The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-24
Personal.


turn the last Of this week,
J --Ex-Gov. Sherwood, of Minnesota
was prospecting on Crow Creek las
week for Il location for u colony, II
wishes to purchase Of Mr., John +, An,
derson the valley land adjaeen. t
Catchings Station, and II large body o
mountain land, We hope the trad
will be consummated, as this will brin,
to our county a large increase OF la
boring population, and add TO our ma
terial prosperity.
DR.. II. L, Turncy, Of Nashville, i
visiting friends aud relatives in on
midst.
Prof. j. B Williams and famll,
left for Palmetto, Bedford county, las
Sunday, where the Professor will taxi
charge of a Aourishing school, "Joe'
is certainly a worthy young msn, ant
has our hest wishes for his success
H. c, Sharp. mail agent on th'
Win. u Ala. Railroad, has donned hi,
blue uniform, according to n recent
postal law,
We are glad to announce that Mr.,
NJ. +. Boswell and lady, both of whom
have been very sick for some time, are
rapidly improving.
Mr.. Frank Rought'n, formerly OF
our town, but o of %Lynchburg.
spent several days with us lately.
Geo. X. Martin, our popular Jew
eler, has moved his shop to Room No.
8 in She brick row opposite the Home
Journal office.
We heard a most worthy lady say,
the other day, that Capt. Brannan had
the incest and most desirable residence
in the west end of town. ITEMS our
sentiments, too. You see, the Captain
is q mighty nice mana most excellent
northumberland everything around
him must be nice.
Capt. Il, H. Finch, our clever C.,
u NJ, has improved his dwelling house
much lately that it looks like new
one. 1t is now an ornament to High
w. II. Harlow, the "free, frank
and fearless" man Of the quopGam
University News, dropped i'll upon us
like a sunbeam last Friday. He re-
ports business lourishing in his meek
of the woods"
Col. j. b. Killehrew, who is doing
more for Tennessee in the way of i'm.
migration than any man in the State,
dropped into our Office yesterday. He
is here in the i'm migration interest,
~eudeavoring to settle a large colony OF
people from Minnesota on Crow Creek,
at Catchings Station. We hope his
efforts will be crowned with success.
1t will be a God.send to our county.
Col. X. is accompanied by Mr.. l.ine-
hart, of Pennsylvania, q nice gentle.
man, who comes to look over our sec
with a view to location. We are
pleased to see these worthy %emigrants
into our county, and know all
such will receive . hearty welcome.
We are a resident of the west end
Of town now, (how's that for High?)
and intend to tell the readers Of the
Journal all about the affairs in that
at an early day. We will com
mence by publishing u complete inven,
tory of High street. W. are glad to
see that work has commenced on our
pavement, lust above Mrs. Oehmig's
residence. 1t is well. for we had in
to propose that our ward Sc.
,ede from the corporation in case this
Improvement was neg elected much Ion.
ger. The ordinances of secession were
Jein. drafted, and we meant business.
We ~west-enders are just the kind Of
men to organize a little corporation Of
our own, snd if the authorities don't
'ush that pavement through, all the
way to DR.. Murrcll's gate. thcre'll be
Jelud on the moon before tue trees bud
again. We've hired a substitute al
Besides, old 2%OO-pounder says
le'll stick to US as long as we've got a
renewed applause, and he'll
10 it, for he is a nickle man-whcn
iour nickle's gone. he's ditto; but,
hat is human nature. (P. SIN case
We do secede, We intend to elect the
editor Military Governor, and
will suggest that Ben. Hunt be made
Private Secretary More anon, we
'eckon.