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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-12-07
PREFERENTIAL PROSPECTS.

The coming year will witness another
important era in the history of the Amer
lean people. No less important duty de-
wolves on the people Of the United States
than that of selecting Chief Magistrate
for this country. The doings of the pres
ant administration must, within the next
twelve months be passed upon by the peo-
pie and their verdict at the ballot box
must settle the future policy of the gov
srnmen for the next four years as to
many questions of national Importance
The recent elections have settled one ques-
Zion aver in the minds of the Democracy.
The next President will be a Republican /;
and the only issue in the coming cam
paign will be whether a Republican of the
Grant School will be chosen or one of that
milder type known as Conservative or
moderate.
The Democracy arc loud in their COM
plants Of what they term the de-potism
exercised by the present administration
toward tho people Of the South, and yet,
until within a few months, there has been
but very little interference on the part of
the General Government in the affairs of
she South. As a general thing they have
been allowed to manage their domestic
Affairs after their own fashion, and not IN
I'll their State Governments had proved a
failure and a farce did the Federal Au-
thoritiss interfere.
Any Government is . failure that does
not provide ample protection to its hum
blest citizen in the exercise of the rights
guaranteed him by the Constitution. This
IL what the the Southern State Govern
ments have failed to do. Where the
United States authorities have found sufh-
eient cause to warrant the arrest of hun
dreds Of confessed malefactors, and even
70 suspend the writ of haJeas corpus the
States themselves have never deemed it
necessary to interfere in any way or to
saase the arrest of q single individual.
These facts arc we'll known to the great
mas Of the people and their response in
che Late elections may safely be taken as a
signal of approval of the course adopted
by the administration
Tho South has Done itself great injury
By permitting these acts of lawlessness
which haze at last forced the General
Government into adopting strong meas
ures to suppress them, and it has not only
impaired its own interests pecuniary as
we'll as every other. but it has ruined the
Democratic party. and blasted it's last
hsps of obtaining control of the coun-
wy.
We can see nothing row to prevent the
election of q Republican fer the next
President, and there is small room for
doubt that Grant will be the man.
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promises that the experience of reform
shall havea fair trial.
WASHINGTON, Dec. blair offered
a resolution in the Senate to day, being
the same as that offered by Beck in the
House, making inquiry regarding the en-
forcement of the kuklux law. 1t went
over under objection.
The message was read. Adjourned.
Aspecia1 to the Knoxville Chronicle,
dated Washington, December a, says:
The Presidents message was delivered
to-day. 1t is enthusiastically received
and is considered as completely overwhel-
ming his opponents.
1t is regarded by all as eminently prac-
teal, able and spacious. The Presi-
dents friends are greatly encouraged,
while his enemies are COMPOUNDED and
deeply chagrined.
Both Houses of Congress are organized.
The House committees are generally SAT-
isfactory. Dawes. of Massachusetts, is
chairman of the Committee on Ways and
Means. General J. A. Garfield, Ohio, is
chairman of the Committee on Apptropri-
lions. Poland, of Vermont, is chair
man of the Committee on Insurrectionary
States.
Hon. Horace Maynard is honored with
the second place on the Ways and Means
Committee, and also on the Committee on
Insurrectionary States.
Mr.. Dawes is a fair tariff man.
Revenue Reformers'' are. disappointed
but not alarmed.
The Claims Committee, as now consti-
tuted, is regarded as rather favorable to
the South. Ben Butler has been rather
sighted.
Congressional legislation will be eau
tious and limited.
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THE LAST RESORT.

Since the fall of that Colossus of pri-
vate corruption and political dishonesty
in New York, the infamous Ring of Tam
dmnny, the Democracy of the entire ma
ton has been at sea. The foul conspiracy
held all sections in thrall, in the manage
meat and control Of national elections. Its
behests were so imperative and absolute,
backed BY millions of stolen money, that
DO democrat could command a successful
influence against it. A rcmorselcss rigor
OF punishment and persecution ~effectually
suppressed all refractions and party trea-
sons. So long had these expressions and
dictations been carried on that they bad
become a vast regular system, supporting
and yitallzing the Democratic party. AS
p . consequence, when Tammany was hurled
TO ruin for its unparalleled iniquities and
villainics, its established plans were COM
pletely disconnected, and the Democratic
ranks were precipitatcd into confusion
and Generalization. The leaders them
selves were panic-stricken. and were I'M
able to gather together the scattered frag-
ments Of the universal wreck. The Val
-lsndigham movement proved q miserable
and fatal failure. Other expedicnts were
suggested to meet the dark ordeals that
had 80 suddenly and unexpectedly befallen
them, and shared the same fatality. The
d~ethronenent of Tammany darkened eve
~ hope and placed a signet of despair and
defeat upon every effort. All idea of
running a democratic candidate for the
Presidency, has been abandoned by even
the most sanguine and ambitious leaders.
Only the weaker and more ignorant re-
fuse to acknowledge the death of the par
~, and demand that a candidate shall be
in the field. But the Democrats can
not surrender their enmity to President
Grant and his administration. His mas
terly Generalship in the field, telling. with
sAe belaest sad peverees strokes. tseir CT ]
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Negro Killed I'm Lincoln.

