Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1881-02-03
AOCAA COLUMN.
The voltaic Belt Co.,

Gloomy weather, this.
County Court .convenes mex
Monday.
The congregation of the n. Il
Church is without a pastor.
Jonesboro merchants are having q
very good trade this week.
Shooting matches are again be-
coming very popular in this county.
Mr.. T. B. Salts is covering the jail
with a new tin roof.
Esqr. VIM. Mullenix, Of Bristol,
was in town last Monday.
The public schools in the county
have about all closed.
Hogs, dogs, COWS and geese have
taken full possession of our town.
Will Patton invites everybody to
call on him and take a chance in his
drawing.
What has become of the Journals
receipt column? It didn't appear
last week. .
Freight seems TO be pretty heavy
on this end of the E. Iva. & GA.
Rail Road.
The young mems debating society
at Martin Academy isa success. Our
devil belongs to it.
There are almanacs enough in
Jonesboro, it seems, to supply the
whole country.
Drummers drummers !! drum
mers!!I When shall we be delivered
from DRUMMERS.
Mr.. w. A. Sparks left this place
Friday night, for Knoxville, where
he is to take cases on the Dispatch.
Eugene, an infant son Of Mr.. h.
C. Boyd, postmaster at Elizabethton,
died with diptheria on the 25th inst.
Croupe,/ measles and diptheria is
reported in many neighborhoods In
Garter County.
Col. Reeves returned to Nashville
last week, having been called there
by and returned home again
Monday night.
Elsewhere will bs found the
obituary notice of Mis- Rebecca
Collins, deceased.
We are informed that Aaron
Feegles, who most everybody knows,
died at the Poor House one day last
week.
The kite business is beginning to
come to the front. Those of our
citizens that had so much sport flying
them last season should make a note
of tals.
We learn that the Ministers and
Deacon's Meeting which convened at
Union Depot last Frlday, Saturday
and Sunday, was very well attended.
Eggs in Jonesboro last week COM
manded 329 cents per dozen. Our
old hens should make hay now while
the sun shines.
Several of our delinquent subscri-
bers have called in to see US since our
last issue, and settled their subscrip-
irons to the TRIBUNE in fall. God
bless them.
See to it that the moral tone of
your school is held up, and thus aid
to remove the impression so prevail
emit, that all schools + good pla-
ces to learn wickedness.
Nothing to eat these days but
dried beans, which, by-the-way, are
very palatable to the taste, bat getting
oyer the effects of them is what
worries us most about now.
The ground in these parts has
been frozen for about three weeks,
but a continual rain last Monday
night kinder thaued it. Now, again,
it is mud knee deep.
Our young friend and former
townsman, John Patterson, who
was engineer on one of the trains that
was in the recent smash up below
Knoxville, has been visiting his moth
or and other relatives at this place
Rev. Geo. Phillips has put a lamp
post in front of the colored church
and placed a lamp on it for the con
venience of those who attend there
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these dark nights.
Our citizens took advantage of thu
few days of fair weather we had las
week, and got in a good supply o.
wood. Notwithstanding the groun'
was frozen and awful rough, goot
loads were hauled
Nj. Geo. F. Squibb has been Ell
n,rod for the-nast week breaking II