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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08
THE PROPOSED ROAD LAW.

The joint committee of the Senate
and House, on public roads, have
recommended the passage Of Rep
resentative McDowell's bill.
The bill provides that road COM
missioners shall be elected by the
County c. ,rts in April, to serve for
one year. ne OmmisSiOnerS to re-
ceive the funds from the Trustee
and diSburSe the same. and pay out
the same on order of the overseerS,
receiving a commissioner fear per
cent, this being all the compensa-
tion they shall receive, except free
dom from road and jury service;
they shall file with the chairman of
the court an itemized statement of
receipts and expenses; the tax Tor
highways not to be more than Is
cents on the SI00 worth of property,
Dor less than 5 cents, and on privi-
lege no more than One-fOurth the
assessment; the tax tC be collected
in the same manner as other taxes
by county trustees. The
commissioner and justice of the
peace of each road district are to
appoint the overseers. Ali highway
tax not payable in labor shall be
payable at the same time other
taxes are due. All males between
the ages of eighteen ssand fifty are
liable for labor. Any road hand
may be exempted from labor by
paying one dollar. The overseer is
to give three days notice of the time
and place to commence. Magis-
trates are not eligable to the office
of highway commissioner or over
seer.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

POVERTY.

Some one has said: "There are a
great mny advantages in being poor
Let us see what some of them are.
You live quietly. You have few Wis
itors. Sponges never haunt your table.
You are relieved from the unpleasant
custom of making and receiving nu-
merous calls. Imposters never cheat
you. Robbers never steal from. you.
The decetiful never flatter you. You
practice temperance. You have the
promise Of better home IN the fu>
tnre. And one Of the greatest consola-
tions is, if you have true friend IN
the world, you are sule of finding 1t
out. The hordes of deceivers who
flock around you in the sunshine
will leave you when shadows gather
round you, and only the true hearted
friend will stand by you in adversely
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

The entire supply of white pine
growing IN the United States and
ready for the AK does not to-day
greatly, IL at all exceed $4,000. O0O,>
600 feet. and this estimate includes
the small and inferior trees, which q
few years ago would not have been
considered anything. The annual
production Of this lumber is not far
from 1O,OOO.OOO,0 FEET. and the
demand is constantly and rapidly
increasing:
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

Answering an ,nterrogatory CON
cerning an alleg> d betrothal to d
young lady. Hon David Dayis said
Seriously now, look at me old as
the hills and pretty nearly as big as
one. what do want 20 get married
fors And do you suppose I'm going
to make a fool of myself jnst be-
cause some girl is willing to take
me for what I've got? No, sir;
don't believe there is sensible girl
who would let me be such fool. and
certainly would not marry one who
had no sense.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08
WISE SAYINGS.

Neglect the duty Of an hour, and
it is an hour irletrievable lost.
The light of friendship, like phos-
phorus, is seen most plainly when all
around is dark.
That was good prescription given
by physician to a patient: DO
something for somebody" eonp
Under every missed opportunity to
do good to others there are items Ct
loss to ourselves, which we may not
estimate.
The least error should humble, but
we should never permit even the
greatest to discourage us.-Bishop
Potter.
Adversely is always hard to bear,
but multitudes testify that it is the
best friend they eyer had. If we use
adversity and reverses we are ssal-
ways profted; but if we allow them
to use US we are the victims Of ty-
rants. s.-Golden Rule.
Poverty is the load Of some, and
wealth is the load of others, perhaps
the greater load OF the two. It may
weigh them to perdition. Bear the
load Of thy neighbor's poverty, and
let him bear with thee the load Of
thy wealth. Thou lightenest thy
load, by tightening his.-Augustine.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

A Nevada man who was carriep
half mile by a snow avalanche
amused himself during the journey
by calculating the amount of pres
ure per square inch to which he was
snbiect. He must have been some re-
lation to the man whose wife III a
moment Of coniugal frenzy pelted
him with the contents of the coal
scuttle. AS he neither resisted nor
spoke, she became all the more exas-
perated, and finally il a climax of
passion, exclaimed:
"Well, why don't you say some
thing?''
s.Because, my DEAR" he replied
camly,
sIt was busy thinking whether
those Goals amt broken up finely
enough to be used is the kitchen
stove.''
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

