Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-05-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

part of McSlinn counts, ON Tuesday.
HIS tlif6at was cut In three places, sup
posed to have been dead five or six weeks.
Nothing on his person 10 identify eithcI
the murdered or the murderer.
+. N Smith, was arrested for the miir-
der but disc harged. Smith is generally
believed to be guilty, Notwithstanding
his acquittal, and that the proof showed
that stranger filling the description OF
the murdered man was last seen in COM
pany with Smith going in tile direction
ofwiIcre the murdered man was found
about six weeks ago, and that his cloth
ing resembled that of the murdered man.
Anew York paper has corncred Horace
; Greeley on his zone term" hobby. 10
turns out that Greeley zealously adyoca-
ted the reelection of John Quincy Adams.
The old philosopher replies, Il was but
eighteen years old then" He says that
election ''taught me the wisdom of not
nominating President for reelection"
Are we to understand, then, that it is not
the principle of recollection that is wrong
but only the policy? But what becomes.
of the poltcy when it is evident the people
want to re-elect faithful servant?
A recent tug-boat explosion In New
York harbor was caused By dog fight.
The tug bulldog broke loose, boarded q
canal boat which the tug had i'm tow, and
mounted the canal-boat dog. Engineer,
firemen, and other officials adjourned to
witness the fight, and while it was In pro-
gress, the canal-boat dog being under,
the boiler colaspcd, killing. drowning
and scalding several ano ~sto1'ptsss, V,sO-
fght.-IndidndpoliS Eceni'g Journal.
| eMadam," said boarder to his land
lady, g am very sure this pepper Is half
Peas" 9 Peas"' cried the lady, brdeling
up. - Peas, indeed That pepper Is
Smalt & Homersly's very best. You
don't know anything about pepper, sir,
if you think there's peas in that" For
all that, madam said the boarder, lin
sure that pepper is half peas pep, pep,
per, per. Six letters, and three of them
p's."
The Mobile Tribune says that ''thc ho-
tel keepers in Mcridian,and In other parts
of the State have resolved to close their
| houses as soon as the social-equality bill
becomes Il law, when ii is believed that the
| people VIII accommodate travellers who
are known to be ladies and gentlemen
free of charge, letting the makers of this
infamous law shift for themselves"
The Democratic organs in this State
are pretty we'll divided between Cbeatham
and Brown for Governor. Cheatham seems
to be the favoriic in West Tennessee.
The present indications are that the De-
mocracy of Tennessee won't be very
"happy family" in the coming canvass.
The Cincinnati COMMERCIAL is Dcam
enough to say that Gen. Sherman was
compelled to take Lieut. Fred Grant with
HIM to Europe and he is escorting him
about as the Russian Count did Alexis.
isn't 1t about time such contemplate
filings at the President ended? Do not
such things disgust every sensible reader?
The Coffee County Democrat says:
"One of the most seyerc hail storms that
we have ever witnessed visited this region
last Thursday. 1t struk the cars at Nor
mandy, completely demolishing the win
dows, and doing other damage. Some Of
the hail YVES as large as hen egg
The night before Charles Sumner left Bos-
ton for Washington the last time he. said
to me; - have just one thing more to do
for the negro, and that is to carry the
civil rights bill. After that IS passed, L
shall be at liberty to take up the question
of fIabor.-WendeH Phillips.
The New York Times is amusing tho
New York people by printing whit
Greeley said of Trumbun for voting mot
guilty" in the Andy johnson Impeach-
ment trial The old excoria ations read
very funny side by side with his present
spoony articles.
Jacob Moore, a citizen Of Clay county,
aged one hundred aud five years, wilI'
start this spring for Oregon to visit his
relatives. Despite his extreme age he is
still hale and hearty, and can chop wood
i'm three different languages.-- hadiano-
polls Sentinel.
A good many of tic Democratic papers
are working zealously to persuade theis
readers that Grant hasn't paid the S3l5.-
0OO,OOO of the public debt out Of his oses
pocket. The joke of the thing is, they
finding it uphill work.
The Fayetteville Observer snys, that
the vote on the new county last Saturday
resulted in minority in favor of it.
Total 1,16G; against the county. 55; ma
jority in favor of the county, 1,l0l.
The case of j. Ii. Curry against the
city railroad for twenty thousand dollars,
for the killing of his son, on January LIST,
1871, is now going on in the Second Cir
cult Court at Memphis.
Mr.. George NJ. Nj. Emacb of the Man.
chester Democrat and Tullahoma Times,
was married on the 7th inst, to Miss
Laura H. Woodlec of McMinnville:
Col George r. McClellanda and w. D.
Haynes, Esq Ravc announced the emselves
in the Bristol papers as candidates fer
Congress in the First District.
Several cases of saarlpox have been re-
ported ot the paper mills in Manchester.
1t is thought to have been communicated
through the rags.
G. V. Woodruff & Co., of New Orleans
has obtained a judgment against the
United States for s3oC,OO0 for.cotton con-
fiscatcd by Treasury Agents.
A judgment has been rendered against
the United States for $4,000 In favor Of
Andrew Lowe, Savannah, Ca, for cotton
seized.
The Tennessee Agriculturist isto be re
moved from McMinnvillc to Nashville.
and enlarged to a sixteen page paper.
Hon. Thos. II. Coldwell is mentioned
favorably as successor to Mr.. Prosser, the
present Post Master at Nashville.
The Humphrey county Journal is tho
name of neutral paper just started Mt
Wayerly i. t. Ridgcly is lis editor.
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