Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-07-23

an opportunity to a inventories oftheir
stock, and strike of balance sheets. This
is profitable work, gentlemen. If those
little "due bills amt looked after the
concern must 60 down.
With the exception Of the trivial COM
plants incident to this season of the year,
there is very little sickness in the coun-
try. Those physicians who are not a n
didates hay'nt much riding to do.
WE would be glad to hear the re.
ports from those farmers who expect to
contest for the premiums offered for
the best acre of wheat. We under
stand that a number of them prepared
their ground for that purpose last Fall.
What is the yield, gentlemen?
The August number of "7Ae Record
is on our table. Mr.. Cowan has sue.
ceeded admirably in his effort to make
this one Of the best religious journals in
the South. After the first Of January
it is suggested that the paper issue
weekly instead of monthly. We think
the suggestion a good one.
Buy your provisions and family groceries,
cheap for cash, from W. G. MATHEs', at
Post Office.
One of the partners in the firm of Ship,
10y, Smith q Co., left the store very un>
tremendously the other day, and forget
ting that there was such q thing as a
horse in town, footed it over the hills in
the direction of Cherokee at the rate Of
about ten miles an hour, carrying with
him the store keys and safe keys. 1t was
a girl and weighed eight pounds and a
half.
WE hear Of a number of gentlemen
in the county who expect TO put in
large crops of potatoes and onions next
year. If proper n in planting and
in the previous preparation of the
ground is taken. there is no doubt that
such crops will pay handsomely.
Where this is followed as a business,
farmers make more off of ten acres
than we do here off of one hundred.
WE call the attention of the voters
of this county to the Card of James A.
Shepherd, Esq, in which he takes oc.
casion to inform his friends and the
public generally that he is no longer a
a candidate for County Court Clerk.
Mr.. Shepherd deserves credit for with
drawing from the contest at this time,
and should he in the future offer his
services to the people he certainly has
claims on them now that should not be
forgotten.
"REPUBLICAN'' thinks the answer of
Mr.. Grisham published in the Echo of
last week, to the question asked in his
former communication is "too thin,"
and calls on him again to answer his
question. The columns of this paper
were offered Mr.. Grisham last week,
in which he could make any statement
that he desired. We again offer him
the use of our paper free of expense.
There is no necessity of owning a pa
per and paying the expenses of pub
fishing it when the same can be had
free for electioneering purposes.
Mr.. VIM. N. White, and two young
ladies', went out in the mountains picking
whortleberries one day last week, when
Mr.. White discovered a large Rattle
Snake with II rattlcs and a button. He
wounded the snake. and the young ladies'
wishing to slow their bravery took the
reptile IN charge. One of the ladies put
her foot on the snake and with her hand
stripped off oil the %rattles, the other lady
went for his tushes, aud with her fingers
succeeded in extracting them. After
they had succeeded in making his snake-
ship harmless, they turned him loose witha
out killing him. These mountain girls
are full of bravery and pluck.
We call special attention to the an
nouncement of j. j. Howren as q cam
didate for Constable in this District.
Capt. Howren is we'll known to the cit
liens of Jonesboro' and the District
generally as our town Constable during
the reign of cholera here last summer.
He was n of the few men who barred
their breasts to the storm and risked
their lives for the benefit of others.
Every citizen of Jonesboro' owes him q
debt of gratitude for the care taken by
him of their property when the town
was nearly deserted and thieves were
rampant.
All party considerations sink into
insignifcance when we consider his he
roic efforts to relieve the sqfferings of
the. aflicted and preserve the property
of those who were driven from their
homes by the fell destroyer.
Affection may again oyertake us
either in the form of pestilence or some
other. Let us not forget those who
stood by us in our sorest need and thus
commit that basest of all crimes, In
gratitude! No matter who offers for
the Office there is none more deserving
than Capt. j. j. Howren.
A Correction.
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