.Weilearn from the Fayetteville -Obser-
yer that on Thursday last a negro man
named Henry Harris was killed FIVE miles
from Fayetteville. He was driving a team
and stopping in Norris Creek. walked out
on the tongue to loosen the brides, sothat
the horses might drink. & Whilst thus en-
gagged, the animals became frightened and
ran away, The driver managed to get
back into the wagon, and subsequently
jumped out, but his clothing caught on a
hook and he was dragged beetwen a quar-
ter and half a mile. His skull was frac-
turcd in three places.-Banner. sH3 aee
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t'1PURGATIvE Pills have become a set
tied necessity with the American people.
Indeed, cathartics always have been and
always must be used, in some form, by
all mankind. In this country the pilular
form of administration has been growing
i'm favor since pills were FIRST made of
Aloes and Rhubarb, rolled into a ball.
Their high position in the public conf
dence has finally been secured and fasten-
ed into pcrmancncy by AYERS CATHAR-
Lie PILLS the most skillful combination
OF medicine for the diseases they are in
tended to cure, that science can devise or
art produce. Those who need pills, no
longer hesitate what pills to take if they
can got Ayers P~ILLs.-Wheeling, (Va.)
Press E. Z@l1aa,1 = sa 81 "'
u ANNos
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Terrible AFFAIR at spring Hill.
A special dispatch to the Nashville
Banner says:

y speclal OlSpapcn 10 INC Nasn'iIie
Banner says:
SPRING HILL, December 1, 1871.
A most lamentable occurrence took place
here yesterday. which came near terminal
ing in a terrible tragedy, and which has
occasioned no little excitement in Spring
Hill and vicinity.
j. L. McKissack. a member of one of
the oldest and most respectable families
of Maury County, during a temporary fit
of insanity yesterday, attempted to take
the life of his mother, his two sisters and
a young child.
1t appears that some time ago he had,
in self-defense killed a negro, and since
that time his friends declare he has been
laboring under great mental distress,
from having heard a preacher recently say,
taking his text from Judges, o man
who shed another's blood, whatever the
circumstance of the act, could possibly
hope for salvation"
This sermon and these particular words
seemed to have gravely impressed him at
the moment, and it was soon thereafter
observed that his mind was affected. Yet
while he was known to be insane, he was
believed to be harmlss, and no effort was
made torestrain his movements.
Yesterday morning as his sister, Mis- T.
McKissack, was going down stairs with
his W child in her arms, he erept steal
thily upon her from behind and struck her
a fearful blow on the head with a Ratchet,
telling her to the floor. Passing over her
PROSTATE form, as it lay in a pool of blood,
he went into his mothers room, finding
her there sprang upon her with the fury of
4 mailman, and cut her with the Ratchet,
inficting three different wounds, one
wound in the head, leaving a dangerous
rupture. But for the almost superhuman
efforts of Mrs. Robert j. Moore, (another
sister of Mckissack's), who happened to
be in the room at the time, and who, with
marvellous presence of mind, realized the
situation of affairs and came to the rescue,
there is no doubt but that Mrs. MeKissack
would have been killed.
Mrs. Moore engaged in a desperate
struggle with him, during which he gashed
her with the Ratchet under the left ear,
but she finally wrested it from him by
main force. He then drew a razor from
his pocket and cut himself badly in the
left side, though looking at himself IN a
mirror while doing so, after which he rush
ed out into the street, made a deep cut in
the other side, though by this ju%ncture
his father and brother came up and rescued
him from himself. He cried out wildly
that he had killed them all at home, but
could not explain the frantic impulse
which had induced him to do the deed.
He now lies in a critical condition. DR..
White, the attending physician, thinks
Mrs. KeMissack, his mother, and Miss T.
o. McKissack, his sister, may possibly re-
cover. fH3f7 fi
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JONESBORO DISTRICT.
HeIstom Conference M. Il. Church
S0uth.

