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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27
SHOWING IN ARKANSAS.

Billy Arlington, the lecturer, now
In this State, has has considerable
trouble with the Mayors of small
towns. Arlingtoil's opinion is that
he should not be compelled to pay
heavily for light privilege, but the
Mayors said he should. Several days
ago he visited n town whose entire
population could be grouped into a
photographers tent, and when he
called upon the Mayor TO settle the
matter Of license. he found that gen.
tleman disposed to charge him as
heavily as though he had come there
to take away. all the money in the
town.
What sort Of Il show have you
gotS asked the Mayor
It's no show. It's a lecture.
Is it trained?'
It's speech
'Ah, | thought it was sort of ed
ucated hog. What sort of speech 2
It's not altogether aspeech. 1t is
intetspefsed with entertainment
Our law says charge right and left
for them sort Of things. Entertain
ment, let's see. Coz lot of these
here paper lanterns, haven't you?'
No, nothing of that kind.
Don't sta6d on your head, reckon
No.
DO you ring bells?:'
No
One of these here dumb shows,
amt it?'
No, | tell you it's humorous
lecture.
Sort of patent medicine arrange
ment?'
NO medicixe.
DO you sharpen knives?'
Nothing of that kind
Il reckon then you sell some sort of
ointment. A Teller came along here
some time ago; got us all in a house
and wanted to sell us rheumatic med
icine.
If Henry Ward Beecher were to
ccnle here you wouldn't charge him,
would ypu,?'
You bet we would, and we'd put 1t
on him an inch thick.
You would tcharge Mr.. Talmage?'
is he the Teller that sees all sorts
Of snakes when he preaches2'
Yes.
Then we wouldn't lot him come
here at no price. We'd skin him like
! pceIin'au is,isin We,t sixe me $40
and you may sell your rat pizeh or
make your speech.
The money was paid, and at night,
just before the lecture began, an
officer approached Arlington and said.
'Say, Cap, you can't beat an en-
lightened community this way. Pay
| your license or Ill hop you over to
| jail
T pald $40 for the privilege Of lee
turing sir.
who got the money!
The Mayor
why, the Mayors gone fishing
Did you pay it to that bum YOU was
talking to this afternoon-that red
nose feller?'
Well, he's got no more to do with
running this town than you have u
salvation cart. Give me $25 or I'll
jump you tojail.' r9
Counting a. deaf man and cross
eyed hotel-keeper, who had come in
free, the sale of seats amounted to
/ s. go. The money was paid, and in
the future the man who sticks up
Billy Arlington's name in that town
will be sued for forgery.-Little Rock
Gazette.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27

Secretary Sherman has stepped on
the absurd bill sent TO him BY the
senate finance committee proposing
that the United States treasury shall
pay off $3.50, ,0o0,000of bonds in two
weeks less than one year, and shall
advertise for the purchase of $5,00O,-
600 each weeli.tbe apparent object of
the Advertising being to notify Wall
street dealers what day to combine
and send up-the ptfce. One appar-
ent purpose Of the bill is to empty
the treasury, break down specie pay
ments, and bring ON another financial
crash, proceeded by a year of Wild
speculation
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27

Three and a half pounds of milk
are equal to one pound of meat; and
only estimate COW to give 1900
pounds of milk in a year, this would
make the cows product in milk equal
in food value to 1000 pounds Of meat,
and this 1000 pounds Of meat would
require a steer, under ordinary feed
ing, four years to'produce, 50 chat a
COW produces as much return from
her food in one year as d steer in
four.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27

The season for clopements has be-
gun in Virginia In that State such
events are much more likely during
the cheap excursions ip summer to
Washington city and the North. In
deed, Washington is regarded as a
sort of National Gretna Green, In
many of these cases no cruel parents
iltrpose any objections to the
match, but the hypothetical elope-
ment was adopted with a view Of
economy. 1t saved a,wedding outfit
and entertainment that usually fol-
low marriages.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27
LAKE LEoDRA.


