Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-24
CURRENT CULLINGS.
NEWS AND NOTES.
Gathered From Various Sources and Para
graphed to Save Space.

w hiiV 'iiC tOhldtO Is HdllNc OF south
America it takes its name from Portu.
guese word.
The President has approved the act for
the relief of Chester A. Arthur and vii.
liam II. Robertson.
The statue of Daniel Webster, present.
ed to the State of New Hampshire by
Benjamin p. Cheney, of Boston, was
dedicated at Concord on the 18th. The
entire cost was 81. 1000
The tenth commencement exercises of
the Vanderbilt University were held on
the 10th inst. Chancellor Garland stated
that the year had been the most success.
full in the history of the university.
North American Turner Bund, in ses
sion at Boston last week, decided TO
teach both English and German in the
Turner schools, and recommend the abo
lition of the Presidency and Senate of
the United States.
Americans are successors to noble men,
heirs of providential past Everything
in our history inctes to patriotism The
winds would fan it into activity. Every
page of our annals breaches 1t. The man
who cannot thank God he was born an
American is undeserying the blessing of
such birth
The accounting officers of the Treasury
are winding up the business and paving
the expenses of the Court of Alabama
Claims. When these accounts are settled
payment of the judgments of the court
will begin. The pro rata to be paid will
be about 30 cents TO the dollar. They will
begin to issue drafts about July /.
Three years ago, after a tornado had
devastated the farm Of Georgia farmer.
he found wo-year-old boy among the
shrubbery of his garden. No one claim.
ing the waif, the farmer kept him and
cared for him. Last summer the farmer
took the boy with him into Mississippi
and then another tornado took the child
and he has never been heard of since.
There seems to be a conspiracy between
two hens, a horse and the dog of South
Windham farmer TO deprive him of his
rights in eggs. One of the hens daily
lays an egg in the dog house and the dog
daily cats it. The other hen LAYS her
eggs in the horses manger and he eats it.
Indeed, so fond is the steed Of fresh eggs
that he sometimes lifts the hen off the
nest to see if the egg has been laid.
The best place for an advertisement is
in newspaper of large circulation, and
of character and influence; and nine.
tenths Of the money spent otherwise for
advertising is wasted, whether II is put
in handbills, in Autographs, or in ciIcu.
lars. The public read the newspaper.
| and an important part of its news is its
advertisements. Almost invariably they
throw away unread the handbills and
circulars. ~ T. Sun
A young married lady who moved into
the country from city home considered
keeping hens pleasant and profitable
duty. As she became more absorbed in
the pursuit her enthusiasm increased.
and hens made favorable subject of
her thoughts and conversation. During
one of her animated descriptions of sue
cess friend inquired: "Are your hens
good hensy" "Oh, yes," she replied in
delighted tone, they haven't laid bad
egg yet.
Nearly all the avowcd anarchists of
Chicago are in Jail, but socialists meet.
ing was held the other day in one of the
public gardens of that city, at which
strong incendiary speeches were made bv
anachists from other cities. The drift of
the principal haranguc was that law is
tyranny; therefore, down with the law.
The police are minions Of the law.
Therefore destroy the police. This bla.
tant hater of American institutions exult.
cd in the bloody work of the anarchists
OF Chicago on the fourth Of May.
A pet black squirrel owned in Savan.
nah, Ga, was left at home while its mis-.
tress went away for visit AS soon us
the little fellow missed her he hunted all
over the house, and, not finding her,
showed unmistakable grief He refused
to eat day after day until it was so evi.
dent that he was starving himself to death
that his mistress was sent for. When she
came the squirrel was frantic with joy.
and then II tried 10 eat, but II had tasted
too long, II could not swallow, and the
next day died lying on the knees of its
mistress.
Talking about hydrophobia, the latest
cure is odd and rather unprepossessing.
A Spanish physician announces 1t. 1t
consists in following up the bite of mad
dog with the bite of sane snake--viper,
rattler, cobra, or what not, so long as he
is poisonous. To get any good out of this
cure one would have to 90 about with his
pockets full of serpents during the dog
days; and then he might be bitten by a
snake when there was no mad dog handy
to counteract the virus. On the whole
most people will probably prefer to take
their chances.
"1f you are quiet, honest citizen Of
New York, how did these skeleton keys
and brass knuckles happen to be found
in your pants pocketsr' asked Judge
Duffy Of hard looking case.
"Were those things really found in
my pantss' asked the prisoner, incrcd.
ulously.
"You know very well that they were"
well, Judge, the only explanation ]
can offer Is that during the scuffle me
and the policeman who arrested me must
have changed pants, We were very much
excited OF the time.
The extent TO which the doctrines of
Mormonism have taken hold among ma.
tive Americans is shown by the fact that
Of seventy.seven persons now undergoing
sentence In the Utah penitentiary for an
lawful cohabitation fifty, FIVE are Of for.
cign birth, England leading with thirty.
five, Scotland following with ten. with
Sweden and Ireland credited for two
each. Investigation might show that
Mormonism. like anarchy and other dis.
orderly elements, was Of foreign rather
tlau NJ nativa ortrt,, L.. 1,.tt