Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-09-16
Il NEWS IN BRIEF.
summary Of the Leading Events of the
Week.

week.
Cyrus w. Field says there Is nothing
In the ramor Of a project to build a rail-
road to Alaska.
Geronimo. Natchcz and the rest Of the
Apache band will be taken as prisoners
to Fort Marion, Florida.
The imported case of yellow fever at
New York has proved fatal. There are
no fears Of q spread of the disease.
Kansas comes to the front with an esti-
mated wheat crop Of 10, 800, 900 bushels.
and a corn crop Of 100. 900. 900 bushels.
At least half a million dollars will be
required 10 shelter the homeless people
OF Charleston before the cold weather
sets in.
Special Envoy Sedgwick has sent o
telegram to the New York Post, denying
that he acted improperly at q ball In the
City of Mexico.
Bricklaycrs in Charleston refuse to
work for less than five dollars q day. The
amount Of the relief fund sent thus far Is
about 5000, 900.
New Jersey has contributed 300 tents
and Ohio 1876, and the Charleston authori-
ties that they have enough Tor
present demands.
Returns from the Vermont elections In
, sure the reelection of Senator Edmunds.
| The Republican State ticket is elected by
1000 to IS, 200 majority.
The Democrats of the Third Tennessee
District nominated John r. Neal for
Congress, On the 155th ballot, the other
candidates being withdrawn.
Much of the destruction in Charleston
is attributed to the bad construction Of
the houses. The morter used In many
buildings is little better than common
mud.
/ Notwithstanding the damage reported,
the indications ore that with a fair season
and a late frost the yield Of the Memphis
cotton district will exceed those of the
last three years.
Deaf to the appeals from Charleston,
the Government has dispatched tents to
Fort Marion, Florida, to accommodate
four hundred Apaches of the tribes to
which the numbering outlaws just cap
tured belong.
"The farmers says q Chicago bank
er, ''lost for four years by holding their
grain. This year they are marketing
what they have got, and will probably &C
to the extreme of marketing too much
and too carly"
= At Toledo the body of a beautiful wo
> man was found in trunk at W. & L. L
Depot. L. Wilson, medical student
t presented baggage check for trunk, ant
8 was arrested. Corpse unidentified. Sup
: posed case of grave robbery.
= An attempt was made to blow up tn
signal tower of the Lake Shore road a
Town of Lake, near Chicago, whicl
would have resulted in the wrecking OF
d heavily laden passenger train. Dyna
mite was used, but the attempt was I'LL
successful.
George Wilson, a farmer living nea
e Muncie, Ind, exposed to hog choler'
a, died after four hours horrible sufferin
y from a similar disease. There is alarl
he in the neighborhood, and many farmer
Mt are reported anxious to sell out and leay
/. the country.
he Mr.. Blaine explained, in q speech
Maine, 1.-THE determination of the Dem
Gratis in Congress 10 keep Dakota knoc
I'd ing at the doors of the Union for ADM
10. sion, even after she has ten times u
population that certain Southern Stat
had when they were admitted"
80 Governor Foraker stands at the hes
~ in the offer of relief to Charleston. .
~ present Richmond, Va, enjoys the d
,at tinction of being the only city In t
nd country which by formal and legal ,acti
ne of its municipal government has refus
oh to extend any aid to Charleston.
d" Maine went Republican by a big n
ey jority-f2, 900 to IA, OOO-including t
use carrying of every Congressional distri
es- the Legislature by a large majority, Al
nearly every county for local offices. T.
on vote was heavy. The third party vol
lid which was much feared, proved to
or small.
'o n General Drum, Acting Secretary
n War, has given instructions that Zero
i'd mo, Natchcz and the other hostiles W
IL surrendered with them, he stopped
lts San Antonio, and kept imprisoned thu
as until a determination Is reached as
DC what course Of procedure can be und
II taken against them.
A sailor In a foreign port is always
ere prey of harpies, and one of the first
ties of an American consul abroad Is
ny ~ look after the rights Of American seam
vas To the credit Of our consuls as a eli
of even those appointed by the present
pie ministration, il may be said that Il
ne generally perform this duty admiral
Tue Unfortunately our representative at HI
Igs' Kong has taken the exactly oppo
re- course, II report may be believed,
now looks after the privileges of the Il
hen pies so well that American seamen
ara avoid being imposed upon on the Ash,
coast put themselves under the protect
Y Of British consuls. Secretary Bay
the who seems to admire all things Brit
hte, may consider this a natural and pro
y Oh thing for American sailors to do; but
for American neople will hardly agree !
:, so him. They may even think that his
rom pointee at Hong Kong should be REGAL
y VI N
opt
The most powerful king On cart
working; the LATEST, shrinking; a.
doubtful king, smoking; the most c
monplace king. joking; the leanest
smr thin king; the thirstiest one, drin- *
Tha the stylish one, win-king; and the !
iual, sa'i''ou' ono' "'"s'