Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-05

lleHry W ara Deccner Dau the third
parlor," usually devoted to refreshments
on New Years day, set apart for his
grandchildren. They were the incest set
out.
Annie Dickinson keeps a grocery in
Boston. She caught a young chap tap
ping her till. But she wasn't strong
enough to hold him till help came, and
he escaped. If it had been t'other Anna
he wouldn't have got off 50 easily
Bonnett have undergone material
chance in shape since autumn. The real
French understanding in the Maud
Muller stylc-ls being generally adopted
by the leading ladies of fashion here, and
as a rule is very becoming.
A New Bedford physician prescribed
daily ride of sixteen miles a day for a
young lady, and in less than two weeks
tho cxhilarating exercise changed her
name into Mrs. Patrick McGuinness.
Her husband was her papas coachman.
There are lit of people in the town
of Patton, Me-, who are related so much
that they don't know what to call each
other. Three brothers there have mar
ried three sister, whose brothers, in turn,
have married their sisters>in>law.
Umbrellas for the fashionable young
women of the period are of navy blue
surge silk, with ivory handles cut in the
form of a cross. They are not ornamcn-
ted in any way with silver or gold, and
fer that reason they are very genteel aud
mice looking"
An undecided fellow courted a lady
for twenty-eight years and then married
her. She turned ont a perfect virago,
but died in two years after the wedding.
"Now," said he in a self>congratulating
tone, "see what | have escaped by long
courtship."
Uncle Gideon Welles going to tell US
what he knows about Lincoln, and Sew
ard, and the war, and things, in book of
800 to 400 pages. That's right. But it
may be just as well to remember Uncle
Gideon everything. g.-Sam BoulcS'S Boy.
Gen. McCutchins, whom the Republi>
cans have nominated for Governor of New
Hampshire, is unquestionably farmers
candidate. He digs his own potatoes
hoes his own corn, and mlks his own cows,
and has by strict attention to business,
secured a property worth several thousand
dollars.
NJ. lie Bent, "gentlemanly-looking
Frenchman," who was committed some
time ago in a London police court for
converting champagne" by the fraudu-
lent use of Moet & Chandon's labels, plead
ed guilty before the Criminal Court. He
was sentenced to twelve months imprs>
onment, with lard labor.
Bishop Simpson, is about sailing for
Mexico to inspect the work of missions in
that country. He goes by way of Ha,
vaua, where he is to be joined by two
lady missionaries who 60 under the aus
pices of the Woman's Foreign Missiona-
ry Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Beauvellct is dead. To all familiar
with the Paris stage his is a well>known
name, For over quarter of q century
he was prominent actor at the Ambing,
the Odeon, and the Theatre Franeais.
He was a representative delineator of the
leading characters in classic tragedy, and
in the tragedies Of Racine" and "Cor-
nellie" was especially successful.
! Verse alone is not poetry. Poetry is
in ideas. Verse is only an elegant dress
upon beautiful body. Poetry can be
expressed in prose. 1t is only the more
perfect under the grace and majesty Of
verse. 1t is the majesty of the soul
which inspires noble sentiments and noble
deeds as well as noble ngs.-Hugo.
"Now, my boy" said the committee,
man, "if | had mince pie, and should
give two-twelfths of it to John, two,
twelfths to Isaac, two>twelfths to Harry
and should take half the pie myself, what
would there be left? Speak up loud, SC
that all can hear you." "The plate y
shouted the boy, with tone Of certainty
u. Joshua Jenkins" of the Utica
Herald, recently visited Hudson, and be.
cause he was not received with band Of
music and rendered the freedom of the
city he went back on tho place after this
fashion; "Just before Thanksgiving the
people for miles around form in process
sion and march through the streets of the
town, and thea go home and return de-