The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-01
Personal AND LITERARY.

Prof. Storer, q blind musician Of
North Adams, Mass, has been appoint
ed teacher in tho Royal College for
the Blind at London.
--Wilkie Collins is paying tho PEN
atty for trespassing upon the capacity
OF that most abused organ of the hui
man anatomy-the eye. His sight Is
failing, and he can no longer read or
write. Ho is dependent upon an aman'
uensis. NJ y Independent.
-Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour. Of
New York, insists that he is an old man,
and il is true that he suffers from physi-
cal weakness in his legs, which disables
him seriously in walking; but he retains
his old simplicity of manner and con-
vcrsation. as well as vigor Of mind
Chicago Journal.
MIR. and Mrs. Squibbs, of Sullivan
! County, Tennessee, were married about
two years ago. and now seven little
Squibbses make it interesting for the
fond parents. Three Of them were
born about year ago, and the quar-
tets are but q week or two old. This
squib is the eighth.
William S. Jett, the man who led
the soldiers to the hiding place Of
Wilkes Booth after the assassination of
President Lincoln, and who, for his
connection with the capture of Booth
and Harold, has been immortalized In
history, was a few days ago sent to the
Maryland State Insane Asylum raying
lunatic.-M y Herald.
One Of the most noted women in
New York journalism is Miss MILDLY
Morgan, who does the cattle reports for
four New York papers, among them the
Tribune and Times. She has acquired
u fund Of knowledge OF cattle and
horses, both on the farm and turf, which
may DO envied by the most experienced
male sportsmen.
Mr.. Mudford, who controls the Lon
don Standard. is sometimes called the
irresponsible editor" Though he
owns no share in the paper, the late
proprietor's confidence in him was SC
great that he provided in his will that
Mr.. Mudford should have sole contro
of the paper while he lived, or as long
as he might see fit to retain it.
1t is not generally known, says the
Philadelphia Press, that Mr. JoscPh
Sailer who has recently retired from
the financial editorship of the Phila-
deIphia Ledger, was not only the oldese
editor in that position in this country,
but the first to write regular money
article for any daily paper. as tho
Ledger was the first in this country to
| or;rt a oonav artiCle
In little red cottage on the shore
of lake called the Bowl, near Lenox,
Mass, Hawthorne wrote 1.-The House
of the Seven Gables" Mr.. j. 7. Fields
used to tell of carrying out to him there
one hundred dollars in advance OF work
but after accepting, Hawthorne's sensi
tiveness found the obligation irksome
and he handed 1t back. "Take II
Fields" said he; 1.-THE house isn't bi
enough to hold IT,
The bad cowboy from Bitter Cree
, was on the Comstock last night. h
!, went into the Gem saloon and thus de
, scribed himself: "I'm q race-horse
an advance and tortoise in retreat
a When you hear my voice above N
racket Won kin begin to measure y
land for a grsyeyardl" About this I'm
The .,raoe- horse" found himself douoio'
m IN 4 corner, and - he sadly wipe.
: tie dfippina blood from his nose ~ y
; %,,ic;ng upper lip be exclaimed
S;JsM maan 20 cast no slurs onto tnn
! u .,sas fcr here know Ne lands uess-
3 pprsS pS n and The graveyard eseablished'
T;rri,sin r Nev. Enterprise.