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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
THE NEW ASSESSMENT LAW,
A Matter of interest to every
Tennessee Taxpayer.

The Legislature just adjourned has
made a new Assessment Law, and it is
ono in which every taxpayer in the State
is interested. 1t devOlves upon tue County
Court at its April Term to elect an A.
SCISSOR, and be will tx the taxable value of
real estate not for one year only, but for
the coming four years. 1t will become
the duty Of the Assessors to select one as.
iistant in each district where the real
estate does not exceed 5000, 900 according
70 the last assessment, and in districts
where the real estate amounts TO more
than 100000 he will appoint two as
Sistants. IL will not only be the duty Of
the Assessor to assess the State and
county tax, but also the municipal and
railroad.
lie should be q man who is familiar
and we'll posted as TO the value Of prop.
erty. A great deal will depend on those
who are selected as assistants in each dis
trict as their opinions as to the value Of
the property will no doubt often control
the judgment Of the Assessor. They
should all be mel Of integrity and sound
Judgment.
Should property advance in price, as it
no doubt will in the future in some dis.
tricts. we cannot see where the Legisla.
ture expected to make a saving of ex>
pences, and at the same time expect each
taxpayer to.pay for the full value o fprop.
erty. A farm that is worth $4,000 this
year may be worth $4,000 in 1876, and
10 1877 it may be worth $4,000. Still
the State and county can only collect the
value Of the land at this time for the
next four years. On the other side
should property decrease in value and a
farm that is now worth $4,000 60 down
10 $1,000 still tho owner of that farm
will have to pay taxes OIL its present VAL
uation for four years. In either case il
will work an injustice to some Taxpayers.
While in some localities the land will
advance in price, in other districts it will
no doubt be worth less money in four years
than it is at present. We do not believe the
law gll be acceptable to the people, but
we will all have to submit to it. 1t is to
be hoped the County Court will select q
good and suitable gentlemen for this i'm
pOrtaut position aud that he will call t.
bis aid ip each district men Of honor and
good Judgment,
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
WASHINGTON

The school at this institution closes on
the % of April instead of the 26th as was
announced last week. The school has
enjoyed unexpected success. The teach.
ers are popular, energetic and wide awake.
The attendance has been good-better than
was anticipated.
The school applied for aid from the
Peabody Fund, but failed to receive the
expected aid. This was a heavy disap.
polntment. The school did not colose but
kept right on till the money raised by
the citizens had been consumed. There
was no "fare up" No complaint. The
school has gained in reputation by
this course. 1t is just what we would
expect sensible people to do.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
LOCAL OPTION IN PENNSYL-
VANIA.

License in Pennsylvania-A stringent
license law was passed by the Pennsyl,
vania Legislature on the oath March as
a substitute for the Local Option Law.
Under the term ofthe new measure, iuns
hotels and taverns are divided into classes,
the license fees being graded according to
the value Of their yearly rental. The
penalties imposed for infraction o fthe law
are very severe. Non.residents of the
State, are prohibited from engaging in
the sale Of liquor, as are peddlars, or
travelling statesmen for non.reside nts in
any manner whatever, by contractor
otherwise and none of the provisions Of
the bill are to be held to authorize the
manufacture or sale of any intoxicating
liquors i IN any city, borough county or
township having local or special prohibi,
tory laws.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
FLAG POND SCHOOL.

This school closes on the 9th of April
Prof. Hyder has had fine success. The
closing exercises will be interesting aad
instructive. the school Board determined
to close the school at the end of eight
months. The attendance, the progress
Of the pupils, and the general manage.
ment of the school have been quite salts
factory. w congratulate Prof. and Mrs.
Hyder on their success.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
School Directors,

Notice is hereby given that the books
these officers must be put in such shape
as to bear an examination. These officers
will be called together in a short time to
make settlement and compare their books
with the books kept in this Office.
IL. PREsNELL. Co, Sup't.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
TEACHERS DEPARTMENT.

HDO|AIloSAL OF VIRGIN
IA. Volume G.. No. G. is on our table.
The contents are varied and interesting
The teacher who reads this Journal will
lind that he is a stronger teacher and
better able to follow his profession. H.
II. Harris, Rodes Massie and W. F. Fox
editors W. Fl. Ruffner, LII. D. editor
of official Department. Terms s1,5Oa
year. j. T. Ellyson Business Manager
Richmond, Va.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION.
Hon. j. B. Mcrwin, editor St. Louis,
Mo, Terms $3.50 a year.
We have read this Journal from the
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good and true. 1t is a living example of
the enterprise and pluck Of the West.
Its circulation now exceeds 10000 and the
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TIE New York SCHOOL JOURNAL.
We wish to call special attention to
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HOME AND SCHOOL. This excellent
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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
Information Wan-ed.

