Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-10-25

: copper mines for 100000.
Nearly all the middle Tennessee,
f papers report an increased acreag,
in wheat sowing.
The Federal reunion at Kingston
/. was attended by about 5000
: people.
:. The Polk county cotton crop
, is only about two-thirds this year
say eleven OF twelve hundred
bales. The drouth did it.
| Mr.. j.. l.. Baird was halted by
two tramps in Lewis county a few
days ago and robbed of the con-
!, tents of his pocketbook.
!, Three gentlemen of Shelbyville
want TO be mayor of that staid Its
tie city.
A daily train will be put on be-
tween Fayetteville and Decherd
for passengers, mail and express,
on the lst of November.
Counterfeit $50 greenbacks are
said to have become unpleasantly
common in business circles at Fay
etteville.
The total valuation of railroad
property III Tennessee is S31,197,-
200, showing an increase over the
valuation of two years ago of
S4,1S1, 900.
Tennessee has paid $26, 500, 900
to the Federal government during
the time the internal revenue sys>
tenn has been in operation.
The Supreme court of Tennes-
wife died and his children grow
up and leave him, still the home
atead is his until he dies.
The Morristown Gazette says a
large number of foreigners were
In that place last week looking for
The The Chancery
court, at &ays a will and
deed of gift q woman of
weak mind To-. 3Sband. recent
~. is null and vd1.
The Nashville Banner thinks
Thos. T. Bayard, of Deleware,
and James D. Porter, of Tennes-
see, would make a good and ac-
ceptable ticket in 1884.
W. L. Boyd, convicted in the
Nashville criminal court and sem
fenced to fifteen years in the pen
itentiary, for killing his mistress.
Mrs. Birdie Patterson, was refused
a new trial, and appealed to the
Supreme court.
The Observer says: A hoist
for the transfer Of cars from the
broad to the harrow guage rail-
road, and vice versa. is soon to be
built, at the Fayetteville depot.
The lerge and rapid increase in
the AMOUNT OF freight makes it
necessity. 1
The Trey News says: Our cello
brated Nimrod and sportsman,
G. w. Inman, killed twelve par>
tridges at IL shot last Monday !
on the top of an old building in
the rear of G. Z. Wilson's store 4.
Landon Carter Haynes, son of
the late Hon. Landon G. Haynes
died of consumption, at his home +,
in jackson, Tenn, on the 10Th {
inst, in the thirty~fourth year of
his age.
The cambridge News says: Some
of our citizens are talking rail-
road. We hope it will be more
than talk. A route was surveyed
out from this place to Messy Creek I
some years ago. {
Brownsville States: w. D. Kir- .
bv was killed Tuesday evening by :
his horse running away on the .
square and throwing him from his =,
buggy. The fall rendered him in !
sensible and he died in q few !
hours.
A gentleman who has been
some weeks in Marion
county, says that prohibition is .
tie leading question in that coun- =
ty, and that candidates for the ,
will be run and voted
for solely upon that question next
year. '
The Upton Call says a marriage +
license now costs S5.37a in that +
county; of which $3.50 goes toward !
the payment of the railroad debt; :
to the school fund, and 80 r
cents to the clerk. :
Nashville's Chief of Police was
sent to Jail for ten days for con-
of caurt in refusing to de- 1
a prisoner on the order of
Allen, of the Criminal |
court, because the prisoner was 4
held for violating a city 0rdi- a
The police don't quite run !
the town in Nashville. 1
AT Springfield the Hopkinsviile l
accommodation train run over and !,
Frank Whitehead Tuesday !
evening. He came to townSto take :
in the circus, got drunk and star =
ted home. He fell asleep on the
track on q sharp curve about one
mile south of town. He leaves a
wife and six children,
cambridge News: Master A., i
lfeQ AuStell, Oh AOIaIGd, lUa WHO I
is only six years old, has in his a
OVID right $4,000. 1t will be a
remembered that his father, who a
now dead, was a native of JEFF S
erson county. S
The Somerville Reporter says U
that q dreadful tragedy occurred e
n Rossyille on Wednesday last, in
w. Scott War was killed by
P. G.. Tate. The latter used two
shot guns with a charge of twenty =
four buckshot in each. War was I
drunk and threatening. !;
The Pulaski Citizen says: One a
Of our Giles county young men 4
who got back from Texas q few 4
days since, after living there near =
" a year. says he would rather be .
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