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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-05

Charleston rs C.] News: Hon. A.
p. Butler, Commissioner of Agricul-
ture, gives notice that he is ready to
receive the privilege tax of twenty
five cents on every ton OF fertilizer
sold or offered for sale in this State,
and warns those concerned that fail-
ure to comply with the law will sub
iect them to immediate penalties.
Charleston (Texas) The jury in the
suit Of Shaw VS.. the Houston and
Texas Central Railroad Company as
sessed the damage at S11,000-the
widow getting $4,000, the son $4,000
and the daughter $1,000. The suit
grew out of the killing of Elder
Knowles Shaw, prominent Chris.
tian exhorter, when the train was
wrecked last year.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-05

Glasgow Times: AS the observer
ton of few weeks travel through
Christian, Todd, Logan and one or
two other counties honest conviction
isthat the wheat crop planted is larger
than was ever known before. The in
dications of yield much above the
average. oil things being propitious,
ale simply glorious.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-05

Lexington Gazette: Several of'our
farmers report their ewes beginning
to lamb. Aside from a slight cpl
demic of cholera among the lambs in
the early winter, sheep have done re-
markably well. The lambs coming
are strong and thrifty, and all viii
motaro early ey
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-05

TIL, ice factory in New Orleans has
introduced a new way Of shipping fsh
particularly red-sEappers. They are
frozen in cakes Of ice, or rather cakes
of ice are frozen around the fish, and
in this condition they are forwarded
to all sections Of the country.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-05

Marriage license was granted this
week, at Little Rock, to Isaac Elder,
aged seventy-two, and Miss Tunnah
Stokes, aged seventy. They had
been in love from their youth up, but
extreme modesty prevented them
from telling each other so.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST,"
Denver is organizing company to
heat the city bY steam.

HN"' WIZ Sity w oVcoh. a. fg
The State of Texas in future will
in no case nav any w;tness fees 81
Robert Bonner claims to own ten
trotters that have. beaten s2:20. fi~!W
m L., i p:..o.yis
has heen nart;allv acceeded to- -
~ -,
Ihe Jury IN the hayden ease ao
.horoaJ
'....
lhere are ooo vacant houses m
dem;c f1ii.
~, rAfa 7ai If .l /; rii
Inc Afghans are suPposea 10 oe II
On Cabnl - - - ~
:, ,,r.; 80
M II, murray, the new Governor
y;lle Cnmmerr;aI -. 80 -
An Arctic yn! seal was seen on the
IoaS' a' wilmington ~ Y, last GUN
-, w'is
Inc coal-helds OF Alabama are es7
tlmated to contain 92'ooC,ooo bushels
,ngm
Sixty thousand acres OF fruit trees
have been planted m during the past
year. .h"
AT one feil Swoop Twenty-Five ap- =
Pilcants nave peen adhitoeo 70 the U
oouth oafoiilla oar' by .l'I l5s's r 1,9
During the last three months over
I;Qoo negroes nave e!t 'he dePot AZ
west Polnt' Miss
OF the 1874 members of the two
houses of the Louisiana ii fg,slatue
only thirteen are hepubllcahs.
The Fish Commissioner Of Georgia
is Distributing large shipment Of
carp in the streams of that State. y
T Several sales of land are reported
near Gainesville, Ga, at prices 100
per cent, higher than were paid last
year.
The State Lunatic Asylum of South
Carolina contains 3I5 patients, OF
whom 242 are white and.l23 colored.
n aor.;sorv;no M;s Mrs Tom
Winningham gave birth to triplet
whose combined weight was twenty
one pounds. a8 Is ga.
i Toe exnorts of cotton from Fort
Smith, Ark, during the present sea-
son have already amountedi to over
81 100000 in value.
The exodus Of negroes to the North
from Eastern Mississippi is believed
to have been l,0O0 during the past
three weeks. 3 f.si lHr
The CITY Council of Waco, Texas, i,
has ordered census of that'city to be ,
taken and If is thouobt that the fp-
ures will go overa 10000 i
THO Gno, renort of r M r HIM.
tor T,aos,,rar nf Tho Loo Monument
As,oc;at,om sbnws The total rece;nts
to.hnve bean 500 Seo 61
p,rkor conntv Tex,s has /, new
conrt-house bn;lt entirely of stone.
auJ sa;d 10 ba III. most Swish buil
d;ny of tbe Find !, tbe State III 7di
IN. ,,.,I, ,no~f
c;etr - i cons;der;mn tho onest;on of'o
eroct;mr a monnmnnt ovor tbe sgrove Fl
of Car6l;na's noet Henry T;mro5 "a
lath County far'ners say that they
a. wan 1TI TS;S . now WI tbe ~ nod nry,Sta
iIo c,o,, tb,t CON he grown in that 2
no;up sao,;au '"' ' ~ Nv" -.
''O ,,
A resolution has been introduced IN Z
cue 'S,'siPPa n.s,s'"hS af AZ ponoSt;os
III onnst;t, ,i;nnoI nonyon-
~ 49, e '''s 80
''on' D. rg..s l.ti. .o,8
The SOUTH Carolina board OF AZ,
ai.u,.u.e ho;t ia, ,sdnl epl2yvu ~ ,n;fpr n.r
v" ,'oa sc nonn,aro;ni ~ .fnrt,;,ars n,.v
Io ohto;ned
~ o ' ~
North Carolina has six newspapers
edited by negroes, Louisiana three,
Virginia, Alabama and Mississippi
one each. u
Terrell county GA. Is out Of debt
has - 900 in The treasury besides
, AS n result the nriceI of real estate
! has advanced nearly fifty per cent in
tbc LAST venr
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-05