1t is suggested that each District Clerk
furnish this Office with the amount vet
due the teachers fol services rendered in
his district for the year 1873. The ma me
of each teacher, and the amount due him
must lie given. This information is re.
sp~ectfully solicited. Let there be no de.
lay in the matter.
II. PREsNELL, Co., Sup't.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
KEEBLER's SCHOOL HOUSE
District No, II. schssI No. L.

This school closed at the end Of seven
months. Mr.. j. A. T. Bacon teacher.
The closing exercises took place on the
9Th inst. The patrons are we'll pleased
with Mr.. Bacon. He taught a coed school
aud deserves much credit for bis untiring
efforts to make the school a success
No. enrolled &c.
Average attendance 40.
There is nothing like success and DIr.
Bacon Las won it.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
PARTITION FENCES.

The new law relative to partition fences
is published on the FIRST page Of to-dayS
paper. This is one good thing the Leg.
i~slature did during the session Of seventy
five days. 1t will be noticed that per-
sons who fail keep up their part Of line
fences, are liable for damages.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01

According to Judge Emmons charge
TO the jury at Memphis a few days since
the Civil Rights Bill is unconstitutional.
His opinion can be relied upon as being
correct, as he is one Of the most promi>
men. judges Of the United States.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01

The Journal publishes a commune
cation favoring a convention to decide as
to who shall be Judge Gillenwaters sue
cessor. Better hold on a while gentle
men there is no vacancy yet, and we
doubt whether there will be-.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
HIGH WATER.

Many Of the schools in consequence of
the high water have had the daily average
attendance considerably reduced. 1t is
however only temporary, We hope.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01

W. are still sending the HERALD AND
TRIBUNE, to number Of persons in this
county who are in arrears for subscription.
As many Of you will De in town next
week attending court, we hope you will
not forget to bring a few dollars along for
the editor, We have a large circulation,
u expenses are heavy, and we hope our
friends will not neglect US.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01

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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
SU~PERINTEDEST FLCMING'S
REPORT,

WE have on our table State Sup't.
Jennings report Of the public schools Of
the State for the scholastic year ending
Aug 81, 1874. We hope this report
will fall into the hand, Of every citizen
who is interested in u public schools or
who ought to be interested in them. The
report does much credit to Hon. John NJ.
Fleming. 1t shows that the school sys-
tenn Of Tennessee is taking deep root in
the affections of the people. We shall
have occasion to speak of the report more
in detail, and to copy into these columns
much valuable Information found on its
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
Ed q CA L,
BY ii. PRESNELl..

"Ihere 10 within every mana di vine ideal, the
type after which he was created, the germ Of a
perfect person, and 1t is the Office of education 10
favor and direct the germs"-KAEr,
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
La Ige SyO, $50 Ip Illustrated, $50.
Marl1w.
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.
IN CHANCERY ATRoGERsvILLE. Tenn
No. 672,
John BlevIns and wife,
VIM. NJ. Cooke,

VIM. NJ. Cooke.
1t appears from the allegations in the
Complainants Bill, which is sworn TO, in
this cause, that the said Defendant WIN.
VI. Cooke is a nonresident of the State
oil tennessee, so that the ordinary pro.
cess OF law cannot be served on him. 1t
Is, therefore, ordered by me that pub lea
ton be made for four successive weeks i'm
the HERALD AND TRIBUNE, a news pa-
per published in the town of Jo~nesboro,
Tenn,, notifying said Defendant 20 an
pear on or before the first Monday in
May next before the Chancery Court at
Rogersville, Hawkins Coupty, Tenn.
and make defense to said Bill or the
same will be taken for confessed and sct
Tor herring Ex-parte. This March 22nd
j. NJ. GRAY, C. & N.
m~ar25w5pfs5.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01

VIII "all FIVE ofthem" let the country
people know what they think Of the Dem>
ocratic dog law? Speak out gentlemen,
this is a free country.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01

TEACHERS having volumes of the
Teachers Library will please return them
at their earliest convenience.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
Remember this is all fools day.

The Democratic party have sustained
another loss. Journal.
Who cares if it "haye"P
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-04-01
For Rent,

desire to rent the Union Flag Office.
l. and material sufficient TO publish a
paper; also the job Office. Terms reas.
enable.
Mrs. MAGGIE j. GRESHAM.
JoreShOro', Tenn, If.
The Arizona sentinel., 1875-06-05
Mrs. Lincoln's Attempted Suicide.

