Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-04-22
NO. 81
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1uc CottoI CTop VI L leAitb 10 eSI-
mated at $57,500,000.
4 military company is being orgars
lied at Eufaula, Ala. u
la Sir Republican newspapers are now
published in Florida.
Rust in the wheat crop is complain
ed of throughout Alabama.
An insect plague is prevailing in
some of the parishes Of Louisiana.
There arssix ex-Goternors of Geor-
gid how living; and all reside
within the State.
DR.. Crisell, of Beaaford, S. c., ex-
poets to grow $4,000 bushels of rice
this year.
Louisiana has TAI physicians. The
nuthber of medical societies in tho
State is thirteen.
Last year there were 425 additions
to tic membership of the Quarters in
North Carolina.
Two little boys in Catahoiila par
ish, La. were crushed to death by q
bee-tree they were telling.
Mrs. Powell, of Campbell comfy,
Virginia, died. recently, at the age of
one hundred and nine,
1t is said that the late cold snap in
Northwest Texas killed from fifteen
to twenty per cent, of the cattle.
Crops in the vicinity of Waco, Tex
as, are about one itionth IN advace of
their usual condition at this seas on.
A lady who keeps boarding-housc
at Simmonsville, S. G., served on her
table last year 3,700 chickens.
A section of the iawbono Of mas
todon, weighing soventy-fve pounds,
has been found at Atascosa, Texas.
There are many complaints of the
iTegularity OF mails throughout nor
thern Louisisna, and also in Mississ-
ippi.
Texas derives revenue of 100000
from the tax on commercial trnvlers.
The total number licensed under the
law is 1882.
! What the Republican party needs
now is union, harmony, self-denial,
t. and concession. Everything for the
cause, nothing for men. n
According to the Pittsburg Post
the fight stands thus: Randall is
an advocate Of Tilden's nomination
and favors Tildcn delegates.
The Efforts of interested parties to
patch up a truce between Tilden and
Tammany still continue, but with
diminishing prospects of success.
| At n festival near Newton, Ca, two
negroes quarreled about the owner
ship of nickel, whed one shot the
other, causing instant death.
The loss of the Normal school,
founded at Nashville by the Peabody
fund, which is TO be removedto Allan
ia, will be severely felt by the for
mer city.
In Clark county, Miss, Sail Murphy
has been found guilty Of manslaugh-
ter, she having killed Ashby Caves
last February. Tile trial was largely
atteiided by ladies. f
The Historical and Monumental
Association of Montgomery, Ala, pro-
pose toraise $4,000 by 81 subscrip-
tions for the purpose of ercting d
monument in that city to Confederate
dead. A
A mathematician has calculated that
a Memphis citizen who drinks Wolf
river water annually absorbs four
times his weight in red clay, besides
swallowing about fifty pounds weight
of the debris of dead caterpillars.
Scores Of lady clerks are employed
by merchants and shopkeepers in At
lantai and they make profitable liv-
ing behind the counter. The Con-
stitution publishes list Of establish
ments which employ, altogether, 534
female adults.
On last Sunday night, while service
was being held in the Methodist
church at Bastrop, La, somebody tied
tin can to a cur dogs tail and turn
ed him loose in the sacred edifice.
, The Clarion says the congregation be-
| haved like tickled gang of school
children.
A worthy cotiple in Massachusetts,
! ! town had lost their only daughter and
were deeply depressed. AS they sat
! one evening in the drawing-room,
! having sighs at intervals, the wife re-
marked. "Well, George, there is ono
consolation. Situated as we are, we
could never have gotten Jane into
Boston society,"
II has been decided By o Georgia
. court that kissing another mans
! wife 10 assault and battery. At De-
: cattif last week q case of this kind
I came before Judge Speers, who in
= structed the jury to return verdict
: : of assault and battery and then SEN
y fenced tho criminal to q fine Of 5000
o or six months on the chain gang.
! In South Carolina man was put
off train because he had not pur-
chased ticket and refused to pay
n the additional fare charged by the
. road to those who have'rio tickets. Hc
is sued for damages, proved that he had
= no time to procure ticket before the
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