There has been some cold weather
in Montana In one of the Butte
restaurants the cooking department
is a board addition standing out
from the main building, and though
the stove was made red hot, the
Chinaman was unable to cook some
hot cakes. They froze solid on the
griddle, and had to be chopped off
with a hatchet. A prominent cit>
izen went to the hydrant to draw a
bucket of water, and in returning to
the house spilled a little of it's cOn>
tents, into which he accidentally
put one foot. Before he could take
another step he was frozen to.tthe
ground, and was compelled to leave
his boot in the road and hop into
the house on one leg.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08
THE PORTABLE ELECTRIC LIGHTER

At last we can have the electric
light where it can do the most good.
That is to say we can put it now on
our desks, on our tables, on our man.
tie pieces, anywhere in fact where
clear, bright, safe lighter is wanted.
The Portable Electric Lighter, pat
ENID in 1879 and again in 1892, is now
before us, and we look at it with sur
prise and happiness. Surprise, because
it is evident how great progreas we
have made in the science of electricity
happiness, because it gives us clearer,
better, more movable light than any
we have ever enjoyed. Here Is lamp
so called, occupying only the space of
five square inches, which can be car
ried anywhere, and is besides an orna-
ment. By simply pressing upon the
knob to the full extent of the spring,
(which connects with the battery], an
electric current is produced by which
the spiral of platinum is heated to
incandescence and the light is instan-
taneous. The material lasts about two
months and can then be renewed at
small cost through any chemist. It
will not be long before everybody will
have Portable Electric Lighter. The
price, SIS, is so low that it cannot fail
to become popular at once. The prin-
cipal office is at % Water Street,
Boston, where all applications for
this most novel lamp sh ould be sent.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

A young woman in Bradford coun-
ty. Pa, went before Justice OF the
Peace with the man of her choice
and several witnesses, and made
herself wife, satisfactorily to her
self, by simple promise of fidelity,
claiming nothing from her spouse
as legal right, and insisted upon
no ceremony. There was no vows
given under the form of the law,
and no pledges. The Justice took
no part in the marriage, but sat in
the room only as witness.-Pitts-
burgh Post.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

Ma SOutbWard, connects at CharlOtte
lie with Ches & Ohio railroad, East and
west. At Lynchburg, connects with Nor
folk s. western railroad through Southwest
Virginia. to Nashville New Orleans, Mem
phis, Little Rock and Texas-and at Dam
vile with Richmond & Danville railroad to
to South and southwest.
Express trains connect at Charlottesville
with Ches 81 Ohio trains for the west and
with X & d railroad at Danville for all
points in Sout south East, Southwest and
East.
Express trains northward make connec-
ton at Charlottesville for Richmond.
Mixed trains for Maine Line leave Al
exandria daily, except Sunday, 900 a m =.
and 90 pm and returning ARRIVE at
AIexauara 3-05 pm and II Is p. NJ.
FOR MANASSAS LIN e leave Wash
ington 10 Il. u. aud Alexandria 40
a III. daily, except Sunday, arri' at
Strasburg AT II 20 p. m Connecting with
and at River with S V railroud for Laury
and waynesboro. Leave Strasburg 80 p.
IN. arriving at Alexandria at SO p. m.
Mixed trains for yanassas division
leaves AleXau !ria, daily, exec t SUNDAY
at 90 a m arriving at StrasbuIg at %
m and returning leaves ~t-asburg at
: % {, m arriving in AleXandria at lO
p M.
For iddleburg. daily Except Sunday
connections at Plains station
Fo' GpperylIle. regular connection at
Delaplape.
For Washington, Rappahanno ok, daily
connection, except Sunday, at Culpeper
| All trains connect to and from Warren
| ton.
All trains make good connections, at
Washington. to and from North and
| West.
Pullman sleepers between New York and
| Atlanta on mail trains in each direction
without change; only one change OF cars
between New York and New Orleans.
New Orleans sleeper leaves Washing
| ton @ 10 a. m. running through with
our change.
! Pullman sleeping cars between Wash.
| ington and Charleston, : G w,Ghout change,
on 90 p m train.
Pullman sleeper between Greensboro
and Augusta, Ga. on z 10 m connection.
| Marks Adjustable Chair Car is run
| on Night train between Washington
and Danvi1le.
Through tickets at lowest rates to all i'm
ortant points in the United States.
Mail Trains in both directions make close
connection at Franklin junction to and
from all points on Franklin Division.
MERCER SLAUGHTER, q. L. A.
Alexandria. Va
/ Doubel Shovel Plows
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

