Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-11
OUR ~NEIGHBORS.
Committee

The gap in the Spartanburg & Ashe.
vile railroad between Henderson and
Asheville is now completed, and now
there is an unbroken line to Ashcville
and on West, The distance from Greene.
vile and other points in Tennessee TO
Charlotte and Charleston, S. c., is one
hundred miles shorter by this new route.
In a short time the entire new line will be
in full operation. -GreeaeyiNe Bulletin.
Mr.. John Williams, of Limestone.
Washington county has recently cstab.
lished Il handle factory at that place. We
have n specimen of his handles, very
kindly sent to US, and can say that they
are well turned and made of the best
quality of hickory, All persons needing
such things should send their orders to
Mr.. Williams, and thus patronizc home
industry -GIeeReriVe Bullehn.
Capt. Jas. p. Evans died on the 9sth
OF January, at the residence of Mr.. \. G.
Taylor, near Morristown, after an illness
of several weeks. The deceased was one
OF the most prominent members of the
MorriStown bar, and his ability and pro-
fcssional learning was recognized in A
high degree, A more extended tribute TO
his memory will be prepared by his
brothers of the bar. He was in his 5Oth
ear.-No,7isfoWR Gazette.
Some of our farmers have serious an
prehcnsions that the wheat was injured
by the late cold spell. How FAR they are
unable to say. Wheat in some places has
a frost-bitten appearance, and no doubt
the crop has been cut short to some ex.
tent.-EbgdJefhton MouRtaiaecr.
After the interesting and able discus
sions on Monday evening, Chairman Van.
huss rendered a decision on Tuesday
morning sustaining the Taxing district.
The Taxing district has not been organic.
ed yet. 1t will await the result of the
contest before Judge st. John next week.
-Edi.ajethton MouRaiaeer.
a man by the name of Goldsmith. n
horse thief from North Carolina. escaped
from the Wytheville Jail, Thursday night
and is still at large.
The Kingsport correspondent of the
Bristol Courier says: Mr.. E. B. Wexler
has purchased of the Willard Brothers the
McCorkle farm, 345 acres on the Holston
river, for $4,000. The farm embraces the
Cherokee Island of 40 acres. 1t is really |
a part of Long Island separated only by a
small sluicc. Cherokee is a historic isle. |
Hitler for refuge fled the routed red
warriors after the battle in the cane
brakes of Reedy Creek, about the year
1904. The.trail they made on their single
file retreat is commemorated by Warpath
the cuphoniOus, peace inspiring name of
Il s~chool-house and Methodist Church in
the Island Flats half mile west of Eden:
Ridge p. O., and hard by that historic
trail whence never sprang for ) wears
either grass or tender shrub, tradition
says. The Island Flats is a scope of
country about 4 miles long and 1 to .
miles wide, mostly level, moderately fer
tile, very wet in winter. At the first set,
Element of the country it was covered
with bamboo and huckleberry bushes,
and but little timber and was the paradise
of the wild cat. The inhabitants few,
many of whom are successful, intelligent
farmers.
The ice in Clinch river was recently
broken up by the rising of the water, and
the vast mass of ice moved down the
river with an irresistible force. The ice
twelve inches thick, and swept away
much of the small growth near the edge
Of the river. -GreeReriUe Bulletin.
Three widowers of this county, on last
Thursday, again launched out on the
matrimonial sea. They were DIR. /. +.
Hyder, James Miller and Thomas Gouge.
Surely this worthy example, set by a
triplet of widowers, who have experienced
both tn: pains and the pleasures of mat
rimony in the past, will have some inlu-
cnce upon the stern old bachelors. who
are vet lingering TO the ioyless sbodce of