+ From the Chicago Tribune, May 2Ist
! Between 2 and 3 O'Clock yester.
day afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln went
into the drug store of Frank
Squair, pharmacist, in the Grand
Pacific Hotel, and wanted him to
give her some laudanum and
camphor, saying that she needed
it for neuralgia in the arm. Know
ing her mental condition, he pre-.
tended he had none ready, and
that it wouId take half an hour
to put it up. She said she would
call in again for it, and then walk
ed out into the street. Mr. Squair,
supposing that she was going to
some other drug store, put on his
hat and followed her. She went
directly across the street to RO-
gers q Smiths, at the corner of
Adams and Clark. just as sh e
was telling Mr.. Smith that she
wanted some laudanum, Mr..
Squair beckOned to Mr.. Smith,
and, when he came up, told him
who it was he was talking to, and
that he must not give her any
laudanum. Mr.. Smith then said
to her he could not sell her any
without DOCTORS order, and she
left and went down the street to
Dale's, where she asked for lau-
danum and camphor separately.
Mr., Squair got in ahead Of her
and was consequently able TO pre-
vent her getting anything there.
Then, seeing that she was about
returning to the Pacific, he
hurried back to his own place
and put up a mixture of one
drachm of liquid burnt sugar and
ten drops of tincture of camphor,
in a three-Onnce bottle, filed
with water and tabled, " Laud-
anum and Camphor." She took
it and went out doors, aud as soon
as she got on the sidewalk she
drank the contents. About ten
minutes .afterWard she returned
to the drug store, saying that her
arm troubled her uery much and
she wanted some laudanum to
add to the mixture. Mr.. Squair
asked her if she had used it, and
she said no, that she wanted it
stronger. She went behind the
counter and began watching him.
He told her the laudanum was
kept in the basement. so he went |
down there and made up mix
ture of an ounce of liquid burnt |
sugar, and labied it "Laudanum |
Poison" cautioning her to be
careful and gave it to her She |
took it out anu drank it. In the
he had sent for her
son, who came and took charge of I
her.
The Arizona sentinel., 1875-06-05
Rough for San Luis 0bispo.

The Tribune of May oath says {:
Through the failure Of Hatch &
Co, commission merchants. O f
San Francisco, the diarymen of
this county are heavy losers.
Those shipping from CayucOs
alone lose from $4,000 to $4,000.
This is decidedly rough upon the
hard working men, who reposed
their confidence so implicitly in
the honesty and integrity of
Hatch & Co. that they allowed
large cOnsignments to remain un-
settled for period of many
months. The abstraction of so
large a sum as $4,000 from a small
agricultural community is a great
calamity, for it paralyzes improve
ments and extensions in business
and puts off to a future day the
developments of local resources
that would otherwise be made to
to rebound to the general prosper
ity' This will be likely to i'm.
press upon the minds of the losers
the old adage that says: "ShOrt
settlements make long friends"
The Arizona sentinel., 1875-06-05

Perhaps there is no journal that
detests plagiarism more than our
old friend the A{to California, and
yet that some excellent paper is
guilty of it sometimes, or it per
mits its 6reUity man to commit the
crime.
A few weeks since we wrote
and published in the SENTINEL,
an account of feast which we at
tended, where a certain stage
driver displayed his gastronomic
ability. which the Alta, copied in
an abridged form, without giving
any credit to the SENTINEL, but
merely saying ga stage driver in
Arizona eat" so and so, and it
has gone all over the United
States, and even beyond the
bounds of this great nation. into
New Jersey and Michigan and is
everywhere credited to the Alta.
Now we ask our big and much re-
spected brother if this is fair.
We have no objection, in fact
we are rather pleased when the
Alta finds any original matter in
the SENTINEL which it deems
worthy of transferring to its mag
nificent columns, but don't steal
it. You know how it is yourself.
The Arizona sentinel., 1875-06-05