The Hon. Frederick Douglass has
been chosen treasurer of the fund
being raised by the Garnett Liter>
ary Association of Lincoln Unlver-
sity for the erection of a monument
to the memory of the lare Rev. Hen
ry Highland Garnett, United States
Minister to Liberia, above his grave
at Monroyia.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

There are twenty Greeks in Chica-
go, hence when they meet, there are
ten tugs of war. The Secretary of
the Navy should buy up those tugs of
war without delay land then we should
have a navy-Texas Siftiags.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

A bill to punish drunkenness,
which has passed the Alabama Leg
lslature, imposes a penalty on persons
drunk and disorderly in any public
place, of a small fine for tie first
effense, $50 for the second and five
days Imprisonment for the third, and
gives Jurisdiction of such cases to
Justices Of the peace.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08
,s!ik \ Ws.!.a Rail Road
Time Taole in effect Nov.
3rd, 1852
Westward Daley
No. /. No. 2

CON E G 7 10 n ).
At Petersburg, with r & P r r for Rich
m ond aud points on C s. Ry, Fredricks-
burg, Washington, Baltimore and the
North and East Through Pullman Car
from Petersburg to New York. Sold
trains Pete sburg to Washington.
At Burkville, with r i d r X for the
South.
At Lynchburg, with Va Mid X X to and
from the South and North, and. with the
Richmond &,Alleghany r r for Lexington,
Natural Bridge, Buchanan, Wiliiamson's
and & o Ry points
r for Knoxville, Dalton, Chattanooga and
all points South and West and Southwest.
Nos 1 and Z have through Siecpers to
Chattanooga and Memphis. No has
Pullman Sleeper from Washington via OF
Knoxville and Atlanta to New Orleans
connecting thence with sleeper to Houston
and San Antonia, without change. Only
one change from Washington to San An
tonia in Pullman cars.
Eastward Day.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

There is to be potato Congress in
France this year Prizes will be Of
fered for new varieties raised from
seed. Il is also proposed that the
Congress establish correspondence
with other counties for the exchange
of potatoes of acknowledged excel
lence in their respective localities. 1t
Is to be hoped that at the proper time
our department of Agriculture may
hear from the Congress and heartily
in join this project for an exchange.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

The charter of the Middle and East
Tennessee Railroad has just been
registered at Nashville. The road is
to run from Gallatin to Knoxville
through the counties of Summer,
Trousdale, Smith, Putnam, White,
Roane, Knox, etc. The fact OF n.
Zimmern ans name being among the
incorporators gives rise to the belief
that C. 2. Huntington is interested
in having the proposed road built in
connection with other lines Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

The New Hampshire Legislature
meets in June next, and will elect a
successor to Senator Rollins. 1t an
extra session of the Senate is called
there will be one Republican seat
vacant.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

don't rekoIlect doing ennything
that was just a little ashamed ov
but what somebody remembered it,
and was sure, once in a while, to put
me in mind OF it.-Josh Billings.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08
Eastward D2Y,
No. 5. \ o Z

g o y N h Z II % n .
At Lynchbnrg, with Va Midland Z Rfor
Danville and North Carolina points, and
for Washington and Eastern cities.
At Bur<ville, with r & D Railroad for
Richmond.
through car from Lynchburg to Rich
hond.
At Petersburg, with p r for Weldon,
Raleigh, Goldsboro, Wilmington and the
Southeast.
At Norfolk, with Bav Line Steamers
daily, except Sunday for Baltimore
rail for Philadelphia and New York; with
Old Dominion Steamers, on Mondays,
wednesdays and SATURDAYS for New York,
and on Tuesdays and Fridays with NJ. &
n T Co for Boston and Providence.
First and second class tickets as low as
the lowest-150 lbs of Baggage Checked
free to each whole ticket, and rs lbs to
each half ticket. $500 mile tickets $3.50;
100o mile tickets, $4,000
For further information as to tickets.
rates, baggage, checks &, call on or adj
dress L. S. BROWN, Gcn1 Trav., Agent,
Lynchburg, Va.
HENRY FINK, V. P. &5 Gen'l Mangr.
A. POPE G. P. s. T. Agt Lynchburg, Va
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

