Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-08-19
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kansas hsi5ss : %
Hamilton county, Texas. has 4 White
man 1O2 years old.
There are sixteen colored schoolIlS
h9w open in Tensas parish, La. !. !, /
Lice, and cotton worms, are in;u--
ing the eett)n crop III North, Carroll.
ma. .a.ttIa N1VfS
Darlington county, s. G., is the lar.
gest cotton-producing county in the
United States ''H'
Two Georgia farmers grew 500
bushels OF Irish potatoes on one acfSa
OF land and sold them for $4OO "a 7FG
A temperance lecture in Geogia es-
Inmates that liquor costs the people
OF that State sl5,ooaooo annually.
A mill at pensacola, Fla, has closed
contract with firm in France In
furnish 100000 feet Of pine lum-
The soft blue-stone rock which un-.
oerlies a WIDE part of the prairie re.
gion OF Texas is 600 feet in many pla-
ces. s5n. -WT
The first cotton factory in the
South was built on Mill Branch in
Lincoln county, s. o., in the year 49,
10, by Michael Schenck. -
The ladies' of the sPresbvterian
church at Paris raised nearly "a, GOO
for their church by publishing their
bluegrass Cook Book ~
Bus sne's men in Little Rock sav
that the amount of trade in that city
last month was double the amount
Tor the same time last year.
Hamilton Allen & Co. have learn.
cd the Mississippi State penitentiarv
for a term of six years, for S39 420
per annum an | all ex penses.. -. -
The taxable property in Bibb conn.
w Ga, IN which is situated the citv,
OF Macon, has increased in value near
~ Ten per cent, within a year,. 1e
A woman in Stanley county, N c.,
only thirty years old, has been mar.
ried three time, and has sixteen living
children. They were. all twins.
Instead of Chinese, and TO replace
the negroes who have left Louisiana
as exodusters, the planters of that
State are importing Spanish labor
ers. -
The st. Louis Globe-Dsmto,cc,rat says,
the Republicans can elect five mem-
6ers to. Congress in Missouri this year.
1t IS the general impression that the
age OF miracles has passed s1 df
More than 100000 acres OF land
along the Air line railroad in Georgia
North Carolina and South Carolin,
have been registered for sale at lew
stationary figures for the next two.
wears.
A gentleman near Houston, Texas,
made 5000 per acre this year from the
cultivation of domestic blackberri, a
The yield was 5000 quarts per acre,
which sold at twenty cent, par quart.
Letters patent were granted by tho
United States during the week en-
ding July 90 to inventors in the fol-
lowing States Alabama, two; Louis.
ianna, one; Mississippi, four, aad Tex.
rs four. ~ ,f'1t0'd ,E12
agHun ha1nLa sft r.} ay,f
! Two young women in Crittenden
county were listed by the censu,
Ennmerators as Sarah Helen Eliz,
Jane Olan Nurse Stewart and Mollie1
Sylvan Lancashire Lse Lillian Glenn
/ ent.
I The Elizlbethton News saws that
Judge John IRELAND, now ono OF the
most distinguished men Of Texas was
born and raised in Hart county, and
at one time drove a stage coach OH
the louisville and Nashville turn.
pike.l9h g gsa 1. 80,
s. Speer, of New Orleans, has ex-
hibited fine specimens of fiber from
tho banana plant, lie estimates that
an acre will yield 10,340 pounds Of
fiber, worth 81 80; this added to the
fruit, will make the cultivation of this
splendid plant very profitable. go,e
Nelson Mitchell, of Amherst conn
ty, Va, who was convicted of martlsr
IN the first degreeand sentenced to
be hung, the sentence having been
committed by the Governor to i'm
prisonment for life in the penitontiary
says that he greatly prefers hanging
to life imprisonment. u aas 81 as'o q
A Young lady in, Covington, Ga.
who is worth 500 600, broke an en-
gagement with a young mau during
commencement because he paid seven
dollars Tor q horse and buggy to, qive
her q ride. She argued that q man
who would be so foolish as to pay that
much fora few hours' pleasure was
not the kind she wanted for alihus.
band. 5i.i9 3H.a'ssq ,Agss.s 60.
| 4gNs ~ sellflsi tr ihaf efae, slt
James Edward Calhoun, Of Able
vile, has one Of the most valuable.
libraries in South Carolina. He has q
commentary on the First Epistle OF
Corinthians, translated from the batin
into French by Jean Girard, and
printed 10 15i7, and copy OF 1.-THE
Institutes Of Justinisn." " printe in l8-
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