Where The weird and shadowy trees
Bend before the ghost-like breeze
Thro' the forest signing
Where the twilight's pail swoops
down,
Der the woodlands dusk and brown,
Like raven flying,
Silent as cIcud in heaven,
Where no breath disturbs the even,
Lieth Lake Leodra.
Shut among the massive hills,
The center Of thousand rills;
TRANQUILITY it lieth,
Death-lock'd in opiate repose,
While to the murm'rous alder boughs
The cicala repheth;
And never staff or sounding line
Can fathom the vast depths Of brine
OF bottomless Leordra.
Tie cypress waves its filmy pail
Over its bosom funeral
When the day leclineth,
And ne'er a sunbeam fiEds its way
Down from the tracts of upper day
Never moonbeam shineth-
Never star its radiance sleeps
Within the rayless, soundless deeds
OF mystical Leodra.
Quietly for e'er it lies.
Underneath the purple skies,
Lone and still and somber;
The wild birds caroi Der it breast
As il to soothe into rest
A dreamless, woeless slumber-
While flaming vines trail down to
drink
Fresh brightness from the waveless
brink
Of shadowy Leodra
Along its tranquil margin grows
The sedge-reed and the pale marsh
rose,
The fern and water-lily;
And Ger it, 'mong the gnarled oaks,
The melancholy raven croaks,
The trce-load answ 'reth shrilly;
The brown owl ceaselessly doth call,
When shadows deepen like Il pail
Ger dark Leodra.
In nights deep hush, lis told, a form
Wan as a cloud-rack ere storm
To the lone tarn cometh,
A moment stands in wild despair,
While thro' the newly walSen'd' air
A sudden whisper hrrareth,
Then leaps and mid the rushing winds
Down thro' the purple gloom descends
Into Lake Leodra
Then whirls the solemn food around,
The boughs sigh with a deathly sound
The ghostly raven mutters,
The cypress shudders weird above
While, like a passing soul, the dove
A panied death-lTote uttcrs,
A moan comes from, the s9dgy brake,
Then all is silence by the lake
OF mystere, Leodra.
'Tis told that in the olden days
A maidon of the farest ways
A dark-haircd Indian maiden
Fled from wooer fierce and rude,
And speeding to the tideless food,
Then with sunlight laden,
Leapt into the depthless wave
So that no hand might trace the grave
OF innocent Leodra.
And since that hour Of pain and woe
No wave has e'er been known to flow
Within the ghostly valley,
Where all silent save the breeze
That sweeps thro' the o'erhanging
trees
With murmurs melancholy,
And casts, a type of perfect rest
A lone flower DER the lifelesss breast
OF beautiful Leodra.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27

The devil, says ono of our religi-
ous exchanges, was in the ancient
Baal, and we are ready to believe he
has simply changed his orthography
and now makes it Ball. Base ball,
charity ball, masked ball, ball, ball,
bah! 1t is very evident that the cdi-
tor has been some time sighted at a
ball.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27

The Cincinnati Enquirer Demo
cratic) says of the result of the Ohio
convention: "lt is Tilden combi-
nation; behind the triumph of Thur
man stands thinly disguised victory
for Tilden.' It's report of the Colum-
bus proceedings bears these pictures
que and iudicious headings; 5
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27

An examination has been made of
the original declaration Of indepen-
dence, now among the archives Of the
state department, and IL is found in
such shape as to suggest that, unless
something is done to restore 1t, it will
soon be unintelligible.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27

The Winona, Mimi, Republican is.
enthusiastically in favor Of the nom
nation of Senator WindoId, of that
State, FOR President. Here is sam
pie of its talk: "Manj Of General
Grants riost influential friends will
seize the opportunity to go for Win
dom in preference to any other can
didate named. The great State of
New York will set the example. Ohio
is Mr. WINDOWS native State, and
will readily respond to the friendly
feeling toward Mr.. Window enter
tanned by the Secretary, whose adher-
enls at the South will quitely unite
in the movement"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27

A beautiful work OF 100 Iages, One
Colored Flower Plate, and 900 Hlustra-
tions, with Descriptions of the best
Flowers and Vegetables. with price of
seeds, and how to grow them. All for
Five Cent Stamp. In English or Ger
man.
vICK'S SEEDS are the best IN the
world. Five Cents for postage will buy
the FLORAL GUIDE, telling how to
get them.
The Flower and Vegetable GHrdeni
l75 Pages. Six Colored Plates, and many
hundred Engraviugs. For 90 cents in
paper covers: sl.00 in elegant cloth. In
German or English.
Vick's illustrated Monthly Magazine
-32 Pages, a ColoIeG Plate IN every
number and man. fine Engravings.
Price s1.2j year; Piyc Copies tor $500
Specimen Numbers sent fof 10 cents;
trial co lies fJr.35 cents.
Address, JAMES WICK, Rochester, r,
N. y.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27
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THAT BOY.