Jonesboro' Crit, at Spedwell, Nov. IS
10.
Watauga Crit. and Taylorsville mis-
sion at Henson's Chapel, Nov. 25-26.
Fall Branch Crit. Blountyille. Dec. 1G-
IL.
st. Clair Crit. at st. Clair, Dec. 30-31.
Greeneville Crit. at Kidwelrs Jan. CT.
Newport Crit. at Parrottsyille Jan. 20
81.
Rheatown Crit. at Rheatown- Jan. 27-
%.
Jonesboro' Station, Dec. 1921.
Meeting of the Board of District Stew
ards, at S~peedwell, Jonesboro' Crit. Nov.
18th. TIE members of the board are
Henry Hoss, VIM. +. Reeves, +. d. Mas
sengale. Isaac Boring, G. W. Nelson, Da-
vid Davault, HI. Ell. Mourley. f. NJ. East
erly and A. J. Mcbride. Please attend
brethren. WIN. HICKS, p. e.
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it is designed to be an intimation to Spain
if that power is 50 weak as to be unable
to secure peace and good order in the is
land in case of an insurrection or other
grave disturbance, this feet will be used
in such case for the protection of Ameri-
can citizens and interests in Cuba, if needs
be, to the full extent of the Government.
-Erchnnne
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WASHINGTON COUNTY
Agricultural ind Mechanical
SOcse tY.

To the Stockholders Of said Society:
A Ta1neeting of the Board Of Directors
"A on~tlIe goth inst, it was ordered that
the third enstallment of the Capital Stock
subscribed to said Society, be the entire
amount due. after paying the first and
secOndinstallnents. heretofore called for:
aud that the Subscribers of said Stock
nave ten days notice. through the news
papers in which to pay the same oyer to
DIR. w, w. Bowel, Treasurer ofthe So
ciety.
1t Is hoped that all will come forward
promptly and meet this and all other calls
not heretofore paid, and assist in making
the institution an honor to the people OF
this county.
We are determined to have a Fair next
Year, that will compete with any in the
State. 49,
Done by order ofthe Board Of Directors
TIL. REEVES.
noyS5w2 Secretly.
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Cuba.

There was no mention whatever made
at the Cabinet meeting to-day, concerning
the events at Havana, nor has any recent
intelligence been received from that quar-
ter. It,was said this afternoon by a gen.
tleman prominently connected with the
Administration, that we have no quarrel
with the Spanish authorities, and the re-
turn of the North Atlantic squadron in
Cuban waters, was from prudential con
siderations only. Tie Government viii
hereafter. and until a better condition of
things exist in the Island of Cuba. keepa
strong naval force in the Cuban waters.
While this will have no hostile significance.
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United States Hotel.
Cor. Fulton, Water and Pearl
STRAITS N. Y.

TyIIIS well known ~favorite hotel has re-
Gently been renovated, remodeled
and furnished new and elegantly through
ont. 1t is kept on the European plan, and
has ample accommodations for four hun
dred guests. :,
The location is more accessible to all
parts of New York and Brooklyn than
any other house i'm the city. The Broad
way Stages pass the hotel every three
minutes besides various lines of Street
Cars, one of which intersects every other
route in New York.
1t being bat two blocks from Fulton
Ferry, makes it convenient for those wish
ing to visit the ssCity of Churches" as
from this ferry diverge all the principal
Railroad routes in the city of Brooklyn.
GEO. N. TERRY,
Jw71nov23w3 Proprietor.
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In Chancery at Jonesboro'

isp In Chancery at Jonesoolo
John +. GrislIam, Administrator
Squibb, deed. VS.. Isaac RorebaeA-''
ginal Attachment
TT appearing from the allegation, .di
lbill that the defendant Isaac hoVpordf
residence is unknown,i it Is therefore,
ed that publication be made for Ig5hr,
cessive weeks in the Herald ana l,. IN
q Newspaper published in tie 1OsJJdr
Jonesboro. Tennessee, notifying Tgoah
PENDANT TO appear before our Sa,o dryd
of Chancery, on the fourth honSg b
November next. and plead, ans"Sflb
demur to said bill, or the same .,nSt q
taken as confessed and set for heai"'
parte. Sept. 8, 1871. ,,s
b. F. SWINGLE, Clerk and N"
septl4w4pfS5
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A FINE A r
COR E E.

