The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-04-25

New Orleans Picayune: A Mississip
| law 'orbids the gale OF pistols TO min0
That local regulation makes small boys sen,
to New Orleans for their desdly weapons,
Henrietta Tex Journal As irequen
as murders were committed in Texas lat
year, only two men expiated their oienS,
upon the gallows in 1877 by order Of court
Some Of the Georgia farmers, takin,
into view the strong probability OF a Euro
pean war, and wishing to provide for al
contingencies, contemplate crossing thei
cotton lands in corn.
The Alexandria (Va.) Gazette says tht
oyster season, now nearly closed, has beer
unusually disastrous to the oystermen, tn,
supply being larger than the demand, ant
the prices very low.
The fruit importers of New Orlean,
are complaining OF the quarantine regula-
tions. The lumigation OF their cargoes, il il
said ruins the fruit, which the dealers hole
is not liable to infection.
New Orleans is agitated over the mur
der of Sarah Elexson Brown bv Emily Arm.
sly. The latter sent some cakes, poisoned
with arsenic, to Miss Josie Lawlor. at whose
house Miss Brown was stopping. Miss Brown
ate them, and died.
A few years ago, in Comanche county
Texas, II number of domestic chickens, de-
serted by their owner, took to the brush, and
the woods are full of wild chickens. They
are numbered by the thousand, fly like
hawks, and are numbered as game.
The draw-span of the Cincinnati South.
ern railroad bridge at Chattanooga is 2S7
feet in length, and weighs 9S0,S0 pounds
The bridge proper is l,s04 feet in length
from center to center of the abutments, and
the piers and superstructure cost three hun
dred and ten thousand dollars.
The Mississippi Legislature, which re.
Gently adjourned, passed resolution thank,
courtesy and manly, dignifed, devotion to
public duty during the session, and congrat.
ulated the people of the state upon the se>
lection of representatives 50 worthy from
that race, and upon the arrival of that happy
epoch when race prejudice and bitterness of
feeling exist in our borders no longer"
While negro man down in Georgia,
the other day, was carrying child in his
arms along II road, a large eagle swept down
upon them and endeavored to seize the
child. A lively battle ensued between the
parent and the eagle the latter getting the
better OF it until farmer came to the rescue
and knocked the eagle senseless with an
ak. The bird was captured, and, as 1t has
recovered, it is an object OF considerable
curiosity in the neghborhood.
The New Orleans Democrat states that
Judge Billings, OF that city, decided the
matter involved in the Gaines case relative
to the improvements and as to the status of
the present posSessor. Judge Billings holds
that the various defendants are responsible
for fruits and revenues for both improved
and unimproved property, and that Mrs.
Gaines is entitled 10 elect whether she will
keep improvements placed on the properties
at either their cost o. the increased value
which such improvements may have given
to the properties or require their removal.
He decides that the present possessors were
possessors in bad faith, and as such, under
the laws of Louisiana, they owed to the
complainant, Gaines, all the rents and rev>
enues of the property during the period of
their unlawful possession of the same,
whether the property was actually yielding
the revenues or not, unless it was shown that
it was impossible, with due diligence, to
have caused the property to have been
rented that the defendants were only en-.
titled, by way Of offset, to necessary ex.
penses incurred in caring for said property.