Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-04-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

:. NC Hiosqult0 season mas opened at
Selma, Ala. 'W3E iii
The ys'ue Of Tie live stock in Geor-
gia is sal,O17,634. aa
Cut-worms are injuring the young
coin crop i'll parts of Geore ia.
In the State of Georgia there ars
1,63S physicians and ITS dentists. %
A man III Moore county, N. c.. six
ty-one years old, is the father Of for=
ty-ope children. r.
1t is not unlikely that Gov john
NJ. Stone, of Mississippi, will be his
own successor.
F'ifty-otle fire and life insurance
companies do business and pay taxes
in Georgia. ~ l
The colored people of Georgia poll
SS,522 votes, and pay State taxes
amounting to S10G,660.
The majority of the m vi contracts
in the State of Mississippi have been
awarded to Northern men.
The General Assembly of the Presl
byterian Church Southern will meet
at Charleston, May 20.
Gen. Stephens d. Lee has been
chosen President of the Agriculture
and Mechanical College of Mississ
ippi.
Walnut logs thirty feet in diane,
ter are carried by rail from Tennes-
see to Pensacola, and shipped to Eu-
rope.
! Sugar-cane is tasseling in Louisiana,
for the first time since 1888. This is
said to indicate an enormous yield.
In the South there are 144 blast
furnaces, thirty-nine rolling mills and
steel works, and forty -eigh. forges and
bloomeries.
Under the preaching of Miss Pain
ter and Mrs. Moon, ut the Methodist
church i'll Maron, S. c., thirty persons
uuVc Deen converted. it.
Georgia has 6,S74,754 acres OF wild
lands reported for taxation, the aver
age assessed value of which is twenty
three cents per aero.
Since the establishment OF the Mis-
I sissippi State Lnatic Asylum 1,S75
patients have been admitted, of whom
469'have recovered.
In Jefferson county,. Miss, man
has been fined 800 and imprisoned
for abort term fci killing a deer in
violation of the game laws. M
I The fruit and vegetable business
1 from Florida to Northern and WesI
tern cities has grown from about 25,.
600 boxes in 1874. to 250,00O in IS
80. 2
W. J. Bryan is jubilant over the
success of his orange grove in Brazo-
ria county, Texas. He has gathered
I two barrels Of fruit from one tree.
A. L. Piorson, of Eric county, Tex
MS, has clipped this year 10000
pounds Of Merino wool, for. which nd
will probably receive forty cents pr
pound. - r
A planter in North Carolina has
made q tobacco hogshead by hewing
it out of the trunk of large tree. No
hoops are required to hold it togeth-
or. t'.eJ
! The widow of the late Gen. j. L.
. 3. Stuart, of Confederate cayalry.
fame, has been elected principal of the
Virginia Institute at Staunton.
The water-power of Newton coun-
, ty, Texas, is said to be sufficient to
y manufacture the entire cotton-seed
crop into oil and oil cake.
: A matt, Of cocks fought at Mem.
phis Wednesday, Thurday and Fri
a day between North Alabama and Ten
: nessee, resulted in o victory for Ten
nessee, that State winning six Of the
eleven fights.
|
h There is o great demand for houses
Q for rent in Little Rock, Ark, at pres
! ent. Very few are vacant During
Q the past year the value Of property in
y that city has increased from ten to
d twenty per cent
: There is being shipped from quar-
. ry near the Hot Springs, Ark, a stone
y of the finest quality for homes and
i whetstohes. A large shipment has
g been made direct to Sorgnes, near
Marsailles, France. 8.e
At school in Emanuel county, Ga,
there are q gentleman and son in the,
: same class. This gentleman is well
a to-do farmer, who was q merchant o
: few years ago, but he felt the need Of
q an eduaction, and says heis now de.
termined to learn to read at least.
o The oath OF Gaillard, Paris shoe.
J. maker, is sa,redly kept. Many ye.f'
q ago he vowed never to put hat OF
/ his head till the Commune is the rec.
N ognized government of Paris. He al.
is ways appears in the street bareheadsd
winter or summer, rain or shine.
Aftera telegraph pole had faller
It on o Savannah negro's head, he threw
i up his hands and shouted: .Don'
t. hit me again wild yer club, Mr.. Po
lie hceman. It wasn't me that stole de,
m chickens. 1t was Deacon Henry
" Then he looked, saw what hit him
is and walked of saying: "Golly, rs