Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-03-14
NEWS SUMMARY.

snow blockade. ttE
Sergeant Boston Corbett, the slayer of
Wilkes Booth, is dead.
The first train of cars will cross the Ohio
River at Newport on the 18th.
The National Bank circulation outstand-
ing at this date is 1881, ,l80,792.
The public debt was reduced to sl2,-
391, ,451 during the past month.
There are four hundred Methodist
preachers in the State of Illinois.
No one will shed tears at the death of
Lowry, the North Carolina outlaw.
An artist painted cannon so naturally
that it went off at very good price.
Going to an editorial room up three
stories, you are quite sure to get puff.
The Apaches are raiding and numbering
in the vicinity of Wyckenburg, Arizona.
A bill has been introduced in the Kan
sas House abolishing capital punishment.
A new theater, the largest in the colonies
is being erected in Melbourne, Australiao
Baron Won Offenberg the new Russian
Minister to the United States, has left for
American.
The dead are never i'll. Consequently
all diseases may be classed as affections of
the liver.
Two chairs which once belonged to Bcne-
dict Arnold sold for $1,275 each, at ST.
John. N b., last week.
The hotel bill of the grand Duke and
suite at the St. Charles Hotel, New Or
leans. amounted to $ll 200.
A bill to prevent the evils arising from
the sale of intoxicating liquors passed the
Wisconsin Assembly yesterday. ..,
The japanese make strong. string of
paper, and We have seen very good cord
of wood. But not lately.
The carriage, horses, etc., belonging to
the late Jim Fish were sold Wednesday
last at auction. bringing about $4,000.
1T is estimated that not less than five
hundred persons have united with the
Methodist Church in Indianapolis since
Christmas.
The military station ut Arizona was
captured by the Apaches recently. Three
men were killed and six stage horses cap
tured.
sissippi and Tennessee Railroad. Wednes-
day night, destroyed $4,000 worth of
property. o
There is no grass in the Nueces Valley,
Texas, and 5000 dead cattle are strewn
about the banks of the river, within cir
cult of FIVE miles.
The Postmaster at Kansas City, Misso-
uri, has been removed from office for re-
tanning portion of the salary allowed by
law to his clerks.
A young man named Taylor, resident
ofLondon CO., East Tennessee. on 2nd inst
fell from his horse and broke his neck.
He had been drinking freely.
The first rail was laid ut Paducah,
Tuesday afternoon, on that end of the
Elizabethtown and Paducah railroad.
The work is being pushed rapidly forward.
Minnesota jury has decided that il is
lawful and proper for school teacher to in
fiict corporal punishment upon his pupils if
necessary to compel order and obedience.
Dayton having been defeated in her
as pirations to sccure the State Fair for
District Fair, thus following the example
of Cleveland
Two thousand head of cattle have been
driven to the Muscleshell country, Mime
sofa, from Missouri Valley lately. 1t is
said there is good feed and but light
snow 1t Muscleshell.
In1S7O there were forty-fve commercial
r.. L.
bilities amounting to $504,000. Last
year the number of failures was fifty
eight, with 100000 liabilities.
THE Roman Catholic population of New
York city amounts to 1000 souls, for
whom there are but forty churches, ,usally
crowded to excess. The Protestant popu-
lation is estimated at 100000, having $50
churches.
A man was arrested in New Jersey
for being the husband of four wives. says
he has no recollection of having married
70 many times, and thinks it must have
happened while he was away from home.
Forty-two negroes, three-fourths of
whom were women, were baptized in the
icy waters of the Ohio,at Jeffersonville last
Sunday week. Nearly thousand spec
tators were on the bank during the cere-
mony.
An Iowa paper informs US ''that Miss
Ella Noe, of Oscaloosa, is the coming
Winnie Ream." The public will be SIN
cerely grieved to learn this fact. They
were in hopes that Winnie was the only
sheet in the Ream.
A Southern paper having discussed the
question propounded bya New York pa
per, ssShall the next President Of the
United States be a alwoman!" concludes as
follows: 1--WE nominate Powers Greek
Slave She has three of the qualifca-
tions. at least, marble brow, finely
chiseled nose and n silent tongue.'
"Boy, may inquire where Robinson's
drug store isY' Certainly, SIR" replied
the boy, respectfully. well, sir" said
the gentleman, after waiting awhile,
"where is itY" Il have not the slightest
idea, yer honor" said the urchin.
Daniel MCCarty, aged seventy-cight,
pensioncr of 1912, living in Pocahon,as
County, Virginia, was married recently to
a woman of twenty-eight. The ceremony
was performed in front of a tavern. every
body on horseback, and the thermometer
at eight below zero.
johnson, the man who shot end killed
VIM. G.. Singleton, near Chattanooga,
some time ago, was arrested at his residence
in Sycamore. Illinois but before he could
be secured by the officer making the arrest,
be committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head.
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