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

fifty cents on the dollar
Thirty drumners visited Natchez il
February, and paid $75 privilege taxes
In the Cherokee nation there are To-
schools where the English language i
taught.
There are 220 students at the SOutl
Georgia Agricultural College, at Thorn
asville.
The granite for the base of the Cow
pens monument is arriving at Spartan
burg, s. c.
1t is alleged that the oysters found of
the Texas coast are the largest and finest
in the world.
A license to sell liquor in Nebraska
costs $1,000, which shows that theil
drinks are dear to them out there.
Lizzie Crompton, aged seven, of Pat
erson, N. j., jumped rope IT'S times
and then stopped few minutes to die
WINDOWS home is in Minnesota, he
was born in Ohio, married in Massachu'
SETS and he lives in Washington,
A bill has been filed in Chancery con-
testing the title of lands covering large
part of the fifth ward of Cha. tanooga,
Tenn.
Strawberries cultivated near Charles
ton, S. c., are expected to yield 1000,
600 quarts for the Northern markets
from $50 acres of land.
Thomas Smith, of New York, who re-
Gently compelled his young son to keep
the track in walking match, was fined
800 and sent to prison, for ten days.
A bill has passed both houses of the
Florida Legislature taking Sumter county
from the First Congressional district
and transferring it to the Second.
Kansas druggists, according to the new,
absurd law, can not sell camphor, CO.
logne or havoring extracts into which
alcohol enters without the prescription
of physician.
The Prescott (Ark) Dispatch say
that there are seventy-fve saw mills on
the line of railroad between Little Rock
and Texarkana, and timber enough for
$50 more.
Miss Mary Maury, of Milton, N. c.,
who was engaged to be married to Thos
DeJamettc, who is now under sentence
of death for shooting his sister in a low
house, has married Il Mr.. Charles Cor
don.
A correspondent of the Savannah (Ga. }
News SAYS that the largest tea plantation
in the United States is located about
fifteen miles from Fleming. Fleming is
about twenty-four miles southwest of
Savannah in Liberty county.
Karl Gerhardt, a Hartford draughts-
man, modelled so fine figure Of his wife
in clay that Mark Twain and Charles
Dudley Warner have sent him to Europe
for education in sculpture.
The Money Order Superintendent at
New York says the NJ. o. Department is
only sixteen years old. The smallest
money order ever sent was one cent.
Last year over SlOOOOO,OOO was sent
through the department.
Two of the Texas Congressman ere
Georgians. DIN WelIborn began his
legal career in Atlanta, and moved to
Texas in 1868. ID. B. Culberson went
from LaGrange to the army, and then
to Texas as Adiutant General of that
State.
Garfield kissed the Bible ON the TWEEN
tv-frst chapter of Proverbs, and the
verses he kissed were these: every
way of man is right in his own eyes,
but the Lord pondereth the hearts"
"To do Justice and judgment Is more ac-
ceptable to the Lord than sacrifice"
The Maine liquor law is still supposed
to be in force in that State, and the Leg
islature is still loyal to the prohibitory
statute so long upon the Maine books;
but for the refreshment of the inner man
engaged in the Maine Legislature, liquor
is made quite accessible to the capitol
building in Augusta.
The Texas Legislature is said to have
passed a resolution requiring that women
81, all be employed in the State depart
ments for every position that they are
competent to fill upon the same terms
and conditions as men. The heads of
departments, it appears, have hitherto
declined to give the women any public
employment.
The Rev. DIR. Philip Schaf, Chairman
of the Bible Revision Committee, an
nouaces that the Revised New Testament
will be published by the English Univer-
sity presses in May, in different sizes and
styles of binding at corresponding prices.
The new Bible is protected by copyright
in England and free in this country.
VIM. |. johnson, caressingly called
Buckshot Bill, Chief of United States
Scouts, is authorized interpreter in four
teen Indian tongues and speaks eleven
more. Bill was once taken prisoner by
Split Nose, Comanche, and saw eleven
of his comrades burned. He says he has
III scalps hanging in the Smithsonian
Institute taken by his own hands.
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