Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-05
STATE NEWS.
Sweetwater wants a bank.
Bristol has a board Of trade.


Humboldt has a calf with five feet
Franklin boasts of four-leged
chicken.
The game law went into force on
the first of April.
Gibson county owes the .sum of
$12,0l3.53. A,o re- srs
Robt. Vernon, Of Graad Junction,
committed suicide last week. .-
Wheat is booking well through
out Middle Tenncssee.oUj tesl "a.
Shelbyviile has commeneed to
rebuild the burned district.
/. Clarksville Metholists are build
ging new house of worship.
John Logue has been appointed
public guardian for Shelby County.
W. w. Wade, prominent man
Of jackson. isdcal.. ssg
A new broom has been invented
by a Morristown man.
Rutherford county darkies have
caught the exodus fever,
Horse thieves have been opera
ting about Knoxville lately.
Hon b. b. Enlle, declines TO be a
candidate for Congress.
The Haywood county court voted
$50 for the Jackson statute.
One hundred and fifty negroes
have leIt Clarksyille for Kansas.
TwenIy-odd persons recently left
Union and Claiborne counties for
Arkansas.
The East Tennessee peach crop
was not materially injured by the
late cold snaps. o.
Lieoln county leyies tax Of As
cents on the one hundred dollars for
school purposes.
Mrs Nancy Tins, pauper of
HGrdeman county, is said to be one
hundred and fifteen years old.
The Tennessee Press Association
| meets at jackson on the 18th OF
\ June.
Bishop Doggott will dedicate tho
Methodist church at Columbia Oh
the 9TH of May.
Nashville naturalists speculate
over a blind chicken recently matched
in that city.
Tennessee is nearly one-third lar
ger than Ireland, and Ireland has a
population of 100000.
The Cleveland Wooden Mills are tc
be ready for The reception Of machin-
cry on the first Of July.
The equestrian statute Of "0ld
Hickory better known as Andrew
jackson. will be unveiled at Nash.
vile, on the goth of May.
Mud Creek, Tar Creek, Snake
Creek, Lick Creek and Jacks Greek
are few neighborhood names III
M'Nairy County.
$4,000 applications have been re.
ceiyed by Col. KilIebrew for docu.
mcnts descriptive Of the resources Of
Tennessee.
Edmund and .Tera Baxter, charged
with the murder Of Samuel Hicks il
1878, were acquitted in the Crimina
Court at Nashville last week.
The Oldest house in Murfreeaboro
built in 1913, was burned recently
Its honestly constructed walls wer,
but slightly damaged.
Ninety-fye trees, one for eacl
county in the State are to be plante,
in capitol grounds at Nashville during
! the centennial.
A negro who he'd attempted to out
rage Mrs, Coleman, was shot an
killed near Chewalla, or the Charles
ton road, last week, by the lady
father, Mr.. JosMgtherford.
Al. Dashiel, of Jackson, n risin
young physician committed suicid
last week. He had few acquaintance
in Brownsville who will regret t
hear the sad intelligence
Horace Maynard, u. S. Minister
Turkey, was at Cairo Saturday befol
: last and had long talk with I'll
Khedive concerning financial schemt
{ for liquidating Egypt's debts.
, The committee appointed by Il
! county court to forward tree froI
Gibsoa County, TO be planted on Il
capitol grounds, Nashville, selected
. young elm from David Crocketts ol
, homestead Trenton Herald.
: Paris htclig,nrcr: A physicia
who is well posted came very nei
a making a fatal blunder a few da,
0 since. He was sitting in his roo
reading, and felt some symptoms
. a chill, and concluded to take a do
t Of quinine, and putting out what |
Il supposed to be five grains; put it in
his mouth, but before swallowing Il
4 dose concluded it didn't taste exact
e right. Upon examination, he foul
it was morphine. There was q b
1t splitting and mouth washing just
d time to save him from the effect OF
IS big mistake. Of course The mc
ia phine was not swallowed, but the
was a badly scared doctor