Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-04-22
CORRESPONDENCE
CHERRY GROVE.

me taking q seat by the SIDE or MIN.
Everything is working smoothly in
this section. The people all seem to
have plenty to subsist upon, but money
is a thing of the past. The farmers have
been making good use of the fine weather
which has prevailed for the past week.
Quite a number planted more or less corn
others are waiting on the moon. Wheat,
grass and spring oats look fine. The
: severe winter killed the peach crop in
this section, but there will be plenty of
apples, pears and cherries.
Prof. A. G. C%rosswhite made a bust
ness trip to Limestone last week.
Tt is rumored that Cherry Grove is to
nave a dry goods store.
Mr.. J. E. Hale of this place is still
identifying the appearance of his farm
by building a fence on either side of the
main Jonesboro and Fall Branch road,
which runs through his farm. He also
has the foundation laid for his large
double tobacco barn.
S. K. Tadlock has beautifed the ap-
pearance of things at his place by build
ing a new fence along his orchard front
ing the main road.
1t is hard to ascertain the ingenuity of
man by simply looking at him. Prof.
A. G. Crosswhite has got up a trick in
the way of a letter box, after about three
weeks work, which simply beats any
thing in that line. He has it up in front of
his house, where the mail boy deposits
his mail, and gets what he intends to be
taken to the office. We would advise
parties who have there mail carried by
the mail boy from the post office to model
their boxes after the professors.
Mr.. w. SSs!s GarEed from Eliza
bethton, ThurN
Mrs. Lewis CooNR lis now GONZALES
cent, but not sufficient for Mr.. G. to re-
sumo the anvass but we trust his friends
will do all they can for him.
Prof. E. E. Shipley has had a great
deal of sickness in his family recently
and some of them are yet indisposed.
Mrs. Mary Keys and Mr.. Isum Cooper
are on the sick list.
Colonel Hall of near this place has
been confined to his room for some days
past with something like fever.
Mrs. Mary Humphreys of this place
has not only proved herself to be a good
carpenter and opossum hunter, but an ex-
pert shot with a gun. On the 18th inst.
there was a very peculiar bird come to
her house and began feasting upon her
chickens. She at once took Il shot gun
and fired at it and succeeded in w%Ounding
the bird. On the morning of the 18th
she again got after it, and after two or
or three shots succeeded in killing it. 1t
beats anything that l ever saw in the bird
line. The Bible dictionary gives the de-
scription of a bird called the bittern
which possessed Nineveh and Babylon,
but / dc not say that this is one OF them,
though it very nicely fills the description.
The bird is some three or three and one
half feet from tip to tip and resembles
the blue crane except in color and dispo-
sition.
Will brother ~.Incognito allow us to
suggest to, him that the editor of the II.
AND T. will furnish envelopes, if he will
only call on him for them, the Home n
Farm will soon get tired of furnishing
them for the HERALD AND TRIBUNE cor
respondance.
Our young friend DR.. T. ID. Ferguson
is kept quite busy administering medi-
cine to the sick.
1t has been rumored that | have in the
last few days changed my views in re-
- IT, Wy ID
gress. l wish to state right here that it
is all false, J. am for Mr.. Brownlow first,
last and all the time. Mr.. B. is the man
i who ought to have the place. The Repub-
licans of this first congressional district
Justly owe it to him for the faithful man
ner in which he has defended our princi-
pies, and for the lahpr he has rendered
for the success of th9psrty.
The Cherry GrovdSabbath school is in
a fourishing condition with one hundred
enrolled.
Rev. John B. Walker of Cedar Lane,
Greene county, Tenn, preached n of
his most logical sermons at Cherry Grove
last Sunday. John B. is a splendid
speaker and a stanch Republican. We
think the Republicans of Greene county
did right to give him the nomination for
circuit court clerk.
Mrs. Jane Brown of Buchertown is
visiting Mrs. Hartman.
Mrs. Julia Kite of near Rheatown,
Greene county, is visiting relatives al
, Cherry Grove. NovUs Homo.