Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
-Chucky river is frozen oyer

-Chucky river is frozen over.
Circuit Court formally adjourned
Tuesday.
Several hogs were frozen to death Sun.
day and Monday nights.
An installation of officers of the X.
of II. occurred Thursday night last,
Mr.. ]. A. FEBRUARY has another &C.
cession to his family-a buxom little girl.
Stock drivers throughout the coun.
try are laid up on account Of the streams
being frozen.
What has became of the mass meet.
ing? Is 1t possible that the cold has frozen
1t out too,
The number Of marriage licenses is
sued in Washington county during the
year 1885 was 1877.
We understand that q secret Relief
Committee have been operating on sew.
eral wood piles lately.
C. F, Squibb has shipped four car
loads Of mules during the past two weeks
and is looking for more.
Yes. sir; this Is right COOL" Now,
gentlemen, please desist from further in.
quiries as to the weather.
1t is reported that nearly everybody
has lost his winter vegetables, by freez-
ing, during the cold snap.
Old men say that the fruit crop will
be a failure this year; the cold has killed
not only buds but the trees.
Rev. A. F. Coin of Hendricks Creek
father of Mr.. G. F. Squibb OF Jo%nesboro,
died Monday the 18th inst.
An exhibition of grand and lofty
tumbling' will be given by the young
men at Music Hall, Tuesday night next.
About a hundred head of stock
passed through town during the past
week, bound for North and South Caro-.
lima.
Little Clara, youngest daughter Of
W. T. Brownlow, we are pleased to note,
is rapidly recovering from her recent Sc.
we're illness.
Our efficient and obliging county
court clerk has been overrun with work
this week, consequent to the recent meet
ing of that court.
Monday and Tuesday were extremely
dull days in Jonesboro, very few people
being able to come to town on account Of
the severity Of the weather.
-Expectant w~arrantees must abide in
patience, or otherwise, a few days longer
for the county warrants will not be ready
at the soonest before Saturday.
The meetings during the week Of
prayer were better attended than on any
previous like occasion, up to Friday last,
when on account of the severe cold, the
attendance was much lessened.
"A pocketbook containing a check for
$i1OO and $25 in bills was dropped on
the street yesterday morning, but happily
1t WAS found and returned to the owner
within an hour, and before he had dis.
covered his loss.
-Jonesboro Lodge No. All. o. o. F..
installed the following officers Tuesday
night:
DR.. N. N. Warlick, N. G..
H. N. G. Jones, V. G.
X. M. Elsea, Sec.
Capt. Geo. Mcpherson, Treas.
j.. /. Hawkins Is A. p. G. of the above
lodge.
"A number Of Jonesboro young men
have dubbed together for the purpose of
opening a private skating rink. Music
Hall has been leased for the next three
months. The stage will be removed and
other changes made. 1t is expected that
the rink will be open for the first time
Tuesday night next.
w. E. Mathes of the Planters House
and W. G. Mathes of the "Spot Cash"
store, have stored a large amount Of ice
during the past few days, in expectation
of warmer weather sometime in the fu-
ture. The ice is unusually thick, meas
uring eight inches-but we hasten to drop
the subject. Entirely too cold to handle,
this weather.
Mr.. W. P. Gillenwaters is out in a
characteristic manifesto announcing him.
self an independent candidate for circuit
Judge. After speaking very devoutly of
the divine dispensation of charity, etc.
he concludes by dating it Jan. 10, 1886,
Sunday. Without speaking to the mer.
its of the paper or the cause, we must re.
mark that it is the first document Of this
nature we ever saw dated on the holy day
of God.
PERSONAL.