The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-06-03

sticks for guns, when he casually asked
them what they we're doing, and re-
ceived the reply: owe is playin' rev.
nue. men hunting for Ticker"
TIE evangelis's Moody and Sankey
passed through Indian Territory last
week, and while at Muscogee in the
Geek nation, Mr.. Moody arranged to
receive ten Indian girls from that ne
ton, for whom he will provide free
ducation a. the Young Ladies' Semi
Larry established by him at Mortified,
Mass.
The coiored Republicans of Mis.is-
sippi demand that Blanche X. Bruce,
now United States Sena:or from that
State, shall have the second place on the
Grant ticket. Bruce is a colOred man
OF limited education, native of V r
ginia, and Mississippi planter since
the war His term of service as Senator
will expire next March.
A NEWSPAPER in Georgia SAYS that il
the farmers of that state would devote
less of their energies to the raising of
cotton and give more attention to the
cultivation of sugar-cane, rice, arrow
root, the tea plant, growing, and
the production of early fruits, vegeta-
bes and melons for the Northern mar
ket, they would be much more indie
pendent and happy.
A FORCE of men stationed by The
United States Bureau of Internal Rev
enue III Fanni, Union, Towns and Rabun
Counties, Ga, to break up the illicit
distilleries in those counties and to
bring the offenders to trial, is being paid
$1,000 month. These men look uyo1
their occupation as "fat job" and
will hardly apply for discharge until
the appropriation runs out
AT the Office of the Commissioner Of
Immigration for Florida, were rec ived
ON Saturday two letters which vera
somewhat unique as to the requests con-
tanned in them. One was from a Greek
firm in London, which wanted cargo
of orange-wood sticks, and the other
from gentleman in Kentucky who
wished water monkey forwarded 10
him.
The season for elopements has begun
in Virginia. In that State such even,s
are much more likely to occur during
the cheap excursions in summer to
Washington City and the North. In
deed, Washington is regarded as a sort
of national Gretna Green. In many Of
these cases no cruel parents interpose
any objections to the match, but the
hypothetical elopement WAS adopted
with view of economy. 1t saved a
wedding outfit and entertainments thai
usually follow marriages.
The Richmond (Va) State attribute.
the failure of foreign immigrants t,
settle in the South to the presence. o
the negro as an important element Of
the population of that section. On the
other hand the Richmond Wig says
"Prujudice against the negro is indigo
nous only to the soil they inhabit, and
it is especially noticeable that the i'm.
migrant class of foreigners when they
first come among us know little or moth.
ing of such distinctions until they have
imbibed it from accociation with our.
selves
IT is likely that Congressional Com.
mittee will be appointed to visit North
ern Georgia and North Carolina thi:
summer to make a thorough investiga
ton of the charges that have recently
been made in regard to the lawless, Re,
bellions, cut-throat moonshine" popu
latiOn said 10 exist in that section
These charges are now believed by the
Commissioners of Internal Revenue t
he false to great extent, and to bt
ISLANDERS upon people that are in the
main peaceable and lawabiding.