Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1870-10-20
State Comptroller P~ennebaker is very

O'oeo NohiP'AohoA Cnueoaker ~ very
i'll.
Fifty-two deaths occurred in Memphis
last week.
The Shelby county fair closed at Mem
phis last Saturday.
The State Sunday School Convention
will be held In the city of Nashville, COM
mencing on the I'd of November next. at
10 o'clock, A.. NJ.
D.. G. Martin. a brakeman on the Mem
phis. GAINESVILLE and Louisville railroad,
was knocked from the train at Crooked
Creek, on Thursday last and instantly
killed.
Ohio holds 1928 county and local fairs
this year, being a larger number than any
other State can boast of.
Illinois now ranks next to Ohio, and is
the fourth State in the Union in point of
population and political and general i'm
portance.
The health of James Gordon Bennett.
is gradually growing worse, and his death
may occur at any moment.
Tennessee. Michigan. North Carolina,
West Virginia and Wisconsin are the only
States which report the prospect for buck
wheat above or up to an average.
Highwaymen attacked a stage coach
near Somerset. KY, the other day and
captured the mail.
drowned in lodging a potatoe thrown
by VIM. Stubbs," was the verdict of a
Toledo jury.
In the obituary columns of a Philadel-
phia paper last week appeared notices of
the deaths Of twelve persons who had
reached the age of 80.
1t is said that, at the lowest ejaculation,
three hundred thousand bales of cotton
will be made in Georgia during the pres
ent season, and that the wheat crop is the
finest ever gathered in the State.
The meeting of the Grand Information
al Division of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers will take place at the
capitol in Nashville next week.
IT is positively announced that Secre-
tary Cox has rendered his resignation to
the President, that it has been accepted,
and that the General will retire from the
Interior Department as soon as his annual
report is completed. We canno but re-
gard this as a national calamity.
The corn crop of the United States is
unprecedently large. From Cincinnati to
st. Louis the whole country is almost lit
orally one great cornfield. Added to the
extraordinary crop in the old producing
States, hundreds of thousands of bushels
have been marketed from Kansas and other
States west of the Mississippi, which have
never before cultivated beyond their own
capacity for consumption.
The Columbia Herald says that the yield
of cotton in Maury county is going to be
far in excess of the anticipations, or rather
the fears entertained by the farmers sever
al months ago. Much yet depends, of
course, upon the weather, but we believe
that we can safely predict a far better
crop than that of last year. The cotton
stalks are unusually large, which prevents
the cotton from opening as early a usual.
but the very favorable state of the wealth
err during September, has prevented any
serious injury in the shape of rotton bolls.
THE Cheese factories in the United
States in 1868 numbered 1872, and since
they have been increased to over 1000.
The cheese product, under the factory
system, it is stated, has raised from one
hundred and five million pounds in 1860
to two hundred and forty million pounds
in 1868, while the demand in the latter
year exceeded the supply by seventy-two
million pounds. The entire dairy pro-
duct of the United States in 1868, it is
estimated, was worth four hundred mil
lions of dollars. No part of the country
is better adapted to this business than
East Tennessee.