The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-03-23
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CHIT-CHAT.

LIS human 10 err.
We won't edo so any more"
Oh, lettuce have garden truck"
We are for our folks if they do talk
about us.
Measles in town, and mumps in the
vicinity.
A temperance person is not pro-
hibitionist, and, vice versa.
Hugh L. says it's bearfaced lie. We
guess this will put an end to the matter.
Circuit Court next Monday. County
Court Quarterly term on Monday fol-
lowing.
A better community don't live be-
meath "old Sol" than we have in VIM
chester.
If we said anything we are sorry for
we are glad Of it, because ace didn't mean
to do it.
Fourteen colored persons were bap-
tiled in Boiling Fork, above the Wool
en- Mil, last Sunday, a cold dip.
Old 200-pounder has "turned up
again. Wen keep our readers posted
in regard to his movements hereafter.
No town, Of the same size, in the
State can boast Of larger number of
church-going people than Winchester.
Road-workers had better scratch
around" and fill up the bad places in the
roads with brush, and-so-torth, before
Court convenes.
See here, friend, don't put your trust
in Bromide Potassium. Better stick to
the old remedy, if you are determined
to "shuhle off this mortal coil"
at is getting to be so" that there are
nearly as many kinds Of religion as per-
sons, and each one is always ready to
advise his neighbor how to be saved.
You cannot find another town in the
whole South, embracing the same num-
Der of people, with as little sickness and
as few deaths as We have in Winches-
ter.
AS to the professional men (awycrs
and doctors) of Winchester, We would
remark They compare favorably, if
not out-rank, those Of any other town
in Tennessee.
"The truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth" that no town in
Tennessee, or any other State, can show
u more honorable class of merchants
than we have in Winchester.
Thanks to Prof. Guilford for an invi-
tation to attend a Musicale at Mary
Sharp College last Saturday afternoon,
and are more than sorry that we could
not be on hand. Try us again, Profess
sUr.
Heavy rains and severe winds since
our last. Elk river booming. Slight
fall of snow Monday night. Mercury
down to freezing point yesterday (Tues-
day. morning. Wood subscribers,
bring US some wood immediately
Some of the young men are trying to
get us into trouble by insisting that We
ask, "Who was the bear?" or words
to that effect. We are too sharp for
any such tricks, young men. We hope
these few lines will be a Ror,-cr to the
y. m. in the future.
eve are requested to say" that it is
exceedingly bad taste for a young man
to escort a young lady to church, leave
her at the door to find seat for herself,
while he hangs around on the outside,
cracks jokes and cigars till the benedic-
ton is pronounced, and then slips in and
takes seat on the back bench.
You ought to hear the h. e. play the
fiddle "just once" He plays with a
vim not to be excellcd in this section,
and "when he plays he plays all over"
We we're awakened by his music the
other morning, Eat the crack of day."
and our first thought was that high
pressure steamboat was coming up High
street with a niger on the safety valve.
Surely, emusic do hath charms to soothe
the"-we are not reckless enough to
say the balance, because the h. e. is a
Hurricane in high timber" when you
rile him.
We landed in Winchester and COM
menccd work in the Home Journal of.
flee about the 1st of April, 1859, and,
with the exception of about three years,
we have been employed by the present
editor of the Journal ever since. Well
venture the assertion that not another
Office in the State has printer who has
served it so long. We formed an at
tachment for the people of Winchester
in very short time after our arrival
here, and to this day have never had