The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-02-05
He says he has the data to clearly estab-
lish that there is more gold in al bama
than there is in California.

llsh that there Is more g0ld III Al paliia
/ than there is in California.
Alexander jenkins and Ed. jenkins,
on examining trial at Bastrop, Texas, for
the shooting of the Mcdonald brothers,
were released on bond of $4,000 each.
Some. of the best citizens of the county
volunteered to 20 on their bonds.
The ice factory in New Orleans has
introduced n new way of shipping fish,
particularly red snappers. They are
frozen in cakes of ice, or rather cakes OF
ice are frozen around the fish, and in
this condition they are forwarded to all
sections of the country.
Wilmington IN. C.) Star: Sheriff
Manning transferred the ten dollars al.
lowed him by law for the hanging of
Allen Mathis to Rev. j. w. Fry, of st.
Stephens A.. M. E. church, one of the
spiritual advisers of the doomed man, for
the benefit of his church.
AtSan Diego, Tex, party OF masked
men took possession of the county Jail
and jailer and released five prisoners.
Two prisoners were left in jail-one a
woman charged with perjury and one Il
lunatic committed for murder. The
whole affair is enveloped in a great deal.
of mystery.
The New Orleans Times estimates that
at least two-thirds of the available lands
of Louisiana are lying idle, or rather,
have never been brought into cultiva-
ton. The legislature now in session
| will be strongly urged to adopt some lib
eral provision for the encouragement OF
immigration.
Judge G.. T. Harris, of Georgetown,
Texas, while returning home on horse
back from neighboring town, was
stopped after nightfall by three men and
robbed of 80, 400. The robbers were well
armed, and are supposed to be the men
who have recently committed several
outrages in Bosque county.
Memphis Appeal The work of sew
erage will be commenced within q week.
Hundreds of poor people will secure Ia
Dor thereby. Ten thousand dollars scat
tered among the laboring people is of
more financial value to our city than
could possibly be derived from 81 l,O00,-
900 locked up in our banks.
In Dallas, Texas, a merchant abused a
little boy named Etheridge for walking
on stills in front of his st re, claiming
to be annoyed thereby. Mrs. Etheridge
came to the rescue, and received several
blows from a stick in the hands of the
merchant, when she drew pistol and
wounded him in the forehead.
1t has been estimated by reports re-
ceived at the Agricultural Department
of Georgia that eighty per cent. OF the
farmers who raise their own supplies
make money by farming. Seventy-fve
per cent. of those who give liens and
mortgages and pay high rates of interest
on supplies fail to make expenses.
Last week thirty-two families of col
ored exodusters to Kansas, who had gone
from the southern counties of Texas,
passed through Dallas returning home.
Their home passage was paid by the
farmers in the counties, in which they
had left, on the condition that they
would work for them at specified rates
Savannah News: A new way of avoid
ing the duty of serving the country as a
Juror now is to establish a branch house
in some other city, and when summoned,
take an affidavit that you are not citi-
zen of the county. A dealer who has
been doing business in Savannah for
about twelve years adopted this plan.
DIR. C. M. Walden has made gener-
Gus offer, either to the legislature of
Mississippi or the various churches
of the state, proposing to give
$50, 900 towards the,erection OF college
at Walden, provided that either the
churches OF the lawmakers will give the
other $1,000 required. 1t is likely the
churches will accept the offer.
Savannah (Ga.) News: H. G. Ev-
erett who was yesterday admitted to
plead and practice in the several courts
in Georgia, has been working at his
trade-that of carpenter, at the Cen
trail railroad car-shOps-up to the lst
inst. He is married man, and thirty
two years of age, and certainly displayed
indomitable perseverance in acquiring
the rudiments of the law while support
ing himself and family.
The Jewish young ladies of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, organized a.leap-year party,
hired a hall, ordered supper, and went
around in carriages to hunt up the young
men to compel them to come in. Every
thing was lovely until the committee
went to settle the bills, when they
learned that the young men had already
paid them. The young ladies say now
that it was "real mean" in the boys,
and declare that they will never give
another leap-year party.
Lynchburg { Va.) News: A gentle
man brought us a bundle of tobacco
which had been Just sold for seventy
dollars per hundred pounds. Intrinsi-
cally it did not seem to be worth one
dollar 1t was without body, had but
trace of coloring matter and but the
slightest fragrance, but it was as yellow
as gold and small-fbre. 1t was cured
thus bright and solid by some patent
process, and, although very light, pro-
duced considerable money.
Greenville (S. c. News: A promi-
nent citizen of Anderson county says he
will give a.fine hat to any man who will
find respectable man in his section who
is opposed to the fence law after a
thorough trial. When the law first
passed the opposition there was of the
most intense kind, and now if a man
should talk of re-establishing the fences,
he would be scalped forthwith. 1t will
he the same in this county in less than
twelve months.
WarrentOn { Va.) Index: 1t is ru-
mored and generally believed that the
daughter of wealthy Rappahannock
farmer absconded the past week with an
unprepossessing black man, taking with
her al 600 in money. The girl is abOut