I WISH TO SELL NY FARM OF AIa
i Acres, located near Brownsboro.
Washington County, Tennessee. which is
now in q very fine state of cultivation.
Eighty acres of it is of the best quality
o~friver. bottom. -. tTf'
VIII sell for one-half cash In par funds.
n the balance OIL time.
For further particulars, parties wish
ing to buy can address me at Brownsboro.
Washington County, Tenn DIT !
JACOB BROWN.
nOy23wl*
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washington Chapter.

At the regular stated communication
of Washington Chapter, No. 81, held on
Friday, Dec. 1st, 1871, the following OFF,
GERS were chosen for the ensuing year:
A. r. Piper, High Priest; Max L. May
er, King; Samuel Guggenheimer, Scribe;
Thos. III. Reeves, G. H.; A. G.. Mason,
Prin. Sol; CIV Meek, Royal Arch Capt.
Jas. G. Mason, Master Sd Veil; James NJ.
Osborne, Master I'd Veil; NJ. S. Mahoney,
Master 1st Veil; Jacob Adler, Treasurer;
John S. Mathes, Secretary; William Z.
Head, Sentinel.
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Geld weather.

Old winter has been with us this week,
in his glory of frosted locks and ice
CRYSTALS. But few of our country friends
have had the temerity to brave the cold.
and consequently the town and trade
have been exceedingly dull.
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Circuit Court at Jonesbore ugh
State Of Tennessee, Washington County

MIthchen VS. ID Il BrObeck, ct al
IN this case it appearing from the petit
Il ton that the defendants Archibald
Mathes Allen Mathes and William Mathes
are non residents of the State of Tennes-
sec. 1t is therefore ordered that publica-
ton be made for fOur successive weeks in
the HERALD AND TRIBUNE. anewspaper
published in the town of Jonesboio o, Tenn
notifying them to appear before the Cir
cut court to be held at the Court House.
in .Ionesboro on the Second Monday after
the fourth Monday in November 1871 and
make their defeuse to the petition or the
So me will be set for hearing ex parte.
nov9w4pfS5 c.. WHEELER, Clerk.
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WILL
All Those Who Suffer
E, n FROM vg e s4,s-
or Cough
~ PLEASE 81
Read the Following Letter?


MOUNT VERNON, ILL.,, April 20, 1870.
Messrs. j. n. Harris & Co.., Cincinnati, O.
GENTLEMEN I'll heard one of my Gus
toners speak in such high terms of Aliens
Lung Balsam to-day, that / thought |
would write to you the substance of his
statement: He says his mother who is now
SIXTY YEARS OF AGE had SUFFERED
with CONSUMPTION for SEVERAL YEARS
and has been under the care of ALL OUR
BEST PHYSICIANS. but never received
I any permanent benefit then she resorted
to most every kind of Cough and Lung
Balsam that could be procured for her,
But ALL TO NO AVAIL. She still grew
worse. until she was confined to her bed;
and when she was seized with a paroxism
of coughing she would LOSE THE POWER
OF RESPIRATION, and they were COM
PEELED to restore breathing; and while she
coughed so hard she could not expeeto-
rate anything, and the family and friends
bad given up all hopss of her recovery.
Her son noticed that advertisements of
Aliens Lung Balsam in the Christian Adj
vocate. and they thought they would pro-
cure and try it.. They commenced giving
her the Baisam at D p. M. as directed. a
dose every hour until midnight: then she
took another spell of coughing and ex-
perforated a mouth full of dark, yellow
matter. which WAS something she had not
been able to do for some time. They con
tinued to give her the Balsam unit morn
ing ahu tnCh snc UcSdn 10 eNpcctOfdte
freely, and within two hours she a Elk
Perforated THREE PINTs of mucu-
matter, which gave her Immediate relief:
and since that time size has continued to
improve. She now, sits. up all day. and
can walk about the house and take con- |
Siderable outdoor exercise. Her son |
bought more of the Balsam to-day, and
he is Recommending it very highly to eve
~ ono. Yours respectfully, |
A. C. JOHNSON, Druggist.
Was there ever greater proof of merit
than the case this letter refers or III
ALIENS LUNG BALSAM is yyithout
doubt the BEST ExPECTORANT REuEnv
ever offered to the offiicted public. IT
no opium in any form, and IFS
use il harmless to the most delicate. *
Directions accompany each bottle
BeA- For sale by all Medicine Dealers.
sslege CAUTION. - /
Call for "ALLEN'S LUNG M !
and shun the use of any other balsam ae
unprincipled men may deceive Won u;fb !
worthless preparations. "f
Dea- Sold by all Jonesboro, Druoo;.t.
e. J. SANFoR& & CO., Knoxy1le.
ufrbfsvs2-trpeI-c-getp g,.n "a +
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Sheriff Sale.

