Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-02-22
NEWS SUMMARY.

tlmore IN great state.
Summer county Tenn, boasts of two
year old heifer that weights 1415 pounds.
In Allen county, Ind, they divorce for
to-one couples day with neutness and
despatch.
Peace re gns in Chicot County. Arkan-
sas, but in Pope County the negroes are
reported turbulent.
The man whose hair turned white in o
single night is surpassed b. the girl who
lost here in one danes.
An Indiana youngster mischiovously set
the family piano on ire. I5y playing on
it vigorously it Yves extingnished.
Bishop James, of the Methodist Episco-
r2l Church. ordained sixty-niEs ministers
en- Christmas day, ct Jacksoa, bliss.
Buffalo Bill has received = magnificent
diamond breastpin from Alexis, and at
last accounts was negotiating for shirt.
A bill is before the Utah Legislature
providing that beys of / 5 and girls Of IL
may merry, with tie consent Of their par
ents.
1t is the opinion in Washington that
General Ransom, the newly-elected Sena-
tor from North Carolina, will be admitted
to his seat. f
An old woman. aged 81 arrived mt St.
Albans, VT, last Friday, from Ireland, hav-
ing travelled "all the way alone" to join
her daughter.
a vagrant dog is reported in Hardin
country, Ky., which has been hung eight
times, but is not dead vet, and lives to
plague the farmers.
During the late cold spell, eight persons
and six hundred head of horses and cattle,
were frozen to death within radius of 6f-
teen miles in Iowa.
A gentleman in the East has sent $50
note to the wife of every Presbyterian
missionary west ofthe Mississippi whose
address he could obtain.
The baby market at West6eld, Me-, is
active and bouyant There were 22o
births in the town last year. an alarming
increase over the 154 of 1870.
A gentleman in Detroit had baby
left on his doorstep ono night last week.
He took it in, cared for it tenderly, and
next day swapped it off for terrier pup.
Near Sioux City, Iowa, on the 9th inst,
young man named Richard Connolly
was shot and killed by man named BEN
wye. A family quarrel was at the bot
tom of it,
Preparations have already begun in
Philadelphia for the great Convention in
juno. The Academy of Music has been
engaged for three days and three nights
for the sessions.
GENERAL HOWARD, it is announced,
has at last consented to the abolition of
the Freedmen's Bureau. and a bill to that
end has been prepared and agreed upon in
the House Committee on Freedmen's Af-
fairs.
One of the consequences of the Franco
Prussian war is the diminution of births
in Paris during the last five months. From
June to October, 1870, there were 23,372
births, while the same period this year
only yields 12,O30.
\ party of impecunious Fort Wagncrs
dined sumptously at a restaurant. Each
insisted on paying the score, but finally it
was agreed that the waiter should be blind
folded, and that the man whom he caught
first should settle. 1t was very "thin," but
perfectly successful.
A..Fond du Lac, Wis :, doctor visited .
SMALLPOX patient, and remarked as he
turned from the almost dying man. "Dig
the grave-thc corp. wi be rea ly." Tho
grave was dug. but the man recovered. and
now the'grave- diggers bring suit against
the physician for their pay.
The Utica Observer observes: "Whon
you see man screw up his phiz in an in
describlble sort of way. place his right
hand iii the neigbborhood of the pectornl
muscle on his left arm, and rub tenderly,
you can make up your mind that it is
working. He's been vaccinated."
Henry Bcrgh has received from Lieut..
Col. A. G. Bracket of the I'd U. S. Csva-
Try stationed a Omaha letter denouns-
ing the wholesale butchery of buffalos up.
on the plains as equally needless and cru,
ell. and intimatiDga hope that Congress.
will be induced to Interfere in their be-
half.
CALFoRNIA is a wonderful State. In
addition to her gold. fruits, grain, and silk.
she is now to present us with rice Of the
first quality. The swamp land Of the
Lower Sacramento and San Joaquin Vail
eys, heretofore regarded as worthless are
now to be turned into rich rice 6eldsL
The desert is becoming fruitful.
Travellers who try their luck In cross
ing railroad tracks when train is bear.
Irg down upon them will be interested in,
knowing that twenty seven persons were
killed in this way in six Of the Northern
on i r.. L. l. ~
vehicles demolished, eight locomotives in
jured, and sixty horses killed.
A CIncincinati correspondent Of the
Chilicothe gives his experience at O.
Nillson crush at Pixies Opera House, and
utters this libel 81 thought my wife had
the sharpest knees in Ohio. but she amt
a circumstance to these Cincinnati girls.
One of them pushed her knee aginst ray
legs, and it feels as if I'd been vaccinatedt"
At Mineral Point, Wis, last week. o
stranger called at the bank and requested
to see note held against him. Rccciy-
ing the slip, he remarked that he could
not read without his spectacles and walked
toward the door, when it was discovered
that he was energetically chewing up che.
note. The fragments we're forced from,
bis mouth by vigorous choking.
A fashionable lady in Chicago disgusted
with her ugly nose. the shape Of which is,
a combination of Roman, Greclan, Jewish,
aquiine and pug, all most inharmonious-
ly blended, had had rubber one made
after the Grecian style of architecture.
1t is beautifully tinted, and so lifc-iike
that. with prodigal use of toilet powder.