Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-05
NO.20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

from Wisconsin.
Five mica mines are in operation at
Bakersville, n. c.
a vein of iron ore has been discoy-
cred near Loudon, Tenn. scr
Mississippi has seventy-fve counties
and liz newspapers.
Two oamels raised in Texas vera
sold at San Antonio last@eek.
The discovery OF a silver mine is re-
ported from Cooke county, Tenn.
The physicians of Memphis predict
a healthy summer and autumn for that
city.
The present wheat crop in Texas
will probably be the, largest cverv
grown in that State. rF
Tho crops in MiddleFlonda are be-
loved to have been pninipred by the
recentGrosts. ' .----'-- =
The appropriations made by the
last Mississippi Legislature amounted
to over 81, 100000. '
iTwenty-three thousand quailsare on
the way from England, and will be at
liberty in Pennsylvania.
Hansings are private in South Car
olins, and are brought on by stealing
horse or burning Il house.
The increase of tax values in Lynch
burg, Va, for the last five years has
been nearly $1,000,000.
In Augusta Ga, there is q sunAow-
er plant that has been in bloom in tho
open air constantly since March.
The Confederate monumental at Dar4
lington, S: c., will be unvaiIed on the
lst Of May. Gen. Conner will deliver
the address
The bone Of u mastodon have been
found IN e4cayating n well at Dallas,
Texas. The width of one shoulder
was over seven feet.
There are id t. be abitual tipplers
in the town Of Anderson, S. G. Only
four deaths occurred. there laet year
in Il population Of over 1900.
A cat belonging to Jerry Mum, at
Marion, Ala, and said to be tifty-four
yenrs.old, died last week. It was q
| native of Ireland, and has crossed the
: Atlantic FIVE times.
The Jackson equestrian statue will
be unveiled at Nashville on the Goth
of May. The most attractive days Of
the exposition viii bo from the 18th
to the 22d of of May, inclusive.
t The Hon John T. Harris is conf
; dent that he will get his bill for retur-
; ming to Virginia the money advanced
, to the General Government in 1912
passed at this session Of Congress.
The colorod cadet, John c. Whitta-
,, ker, is from Columbia, S. c., where
his mother is regarded as very wor-
thy woman. 1t is not believed at his
home that Whitaker mained himself.
The Goodo farm i'm Bell connty.
Texas, contains 4,400 acres, 1900 in
cultivation, and between thirty and
forty tenant houses. Itbelongs to E
n. Goode, who settled there without
, capital some twenty-five years ago.
; 1t is not probable that Republi.
, can ticket for State officers will be
nominated in South Carolina this
year, as it the desire Of the party
leaders to concentrate their whole
strength on the election of their Pres.
! idcntial electors.
G The Hon. John A. Cuthbert, Of
/ Mobile, is-the Oldest lawyer in Ala,
, aud is still following his profession iu
the ninety-sccond year of his age, Ho
was IN officer in the war OF 1912, and
i he took his seat in Congress on March
/ 4, 1920.
There has not been death III tho
a old family of j. w. Mize, Of Sumpter
3 county Ga, in sixty-three years, and
@ he has six uncles and three aunts
o whose united ages are $50 years. His
@ uncles. his cousins and his aunts,num-
A Der; all told 1567that live in Sumter
II county.
Gordonsville (Va) Gazette. John
Thomas, who was born and reared i'll
the county of Albermarle within %
7 few miles Of Peters mountain, was
i married twice, and had thirty-two
: children; and, what is more strange,
/ had twenty-one daughters before he
. had son, David Thomas, who was
n his twenty-second child, is now living
,e ON Peters mountain.
" Asa young couple stood waiting ut
the deput for trnin at Ballston, Spa
the gentleman, to protect his neck
. from the biting air, opeacd his satch-
y, ell and took from it what he thought
y, was an embrcidercd scarf. After
ID noticisg the quzzing smiles of the
er faces of the spectators, he went into
70 the depot, and looking at the mirror
il he saw that his neck was encircled by
a clocked stocking Of his bride.
in The Tennessee Commissioner q
q Agriculture, Statistics and Mines, ha,
ar received q letter from o company or
ganiaed in Edinburg, Scotland, Will
a capital OF e500,000 making in
a Quires relative to the purchase O.
" lands in Tennessee upon which !,
y settle colonies, This company wa
~ nrnanized fnr nrnmntino emiorafiof