RI WRIT Il of a vendi. exponas
issued from the CiIaneery Court of
County, State Of Tennessee, /
VIII expose to public sale at the door of
tne Court House in E~lizabethton on the
Zod day of December, 1871, for cash In
hahd, allthe right, title, claim and inter-
est that Isaac Grindstaff, VIM. Grindstaff
n Nicholas Grindstaff, heirs at law of
aD y Grindstaff, deco, have in and to
2O0s acres of land living and situate in the
I'm civil district, of Carter County Tenn.
aoloining the lands of Benjamin Cole,
John Nj. smith, and others. to satisfy a
Judgement which Ii. A. Jenkins. admir-.
~ Nh. Jenkins, decd, obtained against
them for 1878 35 and costs. Said land
VIII pc sold unless debt and costs arc
sooner paid This 25th day of September
.aIlsJ.W. ORR, Sheriff of CarterCo.g
y lqIe4. oat by We'd. FOLSOM, ID. 8.
q oct5w4pf 90 20 ~ - IA argf
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Sheriff Sale.

INOBEDIENCE toa venGi. tes
lfrom the Circuit Court at it, Al NJ
1871, and to me directed, p~ronounsts@
said Court hpon.a Judgment d'~ssR.
the sum of s2S7 9S in favor oil 1rheuS
admir-, of the estate OF ipeaei
King, decd, and against Ist.te. Ss
former administrator of said ess"sil i5
Re, May his security. 4 viii dca
caslf in hand at the CourtnousJJ net@
In the town of Joncsboro, Wasa Isl,
county, onthe1Ith day Of DeceInpsst tbs
all the right, title claim and inier : trsa
the saidSG + May has in and !. ! Deouniy,
OF pafccIof land situated In salu nor
district No. 4. containing - acI1 Rross
or less, adjoining the lands Of Dp, 70 satif
said debt And costs unless sooner
Oct. IL, 1877. SIT sberiS.
oct26w5pfe5t 49,
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Connolly, it is stated, cried like a
child when taken to Jail. He has pri-
vate apartments there. He lacks
500. 900 of bail. Several friends call
ed yesterday, but none went the ne
cessary bonds.
Charles O'Conor declines defending
the South Carolina Ku-klux.
In consequence of the assaults and
threats against the principal of the
school at Hunters Point, by the Cath
olics, the respectable citizens have
formed a committee to protect him
and the school. Yesterday one of the
trustees demanded the keys ..of the
| school and of the teachers desks from
the principal. He received them and.
it is believed chat he intends to close
the building.
I A prominent Cuban here states that
10000 stand of arms recently landed
in Cuba safely, reaching the revolu-
tionists. LDE
Alexis after inspecting West Point
Acadamy, returned here this after
noon.
-OOIllpIIOl tcEt OOlnOily Is OeStulug
to despair of securing bail, and the
Sheriff thinks there is no possibility of
such a thing.
Three of Tweed's Bondsmen signifed
their iDtention to withdraw their names
from the bond if others were not Sc
cured. He will share the fate of Con-
molly. 3
Mayor Hall has not been arrested.
and the sheriff denies the receipt of
any papers in connection Herewith. or
any knowledge of the issuance of an
order of -arrest.-The Mayor stated
to-day that he had not been officially
notified of the action OF the Committee
of Seventy, and declined to speak on
the subject of his resignation.
The Tribune of Wednesday says:
with thanksgiving it seems fit that
there should be an end of Murphy.
We propose now to make IT." and then
proceeds to publish some three col
unlns of documentary evidence. mainly
derived from files of. the War Depart
ment. in reference to Murphy's army
contracts. The evidence which has
recently come to light. it says, proves
him to be actually a defaulter to the
Government to the amount of 100000
This, with $50. 900 loss on shoddy hats
furnished by him, makes Murphy ac-
tually a defaItcr to the Government for
over $4,000. The Tribune explains
that it has in every case published ey-
idence against Murphy, not when it
thought it could have a political effect,
but when it could get it, and presents
the evidence procured only the day be-
fore his removal. 1t would not now be
published at all. but for the official
of compliment. which makes it
on it to defend what it has
said.
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For HOUSE CLEANING, washing dishes
floors, oil cloths, tables, cleaning windows
paint, knives and polishing tin, brass and
all metals, use Enoch MOrgan's Sons
SapOlio. 1t is cheaper and better than
soap. Get it from your grocer, or at 211.
Washington street, New York. oct19