The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-02-01
CHIT-CHAT.

Chanccry Court next Monday.
Have you been vaccinated?
Oh, what has become Of the Band +?
Boys, we love you as much as ever
Mirabilc dictu Our new barber is
III love.
Oh, the snow, the eautiful"-Jong.
Served us right.
Read the town ordinances and trem-
bic, ye law-breakers.
Winchester boasts of Il "black fox.
We're Frank about this.
If you find anything d'staslclul to
you in this column, skip it.
The geosc-bone says we will have Sc
we're weather this month.
Jim Taylor had his head pruned last
Sunday. lie is becoming aesthetic.
The most miserable men in the world
are those who are slaves to strong
drink.
How many of our fnely-drrsscd
young men are worth the clothes they
wear?
There are more new rcsdcntcrs in our
town than ut any time previous since
the war.
How natural it is for some people to
know about other folks business than
they do Of their own.
Our new town marshal takes well 10
his position. He is right handy in Il
barter shop, too.
Tommic Embrcy not having sense
enough to make merchant, has com
mencs reading law.
Joe. \. Garter has been looking Il.
pleasing rs Il basket OF chips" for the
past week or two, It's II boy.
See here, you swcar-oiis. Isn't it
rather early in the year to com
mence slipping in at the back door.
Winchester is aesthetic, but is not III
debted to Oscar Wilde for being 50.
She has ever been aesthetic.
The post-oilicc is getting to be great
place Tor some young men to show a
want Of manners.
There is some dissatisfaction about
the ordinance requiring business-Aoasc,
to close at ~ o'clock ut night.
Little Stephen Carter is the quictcst
most unassuming and best business boy
according to his aye, We ever knew.
How near heaven young man feel.
when he falls iii love. And nine time.
out OF ten he feels nearer the other place
if he marrics the girl.
Some of the lady members Of IT,,
Methodist Church are soliciting funds e
put new roof on the church. building
Iiclp the good cause.
Candidates who think there is a pgos
poet Of being elected announce III tAcIl
county paper. Those vino do not tina.
announce run 'just for fun"
at may be months, darling, bcfor,
We meet again" has beena tavor,tc son.
with George 7. since he returned from
his late court-lng expedition.
We don't blame Joe Carter (railroa,
Joc) for worshippng his sweetheart
Fight it out, my boy. 1t is seldom tina
You will find 50 much sweetness tanglcl
up in SO small bundle
II seems to MS that if the new boarC
want notice to reach the eyes Of tn
citizens they should put it in the paper
a written notice posted in the post-oIIic
is read by only IL few.
johnnie jackson is a mighty ME
young man. Face always clean an,
shiny, hair neatly combcd, and his fac
bca ming with honesty. Johnnie, dds
thou ever love2
We don't mind seeing persons VIII,
have the worldly goods TO back then
putting on style, but we are uncquiyo
cally opposed to pauper aristocracy
and will fight il out on this line.
The street committee had some need
cd work done on High street last week
w. c. flaming, A. j Caldwell, Alton
10 Days and Marion Tanning did tn
work, and it was the biggest days wcrl
ever done by four men on our streets
Major jack Greer, Of, Bedford coun
ty, stand up. Give an account Of your
self during the late holidays. You
friends here are grieving over repor
circulated against you couple of wecl;
since. Tom. Gregory and VIII Robcr
son cried themselves 10 slcepeVcry lilSN
for week.
DR.. .Jno. J. w. Payne is the largc>
man in town; John Burrough is tn
smallest George Thompson is I'll
talIest; Sim Nenablc is the fanciest
Johnnie Hutchins is the politest; job
Martin is the laughingest, and "Gun
Forbes is the funniest.
We have adopted this column agai
with the hope that it will be apprcci
ted by our many readers. While VI
were running the chit-chat department
Il year or two since, we were often To-
that our style was distastetul to n majo
ity of our readers, hence its discont