The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27
Refreshing rain since our last.


business.
County Court Quarterly term) mex
Monday.
Shoddy jewelry is quite fashionable
hereabouts of late.
Happy are those who are able t,
clay in" coal for winter.
We learn that there are now 100 pu
pills at Mary Sharp College.
The killing of Tom. Hill by Texa,
mob turns out TO be hoax.
Happy Winchester. We have nc
Nuptial or Natal Associations.
Our new county officers are moving
along smoothly with their work.
Visitors to our town of late are as
sea rec as money in printing-office.
Our Circuit Court Clerk has two di-
vorce-bill advertisements in this issue.
Lawyers and lovers both do great
deal of unsatisfactory counting Stolen
The Marriage Associations are causing
marriages that have Eeen hanging
fire" for long time.
The reports circulating in the coun-
try in regard to smallpox here are SIM
ply lies. There is no smallpox in VIM
chester, and hasn't been in the last three
weeks.
Hon w. c. Houston, chairman of
the Congressional Executive Committee
for this Congressional District, has is
sued call for convention to meet at
Tuilahoma October IL to nominate a
candidate for Congress.
At Packers Station, in jackson
county, Ala, few days since, MIR.
Bone Keith, formerly Of this county,
was stabbed and dangerously wounded
by a man named Mccullough. The
attack was unprovoked. Mccullough
fled the country.
We direct the attention OF our read
ers to the advertisement of Messrs. p.
~ S. Lenehan. in This issue. These
gentlemen, having adopted the cash
system, have put their goods at Hrock
bottom" prices, and ask that those hav-
ing the money to pay, and needing any
thing in their line, give them a call.
We bespeak for them large trade.
Judge Williams being unable to hold
Court at Altamont, last week, on ac-
count of sickness, and the Governor
falling to commission some one to act as
special Judge, the legal fraternity con-
ferred that honor upon Mr.. Scott Da-
Wis, of our town. 1t is said that Mr..
Davis ''wore the judicial robe with
great credit and unprecedented dignity"
Mr.. Samuel A. Cross. formerly of
this county, but for several years past a
prominent merchant at Manchester and
Wartrace, died at the latter place last
Thursday morning, of consumption.
Deceased was brother to Mrs. A. G.
Plumlee, of our town. He leaves wife
and two children. His remains were
brought to this county and inferred
near Salem
Mrs. Campbell, wife of Rev. James
Campbell, of our town, died last Mon
day evening, aged about 20 years. She
had been confined to her bed for sew
eral years. She was highly esteemed
for her many good qualities, and the
fortitude with which she bore her years
of affection was remarkable. We ex-
tend our sympathies to the bereaved
husband Funeral services by Rev. p.
A. Lyon, 2 p. m. to-day. at residence.
Friends and acquaintance requested to
attend.
Rev. G. T. Quintard, Bishop of Ten
nessee, delivered lecture to the Win
chester Normal school last Monday, on
the subjects of Cathedrals, Architecture,
&C., in Europe. His lecture was too
lengthy for us to even attempt to give
synopsis of it in our limited space. Suf-
flee to say that it was delivered in the
Bishops usual pleasant and happy
style, was richly interspersed with hui
NOR, and the large audience showed ap-
probation by the close attention given
throughout the lecture.
On Saturday, the 9TH day of October,
there will be held Teachers Institute
at Cowan, commencing promptly at 10
o'clock. Everybody invited to attend,
especially the teachers of both the pub
lie and private schools. The following
is the programme for the occasion:
Opening exercises, with prayer and
song. g Addition demonstrated, by
Prof. j. w. Terrlll. g. Grammar, by
b Jones. 4. Geography, by Miss Mat
tie Estill. 5. Reading, by Mrs. Collie
Terrill. 6. Manner of putting ques-
tion, by County Superintendent.
MARRIED AT the residence of the
brides mother, (Mrs. Mary A. Green,
Sunday night, Sept. oath, 1882, by
Rev. Il. w. Officer, Mr.. Simeon Vena-
bic to Miss George w. Green. All of
this place.
We congratulate sSim." on his sue
cess in winning SO noble lady as a
partner for life, and most heartily wish
for both all the happiness which their
real worth SO justly merits. May they
never have any troubles, but if they do,
may they be little ones.