The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-01-22
ChIT.CHAT.
--Chsncery Court Irregular term
next Monday.

Mayor f0rhcs mas move" us VI
fee to poverty row.
Thanks to renewing subscribers.
May the good work 60 on.
There was gocdly crowd In town
las: Saturday. and trade seemed to DO
brisk.
Farmers are repairing their fences
farming utensils, De-. preparatory to
making another crop.
Alderman B 5. Henderson has re
covered sufficiently from bis late inju-
ries to walk without crutches.
Ed. b. Pennington was elected
district Constable las. Saturday. He
has qualified and gone to WORK.
Our young legal friend, James
Taylor, has a splendid cachinna,ing
apparatus. and uses It to perfection.
The early bird doesn't get all the
worms The person who eats chest
nuts in the dark gets some Of EN-.
Several persons (whi,e and color
ed. have lett this vicinity lately, 10
work 10 the coal m,nes at Tracy CITY.
We arc glad TO learn that Mr..
Tom Montgomery, who has been very
sick for several weeks, is convalescing.
The market was stocked with
hackbones aud sparerib. last week,
which sold readily at 4 cents per
pound.
Several "old soldiers have re-
enlisted in the cause Of temper ance
lately. Hurrsh for the Good Tens
plars.
The Kansas fever didn't reach :he
colored people of Winchester. They
are too sensible to be gulled by such
schemes.
THAT clever ami good citizen ant,
neighbour, Mr.. G. W. H.. has our
thanks for his kind remembrance q
week or two since.
During the past week dies were
plentiful, and worried the patience Of
bald headed men. For veriacati0n,
consult b. 5. II.
Who said anything abou, Happy
Mike Plumlee being in lover Ii
wasn't US, cause we don't talk about
other peoples affairs.
1t wouldn't be amss for our cor
pnrats authorities to have the rubbish
removed from Jefferson street, Oppo.
site the Home Journal Office.
High street, in front of Capt.
Brannsn's residence. Is in a deplorable
condition. We hope our street CON-
mittce will look into this matter.
We learn that the chickens in
some parts Of town are afflicted with
the exodus fever. 1t got among DR..
Murrelrs turkeys several weeks since.
The warm weather and rains have
caused wheat To grow so rapidly that
some are fearful that it will be injured
by late frosts. aud are pasturng It
heavy.
The Winchester Normal is crowd
ell with pupils, and the attendance at
the Mary Sharp is larger BY rs per
cent than last session. We are proud
Of our schools.
Old 00.pounder drinks his beef
tripe and hog chitterling. with sor
ghum. In fact, he puts sorghum on
all be eats. not excepting cabbage, tur-
uips, and such.
1t isn't often that We indulge in a
laugh, but II you want to stir up the
fundamental elements OF q broad grin
from our stolid mouth, just address us
as Colonel"
We haven't heard Of any Leap
Year parties in this vicinity 80 far.
The ladies evidently intend to look be-
fore they leap. And il is q sensible
conclusion. too.
If some one would inven! q mas
chine for making people attend to their
own business, it would he hailed with
Joy throughout the country. and in
Winchester in particular.
| There is = man in Winchester who
is too stingy to tell you the full time OF
day. For instance: IT his watch says
20 minutes to 10 O'Clock, he'll chea,
you ont Of 10 minutes by telling you
it 10 only half-p.st nine. So.
MIR. Hugh Hamhright. for several
years . compositor in the Nashville
Banner Office, and at one time an em
plOyce in this office, is still in very fee
ble health ut his mothers residence in
this town. He has been confined for
nearly two years. We would be- glad
to chronicle bis restoration to health.