The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-27
Winchester Normal Items.

on the Normal addition. Miss Maudc
iTerrill laid the first brick, Miss Carrie
Hamilton the second, and Prof. Clark
the third. At this writing the work is
progressing finely.
The following is IL description of the
! Normal additions, kindly furnished us
by Mr.. kclton, the contractor: The
ground-plan of new part is 3OXl2O; Of
old, 40x70. The addition will be built
in front of old part, making it 7
shape. On entering the new part
through IL double door 6x0, you land in
II large corridor 15x40, with stairway
on each side of entrance, and also doors
leading out into wings and through into
old part. The corridor in second story
is same size as in first story, and en-
frances into wings just the same. The
stairway will be 6 feet wide, PINCH
step, with 6-inch riser. The chapel
now in old part is enlarged by taking
'out partitions, from 4Ox50 to 40xG2.
The first story Of addition is y feet
high, divided into 1 rooms on each end
Il music rooms 4Xl5, and 4 recitation
rooms 15x2G. The second story will be
II feet high, with one room on each end
3OX4O, making 20 rooms in all, besides
corridors. The roof will be hippcd with
bcl-tower in center Is feet high above.
main wall, and bell hung in it, The
front elevation shows II windows and
one double door. Each end shows /
windows and the back part ~, making
in all 81 windows. The walls will be
pilastcrcd and 10 inches thick.
Mr.. Kelton requests us to say to the
"moss- backs who have loatcd around
Winchester until the green moss has
grown upon their backs" to inform
themselves by reading the Home Jour
nal, and to not intcrrogatc the "boss
so much, as its getting monotonous. He
extends an invitation to the boys to 90
up some night--aftcr supper
Mr.. Kelton certainly has the cham
pion brck-mouldcr. He says Jerry"
can mould $1,000 from sun-up till sun
down, and that he has moulded as high .
It's $500 in half day.
Circuit Court convened last Monday
morning-Judgc j, j. Williams on the
bench, We give n list of the jurors:
Grand Jury.--A Champion, Stephen
Carter, Thos Gore, | w Anderson, b +
Holder, } Il Cowan, John Neal, VIM
Lynch, jr., Graves Pennington, Lewis .
Wcddington, Joe Carter, ST., j X
Buckncr, and James WS't. Thos Gore,
foreman VIM Bass, officer.
Traverse jury NJ Kelly, VIM
Ford, Henry Weaver, b Kimbro, c.
Martin, b + Crabtrcc, 7 Finncy, } B
Stamcs, b j Taylor, Sam Norwood, W |
W Gossagc, j Nicholson, j II Roddy, !
l. W Millsaps, G l. Jones, p J. Hud-
gins, } l. Hatchett, A b Garner, ID $
Long, Peter Green, A } Hines, G. W
Evans and l. IL Hall
After II strict charge to the Grand
Jury, the Court proceeded to business,
The first case on the dockct-Ccm Ar
ledge admir-, vs.. n. & G. Railroad-was
called III the afternoon The attorneys
moved for change of venue. The mo-
ton was ovcrrulcd, and the case was
continued until next term. This is Il
damage suit for the killing Of VIM Gar
ncr at the bridge disaster on the Win. !
& Ala. Railroad. The case was tried
several months since, when the jury re-
turned verdict Of 500, 600 damages for
complainant, and Judge Williams set it
aside as excessive.
Several other cases were called during
the day. and all continued.
Next week we will cndeavor to report
the proceedings Of the Court to dato
but will have to rely on the clever Dep
uty Circuit Court Clerk (Mr. Frank
Lcfcbcr) for assistance.
We also propose, in our next, to give
a short sketch of each Grand Juryman.
Deputy County Court Clerk, NJ. {.
Forbes, is busy making out the tax
book (for 1881 under the new assess
mcnt law. He has promised to furnish
Us a tabulated report as soon as he fin
isles his labors, and we will lay it be-
fore our readers. Below is his estimate
for this, the 1st district
Value Of propcrty----------s43o,lo V
Poll tax--------S 60 90
State tnx------------ 1865 "a
County tax .--------- 1888 OF
School tax---------- 1,640 IS
Total. ----------S4, 539 O3
The road tax for this district amounts
to s242G2. There Is also railroad
and telegraph tax, which has not yet
been made out.
The total valuation of property, real
IL Il IL. il.n