The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-12-01

during the past year.
Weaver carried Walker county, Texas,
by majority Of sixteen over Hancock
and Garfield combined.
The cupola of the courthouse at
GAINESVILLE, Tenn, is surmounted by
brazen eagle measuring twelve feet from
tip to tip.
A building erected at Lexington, Ga,
for dancing hall when that town was
in the zenith of It's glory is now used as
a stable.
The Appeal says that the all night
houses, where men can he around, drink
and quarrel, are the cause of nearly all
the rows that occur in Memphis.
The City Council of Fort Smith, Ark.
has passed an ordinance prohibiting the
carrying of pistols in the city limits in
nay other way except in the hand.
The city board of health OF Nicksburg
has pctitioned the National Board of
Health to have sanitary survey made
of the city and its surroundings,
Nearly one hundred more marriag
licenses have been issued to colOrcd cou
pies in Mccklenburg county, n. G., this
year than to whites.
The new Mississippi code fixes the
fee Of Coroner for holding an inquest
at So instead of so, the former figure,
and some of the Coroners are rcoigning
in consequence.
A proposition is about to be submitted
to the Little Rock City Council for the
Of new water-workS. a
number of prominent citizens have
new organization in contemplation.
Cotton seed was first planted in the
United States, in 1921 in Virginia as an
experiment. 1t was first planted in
Georgia and the Carolinas in l773274,
and in Louisiana in l742.
A watcr-whccl put up for Touring
mill at Augusta, Ga, weighs 5000
pounds and is to furnish l3j-horse
power. 1t was manufactured in Chat
tanooga.
At Il fashionable masquerade party at
Vicksburg, two ladies who attracted
much attcntionand admiration during
the evening were found to be young men
when the unmasking took place
The finest dress ever seen in Atlanta
was worn at the inaugural ball by Miss
Leila AusteII, of that city. 1t cost
s., OO0 and was trimmed with lace pur-
chased by her in Paris, at 5000 per yard.
A boy in San Antonio, Texas, while
standing in front of his fathers house
eating pcce of bread, was suddenly
attacked by an electric flame, which is
u have come from lightning |
rod near by and was badly burned.
Gen. Phinncy, at the Georgia Mining |
Company, has thoroughly tested the
Robertson process for reducing ores,
and the tests show yield of IS to SO |
per ton from ore that yielded only $50
per ton. Work, will soon be erected at
The cotton crop of Texas was closed
by Il killing frost. The total will amount |
to /, $50, geo bales and $60,OOO,O0O. The |
Chicago TeXarkana Mexican Genital
cotton factory, with capital of 5000, OOO,
was started here to-day. Forty thous-
and dollars was subscribed in Dallas,
The new statutes of Mississippi pro-
vide that in cases where persons are dong |
business as agents, or in their own
name, with the goods and capital of
Jther people, the principals name must |
be conspicuously displayed at the place
Of business, or the goods shall be liable |
for the debts of the person conducting |
the business.
During the last three years nearly |
400 people from North Georgia have |
been converted to Mormonism, and emf
grated to Almaso, Col. The people of
the colony oppose polygamy and there
is only one polygamist among them.
The colony is still growing, a party of
fifty being ready at present to start from
Virginia to join it.
A man by the name of Albert Green,
while walking with a young lady on
Sunday, in Clcburnc county, Texas,
was approached by Ellen Powell, whom
he had ruined. At night, Green and a
BACKED themselves, forced
IN entrance into the woman's house and
struck her brutally, then dragged her
out of the house. She held a pistol in
ler hand that wouldn't stand cooked and
,hot him dead.
A cave in East Tennessee is two miles
in length and has openings at both ends.
The owner of the ground around each
entrance charge for admission, and acted
as guide for visitors. Their rivalry led
to serious fights in the cave, for each |
ield the other to be trespasser. Then
me of the contestants hit upon novel
md effective means of running the |
,ther's business. He sunk shaft so as to |
admit large stream into the cave about
The center, and as there was as incline in
, favorable direction, the water poured
,ut at the enemy's portal, while his own
was unobstructed. The matter is to be