Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-05-27

The State debt of Tennessee a.
mounts to S26,000,000.
Memphis sets down on the banana
trade early in the season. s
The grape crop around Chattanoo-
ga will be very large. aF.asd .uas
The recent reyivalin 0pelika, Ala,
resulted in sixty-thrce baptisms. .
The Florida hotels are fast closing
up. Many Of the guests have re- 9
turned North
Northern capitalists continue to
invest their money in North Caro-
lima gold mines. 4
Sixteen tobacco factories will be
operated iE Winston, North Caroli-
ma this season.
President Tyler's widow has be-
corie an inmate of convent in
Georgetown, D. c.
1t is said that there will be moro
sugar cane planted in Alabama this
year than ever before.
Jefferson Davlsis to make themem-
orlal address at Macon, Mississippi,
this month.
One hundred thousand sheep are
on the tax rolls of Coleman county,
Texas.
Navarro county, Texas, expects to
make the champion fruit crop Of the (
State this fall.
A Russelville. Kertucky, mill has
shipped 10000 barrels of -four this
year.
About one hundred rafts of saw
logs float down the Kentucky river
by Frankfort daily.
The Birmingham rolling mill is
largely increasing its force Of work
men. a
The cf'p Of wool in Nueces county,
Texas, this year will be 10000
pounds.
Texas State Sunday-School con.
ventien meets at Palestine on the
27th inst.
Two hundred additional coke ovens
are contracted for at Birmingham,
Ala,
Mississippi river country negroes
are returning to their old homes from 1
Kansas.
Over $4,000 worth Of corn has
been taken to Robinson county, Tex
as, this year,
Moody and Sankey shook up some
Of the sinners in Arkansas City the
other day.
Raleigh, N. G., has 14,000 inhab-
itants; number of school children in
the schools 2,070.
The grand commandery Of knights
Jemplar, met in Columbia,
Tennessee, May 9th,
Work has commenced in Lee counI
ty, Virginia, on the Virginia, Ken
tucky and Ohio railroad.
Eighteen thousand dollars stock
have been subscribed for the Chat
tanooga cotton factory.
The increase Of tax values in
| Lynchburg, Va, for the last five years
has been nearly Sl,000,O00.
The grand lodge Of the Independen
| order OF Odd Fellows met in RalPigh,'
May II. W
1t is said that Leadvale will lose
half OF her population 6y the grelt
rush to the Gunnison country.
The peaches about Kingston, East
Tennessee, are pretty generally killed;
plenty of pears and apples. .,e sgab
Kentucky will be the last state to
hold convention to elect delegates !
to the. Cincinnati convention.
The acreage of III, vegetable crop
i'll Alachua county, Florida, is one
hundred per cent. larger than last I.
year. ~.
The fruit reports ofEast Tennesseg
Indicate that in some localities the
fruit was killed, while in others it
escaped.
There is not single liquor saloon
in any town OH tile line of the East
Tennessee and Georgia railroad, be-
tween Chattanooga and Knoxville, u
distance Of 112 miles.
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4 A brick, the size OF an ordinary ci-
gar box, made of the counterfeit
nickels collected in the street-car.
cash-boxes, is one of The curiosities
which adorns the'new street, car office y
in Meriphis. gsia \
In Middle Tennessee a drunkard
fled to the woods while wild with de-
lirum tremens, dug a grave and was
found in it dead His wife was rem
defed frantic by the sight, and pray
ed that she might die too, VIXEN she
was struck by tightening and killed.
AT Newbem, N. O., ]. Il Rheeri
planted crop of peas on the LIST of
, FEBRUARY and finished gathering the
product on the goth Of April He
! then cut the vines from forty-tiyo
acres, and cured them for forage, and
on the evening OF April 30sh had the
ground planted in'corn.