Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-09-30
rHENEws IN nntrr
Summary of the Leading Event. efsA
Week.

49,"
Week.
President Cleveland has returned "a
Washington.
The Registers Office ia the Cont.
house at Rogersvillc was cracked by nc
earthquake.
ALL the powers II Europe Ale armed
to the teeth; II war comes Il win Ne q
bloody one,
The new tenldollar silver certificates
are now ready For issue AZ ne Treasury
Department
-Four hundred and sixty or me tFoaea~.
some Apaches have been shipped On 4
special train 10 Florida.
Mrs Anna AesthaA, widow Of the
late Gen. Frank CheAtAasa, Il now acting
postmaster al Nashville
The Reaa Iron %, u Chattanooga.
has bought s0000 tons % esL OF the
Cranberry Coal and lroD company.
Mr., BLAiSH has been invited TO speak
In Ohio and Tennessee and Il Is announc-
ed that he will speak in Pennsylvania.
REVENUE officers returned from a raid
amongst Tennessee. moonshiners, lodging
fifteen prisoners In the Nashville jail.
THE acting Secretary Of the Treasury
has issued q call for $15, 900, 900 three
per cent. bonds to be paid November /.
THE report of the Pension Commits
sioner shows that SO per cent. of the
army and navy pensioners are of foreign
birth.
NEAR Shelbyville, ILL.,, rats killed a
sixteen months old babe in bed by its
mothers side and horribly mutilated its
body.
Destructive storms are reported from
various parts Of the Northern and West
ern country-heavy rain, wind, hail and
lightning.
A great scarcity Of small bills Is report
ed. Ones and twos have become a rarity,
and the demand for fives is greater than
the supply.
1t is reported that Secretary Lamar is
about TO follow the Presidents example
and get married-the bride a handsome
Georgia widow.
THERE are now $40 southern cotton
mills at work, as against 161 six years
ago. Production has been increased
from SIG, 1881, 56S to $50, 7S6, 25O, or Ss per
cent.
AT St Louis the executions of Maxwell,
murderer of Preller, and of the Chinese
high binders, were postponed, the for
mer for sixty and the latter for thirty
days.
Or the 1877 counties in Georgia, 1903
have absolute prohibition and twelve
others have partial prohibition. There
are seventeen counties where whisky has
full swing.
AT Laredo, Texas, five armed despe.
radoes entered the residence Of q Mexi-
can, during the progress of a dance,
broke up the dance, and carried away the
wife Of the proprietor by force.
THE United States is placed by her
own authorities at the foot of the list of
naval Powers in the essential matter of
ships and guns. there being three South
American. two Asiatic, and fifteen or
sixteen European Powers which outrank
us.
ADyIcEs from parishes In which Lou
isiana oranges are principally grown re-
port that the crop is O complete failure
this year. 1t usually averages from thir-
ty to fifty million a year, but will not be
n million this year, in consequence of
the severe freeze last winter.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt
in Patrick and Henry Counties, Virginia,
Saturday morning about 2 o'clock. Per.
sons were aroused from their SAUNDERS,
but no great scare or damage ensued.
About 1880 same evening a slight shock
was experienced in Danville.
James Howe, aged eighty years, the
Oldest newspaper man in Indiana, died at
Lafayette, last week. He founded in
New York the Spirit of the Times. Hor-
ace Greeley was in his employment as q
journeyman printer. The two were in
friendly correspondence up to the time
of Mr.. Greeley's death. Mr.. Howe went
to Lafayette over forty years ago, and has
since made that place his home.
THE relief committee in Charleston re.
port that they feel themselves in position
furnish subsistence and temporary
shelter to all who need 1t. But at the
same time the committee estimate that
the relief funds at command or in pros.
pect fall short Of the money needed to
put in habitable condition the homes Of
persons who are unable to repair their
buildings without public aid