Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-04-18
GENERAL NEWS.

Professor Morse is dead.
Three coal barges were sunk in the river
at Louisville involving q loss of 100000.
The Republican State Conventions of
Virginia and North Carolina are to be
held this week.
A French vessel has just taken $4,000
barrels of oysters from Norfolk to be re-
planted on the coast of France.
Daniel Drew publicly denies having
been guilty of locking up funds on Wall
street to affect the price of stocks.
Orange Judd is one of the delegates to
the General Conference of the NJ. L.
Church, which meets in Brooklyn next
month.
The storm of last week extended
throughout Tennessee, Kentucky and
Southern Ohio, causing great destruction to
property.
Two millions seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in 8 per cent. bonds, issu-
ed, in August, 1868. have been called in.
The interest ceases May 31st.
Profession Morse's estate is said to be
worth half a million, all of which is be-
queathed to his wife, except about one
eighth, which is to pay his Indebtedness.
A ferryboat at Troy, N. Y, with about
fifty passengers, was carried down the
Hudson river on Friday night, of last
week, by ice. The pass engers escaped
unhurt.
The House Committee on Postal Affairs
reported a bill to Congress on Tuesday for
the relief of VIII Fl. Kirk, Postmaster at
Maryville, for Postage stamps and %envele-
peslost at tho time of a fire at that place
last winter.
The Hon. Isaac P. Walker, who was
born in Virginia in 1913, and became in
turn one of the first members in the
United States Senate from Wisconsin.
died in Milwaukee last week of apoplexy.
1t is announced that Senator Trumbull,
in a letter to his brother-in-law, DR..
Jacques. of Springfield, III, not only unrc-
servedly afirms his faith in the Cincinnati
Convention, but predicts that its nominee
will be the next President.
Temperance troubles the harmony of
Indiana politics, as we'll as Illinois.
While in Convention, the other day, the
Temperance folks split on the question of
nominating a State ticket, and several of
the candidates put up by those who insisted
on nominating have since published cards
declining the honor.
A Baltimore dispatch says that enough
is now known of the Huston investigation
which the Methodist Episcopal Conference
is conducting, to show that the charges
against that reverend gentleman are true.
Huston perfers counter-charges against
the Rev. DIR. Munsey, but they were
groundless.
The St. Louis Republican passive
democrat). thinks it sis scarcely possible
to ovor-estimate the Importance and value
of the address of the New York liberal
republicans. Taking Greeley's old white
coat and dilapidated hat as a standard
valuation. the value of that address really
cannot be over-estimated.
A circular signed BY the President and
Secretary of the Colored National Labor
Union has been sent out to the 81 col
ored labor unions throughout the country,
TepuuialihU Tue dctioH vi tuc ldUoI cOnNeH-
ton at Columbus, Ohio, and urging that
it is the duty of the colored men to sup
port the candidate of the Philadelphia
Convention.
The Supreme Court in the case from
Kentucky where two men taken from the
State Court and convicted of murder in
the Federal Court upon negro evidence,
the Judgment was reversed and the case
reman9ed. The Supreme Court held that
the jurisdiction of the Court below was
not sustained by the averment in the in
dictment that the witnesses were of The
colored race and were denied the right to
testify in the State Courts.
Speaking of the approaching Convention,
The Cincinnati Commercial urges the
citizens to treat the delegates with such
liberal hospitality THAT the city will in
futurs be determined on as the place above
all others best fitted for the sessions of
such bodies. AS to how well the COM
necessary to make the Liberal
Convention a success are provided with
we are not advised, but it behooves
our citizens to see that funds as well as
active individual efforts are abb ndantly
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