Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-09-27
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,yoNEsBoRo TENNEssEIs THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27
TALK OF THE TIMES.

The slave trade is being vigor>
ously repressed in Egypt.
O'Doncell is disgusted because no
fund has been collected in Ireland
for his defense.
Lynchers at Rockingham. N. O.,
promptly avenged tue brutal crime
of q negro,
Miss Mildred Lee, the daughter ct
Gen. Robt. e. Lee, is visiting in
Boston.
The estate of the late Nathaniel
Thayer, of Boston, is lnveutOried at
$16, ,076.s23.
The estimated expense of the
Russian army for 1884 are 100000
roubles in excess of those of 1888.
Ex>Goyernor Hendricks is so
afraid of saying anything wrong
that if he were in Greenland he
would order ice cream.
Mr.. George D. Robinson, repub-
lican candidate for Governor OF
Massachusetts,, sings bass IN a Ch lc>
opee Sunday school.
A posse searching for horse
thieves murdered two hunters and
robbed their camp in Indian Terri
tory:
The rumor that nj. Waddington
was about to resign his post OF
French ambassador to Great Britain
is officially denied.
Mr.. Schuyler Oolfax is of che opin-
ion that the Democrats this fall
will carry the state Of New York
by $4,000 majority.
Senator Bayard has agreed to
place one week Of his time at the
disposal of the Ohio democratic
State committee.
Mrs. Matilda Field, youngest
daughter of Davy Crockett, lives in
Gibson county, Tenn, and is sixty
two years old.
Mrs. Elizabeth Crow, aged seven
ty-fiye years, was run over and
killed on the East Tennessee rail.
road, near Chattanooga, Tenn, last
week. ..s-., sa5so "
j Judge Foraker is likely 10 lose
many votes in Ohio because at q
country dinner he cut his corn from
the cob instead of eating it like a
flute. sa @ 'aaa
Ex-senator David Davis Is has
purchased a large tract of land near
Fayetteville, n. c., and will spend
most of this fall there, superintend>
ing the making of improvements
thereon. y }a'
The yellow fever still continues
at Guaymas, Mexico, and persons
who, fed from tho city are dying in
the interior. 1t is reported that six
hundred persons are down with the
fever.
a committee of Lancashire .tEng-
lanU operatives has issued an ap-I
peal to The trades unions of Great
Britain for assistance for the strl.
king weayers, Ten thousand wea-
Yers are idle.
At a meeting of tho British, Ass
sociation for the Advancement Of
Science is was stated that while the
imports from Great Britain into
Canada had increased, the imports
into the United States had remain
ed stationary. n
Under the now law in Maine a
murderer who pleads guilty will
be incarcerated in an insane asylum
for a period of time to inquire into
his sanity before sentence is pros
nounced upon him.
About one hundred persons in the
States prison at WethersfieA, CT,
were suddenly taken sick Thursday
afternoon. 1t is supposed they
were poisoned by eating oorned
beef. None of them haYe died.
| Secretary Folger, in letter to
the Civil Service Commissioners. ex-
1 presses the opinion that tho new
| civil service law, in the matter of
appointments, gives the preference
16ther things being equal hon.
orably discharged soldiers and
sailors of the late war.
1t is stated that the disintegration
of the knights Of Labor is threat
ened on aecount of the proceedings
! at the General Assembly at Cincin,
! natl. The Pittsburg members will
it is said, Withdraw because Frank
| K. Foster, free>trader, has been
| placed at the head of the executive
! board. ..ef ..ssa - -.
| The Standards Vienna dispatch
says: Something akin to a reyo'
| luton has made its appearance al
tue imperial palace at Pekin, and i
| is backed by popular demonstra'
|, tions. The people demand that thu
| Empress, who does not seem to b'
| energetic enough to suit the popular
| demands, shall abdicate in favor o
Prince Tun, the uncle Of the EN-
| peror. .'s..~s s,.....,,. I.sa 80 $.
! Postmaster General Gresham
| amends his recent order as to th'
Louisiana lottery by forbldding al
4 postmasters to pay money Orders
| drawn to the order of nj. A. Dau
phin, and directing them to inform
the remitters that the payment ha
been forbidden. Registered lettef
addressed to Dauphin are to be re
| turned to the postoffice from which
they came, with the word efraud
/ ulent' written across them.