Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-08-12
rHE NEWS IN BRIEF.


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A Summary Of tho Weeks Events.
Ex-President Arthur's health is i'm
proving.
According TO the New York Democra-
cy MIR. Cleveland is a candidate for re-
nomination.
Secretary Manning's health has SO far
improved that there is probability of his
returning to his desk In the Treasury De-
partment.
Forest fires are raging in Marathon and
Clark counties, Wis. Spencer, q town of
one thousand people, was burned out.
Loss 100000.
The. production Of gold in the United
States for 1885 was $31, 800, 900, and of
silver $51. 600, 0O0-an increase in both
cases over 1884.
Sixteen valuable race horses were in
stantly killed or burned to death on the
Omaha fairgrounds by the stables being
struck by aghtning.
Elk Governor John W. Stevenson, of
Kentucky, died OF his residence in Coy.
ington Tuesday morning. He was born
in Richmond, Va, in 1912.
Doorkeepcr Donelson, of the U. S.
House., will remove ten old soldier en-
ployes in his department, to make room
for Democratic politicians.
The Socialists Of Chicago had a big
country picnic Sunday, the profits to go
toward paying the expenses Of defending
the Anarchists now on trial.
Mr.. Tilden left m estate valued at
49, 900, 0O0.' One-third is left to relatives,
the rest to establish libraries and other
institutions for public benefit.
A cable dispatch from Sierra Leone an
nounces the death Of Rev. Moses A. Hop.
kins Minister Resident and Consul Gen.
eral from the United States to Liberia.
General Phil Sheridan and Colonel
Mike Sheridan are visiting their old home
at Somerset, o.. the occasion being q re-
union Of the Thirty-ir Ohio Regiment.
The Hamburg Packet Company has
made o rate Of twenty-four dollars from
New Yorkto Plymouth and return. 1t
is d~ificultte tell where the transatlantic
war will end.
The will of the late Samuel ]. Tilden
disappoints his relatives, who expected to
get more out Of the five and q half mil.
lion ~cstate~ But there are as yet no init
nations Of q contest.
Two men in a barrel-boat safely passed
through the Niagara whirlpool rapids
Sunday. They are coopers employed in
the same shop with Graham, who made
the p%erilous trip about three weeks ago.
There Is some excitement here, caused
by the exhibition of specimens of gold
which were discovered seventy. five miles
north Of here, and which assay $50 to the
ton. So says an Eau Claire, Wis, dis
patch.
A young man advertised for a wife;
his sister answered the advertisement,
and now tho young man thinks there is
no balm In advertiser ents, while the old
folks think it's hard to have two fools
in the same family.
There is no wal talk in the City Of Mex
leo. The authorities there think that in
the Cutting affair they have the law on
their side, and feel that the question will
be settled between the two Governments
in a spirit q good peighborship.
In case 81 trouble there are enough
Mexican sosiiers at III Paso del Norte to
eat up the little company of U. s. troops
at Fort BfRs. Cutting, the editor, cause
of all the wrangle, has been sentenced
and will be sent to chihuahua.
A stranger called on q farmer near Go
shen, Ind, and demanded a large sum of
money oil threat Of burning the farmers
property. A few nights afterwards the
barn and grain-stacks Of an adjoining
neighbor were burned to the ground.
An Iowa weather prophet predicts
great storms O ..rain, hail and wind for
ten days following August 10. The
storms will be general, and Iowa, Illinois
the New England States, Eastern Canada
and Labrador will be in the danger path.
A Livingston, Mon, dispatch to The
Pioneer Press says: "As Congress has
made nc appropriation to pay the salaries
Of the Superintendent. of Yellowstone
Park and his assistant. Superintendent
Weir says that he will Immediately re-
sign"
Forest fires are causing much suffering
In various parts of Wisconsin. Streams
are drying up and cattle are dying of suf.
location. Many families are burned out.
One family saved their lives by getting
into a well. Green Bay sent q carload Of
provisions q-the sufferers.
1t is rumored that the recent purchas.
ers of the Chronicle company will reor.
ganize the editorial staff Of that paper.
Hon. l.. G. Houk has just returned from
Nashville, bringing the Hon. John ].
Littleton with him who, II Is said, will
be made editor in chief of the paper.
The excitement at Ell Paso, Texas, is
said to be very great, and 1t has not been
! allayed by the report that the Mexican
! Governor has issued an order that, in
case the Texans make an attack on PasC
del Norte, the authorities cut Off editor
Cuttings head and present 1t to the in.
| vaders.
With most people the want of n we'll
defined system or method is one of the
chief causes of their getting behindhand
/, with their worn. A systematic method
of working, combined with industry, will
complete a vast amount of work in a day
!, and finish 1t with ease; but without system
and application, the worker may be In Q
continual rush, and yet accomplish little
Acting Secretary Fairchild has received