The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

the ceremony and banished him to A
distant school. The bride was wea thy,
and the husband claimed to know what
he was about.
THE Virginia Bible Society is about to
commence canvass of the entire State
with view to supplying every family
with the Bible. Nearly fifty active
Christian men will be employed for this
work at salary of $25 per month and
expenses.
On Cumberland Island near Jackson.
vile, Fla, while Gen. w. G. NJ. Davis
was handling double-barrel gun, the
weapon was discharged, sending the
whole load into the body of his little
son Bernhard, six years old, who only
survived twenty minutes.
THE report of the Superintendent of
the Gas-worka at Richmond, Va, shows
that last year, at $3.50 per thousand
feet, net profit of $4,000 was made on
sale of GO, 0,000,O coo feet. The price h $
been reduced to 50, which will still
leave a large margin for profit.
Two colored benevolent societies at
Richmond, incorporated under the laws
of the State of Virginia, are known
respectivelyas "The Sons and Daughters.
Brothers and Sisters, Cousins and Aunts
of Moses" and "The United Order of
the Sons and Daughters of the Four
andTwenty Elders"
Hon. HENRY G. DAVIS, United
States Senator, is said to be the richest
man in West Virginia. He is a native
of Maryland, is fifty.seven years old, is
President of the National Bank at his
home, and is engaged in mining and
shipping coal and manufacturing
lumber.
The tax-dodgcrs are getting the city
of Little Rock into bad condition
he city has failed to pay gas bills until
the gas has been turned off from the
street. and all hired labor on the street
has been stopped. There is no money in
the treasury, and none of the city taxes
for this year have been collected.
SOME English hounds imported into
Maury County, Tenn, for the purpose
of chasing foxes, have caused so much
destruction among the sheep of that sec.
tion that the farmers have determined
to petition the next Legislature to pro-
hibit the importation of these hounds
into the State. This will be the leading
issue in the next contest for legislative
honors in Maury County.
The loon-kecpers of Richmond, Va,
propose to give banquet on the day
the law goes into force superseding the
Mol'ett system. They also propose to
buy up the ole Moflett registers and have
them cast into cannon to herald forth
the dawn of any new freedom they may
acquire in the conduct of their business.
THE Supreme Court of Talbot Coun-
ty, Ga, in the case of Singleton VS., The
Southwestern Railroad, has awarded the
plaintiff the sum of $l4,5S0 damages.
About year ago Mr.. Singleton boarded
the pay train by mistake, and was re-
quired by the paymaster to jump off the
car while the train was in motion, and
in doing so he broke his leg The dam
ages were laid at $4,000. The case will
be appealed.
SOUTH FLORIDA Journal: While
throwing up the grade for the South
Florida Railroad, near Lake Monroe,
the workmen cut through what seems to
be bed of pure shell mari. Although
it has not been analyzed, it has the ap-
pearance of being fine fertilizer. Beds
of natural tirtiIizers will yet be found
in manyportions of the country sufficient
to enable us to do away with all foreign
kinds.
SINCE last October J. A. Killebrew,
Commissioner of Agriculture, Statistics,
Mines and immigration of Tennessee,
has received 5000 applications for docu-
ments descriptive of the resources of
that State. The result will probably be
large immigration to the State. While
not few of the cOlored population are
leaving Tennessee for Kansas, their
places are being filled by intelligent and
thrifty settlers from the Northern
States.
WYTHEvILLE Va Enterprise: "John
Yonce, employed on the farm of New
ton II. Repass, in crossing fence felt
something dangling from the rear of
his trousers, and on looking to see wha
it was-supposing it to be stick or
brier-he discovered a viper of moderate
size, with its fangs inserted in his
breeches. He presumes it was lying on
the ground at a spring close by, at which
he had just knelt to drink, and that il
aimed its blow and became fastened as
above stated"
THE widow of a once prominent 70
bacconist of Petersburg, Va, has just re.
ceived check for between three and
four hundred dollars under circum.
stances somewhat remarkable. About
forty-five years ago, while her husband
was in business, he sold some tobacco to
amerchant in Bremen, who subsequently
failed and died without settling his in.
debtedness. A son of that merchant
Mr. H. Lamotte, recently advertised that
he would pay all claims against his
fathers estate, and through Messrs
BONNER, Osterlott & Co., of Richmond,
sent the full amount of his fathers in