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


An uphill business-editing a played
Out newspaper.
Farmers have commenced breaking
ground for corn.
The 21st of the lex month the DAYS
and nights are equal.
Most men give advice by the bucket,
but take it by the grain.
Officer Deer is getting a large lot of
rock slabs for paving purposes.
The court at Greeneville adjourned
last week after a two weeks session.
Some of our ~enterprising citizens are
preparing their gardens for planting.
Capt. r. L.. Blair reached home on
Monday evening from his Eastern trip.
Mauks' and Buffalo Ridge Districts did
not vote in the late Senatorial election.
Will anything farther be done on the
Turnpike during the Spring and Summer?
An animated den,John in this commu-
nifty thinks his benzine blurtings rery fun
ny indeed.
Circuit Court meets in Jonesboro' on
the second Monday after the fourth Mon
day in March.
Rev. j. L. Mann has been holding
evening services at the Court House du-
ring the week.
The ''bully" acts the brute successfully
without much effort, as their instincts and
passions are similar.
Master Moses Cone, of Baltimore, and
MIR. Geo. II. Duncan, " our problems
of last week. correctly.
Capt. d. d. hardwood has removed
fIom town. He leaves the Jail in the
custody of Job Powell.
Admiration is the child of ignorance,
conceit the evidence of semi-idiocy and
bigotry the sign board of the fool.
E. N. Griffith, Esq, and DR.. G. Wheeler,
returned from Washington last Sunday
morning with out any broken limbs.
One man knocked down a Million near
this place n night last week and it was not
much of a night for knocking down either.
B. F. Swingle, Clerk and Master, has
returned to his post of duty after a weeks
rustieation in the mountains of loyal
Carter.
The man who is always threatening
disclosures is inspired by the cowardly
fear that his W guilt and hideous deprav-
ity will be exposed.
Last Friday. a car of a freight train
jumped the track on the bridge in East
town. The damage was but slight and
the train delayed but a short time.
Scribblers devoid of talent, wit, cul-
ture, refinement and honor are always
compelled to fill their columns with the
filth and corruption that gathers and fes-
ters where the brains ought to be.
About one hundred hands left this
place on Tuesday mornings train for
Fayette county. They are going to work
for the cotton planters of that section.
The lethargic air and the warm sun
shine would made one think that the
Spring time is about to give us the ~velvety
sward, the sweet flowers and merry son; =
sters.
The price which some commissioned
officers charge for giving a soldier apply
ing for a pension, Il certificate that his
disease was contracted in the army, ETC..
is the mOlcSt and patriotic sun of 500.
Just after the war, on account of a
stringent military order, a merchant ac-
conmodating a rebel with goods, run the
risk of being reported to the authorities
or Uackm0iycd out of q hundred dollars.
An inspired Fenian across the waters
drinks the following toast
All hail the American aigle!
Proud bird of freedom, all hail!
The fowl that no one can invagle,
Or put salt on his beautiful tail.
From the Greeneville Sentinel we learn
that baryta or heavy spar has been found
near that place in such abundance that
one man will work out at ona day. Large
quantities an being shipped at IS. per
ton.
A colored woman lives at Messy Creek
who is log years old. She has given birth
to twenty-nine children, four of whom are
dead. She was the slave of John Branner
decd, and is now kindly cared for by his
widow.
1t is reported and believed that a coun-
try editor, whilst at Nashville, helped him
self to large quantities of pens, %peuhold-
ers, pencils, lead .rubbers, writing fluids
and letter and other kinds of paper land
used the same on job-work) out of the
Stationary supplies of the Legislature.
Pickens, hat is 'Jim." says all of
Brownlow's militia are migrating, but he
don't want us to herald their advent into
the country where they are going.-Press
and Herald.
Distressing intelligence. Are we to
lose the majestic presence of our own
the efficient and courageous chief-of-staff
in the Sutler service.
There is a Pharisee in this community
loudly pretending to piety and incorrupti-
bi lity, who long ago would have been in.
dicted for a self made proposition to be
bribed. had there not been an interposition
in his behalf.
Persons, maliciously slurring innocent
arties for good humored articles appear
ing in our paper will soon find themselves
horizontally recumbent, their abdominal
proportions impaled upon the sharp horn,
of what Horace Greeley would call ga
most uncomfortable dilemma"
Owing to a constant and large increase
of subscription since the beginning of the
year, and a majority of these orders being
received after our first side had been
worked off. several times our edition has
fallen short of supplying all our subscri-
bers. We shall be careful that this de-
6ciency shall not occur again, and thank
a discriminating public for that apprecia-
ton that enables us to make a paper, at