Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-11-22
OVER THE STATE.
Shelbyville has a fire engine.

Shelbyville has a fire engine.
j. NJ. Overall was elected mayo
of Murfreesboro last week.
Possum meat sells at 10 cent:
per pound at Murfreesboro.
Sweetwater college has been char
tered.
1t is said that an attempt will
be made to give a mardi gras eel
ebration at Chattanooga.
Gus Boyd, of the we'll known
firm Of lumber dealers and build
ers, Lamb & Boyd, died at Col
umbia Friday.
Crockett county claims to haye
the oldest mayor in the world. He
is ia years old. of good mind, and
walks seven Or eight miles at a time
The Colored American, a week
ly paper to be devoted to the work
of education among the colored
people, has been started at Chat
tanOOga.
The largest sale of corn in
Maury county by one farmer was
made a few days ago by Capt,
Tom Gibson. of Spring Hill. He
sold 10000 bushels.
Miss Fannie Hilburn, of Chat
tanooga, was fatally burned last
week, her clothing catching fire at
the open crate. Her mother was
also badly burned while attempting
to extinguish the flames.
An interesting incident in the
United States court at Jackson,
was the sitting on the bench with
Judge Hammond the Hon. Robert
Chester, ST., who opened court
forty>six years ago.
Never IN the history of Knoxville
has theresbeen such a demand for
all kinds ofpoultryl as at present.
The merchants ship about fifty car
loads per-day, and the home con-
sumption is increasing rapidly.
/. w. w. Laurence, Of the lower end
of Hamblen county, brags of a Its
ter Of seven Poland-China pigs, not
yet six months old that will average
more than 200 pounds, He CLAIMS
that it is the h%andsomest family of
young porkers in the county, says
the Morristown Gazette.
The Nashville World, last week,
said: News was received here yes
terday of the death Of Miss Mamie,
daughter Of the late Senator B. f.
Matthews, of Pulaski. The doubly
bereayed family have the deepest
sympathy of their friends.
Only a week or two ago we chron :
icled the death of Senator Mat
thews.
The death of Maj. Wicks, well
known in Tennessee and formerly
president OF the Memphis and Char
lesion railroad, is announced in the
Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald of No
yember Sth. Maj. Wicks was the
man, who, some years ago, chal-
lenged Capt. VIM. Rule, then of
the Knoxville Chronicle, to mortal
combat.
Col. j. w. Walton, near Gallas
tin, raised two crops of Irish pO-
tatOes on twenty acres The first
crop, after deaucting for rent of
land and all other expenses, netted
S1,719. For the second he has
been offered and refused 81 so per
bushel. If sold at the price offer
ed, the two crops will net $4,000.
Hon. J. D. G. Atkins was inter-
viewed by a Washington, Post re-
porter in that city a few days ago.
Gen. Atkins denied then report
that he had withdrawn from the
race for clerk of the next (house,
and thinks his chances OFT cleo
ton are good. He said Re had
nothing TO do with the race for
speakership. but was running on
his own merits.
Murfreesboro News: Last Mons
day morning as VIM. Gordon, an
industrious and w~ell-tO>do cOlOred
farmer, was passing along % road
near his farm in the 18th district
of this county, he discovered a
little negro girl, about 10 months
old, lying nearly frozen in a fence
corner. Gordon took the child
to his house and provided it with
clothing and food. The child had
on only a thin garment called a
slip, and would have persisted had
she remained much longer ex-
posed. She could talk a little
when warmed, but could only say
that NANNY left her. She was
evidently abandoned by her
heartlesS and inhuman mother.