in his paunch. That shOat and that
gobbler got up 4 dispute about the divi>-
ion of the viands with which they we're
associated during the ride, and Il regular
b tile ensucd. The gobbler
swclled and struttled and gobbled, and the
bristles stood up and his champing
and foaming mouth was direful, and for
ten minutes ut least the fearful combat
each in turn turning upon the 9TH
or, until the young mans stomach turned
upside down, tie cork flew ont. and such
an upheaval rs then and there took place
would make old Vesuvius ashamed other
For one hundred PAGES along the
road could be seen here and there IA wad
Of vegetables. there some pickles, else
Il pile of custard or preserves.
and now and then Il siioat shank or turkey
bone. with Il general conglomcralion OF
other things too tedious to mention. This
eruption continued until nothing remain
ed in the poor fellows ad-baskct ex-
painful "reminiscences. lie said to
us the next day that id il it didn't seem