Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-02-15
NEWS sInInARY.

alarmed at the prospect of fractional dis
integratioa.
Seven thousand dollars worth of Whisky
was destroyed in Brooklyn yesterday By
revenue raiders.
A rebellion in tho philippines against
Spanish misrue, has been sguslehed by
killing all the insurgents. ..l
At Aries, France, the railway labersrs
have struck and are stopping trains, In
Alabama and Chattanooga.
The heirs of John Slidell have broughe
suit to recover real estate in New Orleans
confscated during the war.
The small pox deaths in Philadelphia
for the week ending yesterday amounted
to los, a decrease of nineteen.
The Republicans of Florida hold .
convention on the 10th of April, to send
delegates to the Philadelphia Convention.
The Congressional Committee at Nsv
Orleans continue their labors invcsties-
ting the deeds of Legislators and State Of
| fcia.s. .s
Edward Lee, colored man, was hang.
ed at Brownsville, KY, on Friday the I'd
inst, for the murder of Elias King last
October.
The New York Herald thinks that with
the aid Of seven millions of Irish cnem ieS
the invasion of England might be accom-
plishcd .....
Chief Justice Chase is sbuying up Rhode
Island. He has already purchased Ave
acres, and is keeping sharp eye on the
other fifteen.
Sir Edward Thornton wants copy Of
every newspaper in the United States 20
send to the International Exposition in
England this year.
Minister Schenck tclegraphs from Lon
don that the excitement there over the
Washington Treaty is great. No recon-
mcndations are made F~
1t is thought that under the bin DOW
pending before the Senate, Chief Justice
Chase and Justice Nelson will retire from
the Supreme Bench.
The Chicago Presbytery reports dona-
tons amounting to 3,l43,G32 dollars or
cents) which will be devoted mainly to the
rebuilding of churches
Weston, the great pedestrian, has APP
piled for divorce from Mrs. Weston. Al-r
ledgiEg shat she sometimes speaks to him,
in an impudent manner.
Jeffrey eating. for the murder Of JAS.
Townsend, on Archer Avenue, Chicago.
in December last, has been sentenced 10
imprisonment for life.
Governor Baker, of Indiana, has ap-
pointed the Hon. John H. Farquhar Sec
&C a., L.,
by the death of Colonel Eddy.
There were 100000 men employed last
year in the production of iron and in man
ufacturing it. The entire value of manu-
featured from was $900,000,000. ~
The body of c. A. Carr, Alderman Of
Newport, T. l., who has been missing ssv-
eral weeks, was found on the shore, near
that city, on Thursday afternoon.
The 0rphanagc of the Good Shephcrdin in
LOUISVILLE was damaged very much by Gre
yesterday. The orphans are scattered -
mong private residences for the present.
John A. Henson, convicted in Boston Of
forging the name of his father-in-law, j.
j. Clarke, to $4,000 check, has been
sentenced to six years in the State prison.
The case of Glover, convicted Of the
Boylcston Bank robbery, goes to the Su.
preme Court, Boston, on exceptions. his
bail in the meantime being increased 70
$4,000.
Parents of marriagcable young men, in
Atlanta, have agreed that, during leap
year, young ladies paying attention to
their sons must not stay later than 10
o'clock at night.
\ Milwaukee woman brought to the
st station-hCuse charged with drunken and
violent conduct, proceeded to extract fron
her chignon the requisite amount and bail
ed herself out.
The Chicago Times, the leading Demo
cratic organ of Illinois thinks that nine
tenths of the Democrats in the United
States expect to voteN for Republican.
President next fall.
A Kentucky damsel WHO had deter
mined to elope, carried her design into
execution by calmly locking her astonisb-
ed parents in the house and riding away
with her true lover.
Ex-Congressman Stokes, charged with
being implicated in Tennessee bousty
frauds, will be tried in the Criminal Court
in Washington this week. All tho wit
ncsses are now ON hand.
The number of emigrants who sailed
from Liverpool in the month Of January
exceeds of December by 1850. Tho
burning of Chicago seems to have stimuls-
ted the emigration of carpenters and mss-
ons.
THE North Carolina Legislature has
authorized the Governor to offer reward
Of $4,000 for the arrest Of Henry b
Lowery and $1,000 for each Of the gang
Of outlaws. There are about sixty of them
in ALL
Bishop Simpsons name, with fifty dol
lars after it, appears in the list of sub
,cribers for the Alexis ball at Philadekf
phia. The Methodist papers deny thses
bishop authorized his name for such 4
purpose.
The Cincinnati GazeHe thinks Stokes
axes his present situation very "cool1y."
The New York Commercial advertiser
ays: HE certainly cannot be blamed
or improving here An opportunity which
ie may not have hereafter"
a Democratic Congressman has sue
,eeded in having committee appointed
o investigate the ''Senaca Sandstone"
.harges. We trust the country will boz
furnished with the facts, that it may be
zen what infinitcsimally small matters.
Democratic politicians and newsmongerss
will stoop to.
A disnatch az the 28t,, ult fr,n Tua-