Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-03-11
NO. 81
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the Union.
Portland, Oregon, has population
Of 2O,671.
At Erata, Miss, J. w. Musgrove
died at the age of 103.
A band of twenty-seven road agents
is raiding the Black Hills.
Sixty six men have met their death
IN the pine woods of Michigan this
winter.
The Michigan University will fur
msh, next year, course of lectures
on journalism.
1t is estimated that the colored
population of Washington County.
Miss, has been increased by 1000
since Christmas.
During the last four weeks at least
LOCO emigrants have passed through
Chattanooga on their way to Texas
and the West.
lhe Irish societies OF Nashville
will not parade on st. Patrick's Day
but will give balls for the benefit of
the Irish relief fund.
The Agricultural Commissioner of
South Carolina has already turned over
to the State Treaurer $11 900 privi-
lege tax on fertilizer.
4 large number of eagles have
been seen recently in Cheatham
County, Tenn. One killed by VIM.
Ieasley measured nine feet from tip
to tip.
During the year ending February
y, 1880, 215 patents were issued from
the United States Patent Office to
Wisconsin inventors, being one pat
ent to every 1853 persons
The quantity of celebrity which is
raised in Kalamazoo is wonderful and
has earned the place the reputation
being the largest producer in the
State. Last year 100000 heads
were produced by four or five per-
sons.
The case of the pounding of sup
posed witch by some Polish bigots,
near Beaver Dam, Wis, after two
days trial resulted in a verdict OF
guilty, and Andrew and Paul Bartel
were fined S2j and coats (amouting to
S125) each.
Idaho has as fine water power to
convenient places for mills and facto-
ries as in any section on the Ameri-
can continent The mountains arc
full of streams of sufficient size to
give all the power necessary to run
the heaviest machinery.
The Bloomington, ILL.,, Paragraph
says that another chance is to be off
cred the cities of Illinois to bid on
the location of tho State Fair, and
names a great number trying for it.
and in the heat of the contest they are
calling one another names.
There are about 100000 head of
cattle in California and 100000
sheep. The stoch-breeding WAS be-
gan in 1869 by Spanish friars at San
Diego, W ho went there from Lower
California with 200 head of cattle and
| 100 sheep, besides few horses and
some hogs.
Nashville American: A company
has been formed for the manufacture
OF salt in Summer Country, from
well on the Scottsvlle turnpike, north
east OF Gallatin, which it is said will
yield from twenty five to forty bar
rels every twenty-four hourso. 9th
er wells are to be sunk and the neces-
sary furnaces erected.
Mrs. Clarke, respectable married
lady, living in Cass county, Texas,
was brutally outraged and murdered
/. Sunday. Three men were arrested.
and one of them, who confessed the
crime was horribly mutilated by u
mob. His clothing was saturated
with coal oil and then set on FIRE.
He was Afterwards hanged.
The labor troubles at st. Louis are
said to be assuming alarming propor-
tons. Already the wagonmakers,
cabinetmakers, brass fnishers, moul-
ders and wood carvers are on stljkc,
and the teamsters, painters, tanners,
tobacco rollers, stonecutters and
stono-masons, store porters, press
men, varnishers and journeymen tai
lors arc all organizing pre- paratory
to striking. The coal miners in the
Bellville district are also uneasy.
We have heard OF the cheeky chap
who went into an umbrella store to
borrow shelter during a rainstorm,
, but what strikes us as the ne lplus u
ira of magnificent cheekiness comes
from Mobile, where tho story goes, u
young lady, who after refusing tho
invitation OF a gentleman to attend
the theatre with him, cody borrowed
: his opera glass to so with some 9TH
er follow.
/ An excellent sedative water for OK.
. ternal application for bruises or ashes
) of any kind is composed Of ammonia,
. two ounces; tincture Of camphor, two
: and a half drachms; common salt, two
ounces; and water, two pints. Mix
r and dissolve without heat. This is
largely used in Frnce, and is also
q sold under naient madicinal 3. mama