Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-26
NO. 19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Memphis has 459 uihenanted. hous-


A Scandinavian paperis to be star.
ted at Racine, Wis.
The State of Kentucky paid $10,-
600 bounty for scalps last year. {.
A heavy cropof grasshoppers has
been Matched out in Hood County,
Tenn.
The A. 0. Z. w. of Iowa new num-
bers 10000 members, and increase Of
over 1000 in the last year:
Of a white population of 1000 in
Raleigh, N. c., 1888, or just one-third
are church members.
The "Young Daughters of Enoch"
is the name of a secret colored beney-
olent society chartered in Virginia.
A three years old boy who died in
Hanover County, Va, few days #go,
is said to have weighed 274 pounds.
The fall of snow in South Carroll
na Is believed to have killed the Hes
sian hy, which had begun to damage
the wheat crop.
The public schools of Keokuk, Iowa
have been closed for q week, because
Of the prevalence of scarlet. fever in
the city.
There are ninety nine counties in
the State of Iowa, and out of this
number there are only three that
have no railroad facilities.
Clarksyille Tobacco Leaf: In tho
noighborhood of Sweetwator, Tenn,
the army worms is making sad havoc
Of the growing wheat crop.
Petitions arc pouring in upon the
Iowa Legislature against the teaching
Of any other than the English Ian.
guage in the public schools.
About forty young ladies Of Lin
coin. ILL.,, have signed q pledge not to
speak to on associate with any young
man who docs not wear o blue rib
bon.
There are $50 newspapers in Min
nesota, which number, the. st. Elvud
Journal thinks, might be reduced to
SO without inhicting any serious loss
on the State.
Georgia will hold no State FAIR this
year On account Of the elections to be
held in the autumn and the conse-
quent distraction Of the minda Of tho
people. 5s
Prairie fires have been common in
certain sections of the country toward
the west end of tho Southern MINES
ota Railway, within the last two
weeks.
It is stated that Cove Bennett, re-
Gently acquitted at Jersey city Of par
ticipation in the murder of Police
man Smith, intends TO become q resi-
dent of Minnesota.
james Pa-she-go-bhy, resident of
Iosco County, Mich, killed 112 deer
during the hunting season of 1879.
He killed eight one forenoon without
dogs or any help.
The Columbus Ga, Enquirer COM
plains that the members of the local
military companies seem to be losing
all interest, and that there is much
talk of disbanding,
A man at Shreveport, La, bought
what he thought was buckwheat -four
and his wife made it into cakes and
SET them on the table before the gro
GERS boy came around to say that it
was plaster of paris.
Leading aspiarists of central Ill-
nois are feeling much discouraged
about the large death-rate among
their bees--said to be measels. Some
cultiyators have lost their elffIa
stocks, and others have but t0|
swarms left.
Tho Grand Rapids and Indiana
Railroad have orders for fifty car
loads of ice per day, some of it going
80 far south as New Orleans. There
are 1000 men engaged in cutting leo
at Cadillac, Michigan, to fill these Or
ders.
A Minnesota paper reports that
gentlemen representing 200 Philadel-
phia families have been negotiating
for the purchase OF 10000 acres OF
land in Cottonwood County, that
State, with the intention of removing
the entire party thither in the spring
McKeehen was compelled, while q
loaded pistol was levelled at him, to
marry Miss Moore, at Leavenworth,
Kansas. He contested the legality of
the marriage, and the courts declared
it null and void. Then he voluntarily
had the the ceremony repeated.
There will be needed to supply the
mills of Muskegon, Mich, five hun
dred and fifty million feet Of logs for
next seasons cut, and with the pres
ont amount on hand it is thought
there will bea full supply put in the
river, notwithstanding tbs lack II
snow.
A widow, who lives in secluded
part of Michigan, talks very imper-
fectly by reason of having lost her
palate, and her two daughters, nged
eight and twelve, can only speak the
TRANCE language they have learnedo OF
her, through their VOCAL organs are
perfect