Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-09-14

Mayor of San Francisco, but the prospect
is now strong that Alvord, Taxpayer, il
elected.
SAN Francisco, Sept. 12.-Booth's
majority is 5.40O. Houghton is elected
in the First District, by 2,S74 majority.
Conglin and Sergeant, in the Second and
Third Districts, are elected by large ma
j%orities. In the Senate, with the Lieut..
Governors casting vote. the Republicans
have n majority. The House stands 81
Republicans to % Democrats.
New York.
NEW York, Sept. 12,-Mayor Hall
has requested Comptroller Connolly to
resign on account of suspicious attaching
to him from the disappearing of vouchers.
The Mayor has no power to remove
him except by tedious process of impeach-
ment and desires to replace him at once
by a person possessing confidence of the
people.
The young man who accidentally shot
his mother while defending himself from
a brutal uncle has been honorably acquit-
ted. The mother has recovered.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 1.-THE Republi-
can State Convention has organized. Re-
solutions were adopted endorsing Grant
and Creswell.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Ga dispatch
from Galveston, dated to-day, states that
the American bark Harvest Home was at
tackled by a force of Mexicans, off the bar
Santa Anna, on the night of the 27th of
last month, and her master, E. c. Dickey,
was obliged to put to sea without complet-
ing her cargo. The American bark Broth
ers was captured by an armed force of
Me1icans also. on the 9th August, off
Santa Anna, and the Captain forced to
abandon her. He was picked up by the
Harvest Home, and arrived at Galveston
yesterday.
JACKSONVILLE, Sept. Ga terrible
tragedy was enacted seven miles south of
this place last night, by which two officers
of the present State administration met
their deaths at the hands of a desperate.
The officials, two brothers, Heirin, were
trying to arrest a negro when both were
stabbed in the neck aud were killed in
stantly. The negro was arrested.
Wyoming Territory.
LARAMIE CITY, Sept. 6.-The latest
returns give the Republicans a majority of
two in the House. The Republicans are
jubilant over the result, as the last Legis-
lature was unanimously Democratic, and
it is claimed as a Republican victory, and
an Endorsement of Governor Campbelr's
Administration
NEW YORK, Sept. GA correspondent
of a London paper, writing from Shiraz
under date of June %, says the famine
in Persia may now be said to have almost
come to an end, but the distress caused by
it will continue for a long time. The
price of bread has fallen considerably, but
all the property of the poorer classes. ex-
only more necessary kinds, has
long since been sold or exchanged for
bread, and it is but too evident that star
walton will be the fate of a great many
more. On the road from Bushre to Shiraz
one can see at many places half inferred
bodies. At the caravanserg, about thirty
from Sheraz, many people-it is
two hundred-Gied of starvation
in about a week.
ROME, Aug. pa violent demonstra-
ton took place in the streets of Rome on
Sunday. the 9th inst.
A drunken crowd, led by one Tognettl,
brother of a man who was beheaded for
murder under the late Papal government,
marched toward the Vatican.
The crowd made a furious uproar, shout
ing against the priests, who fed in terror
all directions, and u~ttering threats
against the inmates of the Vatican.
Tognetti h%arangued the rioters, melting
hem to deeds of violence.
A new and most astonishing insect has
appeared at South Sunapee, in New-Hamp-
shire, as if musketoes were not enough for
human discipline. This n. Ell. nuisance
comes in clouds its wings drop of while
t is in the air; it drops itself to the
digs a hole and disappears. 1t is /
;omething like an ant, but has q larger
lbdomen, and to render it still more {
Troublesome, its bite is poisonous. 1t is )
-ery strong, and excavates its sepulcher /
With great vigor and rapidity. Whether
be an old or a new insect we are not
old, nor do we know whether it is = njuri-
us to vegetation. 1t doubtless serves
ONE purpose in the economy of nature,
nd so does the flea or the phlebotomizing
.