Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-11-08
OVER THE STATE.

Horse thieves are at work i'll Sc
vier county:
D~yersburg, with a population
of 1900 has twelve saloons.
Corn sold III Barren count,
last week at one dollar per bar
rel.
L. II. Tulloss, of Rock Hill, Viii
hanson county, has been yer,
successful in rearing German
carp.
Negotiations are pending fol
the erection of large gram an(
produce house in Tullahoma.
A package valued at $4,000 was
stolen from the office of the Amer
lean Express company at Portage
Wis, Saturday night.
David Burkett, Of Big Creel
Gap, Tenn, is 10 years old, weighs
thirty pounds and is eighteen
inches high.
Col. VIM. Ii. Hall, of Castalian
Springs, died Monday last in his
72nd year. lie was the second son
Of Gen. VIM. Hall, one Of the pi>
oneers Of Sumner county.
A man namtd Heirmor Smith OF
Bedford county, is working Oh
a ship with which he proposes to
navigate in the air.
4 bride 70 years old and a
bridegroom of 20 were the couple
in II marriage service i'll Odion
county last week.
En- the Barren Plains noighbor-
hood Of Robertson county the to-
bacco crop has been cut, housed,
cured up, aud some OF it has been
already sold and delivered.
S~evieryille Enterprise: James
Murphy has passed safely through
his attack of congestion of the
brain, but we arc sorry to learn
that he is now suffering from a
very violent attack of perniejous
remittent fever.
Rufus Nichols, living in the 9TH
district Cheatham county, had the
misfortune to have his dwelling
and tobacco barn burned last
Wednesday night. Loss about
five hundred dollarS-cause as
usual, al old stove ripe-no insur-
ance.
A man from the oil regions of
Pennsylvania has leased the old
oil wells on Jones Crock, Dickson
county, and will put down q test
well to the third sand.
Mr.. Owens, aged n~inety-one
years, and his wife, aged eighty
three, died recently DIT their home
iii Loudon county within a few
hours of each other and were bur
led i'll II grave.
1t is said that Peter Geddes, Eu-
gene Kelly and other bondholders
declare that they will not fund
their bonds under the law passed
by the last Legislature, known as
the sos act.
Died, at the house of Arthur
Hinkle, Kansas, Jefferson county.
Tenn Oh the 18th OF October
1888, Susan Collins, daughter oil
Rev. John A. and Sarah Collins.
Aged 30 years.
Mrs. Elizabeth WhaIen was
born in Rutherford county, Il. G..
in the year 1899, and died at the
residence OF her son, John North
near Dandrrdge,. Tenn, August
31st, 1888. Aged 81 years. SIZE
had been a member of the Bap.
fist church for more than 40 years
Reports from different portion:
of the state lead to the belief thai
Il larger acreage OF wheat is being
soWn in Tennessee the present
than in any previous year, and il
is said the farmers are putting the
seed in well.
Nashville World: About five
o'clock yesterday morning Il small
paper box, containing the dead
body of an infant, was found on
the pavement near the northwest
gate of the Capitol grounds. It
was evident that the child was
dead Lefore being deposited there.
Knoxville Tribune: Mrs. VIM
Gheen, mother Of Lee Gheen, the
brakeman who was injured in the
collision near Gle leland. three
weeks ago, and subs quentiy died,
was i'll the city yesterday, and the
railroad company effected a com
promise with her, allowing her
50 $50 damages for the life Of her
son, to be paid at once.
N. Coker, Of D~ycrsberg, says the
Courier journal, sent to the Expo
sition Il gourd, which-tIle first of
the kind, so far rs the reporter
knows-is cooked for table use as
IL vegetable, just as cymhiinGs are
whom young and tender, and SD d
to be very palatable.
Last Friday at Mii!crs Station,
near Chattanooga, on the Cincin-
natl Southern r|oilroad, the beau
tiful daughter of Benjamin School
field. while delirious from fever
left her bed unseen, and going to
the railroad track, threw herself
in front o fthe south-bonnd pass
enger train. She vas thrown
from the track by the cOw-catchcr,
and picked up dangerously if not
fatally injured.
Chattanooga Commercial: Mon
day morning as the Cincinnati
Southern train was passing Flat
Rock, a co'Ored man was seen
rushing cross a trestle. The Ell
fort to stop the train was Il fail
ure, and he was crushed to death.
The man killed was an einpl0,c
of the read and was ON duty. He
had started across the treStle. sup
posing that the train was some
distance away, but he soon dis
covered his error aud ran, bat
failed to make it.