"Austin," she answered.
Andrew Carpenter started and Won
dered at her choice. @
And when the years rolling by
showed that brother to be rising
merchant, he nolonger wondered, but
felt a deeper lcve for the gentle wo-
man who overlooked his faults so
kindly, and who never alludeded to
the many bashful sayings which had
so often escaped his lips.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-05

Danville Advocate: Great prepar-
alton are being made on the north
side of Kentucky river to put in a
large crop of hemp the approaching
season-and the same is true in the
hemp counties ON the south side.
One Of the troubles, just now, is the
scarcity and high price of the seed
Within few weeks the prices have
rapidly advanced, and real good seed
are hard to obtain at any price. The
future Of hemp is promising.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-05

w G. vtRG. MIDLAND and G..
w $. Il. X. JOHN BARBOUR.
RE 'EINER.
0n AMI aftr Sunday, Nov. 9, 1879.
Passenger trains win run as follows
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-05

The Spanish Chamber of Deputies
passed the slavery abolitionas awhole
yeas, 230; nays, 10 e -.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04
The Tine to Save.

The speculative mania which seems to
have broken out all over the country
with the return of commercial prosper
ity unless checked or restrained will er-
tainly precipitate, sooner or later,
another financial collapse. 1t seems
strange that cur people should have
learned nothing from the bitter experi-
ence of the past six or seven years, but
so it is. The same men who passed
through the panic Of 1873, are rushing
again into all kinds of enterprises with
the idea apparently, that an era of uni
versal money masking is at hand. Many
of them, probably, will draw prizes
from the lottery, but the majority will
lose their money. A general break down
may follow the overproductien resulting
from this condition of affairs, and the
country will then be forced TO again
undergo period of commercial depres.
sion. In this respect the United States
but follows in the footsteps of other
world periods of imitation and depres-
sion succeed one another as regularly as
night follows day. Instead, therefore,
of launching outinto newexpenditures,
the. prudent man will husband his re-
sources on the theory that it is easier to
save now than it is to make up his de.
fciencies when the period Of depression
comes. If every one would bear this
economic truth in mind, the constantly
recurring panics !" would be much lest
frequent and much less severe than they
have been in the past. Unfortunately
the American people have not YET
learned that in time of prosperity the
erue policy is to save and not to specu
| late.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

LIFE or death is matter that does
not seem to trouble the Royal family in
England to any great extent as long as
it is not a member of that family who is
concerned. One of the London papers
says that lady living in Carlton House
Terrace was dangerously i'll and her
physician said that the firing of cannon
there, when the Queen went to open
Parliament, would cause the sick lady's
death. Application was made to the
Duke of Cambridge to have the guns re-
moved from the immediate neighbor-
hood of the house, but he refused. Sc
the sick lady was put under the influence
of chloroform while the firing was going
on. The journal does not mention
whether she recovered or not.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04
The Drawers Responsibility.