by her little SON, very small boy.
boarded train at Little Rock. The
woman had a carcworn expression
hanging over her face like tattered
vail, and many of the'rapid questions
asked by the boy were answered by
unconscious sighs.
Ma said the boy, that mans like
a baby, ,,ain't hep pointing to a bald
headed man sitting Just in front of
them.
Hush
Why must | hush?'
After few moments silence. Ma.
what's the matter with that mans
head?'
Hush, I tell you. He's bald
What's bald?'
His head hasn't got any hair on
it,
Did it come OFF,
q guess so.
viii mine come OFF,
Sometime, may be-
Then I'll be bald, won't r.
Yes
will you care?'
Don't ask so many questions
After another silence the boy ex-
claimed, Ma, look at tie fly on that
mans head.
If you don't hush I'll wbip Won
when we get home.
Look There's another fly. Look
at 'em fight; look Mt 'cm.
Madam, said the man. putting
aside a newspaper and looking around.
what's the matter with tIiat Young
hycna?' Q
The woman flushed, stammered
out something, and attempted to
smooth back the boys hair.
One fly, two fly, three flies said
the boy innocently. following with
his seyes basket of oranges carried
by the newsboy.
Here, you young hedge-hog,' said
the baldheaded man, If Won don't
hush I'll have the conductor put you
off the train
The poor woman, not knowing what
else to do, boxed the boys ears. and
then gave him an orange to keep him
from crying.
Ma have | got red marks on my
head?'
III slap you again if You don't
hush
Mister said the boy, after short
silence, does it hurt to be bdd-head.
edss
'Y5ungster,' sgd the man, If You'll
keep qaiet III give You quarter
The boy promised and the money
was paid over.
The man took up his paper and re
sumed his reading.
This ismy bald-headed money. said
the boy. When | get bald-6ea3ed
| l'm goin' to give boys money. Mis-
ter, have all bnld-headed men got
money?
The annoyed man threw down his
paper, arose and exclaimed: Madam.
hereafter when you travel leave that
young gorilla at home. Hitherto /
always thought that the old prophet
was very cruel for calling the she
bears to kill children for making
sport Of his head, but now / am for
ced to believe that he done Chris
tan act. If your boy Ind been in
the crowd he would have died first.
If cont find another seat in the
train I'll ride on the cowcatcher rath-
er than remain here
The bad-beoded man is gone, said
the boy, and the woman leaned back
and blew a tired sigh from her lips.
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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27
HE WAS THERE

HE WAS THERE,
sowAs THE FAMOUS BARL.
With Its patent Bung-holo Attach
nent.
How 1t Rolled Straight Through the
Convention.
The Wreath of Laurel Prepared for
Senator Thurman.
The DelegateyInstructed and Reques-
ted'to Vote for Him,
And by All the Gods on High 0lS'm-
pus, They'll DO 1t!
Still, the Usufruct Will Uundoubt-
edly Revert to Uncle Sammy.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST. !

The Alabama fiver is once more y
booming. g eg
Wheat prospects are .aouaiFshins
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27

Tie cypress waves its filmy pail
Over its bosom funeral
When the day declineth,
And ne'er q sunbeam frds its way
Down from the tracts of upper day
Never a moonbeam shineth-
Never a star its radiance sleeps
Within the rayless, soundless deeds
OF mystical Leodra.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27
ENCOUNTER WITH WOLVES

An old farmer Of bradford County,
Tenn, had q desperate struggle with
two wolves, which he found in his
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-11-25

