Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-07-15
Minneapolis flour mills have a world.

men. The value of buildings and ma.
chinery amounts to over $4,000, 900, and
lhe operation OF the business involves the
investment of about $S,000,O00. The
| products for 1886 were worth S34, 600.
900. The mills have an aggregate daily
manufacturing capacity of 81, 900 barrels
! of flour.
The Gospel wagon which the Cen.
tral Union Mission of Washington is us.
ing commends itself as being the outcome
Of practical common sense. 1t is an ordi.
nary omnibus, and contains cabinet or.
gan, good choir, and several speakers.
Every Sunday afternoon 1t is driven to
regions where the inhabitants do not of.
ten hear the Gospel preached and relig
ious services Of an interesting character
are held.
OF the 40S Senators, Members and Ter.
itorial Delegates who compose Congress
7s are Methodists, G3 Baptists, al Episco
palians, 81 Presbyserians, 80 Catholics,
10 Unitarians, s Lutherans, 10 Christians
(Campbellites), and two Quakers, making
total of 2S3. who are actively connected
with some church organization. This
leaves l25 who either never belonged to
any church or haye drfted out of such
associations.
The U. ). House considered on the 7th
inst, the Presid ents veto of the bill for
the relief of Sally Ann Bradley, a widow
over seventy years OF age and destitute.
Her husband served in the Eighteenth
Ohio Regiment until 1866, and was
wounded Her four sons went into the
army. Two were shot dead in battle,
one lost an arm and the other an eve
Inc Republicans of the House are fight.
ing the veto.
II Florida has many more boys like
Mortimer and Roland Bunting of Madison
her future is assured. The little fellows
they are 10 and II years old-havc this
year rented twelve acres of land and
planted it with corn and cotton, have
worked the crops carefully, and have
good prospects of an abundant Weld.
This besides raising enough vegetables TO
supply the large family of their father,
who is an invalid.
In 1880 Mr.. Snodgrass "bolted' be.
cause he wasn't satisfied with Judge
John V. Wrights nomination, and voted
and worked against the regular nominee
Why should he expect Democrats to vote
lor him merely because he is the nomi.
neeY He didn't feel bound by the nomi-
nation six years ago. Can't he take his
own medicine? Why shouldn't he? Let
MIR. Vertrees' East Tennessee "teries"
wcr.-Knorrille Journal.
Nova Scotia is tired of her connection
with the Dominion and wants New
Brunswick and Prince Edwards Island
to join her in seeding aud forming un.
ion Of the maritime provinces whose in.
terestsare identical Tweniy.one OF the
thirty-eight members Of thc Nova Scotia
Assembly, lately elected, arc in favor Of
secession. 1t Is thought that, should the
proposed union of the maritime provin.
ces be consummated, their next move
would be proposition to become q part
of the United States.
Cavalry regiments in the Prussian army
are being carefully drilled in the art of
swimming their horses across rivers. AT
the word "dismountl" the soldiers divest
themselves of their clothing, which, with
their weapons, etc, is placed upon raft,
which is swiftly ferried across the river
while the men take the horses by the
head with one hand and swim with the
other. The feat is said to be performed
with the utmost precision and rapidity,
whole regiments crossing and recrossing
in an astonishingly short time,
The bad little boy of Rome, N. Y, has
invented a machine for soaring timid per
sons that he says "knocks the window
tick-tack silly" When night has come
and everything is shrouded In gloom, he
quietly inserts the hook of a common
shoe buttoncr under clapboard of n
neighbors house, ties q strong cord to
the handle of the buttoner, and then,
drawing the string tight, rubs It with
piece of rosin. The horrible rumbling
and shaking and groaning that follow
scare the inmates of the house and de.
light the bad boy.
A poor woman in Baltimore carried her
dead child wrapped in tattered shawl,
through the streets of Baltimore to the
City Hall and asked the health officer to
bury 1t. She was too poor to pay the cx.
pense of burial and was not allowed to
leave the body at the house where she
lodged while she went on her pitiful er.
rand Her request was complied with,
and sum of money was raised for her
by the persons to whom she made the
touching appeal. But whata glimpse
the incident gives into the ungucssed
depths of misery in tho world.