Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-01-29


Some of the anxious ones suggest
to Gen. Grant that they want presi-
dents In Peru and BOLIVIA.
Tom Hendricks has been making
Sunday school addresses. This kills
him with the Democracy.
Albany has a Grant club, an anti
Grant club, and d Republican club
that will accept the Chicago nominee.
Jackson, Miss, must be about out of
shot guns. At theelection, last week,
the Republicans carried the day.
Some Of the Copperheads rather
blame Garcelon that when he put on
the lions skin he failed to pull in his
ears.
The New York Tribune reminds
the Democracy Of that state that if
John Kelly is a fast friend he is also
an obstinate enemy.
From the list Of the worthless, un-
der whom he believes Democracy may
win, Horatio Seymour omits the sam
ted name Of Tilden.
The Copperhead generals in Wash
ington r at a loss for a war cry,
and the Cincinnati Commercial mis-
chievously suggests ''Tilden and Re-
FORM
The Okolona States endorses the
Maine Fusionists and the Jonesboro
Journal goes half an eye on it. Look
sharp, brethren, there are breakers
ahead.
OF 66 Republican newspapers of
Pennsylvania, whose presidential
preferences have been ascertained, 26
ure for Blaine, 20 for Grant, 8 for
Sherman, and Is for the nominee.
OF So Democratic Pennsylvania pa,
pers canvassed, only Is are for Tilden,
IL are for Bayard, IL FOR Hancock, 8
for Seymour, and the others, like Ar
temus Wards Snowman, haint got no
principles.
The difference, my son, between
Gov. Garcelono of Maine, and Gov.
Bishop Of Ohio, lies in this: That
while Mr. Bishop is prone to let
thieves out, Mr.. Garcclon fain would
let thieve in Springfield, 0. Times.
: The Indianapolis Journal would
vindicate popular government Gby
hanging Garcelon for treason. What?
With JEFF Davis and his gang strut
ting ahnutnn earth with sffecks two
inches shorter than they ought to be?
The Democrats are not happy. The
Supreme Court Of Maine has render
ed another partisan (P)decision. The
Fusion-Rump Legislature will be or
dered to disband, and it will obey. This
thing Of dying in the last ditch" is
rather bard. but the Democrats are
use to il
John TylepS widow asks Congress
for a pension on the ground that she
hasn't anything to live on, and
speaks of the pension given to Mrs.
Lincoln as u precedent. The differ
ence between a traitor and a patriot
martyr does not seem to present itself
to MR. Tyler's mind.
The ku-klux papers are a little
bothered astp6 Vow to treat the thieves
Of Maine. Their sympatbies are
with the thieves,Sf course; but their
few attempts to be decent in the
matter are as awkard as a woman's
attempt to throw a stone.
A Democrat Of the Ohio legislature
who can not read or write, has de-
clined to "sarve" ON the library COM
mittee, because the Hon. Mr.. Will
liams of CINCINNATI, a graduate of
Yale College, who also On the com
mite, was what he calls "a d-U.6ig-
ger"
The noisy Henderson OF Missouri
who is pitching into Grant tooth and
nail, was summarily dismissed from
service as council for the United
States under President Grant. Char
ley Dana, now, meyer was dismissed
from Office by Grant. He never could
get any and that accounts for the
sour milk in his cocoanut.
The New York Tribune sayssslrs.
Stuart, the wife Of ex-senator, at one
time was cheerfully turning her
kindly hand to household duties in
her husbands mining sbanty on the
Pacific Coast, and not many wears af-
ter was ordering md purchasing IN
Europe she beautiful pictures and
statuary and carpets and hangings
that gaee such q charm to her Wash
inpton home.