IA: THURSDAY MORNI]
+ ANOTHER BOOM
the HOUSE OF HARRIS BROS.
Hso.sstss q
crocesies.
LtquoreS
Provisions.
t>ars~aro.
Grain and P,evs,
Orocseys,
CLOTHING, BOOTS, sH0Ds. HATS AND
GENTS FURNISHING oooDs.
ssters ssd Tie pois generally .i,l evs1hinx IN our
hne ss
GREATLY aE0VCeD pascEs.
We t0v1ee ove1yo6V % ~ soo so1R~S Vsces s0o
Mr. CHARLES MErHxIDORfER having tbs entire
mAsgeuae Of our Dry ooo1s Dsparsmsns. would b
GEORGE PERAsscH,
SAN FRANCISCO MARKET,
wsolsuls - rsa.Il As.'sr n
FRESH rRuIfs, vDosrAM.B. ooH1E0TsOtss. Erc
nyHR uNDnRsIoNDD HA0 on HAND
j and y daily rsoststng ~
Choicest RruiGs, 1rsshsst vsGs4abSss. Res
es Csnfss<1ens, CAssse Havana caga1A
Pe1lery. Ranch Dggs. D>s.
BOSTON BAKERY.
Adams Dsesa. North c.rse. Street.
TIME uSDERs1oHEp WISHES 10 CALL THE Al
prepared than All al orders pertaining 70 his bi
ness. lam prepared 10 furnish
MILK BREAD. BROWN DBEAD.
FRENCH DREAD.
ROLLS. BUNS.
And everyshng u ~ kind avn 10 the businsss.
Also Awsys on hsad frssh
PIU0 and 0AKn9
or all descriptions
the FINEST SELECTED AND FRESHEST
STOCK or CONFECTIONERY
IN THE CITY.
ss.ns snA Brown Bread erdsr.d Inday. VII b. -
v,-od to .nr part Of the ei9 Sunday moruing
M, II. sCHHEIDER. PRepri stes
FUR I'd WAITER.
&Aa0G oPRINo0.
LAR WATER and
clgAm PIPES.
T AN rRuPARED TO FURHEAH GOOD
PURE WATER,
And pasnty Of Il It reasonable rates
Asass Restaurants and Hotels furnished 1t ths nos
ladvSntageoos tesuns -
T.s& sAs Matter for Ysurss4ve..
D. SWEENEY.
Cas.oa, MAY kS7e |
the SAZARAc, |
3. E. BACON. Proprietor
eSueosaso< to Gibson Dssly.)
THE CHOICEST OF
LIQUORS, l
ALWAYS OK HAND.
Frosa ruddv susnlag tn Ne gray q dawn
Tho th1rS4Y traveller RAsp0 the mellow ko4n.
an&l6m
G. w. FRIEND.
TzgE1E ;zsn, cAS VOW =. reu1D AT
caeice ASooRrlDGaT OF
] EWELRy! JEwElRv!|
6 @ /
Watches, Clocks,
n
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-11-25
NJ q II i q III.

|TNO ALL WHOM IT NAY CONCERE:
Il z. T. TtBBETS has this day purchased the bus
ness Of Howell Blethen heretofore carrying meat
market In the shop Of Mrs Rncke tho Of Car
and Proctor streets In Carson New Also, all Of the
book accounts Of said business standing upon the
books Of Howell Ble.hen. Tho business will hereafter
b continued BY Z Tbbstts, and all bills paid 70 aad
Fsoslptsd bY him.
HOW'LL = BI.EERBE
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-11-25

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MV1kN N(A a PFH,
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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1880-12-27

This artificial composition, which answers
the purpose of genuine caoutchouc gutta-
percha, can be employed either alone or in
connection with other resinous substances.
1t is said to afford an inexpensive means for
a perfect isolation of wires for electrical pur-
poses The composition is elastic, tough,
not SO sensitive to external influences as
caoutchouc or gutta- -percha, and is not in
jured by high pressure or high temperature.
1t is prepared in the following manner: A
quantity of coal tar oil, or equal parts of coal
and tar oil, which is to constitute
third part of the whole mixture, is poured
into large kettle, together with an equal
quantity of hemp oil, and is heated for sew
eral hours, over steam or an open fire, to
temperature which lies between 2520 and 2S0'
Fab. (it should not exceed the latter), unit
the mass becomes SO ductile that it can be
drawn in long threads, and the remaining
third, consisting of quantity of linseed oil,
which has been thickened by boiling, is then
added With this composition from 5 to 10
per cent of ozokerite and some spermaceti
should be mixed The mass is then heated
again for some hours at the same tempera-
ture as above, and finally from to 12 per
cent. of sulphur is added. The mixture thus
obtained is cast into forms and treated the
same as caoutchouc. The proportion of the
three oils may be slightly varied according to
the practical purposes for which the compo-
sition is to be used.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1880-12-27
AnEnormous Diamond.

