The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-01-08

fifty to sixty families per day have been
settling at Arkadelphia, Curtis and Cur
don, Clark county, during the past week.
Mr.. J. N. English, of Macon county,
Ga, has picked and sold from one acre
on his farm this year two balesof cotton,
one weighing 474 and the other AIS
pounds.
Mexico (Mo.) Herald: In Marion
county a gentleman captured a pure
white blackbird from a flock of black
birds that came to his barn to feed a
few days since.
Memphis Avalanche: With munich
pal debt OF over $4,000 and total
tax valuation of less than $4,000, Mem
phis is MT in a condition to try costly
experiments in sewerage.
The Gainesville (Ga.) Gazette suggests
that sugar refinery in Savannah would
pay. At present the cane-growers arc
content to turn their crops into syrup,
having no machinery or means at hand
to make understandable the dark sugar,
which only classes as "milado" in the
markets.
The law makes it the duty of the Lou
isiana legislature just elected to proceed
to choose a senator at the session about
to be held, for the term expiring ON the
4th of March, 1883, to succeed Mr.. Kel-
logg, or the gentleman who shall then be
the colleague of Mr. Jonas.
Knoxville Chronicle: Mr.. f. v
Smalley, the well known staff CORE
spondent of the New York Tribune
is now in Cumberland county, on the line
of the Cincinnati Southern railway, as
we learn, with the view to the location
of colony from New York.
Reidville (Va.) Times: Mr.. Wormby,
very wealthy man, who lived in Ches.
terrified, Va, had two sons, Tom and
Jack, both fond of playing poker, but
Jack was very sharp at the game and Tom
very flat. When the old man died he
left Tom 100000 and Jack only $1,000,
but he explained at the foot of his will
that 81 900 was stake enough for Jack
to win everything that Tom had, and it
was wise provision, for it 50 turned out.
Raleigh News: General Joseph E.
Johnston was lately in Raleigh, and a
gentleman asked him rather pointedly
why the southern army did not take
Washington after the first battle of Man
assas. Rising on his toes, he replied
"There were two reasons-myself and
the Potomac river. had reached that
age that / knew an American soldier
could not ford river mile wide and
eighteen feet deep"
Wheeling Intelligencer: 1t is said the
counsel fees and expenses in the suit
brought by the bond holders of the White
Sulphur Springs Company to secure a
sale of the springs property under the
deed of trust supposed to secure theil
bonds, already aggregate some $35, 900,
and the end Isl not yet. AT this rate the
parable of the wise counselor who ate the
oyster and handed the shell to the liti-
giants is about to be still further illus.
trated.
Richmond letter in Petersburg Index
Appeal: The debt payers intend to oppose
the repeal of or any radical modification
in the present laws. Many of the lead
ing Read-adjusters in both houses are in
favor of repeal of the Moffett system of
raising revenues. A warm fight may be
expected to ensue when this matter
comes up. The representatives of most
of the cities, whether they are debt
payers or not, will be apt to favor the
change.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger: On
last Sunday, at the residence of Mr.. j.
G. G. Burnett, Mr.. Benjamin S. Good.
year was married to Miss Burnett, a
daughter of Mr.. C. Burnett On the
10th inst, Mr.. J. G. G. Burnett was
married to Mrs. Z. r. Goodyear, mother
of the young man mentioned above. In
this manner the children of the last cou.
pie were first married, followed by the
nuptials of their parents. The occur
renee is rare and interesting. They are
good and esteemed citizens of Macon.
Petersburg Index-Appeal: Yesterday
morning about one hundred colored en-
igrants of all sizes and both sexes arrived
here on the northern bound mail train
from GOldsbOrO, en- route for Washing
ton, from which place they go to Indiana.
This makes between six and seven hun
bred emigrants of the colored persuasion
who have passed through Petersburg
from Goldsboro, N. c., on their way tC
Indiana. during the past few weeks
These emigrants appear in good spirits
and are apparently highly elated at the
idea of travelling to country of which
they have heard so much and know Sc
little. As before stated, a noticeable
feature of these emigrants is the number
of women with infants in their arms.
Montgomery Advertiser and Mail: TIL,
Columbus Enquirer's count shows tina
forty-seven gin houses have been burned
in Georgia since August 81, and twenty
five in Alabama. Their destruction in
volved loss of 100000, for, with each
cotton was burned. Very few were tn,
results of incendiaries. In Florida W,
have noted the confagration of some 81,
or ten. We do not wish our Northern
admirers to imagine as they did a few
years ago, that these houses were for tn,
manufacture of gin. We mean by gil
houses places for ginning and bailing cot
ton. We remember few years ago tina
some Massachusetts, paper soundly lee
tured the Southern people on their in