Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1881-02-17
NO. II
HERE AND THERE.

Small pox is increasing IN Chica-
go.
The Steubenville coal strike con-
tinues.
Heavy snowstorms prevail in the
Northwest.
Tom Buford has been committed
to the Insane Asylum.
Garfield is % great admirer of
Walter Savage Leandor.
Senator Blaine's daughter is very
handsome and is greatly admired
in Washington society.
The Cleveland iron men have ap-
pealed to Garfield IL put a protec-
ZIONIST in ne Treasury Department.
-Four, thousand weavers are on d
strike at Hyde for an advance Of
wages. Eleven thousand looms are
idle.
In the recent storms near Takon,
Alaska, two canoes, containing
thirty Indians, were swamped and
all OF them lost.
Mr.. Dennis F. Murphy, Senate re-
porter for thirty years, says that
Senator Conllling is the most elO-
quent orator whom he has reported
since the days of Daniel Webster.
LIE Due, of the Agricultural Bu-
reau, makes constant suggestions to
Congress asking for appropriations
for experiments. His lass theory is
I! to provide pillows for hotbeds. In
his opinion the pillows should be
sewn broadcast.
A Western correspondent, who
visited Senator Bruce at his home
/ in Washington, says the furniture
of his parlors is erich and elegant,
and the books, pictures and other
ornaments are of such q character
ana so arranged as to denote refined
tas.e as well as ample means.n
The richest man in the United
States Senate is said to be Mr.. Fair,
of Nevada. Of the others, Mr.
Hale, as the inheritor of Mr.. Chand-
ler's fortune, is one of the wealth
lest. Messrs Miller, Of California,
Malone, rof Virginia, and Sawyer of
Wisconsin,, are more than million
aires. There are many other rich
! MON -, tI.t I,oIy-
Quartermaster General Meigs has
lately written letter to confirm the
statement that Hooker fought the
battle of Lockout Mountain above
the clouds. II thought at the time,"
says General Meigs, "that the cloud
(mists for those who prefer the
term) saved our army good many
lives, and was great assistance to
| it il carving the mountain"
Rosersvilie Spectator: A little
daughter of Mr.. f. I. Yates, ar em-
Plose in the shoe shop of G. p.
Pierce, met with a painful accident
a few days since. Standing before
the fire, she reached over to pick
up something i'll the floor, and her
clothes were caught, and but for
the timely entrance of her mother
she would have been fatally injured.
Her hands and breast were badly
burned, but she is now doing very
well.
Elizabethton Mountaineer: A
man named Douglas, an employer on
the E. Z & w. n. c. Z. r. while
engaged in telling trees on an emf
nence near the Gorge in the Doe Riv-
er Cove one day last week, slipped
from his support and was precipita-
ted down the fearful declivity into
ths River below. Douglas sustained
no other injuries but rib aud a bro
ken arm. Our informant states that
the distance from where the man fell
to 7er gtt .frma would measure on.
h;.ndftd ani .ffy feet.
Bristol News: we were shown
last week by Col. Jno. Oyler and
sons, through the new Tt bacco Fac
tory of the Holston Manufactory at
Abingdon. The buildidg is Of brick
100x40- three stories high and is be-
ing fitted up in very fine style, with
large boiler AMI system Of steam
pipes and tramways that give entire
control Of The temperature and wealth
Fer. There are seven new hydraulic
presses and fine Office accommodations
!Quite a large supply of tobacco is on
hand, and, like all of Col. Oylers
work it is in faultless order. We
We're shown samples Of some of the
finest tobacco we have ever seen in the
leaf, being grown in Grayson Co. by
M. Cecil. Our thanks are due Col.
Oy. sr for sample. Messrs. Green
wi.v. Honaker P. Trigg, Oreger and