To lose by ones own ignorance or
carelessness is more mortifying than to
lose by ylanother's dishonesty. It is GER
tainly aggravating enough to lose by
both. To illustrate how little the law
will help person who does not know
how to do business-and to show the
Importance of small details-the NeU
York Mercantile Journal cities an actual
case. sas, v.aiai ae uWs rs nsss 7si
A man drew note promising to pay
one hundred dollars. He used printed
form, and did not close up the blank de-
voted to dollars, and after passing it as
negotiable paper, somebody Inserted
g and fifty" after the one hundred and
before the printed dollars.
The note, thus altered, got into the
hands of an innocent party, who pre-
sented it to the drawer, and the Su-
preme Court decided the maker of tine
note was liable for its face, because
through negligence he did not draw q
line between the word "hundred" and
the printed word " dollars.
Any testimony that the drawer might
offer to establish the fact that he gave
the note for one hundred dollars must
60 for nothing, as there was nothing on
the face of the note showing that it had
been altered.
Evidence of any alteration on the
face of the note would have changed che
case. Let this be lesson to all drawers
of pronnissory notes. No one can be too
careful in such matters.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

the head of the Commission has moreover the
right to summon upon the Commission all whose
presence he may consider useful in order to give
united character to the action of all authori-
ties. The head of the commission, setting aside
the right of the Commander-in- Chief Of St.
Petersburg, shall have direct control over all
political trials held in the Capital, in the Mill
tary District of St. Petersburg and throughout
the Empire. All local authorities, Governors
General and Town Commandants are placed
under the jurisdiction of the head of the Com
mission, and all employees in various Depart
msnts are bound to afford him their entire CO.
operation. The head Of the Commission is at
liberty to adopt any means which may appear
to him desirable for the protection of order in
the Empire, and the orders he may issue are to
be Internationally obeyed. The Office of Pro-
visional Governor General of St. Petersburg is
abolished"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04
Virtual dedication of the cxar.

A cablegram from st. Petersburg says: The
Gar has appointed the members and defined
the powers of the Commission of Supreme Con-
troll, General Melikof chief Prince Gondou-
koff Korsakoff will succeed General Mcifkoff ds
temporary Governor General of Kharkof. Tho
Imperial uknsc issued by the Gar nominating
members and defining the powers of the Conn
mrsion Of Supreme Control is dated February
25th, and is addressed to the Senate. It says:
Being determined TO put an end to the re-
peated attempts of criminals 10 undermine
the order of State and society, Supreme Ex-
ecutive Commission is established in st..
Petersburg for the protection Of order. Cen
ernl Melikof is apr ointed to the head of the
Commission, and the appointment Of itr
other members will be made on General Meli-
kofrs suggestion. By the Imperial ordinances
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

The North German Gazsfte says that
when once belief is created among the
Russian people that an attack on the
part of Germany is feared, it is only
short step from that point to hostile
excitement against threatening neigh
Dor. If it be true that Russian designs
against Germany, OF which Gen. Million
tine, the Russian Minister of War, is
credited with being the chief promoter,
gre only postponed until France is
ready, then Notifications against peace
full neighbor may be regarded as sure
preparation for future aggressive war
with Germany. Neither France nor
Russia has ever been attacked by Ger
many, and the colossal armament of
these two States, which by compulsion
weigh upon all Europe, can therefore
only be based upon an aggressive policy
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04
John Gilpin and Ella Stanford.
New York World.

John Gilpin was thin, callow and
awkward; Ella Stanford, bonnie buxom
and loving. They worked on neighbor-
ing farms at Middletown, Conn, and
last Wednesday they went before the
squire and were married The next
thing on the programme was the we'd
ding tour. Neither had money. Both
had good, stout shoes. Keeping excel
lent step as both hearts beat as one,
they set out to walk to Woodbury. 70
visit Johns old folks. Wednesday night
found them on the road pushing on
through the snow. ALI day Thursday
they pressed on. and as night fell they
stopped al little inn by the roadside.
John was very much used up on Friday
because of the long walk, but Ella lent
him shoulder, and 30 the weddine
tour was continued As the two ap
preached within four or five miles ol
Woodbury., John gave out, and persons
who kindly asked what was the matter
heard only from Ella request To borrow
a wheelbarrow. At last, when neigh
boring farmer learned that the pedes
triaDs had Just been married, he len
them a barrow, and, tenderIy placin,
the groom in this, the bride wheele,
him in triumph to the old folf i
Woodbury..
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

