Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-17
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Board of Enterprise.
The Bank is already doing a large
business.
We learn that a meeting of the di-
rectors Of the Board of Education is call
ed for Saturday next.
"A tribe Of some twenty nomads spent
some time in this vicinity last week,
trading horses, selling lace, telling fort
unes, etc.
Mrs. Mathes, wife of Mr.. James
Mathes. died at her home near this place
Tuesday morning last Of dropsy. Her
remains were inferred in Jonesboro ceme-
try on Wednesday.
Sacramento services will be held in
the First Presbyterian church in this
place commencing Friday night next, the
18th inst. Rev. Jas. Converse, preacher
in charge, officiating.
"A bear hunting party started out
Thursday morning last. After a weari-
some hunt on the outskirts of a piece of
woods, the hunters returned without any
game. They all saw cracks" but the
woods were so thick as to make pursuit
impossible-so they say!
The heavy rains all over the county
have materially damaged the grass and
grain, meadows in som gortions are re-
ported as entirely ruined. Most Of the
wheat is already ripe and unless the
rains abate within the next few days the
crop will be greatly diminished,
MIR. Thos. Pritchett of Boon's Creek
district has a fine two.year-old colt which
shows what breeding to good stock will
do. The colt is mixed with Mormon and
Gray Eagle stock and as fine a specimen
of a working horse as one will see in q good
many days journey in this section. Mr..
Pritchett brought her to town last week
and had her weighed. She tipped the
beam at 114O pounds. How is that for a
two.ycar. old?
The idea Of setting apart one Sunday
in the month of roses for services in
which children take a large part is a good
and growing one. Too often the sermon
and the hymns and prayers contain little
to interest or attract the younger men,
bers of the family. Sunday was "chil-
drep's day" in many city churches, and
the occasion was made pleasant with an
abundance of flowers, music and suitable
addresses.
We have q number of excellent com.
munications original poems and sketches
which have been sent in for publication
by our county friends, which it would
afford us much pleasure to give read
ers, but their number and length pre-
cludes the possibility of devoting so
much of our space to that purpose; and
where the merit is so evenly balanced we
should be open to the charge of making
invidious distinctions if we were to sc.
lect some for publication to the exclusion
Of others. In this dilemma 1t will be
necessary to decline the articles or at
best to postpone their publication indef.
nitely.
The sale of ''stump consuming pow
der Is the latest swindle. A fellow goes
through the country with a lot of salt or
some equally cheap substance in a jar,
which he represents to be a most efficient
stump destroyer His directions are to
bore a hole In the stump, fill 1t with the
powder, let 1t remain for six weeks, and
then set fire TO the stump, which being
i%mpregnated with the compound, will be
entirely consumed. Sales are made in
more cases than would seem possible, and
the fraud is not discovered until at the
end Of six weeks an attempt is made to
burn the stumps. BY that time the fel-
low is far, far away and the purchaser
has no redress.
DIR. ]. W. Frazey Of Sioux City,
Iowa, who spent some time in Jonesboro
last winter, and made many warm friends
here during his stay, sent a curious speci-
men of the vegetable products Of the
Black Hills in the shape of a cane, to Mr..
w. L. Mathes, last week. The stick bore
the following inscriptions;
Diamond willow cane cut on the bat.
tie ground where Gen. Custer was killed,
in the Black Hills country. Presented to
A. A. Patterson, druggist, of Sioux City,
Iowa, by 10. Labargc, and by Patterson
to DR.. J. w. Frazey Of Sioux City. To-,
who presents 1t to Mr.. W. E. Mathes Of
Jonesboro, Tenn"
Mr.. Mathes values II highly and will
have II nicely mounted,
Mr.. Isaac Douglass Of the 18th district
was arrested last week on q warrant from
Roam county, charging him with de-
bauching a young lady of Kingston while
under the influence OF a powerful an9s'
thetic that he had administered. MI. ID.
was carried TO Kingston for trial and the
alleged victim failing TO appear against
him was dismissed. The lady claims to
be enciente and the perfect absurdity Of
the charge will readily manifest itself to
any one familiar with the theory of con.
ception. Mr.. d. has always sustained
an irreproachable character and this vici-
Gus attempt to b%lackmail and to coerce
him into a union with the pitlable sub
ject Of another's ilfamy will not where
he Is know detract an iota from his rep
utation as a gentleman.