VIRGINIA MIDLAND RAIL
w A Y JOHN BARBOUR
PRES DENT
On and after SUNDAY, May II,
1882, Passenger trains will run as
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08
TheSecret

of the universal success of
Browns Iron Bitters is SIM
ply this: 1t is the best Iron
preparation ever made; is
compounded on thoroughly
scientific, chemical and
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it-no more and no less.
By thorough and rapid
assimilation with the blood,
it reaches every part of the
system, healing, purifying
and strengthening. Com
mencing at the foundation
it builds up and restores lost
health-in no other way can
lasting benefit be obtained.
70 Dearborn Ave. Chicago, Nov. 7.
have been a great sufferer from
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dyspepsia in its worst form. Nearly
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tried everything recommended have
taken the prescriptions of 4 dozen
physicians, but got no relief until
took Browns Iron Bittcrs. / feel
none Of the old troubles, and am
new man. l getting much
and feel
railroad engineer, and now make
my trips regularly. can not say
too much in praise of your wonder-
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BRowN's IRON BITTERs
does not contain whiskey
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1t will cure dyspepsia, indi-
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debility, weakness, &c.
Use only Browns Iron Bitters made by
R-own Chemical Co., Baltimore. Crossed
red lines and trademark on wrapper.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

Doubel Shovel Plows
j. B. THoMA s
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-06-21
A PARABLE FOR THE SEASON.
How the Early Peach and the Little Green
Apple Were Sold.

How the Early Peach and the Little Green
Apple Were Sold.
Burlington Hawkeye
The Early Peach came to a place where
four roads met, He slapped his chest with
his stem and looked to the east and the
south.
"Bismillahl" he cried, 81 am the boss, and
drive the ambulance"
The little Green Apple came down the
long road from the west and heard him.
He bowed to the north and he bowed to the
west.
IT am the son of the cyclone" he shouted
land travel with my own private coroner. !"
by the camel of Mahomet," said the Early
Peach, Il am the friend of the sexton, and
can knock you out in four rounds, Marquis
of Tewksbury rules"
Come to the wake" shrieked the little
Green Apple, ''and you may call me the
harmless pawpaw of the wilderness if can
not double up the man who planted you"
Then they looked down the four long roads
and waited for some one to practice on
From the east came a fair young girl from
Vassar College, and up from the south came
gray-haired African.
''Take you the fair student" said the Early
Peach.
Not l." said the little Green Apple, 'T
didn't come here to attempt impossibilities.
For nearly four years that girl has sat at
surreptitous midnight lunches; she has
broken up a score of young men with her
ice cream bills, and still she is hungry. But
I will stand aside and give you chance at
the African"
81 am not on the suicide lay this morning"
said the Early Peach. Il know him, and
already since yestereven's sun there have re-
posed beneath his untroubled vest a peck
and a half of my brethren, and he is even
now famished. He is known as the destroyer
of watermelons, and all my tribe fear him.
Allah is great, but some things are impossi-
ble"
So they let many people pass by unharmed,
the old, the tough, the wary and the we'll
seasoned. But when the day was far spent,
coming down the long road from the west,
they saw a ruddy boy, the pride and joy OF
his home, and the torment of his teacher
Whistling a merry roundelay he came, his
face as rosy as the glowing west his heart as
light as thistle down.
He was their meat.
The Early Peach and the little Green Ap-
pie set their teeth and breathed hard as he
came near.
''Nowl" they shrieked, and, livid with hate,
they fiercely sprang upon him.
In two short minutes that boy had both of
them down, and as he cracked the peach pit
to get at the ''goody," he said:
"By jimmy jinks, I wisht knowed where
I could find bushel of them fellers."
The EARLY Peach, with dying gasp, turned
and said:
I'VE are taken in"
With hollow groan the little Green
Apple replied:
"Of corpse"
But the boy slept soundly all that night
and came back the next day to look for
more.
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-06-21
THE FLOOD.
The Mississippi Still Rising at St. Louis
Damage by the Overflow in the
Vicinity.

