The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

Hart Durham and Fluker, tried for lorcibly
! ejecting negro from the ladies' car al
Union Point, the other day, were bound over
In bonds OF $500 each TO appear for trial at
the United States court in September.
Austin TEX Statesman: The $l5,.
| OOO0 600 recently paid 10 Texas for cattle has
been mainly invested in wire fences, and
then there is leal Of ii idle, waiting TO see
have II In silver slowed away in banks and
mold stockings.
Kinds county miss Gazette: Col.
Hillyard, on his farm near Hazelhurst, has
over 5000 tomato plants set out and in a
forward condition also twenty acres in Irish
potatoes; also several acres in Strawberries.
His purposes is to ship northward-to Louis
vile, 81. Louis and Chicago.
Every licensed liquor seller in Alabama
has taken this oath: al do solemny swear
that will not knowingly sell or give away
any vinOus or Spirtuous liquor to any minor
or person of unsound mind without the per
mission OF his or her parent or guardian"
and violation OF this oath is by express
statute declared to be perjury.
Columbus, (Ga.) Sun: A Chinaman
was testifying in Richmond county. Judge
Snead asked "John" il he believed in
God?" " Yes" said the Celestial, "me belieb
eberyting." "DO you believe in a hereaf
ter2" Yes, me belieb in Jesu Christie
here, me belle, in Contucie (Confucius) IN
China,allee samee." His testimony was taken.
Miners in the mineral regions of Ala.
bama protest to Gov. Houston against the
employment of convicts in the mines. Quite
a .h..t. nxtnI fro, tI.
Eureka coal mines The Mobile Register says
the general assembly to be elected this sum
mer should see to it that convict labor is put
upon works profitable to the state, and is not
thrown in competition with honest labor
The Greenville (Tenn J Democrat says
of the Andrew Johnson monument: The
gentleman who was here during the fall
experimenting the erection of the johnson
monument is again in town. In one OF the
violent storms OF the winter, the covering Of
the monument was torn of and carried with
it, it is supposed, the beak of the eagle sur>
mounting the obelisk. The gentleman re-
ferred to will place new eagle in the stead
of the broken one.
Corpus Christi Free Press Gloom
and sorrow has pervaded this community this
week. Mourners have wept for loved ones
who have fallen victims to relentless, hend.
ish foe. The young and the old have not
been spared murdered, mutilated the
recent raid stands without parallel in the
southwest in magnitude and atrocity. Worse
than all, il is an allied force who struck the
blow. White men, Mexicans and Indians
mingled in devilish fraternity.
Chairman liodgsen, at the Mobile
Commercial convention: Leaving Brazil,
Cuba and Mexico out of the question, we
find that OF the $4,000 90 of imports from
the gulf countries this great valley consumes
$18, 1000 and that the six millions Of
people who inhabit Alabama, Mississippi,
Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia consume
nearly $4,t0l,000. Why should not the
sugars, tobacco, fruits woods, drugs and
coffee which go to make up this S4, 1000, G00of
inbound freight be brought directly for dis
to Mobile, New Orleans or Pensa.
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The Atlanta cotton exchange has
been compelled to protest against the poor
quality of bagging used by planters. The
Constitution says: A set of resolutions in
and unanimously passed declared |
that hereafter one dollar per bale would be |
deducted from the cash price of cotton in
this inferior bdgging; that a circular be sent |
to all the planters in this section asking that |
they refrain from using it, and also circu
lar to merchants who handle cotton asking |
that they do not receive this bagging on the |
same terms as that of first quality. The
circulars will be sent out at once.