WE copy the following piece of
exultation from the Los Angeles
Express. The prosperity and
growth of that beautiful city will
not hurt Arizona any, but only
help Us. We hope the brilliant
anticipatiOns of the editor may
be realized, and that Los Angeles
may become not only great rail-
way center, but that we may live
to see her population away up
in the hundreds of thousands :"
We direct the attention Of our
readers to the remarkable CONVEX.
sation had by Gov. Stanford with
a Chronicle reporter. 1t con-
firms what the EXPRESS said
when it was announced that the
Southern Pacific was to be carried
this year as far as Dos Palmas,
that the California Railway mag
mates were determined to antici-
pate Scott and rule him out of
California. The whole converse
ton reads like plagiarism of our
leader on the subject, and we con-
graduate our people on the fact
that an era of splendid Railway
activity has set in on this Coast
and we congratulate Gov. STAN
ford on his agreeing with the
EXPRESS. The only omission in
Gov. Stanford's conversation was
in his not dwelling upon the great
benefit the completion of this
railway system will be to Los
Angeles. 1t will really make our
beautiful town pOpul0us city;
and, taken in connection with the
completion of the Los Angeles and
Independence Railway, and the
harbOr of San Pedro and Santa
Monica, will constitute US a great
er Railway center that Indiana
polls is to-day, giving US an inn
petus which will guarantee our
city growth away up in the hum
dreds of thousands. Everything
nowadays seems to be converging
toward Los Angeles, things gen.
orally are lovely and the munich
pal goose swings uncOmmOnly
high.
The Arizona sentinel., 1875-06-05

"They tell a tough story about
a new baggage man on one Of our
local trains," says the Los An
geles star. "He was told to pile
up the trunks Id the baggage car,
and be sure to hang the checks on
the outside. The literal minded
youth piled up the trunks and
then took off the checks with the
leather straps attached, and hung
them up on the outside of the car.
The baggage master at the depot
was driven nearly frantic by the
passengers per Oriza6a attempt
ing to identify their boxes"
The Arizona sentinel., 1875-06-05

The Colorado river has been
wavering all the week, rising and
falling alternately, as though un-
decided which to do. If it don't
rise any higher it will be hard on
the Indians, who depend on the
annual overflow of the low lands
to prepare them for their crops of
corn, MELONS and squashes, which
they plant after the river recedes,
and which they raise in immense
quantities after good overflow,
for which products they find a
good market in Yuma.
The Arizona sentinel., 1875-06-05
BY TELEGRAPH.
Special 10 lie 8" Sentinel. !"
Foreign and Domestic.
WASHINGTON.

Grand POSv-EVOvv with the Chiefs
of the Black Hills Country
"Spotted Tail'' rather Saucy.
WAsHINGT0N, June 1st. = The
Indian delegation met at the
rooms of the Secretary of the In
terror this morning, to have
another council. Commissioner
Smith reminded the Indians of
the proposition that had been
made them to relinquish a part
of their hunting grounds on the
payment of $25, 900 and of the de-
sire of the whites to go to the
Black Hills and Of the difficulty of
preventing them. If they did
not accept Abe offer of $50, coo
within thirty days. they might
not get it at all. Red Cloud
answered saying that when they
selected the present Reservation
they were told it was for thirty
five years; nothing was then said
about the Indian Territory. He
thought it hard that he should
now be asked to go there, and he
would not. His country was
good one and ne wished TO keep
it. He considered the running Of
the Nebraska line through his
country a robbery and complain:
ed of the character Of food sent
his people. He was locking to
the future for his children and
tried to 10 his best for them.
After some further talk, the
Indians agreed to accept $4,000 in
consideration Of relinquishing
large portion of their hunting
grounds in Nebraska. The Secre-
tary was willing to concpde con-
siderable territory to them, ten ;
or fifty miles South OF the Nebras-
ka river.
The. Treaty was drawn up but |
Slotted Tail" refused to sign it,
and as they had not received the |
$4,000 it was explained to him
that the money could not be OBJ
tanned till the treaty was signed, |
and the Indians were then given
copy of the treaty to take to
their rooms to consider.
The Public Treasury Depart
ment to day shows reduction
during May Of 1885, 600 dollars.
The Secretary has issued call for
S10,000,0 900 go coupon bonds.
Ofthe Treasury--Presiden
Gsne to long Branch.
WASHINGTON, June "a pack
tge containing forty seven thous-
md dollars has been stolen from
he treasury Office. there is no
,lue to the thieves.
President Grant has gone to
long Branch
The Arizona sentinel., 1875-06-05
SAN FRANCISCO.
Fluctuations I'm the Mining Stocks
Market.

SAN FRANCISCO, ,Iune2. There
was a slight decline Of leading
mining stocks yesterday at the
Board. Consolidated Virginia was
quoted at 400 to 425, decline of 5
dollars from the highest figure of
preceding day. California sold
for 60}9603, decline of a dollar;
Ophir was quoted at 52@5f3 Bel
cher, 293@30; Crown Point, 800
344; Gould d Curry, 17@l8I; Mex.
lean, 2092O2; Justice, 1O5@11O, a
decline Of ) dollars.
Sold and Greenbacks.
Gold in New York, 1853.
Greenb3cks in San Francisco.
864@87f.