ST. LOUIS, June 20. - HE river rose six
inches to-day, and tonight marked thirty
three feet, one inch, which is higher, with
one exception, than it has been for
over twenty years. Reporters who
made personal observation to-day report the
backwater has flooded all the low lands lying
between the National stockyards, north Of
East ST. Louis, and the little town of Venice,
on the river bank, two miles above East st.
Louis, on the Illinois side, extending back
fully one mile from the river bank. Within
this district there are probably one hundred
buildings, including number of small man
ufacturing establishments, which are
closed on account of water. The
Columbia bottom, embracing the section
of country lying between the extreme
north boundary of the city, and the mouth
and three wide, all under cultivation. is al
most completely submerged and the
crops probably totally ruined. The
damage is not yet estimated, but
it will be heavy. Three islands
in the river, between here and the mouth of
the Missouri, having an area of nearly 1000
acres, are under water and a strong current
is sweeping over them, which has probably
carried away every vestige of growing
when the water recedes, it will be
found the farms are ruined. The
northern part of the city, lying along the
river bank from about North Market street
to and including the suburb of Lowell is
pretty we'll inundated. Within this sec
ton there is a large number of mills
and factories, all kinds of which
are surrounded by water and have
been obliged to suspend work. While no
actual destruction of this kind of prop
erty is reported, great loss has re-
suited from the suspension of business,
and good deal of distress and
in some cases of suffering has come to
poor people, who either have been forced
to move or who still occupy their
water-surrounded houses. In the southern
part of the city several large and small manu-
featuring establishments are either greatly
Inconvenience by water or closed. 1t is be-
lieved, however, that the worst has
come, and that by tomorrow,
unless more heavy rains fall, the river
will reach its height, and soon begin receding.
Travel is not materially restrained; all roads
continue to send out passenger trains, and
freight traffic is not much delayed
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-06-21
AN OLD-TIME TRAGEDY
Recalled by the Dukes-Nutt Airair-A Bloody
Recital.

Recital.
Chicago Inter Ocean
The Dukes-Nutt tragedy recalls a tragic
romance that occurred in Kentucky forty
years ago. Colonel Sharpe, the United
States District Attorney at Frankfort be-
came engaged to a Miss Cook, daughter of a
widow residing four miles from Bowling
Green. After a time he became suspicious
OF the girls purity, telling his friends that
he had heard that Miss Cook had yielded to
vile passion for a negro. The engage
ment was broken off, and in a short
time Miss Cook learned of the cause.
Her resentment grew into bitter hatred
of Sharpe, and shame caused her entire
seclusion from society. A young man named
Beauchamp, who greatly admired Miss Cook
Tor her beauty and spirit, contrived, after
various ruses, to see the young lady, and
proposed to her. She accepted him on the
condition that he would take the life of her
traducer. Beauchamp readily consented and
in few days took walk in company with
Sharpe to a secluded spot. Then, giving him
pistol, Beauchamp warned Sharpe to defend
himself. The Colonel refused, and, de-
claring he would kill him at the
first opportunity, Beauchamp retired.
One night, disguised as a negro, the lover
went to the residence of Sharpe whom
he stabbed to the heart and fled. He was
suspected of the crime, and pursued to the
house of Miss Cook, where, after desperate
fight, in which several OF the sheriff depu-
ties were wounded, Beauchamp and Miss
Cook were arrested. Henry Clay and Amos
Kendall were engaged in the case as counsel.
But before the trial was finished poison was
smuggled into the cells of the prisoners, of
which they partook. Miss Cook died from
the effects of her dose, but Beauchamp re-
covered. 1t was but a few days afterward
however, that securing a knife, he fatally
stabbed himself. The case had national
notoTiety at the time
The Indianapolis journal., 1883-06-21
Running at Chester Park.

CINCINNATI, June 20.-At the Chester Park
, running races, third day, the weather was
clear and warm the track fair, and the at
tendance good. The first. race, all ages, a
mile dash Title Bat won by neck, Standi-
ford Keller second. Little Buttercup third;
time, 1:46H. The second race, all ages, mile
dash; Msmmon;st first Little Emily second
Viron third; time, 1;47. Third race, mer-
chant stakes for three-year-olds, mile heats
Pilot first, Orange Blossom second; time,
1:48h. 1:49K. Fourth race, all ages, two
mile DASH Lille Dale won, Conrad Otte
formerly Donough McKeefe) second, Emile
Bonillier third; time, 3:4SL.