Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-02-29
NEWS SUMMARY.

The Pope is urged to hold the Gcumen
ieal Council in the Tyrol.
Judge Davis accepts the Workingmen'
nomination for President.
Washington's Birthday was general.
observed throughout the country.
An extensive fire has occurred at Selin
Grove, Penn, causing 500, 900 damages
Tennessee has the sum of Sl.317,356,
60 invested in turnpike roads Throughout
the State.
One mar was killed and severl car
wrecked by an accident on the Baltimor
and Ohio Railroad. .
The Indiana delegates to the Nationa
Convention have been instructed to vot'
for Grant and Colfax.
The sum of 9 .697 has been subscribed
in Nashville toward rebuilding the Metho
dist Publishing House.
An International Congress Ito establish
a system of cheap and uniform postage il
proposed by Prince Bismarck.
Gel. Forney is said to nave been il
Washington last week trying to reconcile
Sumner and the President.
Two negroes were arrested on the charge
of numbering two men at Stewards Land
ing, Arkansas. They have since confessed
the crime.
The Labor Convention has nominated
David III. Davis, of Illinois, for President
and Joel Parker, eff New Jersey, for Vice
President.
The Prohibition Convention has nomi.
mated James Black. of Pennsylvania, fol
President, and John Russell, of Michigan,
for Vice President.
j. Fl. Hackett, a confidential clerk in
Lowenstein's dry goods establishment, has
been arrested, at Memphis, charged with
a $4,000 embezzlement.
Granville C. Torbet, formerly editor Of
the Nashville Union and american, and
subsequently, President of the Bank Of
inst.
An accident recently occurred on the
Louisville and Cincinnati Short Line Rail-
road. In which two persons were killed
and ffty-two were hurt. 1t is rumored
that the bridge had been tempered with.
A Democratic Commissioner of Sullivan
County objected to levying six mills on
the dollar for school purpose, because
there were only eight mills in the county,
and one of them didn't have water enough
to run one-half the year.-Indianpolis
Journal.
The Nashville Banner says that Hon.
Horace Maynard has presented in Congress
'.the petition of Nelson e. Sperry, and
twenty-five others, wholesale liquor dealers
and distillers of Tennessee, asking a con-
solidated tax of seventy-fve cents per
gallon"
A private telegram from Washington
states that Col. w. b. Stokes, convicted of
taking money for prosecuting claims against
the United States Government while a
member of Congress. but who appealed to
the Court in term, was yesterday fined in
the sum of $4,000 for that %offense. The
two remaining indictments for conspiracy
to defraud the Government were nolle
DISQUALIFICATION and american.
Knoxville had another shooting scrape
last Saturday night. Charles Nelson shot
at the cook in an oyster saloon but missed
him. He was o afterwards found on
the street by a policeman. He attempted
to shoot the officer, who knocked down
the pistol, the ball passing between his
legs and striking a boy passing by On the
left knee. The wound is severe and
dangerous and in the opinion threatening
loss of limb or life. Whisky.
A stationary engine, attached ia a saw
mill, exploded near Dalton, Ga, last Fri
day, instantly killing four men. One
man was blown one hundred yards through
the woods and torn to pieces in a tree top.
Another was hurled fifty yards against a
stump and torn to pieces. The engine
was completely demolished and fragments
of it were picked up a mile distant.
Nothing was left of the mill except the
saw. The engineer who was inexperienc-
ed miraculously escaped.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-In the Crurt
of Claims, the court acting under a re-
cent decision of the Supreme Court de-
claring that brakes amendment was un-
constitutional, decided in Simon Witkos-
XII VS.. the United States for the proceeds
of cotton captured at Savannah as fol-
lows: I'm the case of Witkoski the Court
of Claims found as affect that the claim>
ant had not proved that all times he had
borne true allegiance to the Government
of the United States, and never gave aid
or comfort to the rebellion against the
said Government, but decided as a matt
ter of law TINT the proclamation of Pres
ident johnson. of December 25th, 1868,
granting unconstitutional pardon and ann
nesty to all who directly participated in
the rebellion relieved the cloimant from
any proof of loyalty"