Of the many millions in value the diamond
mines and river diggings of Griqualand West
have yielded the Kimberley AdOeTtiser says,
the ssPorter Rhodes diamond stands alone
in water, purity and size combined. The
Adoertjser says This remarkable diamond
was found on the 18th of February last in
one of Mr. Porter Rhodes claims in Kimber-
ley mine, and handed to him by one of his
overseers, who will reap substantially the re-
ward of his fidelity. Mr.. Rhodes has kept
his secret well until the past week or two
when few personal friends were treated to a
view, some of whom suggested exhibiting it
in aid of the Carnarvon hospital, and although
the seemingly high sum of one sovereign
per head was charged, the sum of e12O
was netted in one. day in Kimberley
alone for the first institution of
Kimberley In weight it is $50 carats, in
form, spotless and fawless, with small secon-
dairy natural facets finely ribbed, which i'm
part beautiful satin-ike appearance to it.
A piece has been broken off very cleanly in
the line of grain or cleavage from one side of
about thlrty-five to forty carats, and another
piece of about fifteen carats is gone on the
opposite line of cleavage also, very clean
fracture and at the same end of the stone, SO
that the whole has the appearance of the top
of an egg with a small piece off one side.
That it will cut brilliant as perfect in form
as in purity is the opinion of our best ex-
perts while as to its water or whiteness one
and all unite in pronouncing it SO exception
ally fine that the sight of it can never be eff
faced from memory. Experts know that
there are various kinds of whiteness known
to the trade, some more valuable than others.
The whiteness of this diamond has been
tested in every known way, and it is general
| ly described to be of a lovely satin-hke white
ness without particle of steely blue, pink
ish or any tinge or faint of any color whatso-
ever ~
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1880-12-27

Andrews Amerfcan Queen thinks that the
scythe has been superseded by the steamer,
and breaks into rhyme
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1880-12-27
BuIl-fghting.
Graphic Description ofthe Spanish Sport.
[From the Paris Figaro.l

Graphic Description ofthe Spanish Sport.
[From the Paris Figaro.l
I have travelled in Spain. 1 have even seen
something there which has never been re-
corded by any romance writer or traveller
that have ever heard of-namely, that In
certain districts they still pillow the ground
with swords, custom original enough, sure
1y in the land of the Cid But will return
to this subject another time. To-day I only
wish to express my opinion in regard to bull
fights, and to declare that they are among the
most astonishing humbugs possible to con-
ceive The French romancists are very
guilty in this connection. Upon the faith of
writers like Theophile Gautier and Alexander
Dumas how many people who never set
foot in Spain have adopted the habit of
speaking of the tauromehial entertainment
with passionate admiration Oh, the poor
horse / am perfectly aware that he is des-
tined to be sacrificed, and that for such
purpose no one could buy pure. blooded
steeds worth five or six thousand francs but
this miserable consumptive lamentable hack
does not the less contradict by his very as
pect of hideousness the magnificent promises
of the advertisements
prudent man opens the door of the toru,
and a terrified bull rushes out, bull which
has Just been vigorously pricked with
goad in order to compel him to make his en-
try in theatrical manner.
Now the entertainment has begun The
bull pauses for moment No one moves.
He sees the horse of the picador, and rushes
at him with the velocity of a cannon ball,
burying his horns to their roots in the ami
malls belly Imagine the astonishment of the
horse, who has not had the slightest idea of
what was going to happen; for his eyes had
been generously bandaged! Sometimes it is
in the horses chest that the bull buries his
horns, with a siekening thud. Then the bull
tries to lift horse and rider together-that
immense weight.
The banderillos come and shake their
cloaks and draw off the attention of the ami
NAL Another picador comes into the plaza;
the bull sees him and rushes forward to dis
enbowel the second horse, while the assist
ants aid the first dismounted cavalier to his
feet He is SO weighed down with iron armor
worn under his yellow trousers and his brown
waistcoat that it would be impossible for him
to get up without help.
The bull kills the second horse, then a
third, sometimes fourth, or even more.
Now, good people, you imagined perhaps
like me, that the picador's duty is to stop the
bull in his mad career and protect his horse
by means of the long lance which he carries.
No, mol The picador is there only as an or
nament. The horses are only used to tire the
bull The furious animal must be allowed to
wear himself out and to disembowel the help
less and blinded animals, until his muscles
are weary and his strength is spent The
proof is that at Pampeluna, last summer, a