Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-12

poses this year. ~, ''A' .''PuR :
State Treasurer Worth Of North
Carolina has decided that city bonds
are taxable.
Only three cities in South Carplina
have daily newspapers Columbia.
Charleston and Greenville. 'S'''
uEtra1aa-t,s sasslzz-l7' 's'rss -'sf
Five hundred men are employed on
the streets of Memphis In making ,ex-
cavations for the new sewers. 1-F'o
~ IN Augusta, Ga, the lamps. on, all
the street corners are to be ornamen-
tod with the names Of the streets.
The coal fields OF Alabama are esti
dated to contain 52,000000,00 bush
els OF coaL 9n9bjys "a l4g4 hs1,
Tho New York State Republican
Convention, 10 select delegates to
Chicago, will be. held at Utica the 25th
inst.
The school population Of Tennessee
is 514,7 the value Of public shcool
property in tho State is 81, ,162,684,
79.' ~ Gor'74l' gHt1N
Tennessee has fourteen Supreme
Judges, and they are said TO be sever
al years behind time with their dock
ct. r.l ,.....,..p. ,..,..r. -.,i.n-F vic,
The cotton mill at GAINESVILLE, Wis,
manufactured last year, 6S9,0l4
yards Of cotton cloth OF the cash val
uo of $328,S99, ...i,
The Michigan Central Railroad is
cutting its own supply OF ice, $4,000
tons, on Otseso Lake, 155 miles north
of Jackson. u.-''"f 1852 'r..'4'"
The oldest inhabitant" says that
the month Of January, 1874, in South.
eln Illinois, was warm us April, hay
ing but two frosty nights.
Governor st. John estimates that
the colored refugees are coming in at
the rate of 250 week, and predicts
that 100000 will come northward this
year. .te, wi Iar sh
A large number Of the convicts SEN
tenced to the Tennessee penitontiary
are employed in tho Sewanee coal
mines on the Cumberland Mountains.
The Montgomery Advertiser pub
ishos statistics proving that Aabama's
ossos by fire are smaller incorporation
to her population than those of any
other Southern State.
Two mastodon bones were recently
found on the Withlaconchee River,
in Florida: One of them is part Of
tooth, and" weighs six pounds; the
othor, joint Of the tail, weighs
twelve pounds. s "a ai 1osIG8
In accordance with decision OF the
Supreme Court of South Carolina,
Governor Simpson has issued a proc
lGmation convening the General AS
sopbly in extra session on the 10th
Of February.
A resident hunter and trapper OF
Apena County, Mich, has killed eigh-
ty-four deer during the season Of
1873; aud daring the twenty-nine
years that he has resided in Michigan
he has killed 2,468 deer,
Negotiations eliminated within tho
last day or two in the closing of
trade for 100000 acres Of the st.
Paul and Sioux City Railroad lands
at Sc per acre, payable in three in
stallmonts, wiitthkiAhhtterest at 2 per
cont. ,b ro.l
Gen Grant has written to Admiral
Ammem that after brief sojoun in
| Mexico he will go to Denver and
Legdville for the purpose Of examin-
| ing the silver field Of COLORADO. Ho
expects to reach aalena by the middle
of April. ial 4f ni agaiiets is
A Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, farmer
OF mathematical turn OF mind, has
provedssto the satisfaction Of the Sun
Prnirie Il Country-man u that he
has walked $4,000 miles during tho
last thirty years behind the ,plow on
his own farm.
Three bills have already been in-
troduced in the Iowa Legislature, one
making ladies' eligible to the Office OF
County Recorder, another to the Office
Of County Auditor, and third con-
iering upon them the right to vote for
School Directors. .,a ~,{l.., ~.
The Omaha Bee says the gravity
of immigration, if nothing else. isibe-
ginning to fill up the North Platte
section rapidly. We are Of opinion
that the season Of 1880 will witness
a rush of settlers to that section rare
ly before witnessed anywhere ailaA
1 Tho following reputation for d
. weeks supply was submitted ia sth'
) county authorities at Des Meines, By
A a widow, who claimes to be sicl
0 and has one child: Twenty-Five
0 pounds beef, two socks flour, tw,
, bushels potatoes, ten pounds sugar
Q hreo gallons molassos, one galloi
+ crasane, oaebnshel green apples.