quiring Special Master Commissioner to give
bonds; authorizing TIE Commissioners of Van We
County to extend q loan !; DIR. Scott's bill makins
appropriations to pay the interest and principal Of
the State debt; Senate bill providing that canals
allowing the imposition of both nne and imprisan.
ment for selling liquor c0utrary to law; Mr.
Browns bill allowing Sheriff. mileage on each name
in writ or subpoena. e
The Senate bill Of Senator Atkinson allowing the
citizens of Guernsey County to vote an additional
tax Of 5000 themselves for the completion of
courthouse was passed. Mr.. Coles House bill re-
ducing the penalty on delinquent ta1es from 15 to
8 per cent. and Mr.. Patton's bill authorizing the
/ employment of additional counsel to collect the
same, were indefinitely postponed Another ef,rt
made to pass the Eggleston Senate bill ir
ing the pay of real estate appraisers and their ~
sisiants, but after some discussion the matter was
laid over until next week. eksBS7sS saE ZRl
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

Strang, but some people grumble
when their government will make no ef-
fort to relieve a starving portion of its
subjects, and others are dissatisfied ii
the government takes an opposite course.
The latter is the case in Germany, where
the government has taken such Through
means to prevent loss Of life BY the
famine in Upper Silesia that the large
landed proprietors are represented ae
being disgnsted at its liberality; COM
planning that their laborers will not
hereafter be contented to live upon the
food to which they have bean accustomed,
but will demand higher wages that they
may secure something better. This Is
explained by stating that although the
diet furnished by the government con-
sists merely of bread, nutritious soup.
bacon and now and then pea sausage,
the average Silesisn peasant finds that
this food far surpasses, both in quantity
and quality, that to which he has been
accustomed. The wages Of q laborcr
there are not more than seventeen cents
a day, and it is not surprising that q
plenty of the viands above enumerated
should seem like rare feast to him.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04
The Mistakes the World Sees.

Of all profes IN in the world there
are one in which the mistakes made are
brought SO prominently before the
public as that of journalism. A mer-
chant may make mistakes in his figures,
in his pr ces or weights or measures, but
it does not appear where every person in
the city and vicinity can see 1t. 1t is
not proclaimed to thousands of eyes the
next morning, nor published where all
can know it. If a doctor gives wrong
prescription it isn't known by everybody.
But in Journalism every such blunder i,
seen and noted by thousands, A word
mi PEELED. letter out of plac,, al un-
grammatical sentence or misstatement OF
fscts overlooked in the hurry and bus.
tie of rapid work, is pour d on by
cri les and the journalist informed that
uch mistakes are inexc slble.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

ONE happy result of the upheaval in
Russia is said to be reconciliation be-
tween the Gar and Czarina. The graft
tude of the former at his escape from
death was so great that he addressed a
communication to his wife expressing
regret at past misconduct, and promis-
ing that in the future there woul1 be no
occasion for scandals. The Czarina's
health is reported much improved in
consequence, and the reconciled royal
pair are preparing for season of retire
ment in the mountains of the Austrian
Tyrol.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04
Journalism ON Wheels.

An editor in one of the North Georgia
coun,i's owns portable printing office.
The editor is a flssrate blacksmith,
and occasionally changes his location,
stopping in any mel shborhood where the
farmers are disposed to furnish him
with work, aud as soon as he gets his
shop in good running order, he sets up
his old Bea Franklin hand press, buys
a gallon or two Of syrup. a few pounds
of glue and casts roller. Then he buys
a dozen quires of paper, and in few
days "The .Thunderbolt Of Freedom"
makes it's appearance, claiming a large
circulation and offering superior induce
ments to advertisers" ,81
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

The bin which is now pending in Congress
to reimburse the States for per cent. of the
value of land granted by the General Govern
ment on military land warrants will take
$3,s4s, 1870 from the Treasury and distribute
it among the nineteen States. Representative
Willis, of Michigan, has made careful cal
eulation of the amount that will go to each
State if the bill should pass, as it very prob
ably will.
The following table will show the States
which are included in the bill, the number of
acres of land entered on United States mill
tary land warrants in each, the value of such
land at $1.25 per acre, and calculation show
ing per cent. Of the same, which is the
amount that each respective State will receive
if the bill becomes a law:
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

THE Cincinnati Commercial philo.
sophically remarks that as the indebted
ness of the Dominion is now $183, ,974,
753, and increasing, and it is at the rate
of $50 per head of the population, the
proposition to undertake the building Of
the Canadian Pacific Railroad single
handed is not looked upon as practi-
cable. England is expected to foot that
bill. Evidently the Canadian is not in
a condition to do it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

A WOMAN in the hospital in Florence
has a strange history. She entered the
. Italian army in order to save her
brother, married man, from military
service. She served with distinction
during the war with Austria, and re-
ceivtd medal for bravery Ia the field.
When these facts were known to King
Humbert he presented her with the
cross of his order and gave directions
for her discharge on an annual pension.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04
Chicago Justice.

