Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-04-11
GENERAL NOTES.
General William Trousdale, formerly
Governor of Tennessee, is dead.

Judge of the Supreme Court of OHIO.
Forty thousand pounds of butter was
shipped from San Francisco to New ork
and Boston last week,
The Demucratictax collector of Hcnrico
county, Virginia, has absconded with
! $4,000 Of the peoPle'smoney.,
The Prince Imperial of Germany, Fred
erick William, will visit Queen Victoria
shortly, ut Baden, where she is stopping.
The United States steamer Narragansstt
has raised the America flag over the har
Dor of Panpopango. Navigator's Islands.
1t is stated that Daniel Drew has sold
/ S5,000,000 worth of Erie stock to Duncan,
Sherman & Co., deliverable in year, at
55c,
The snow in the mining camps of the
Little Cottonwood District, Utah, is about
"a feet deep on the level, and many houses
are buried.
Jem Mace and Ned O'Baldwin have
agreed to fight for $1,000. and Hon. John
Morrissey, late Democratic Congressman,
is to hold stakes.
James Rose, 60 years old, was instantly
killed by being run over bya hand lear
near Mount Pleasant, on the Eondout
and Oswcgo Railroad.
A verdict was rendered for the defense
in the libel suit against the Louisville
Coarjcr-Journal, for publishing an en-
ployment agency as a swindling den.
There is family living in indianapolis
whose children are ragged and almost
shoeless, who keep four dogs, two cats, and
use quarters worth of tobacco per day.
Thomas F. Burke and A. E. Costello
purpose prosecuting the police authorities
of Cumberland, w. Va. for illegal arrest
. and detention on suspicion of being swind-
/ lers.
A suit involving more than 81 100000
against the Logansport, Charlottesville,
and South western Railway company ct al
is pendin in the Supreme Court of Pen
| nsylvania,
The Ohio delegates to the Philadelphia
Convention include one negro. The res
: olutions express confidence in Grants ad-
= inistration and favor his nomination, with
: Wm. Dennison as Vice President.
Charles SPINNER took his scat in the
United Stat Senate, as successor of Daniel
Y Webster, December 1. 1851, the same
! day Oh which Hencry Clay appeared IN
f the National Senate for the last time.
S The Iowa Republican State Convention
/ elected delegates to the Philadelphia
: Convention. The resolutions endorse
c GRAFT. Delegates are instructed to vote
u for James T. Wilson for Vice President
This is undeniably an uncommon Win
t ter. What do our readers think ola drift
b of snow in the town of Phillips, Ne.
e which is between thirty and forty feet deeE
Teams every day ascend this Alpine pro
tuterance.
: The Third Congregational Church IL
n San Francisco has voted, by large major
s itv, to receive several Chinese converts tC
d full membership in the church. This il
the first church in the Pacific State to take
such action.
c Prof. Samnel F. B. Morse, has been lI
n ing very sick for several days, His diseas'
: is paralysis of the brain. His physician
expressed grave fears of his recovery
His relatives have been summoned to hi
:, bedside.
l. A lively interest in manufactures he
IS recently been manifested in Bangor, Me.
1t and call, largely signed by business mel
of that city, is published for public meet
ing te be held on Monday to take the sub
Il iect into considera tion.
ii The Secretary of the Treasury has tele
% graphed the Collector of Customs a
N Brownsville, Texas, revoking The orde
forbiding the clearance of vessels wit
goods from that port for any point nort
q along the Mexican border.
le It appears that the ''ifth wheel to
6 coach'' is no longer superfuous. An in
ventive genius at Mound City, ILL.,, ha
y devised a fifth wheel attachment to bug
gy, which helps to turn both horses am
- carriage on space not e1ceening thei
e length.
D. There is story of Kansas famil
whose character for smartness may DC con
sidered beautifully rounded. The wifi
m gave birth to four children weighing to
70 Gether 40 pounds. They lived one littl
a, dav. and then there father sold thei
D. bodies to doctor for $50 in gold
IS s.There must be something wrong some
VI where. says ne CHtCtyo oOU'"u AZ
le last week. in this city, there were no les
y than 50 900 persons subsisting on relic
ID rations.' This is the more mysterious
" considering that there has been plenty o
u work both for men and women, and tha
the wages paid have been liberal.
In Freeborn County, Minn., colt ha
re been produced which illustrated the pre-
k verbal phrase Of 'told head on youn
r shoulders - for this lws,ts- being of th
as ordinary size Of such colts, had the hea
of fullgrown horse, and moreover til
head appeared to be of almost solid bone
,s. It might have added to the wonder b
ds singing like nightingale, but unfortur
ur ately, it was still born.
This is a most remarkable Spring
l !; Last week, during storm at Somervili'
he Mass. IN addition to the snow, there can
a down a shower of grubs, three fourths {
les an inch long, tolerably lively, and of
.el dark green collar. Of course bottl
full of them was sent to DIR. Agassiz
Cambridge Museum, but in the absence
nd the Doctor himself, his representative
ng we believe, were unable to make eIth'
Ith lead or tail of these celestial visitants
The Cumberland Spectator learns frol
parties jast from Chattanooga that WI
fb- Fupate was arrested in that place fe
is DAYS ago on a cupias sent from Claiborl
,u- for the murder of Patterson, few yea
es. ago. We understand the Sheriff called
a the military for assistance in making Il
III arrest. He was confined in Jail awaitil