Correspondence st. Paul Pioneer Fress.1
The followingscsne, which occurred at
the jail the otner day, will show the
great respect which a'tbe s. thief will
receive here. 1t was somewhat after
thisstyle: - aa'4 t.@ss' ~ 50
Sheriff" What is that prisoner
charged With" .s,sa
Jailer-f Petty larceny, SIR"
Sheriff -"Well, run him into one of
those urpsr cellr. What is this man
charged with?' ...-a.,
Jall+r. Gin whisper) =" This is Won
Hollen; big thief; stole over $100, 600
from the city; eat ffiend Of. .and
-, and.
Sh riff-"Oh, yes. How do you do Mr..
Vol Hollen3 Sorry We have not a
better ro m t, offer you, sir; but if you
| will ry and m Ike yourself comfortable
| for while ia my office, will have the
| jailer's private apartment fixed up for
| you. Jaile-, that Mr.. Won Hollen
has everything he wants Have my soft
bottom ehsi Do you smoke, Mr.. Ven
Hollen? Try o .e. No so good, l pre-
sum-, rs you eaccustom d to. Jailt r,
bring Mr.. Won Holieu spittoon, and
admit his freacs free'y--win make
| thin as pleasant IS possible for you.
Good day, sir" 1he gger the thief
the more comfortable the Quart rs an
greater the politene,s.
Going to New Orleans in Character
Shortly after the collapse of the Con-
federscy, an ex- soldier who had spent
! all his pay in rioting and whisky drink.
| ing found himself in Shreveport strapped
and busted, yet full: of hexpedients.
DESTROYS of reaching his home he in
| quired the fare, and to his dismay found
it to be SIS. Now that amount was as
big as aemillion in Bills's sight. After
casting about be bethought himself Of q
| scheme. The steamer National was
nearly ready to leave her berth when
Billy made his appearance ON the wharf
and sang out.
al say, Captain, how much do you
charge to carry barrel Of whisky to
New Orleansp' Sin
1.-Two dollars" replied the Captain.
"All right" replied Bill. "Send out
a couple of your deckhands and roll me
aboard" ,.,.s:., $50. gT
| Cap. Hamilton saw the joke, and
sent out the mud clerk to take the marks
weight, ETC., of the - freight"
Billy was invited to q seat at the cabin
table by the Captain, and travelled to
New Orleans in style, as barrel oi
whisky by which name he was after
wards known.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

CALIFORNIA averages higher rates for
farm labor than any State in the Union,
viz, $44 month without board, and
1927 day for transient help in harvest
times. South Carolina is said to pay the
least, or an average of 1888 per month
without board. Transient help is paid
for at the rate of eighty cents day,
without board.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

IT appears from statement recently
made by the Secretary of War that
1868, 1923 pounds of cannon, condemned
as useless for army purposes and worth
Sill ,345, have been given away by act
of Congress for soldiers monuments.
The supply is nearly exhausted.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

PROF. ANDRE, of London, England,
looms up as a rival of our own Edison.
He has been so successful in his expert
ments about house lighting that he
will introduce the electric light into the
Stafford House. The Prince of Wales
also promises him contract.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

JEFF DAVIS expects to make from 800
to 1000 bales of cotton on his Missis-
sippi plantation during the coming sea-
son. He is busily engaged ON his
" Memoirs of the War;" in which he is
assisted by his wife and his nephew,
General Joseph Davis.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04

GAMRETrA, the statesman, wants to
provide ga National system Of higher
instruction for girls" in France. He is
persuaded that if girls are not educated
ur to the level of the Republican ideal
the Republic will fall down to their no
tion Of what it ought TO Re. He says
the best advisers he had-not alone as
to the conduct of his private life, but In
politics -were good women"