Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-05-20
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JeHerS0n DAVIS, since his return home,
mas suffered from prostration induced by
the excitsments through which he has re-
Gently passed.
General Felix A. Reeves, of Tennessee,
is urged by his friends for appointment
as Judge Advocate General of the army,
in place of General Swain.
Some West Indian negroes carry
snakes poison under their finger nails.
A single scratch from poisoned nail win
cause death in few hours.
GENERAL ANsoN G. McCooK, Secreta-
ry of the U. s. Senate, is to be married in
June to the daughter of his cousin, the
late George W. McCook, of Steubenville,
Ohio.
BY the bomb.throwing in Chicago six.
ty. six police officers were struck, five of
whom have died, ten returned to duty
and fifty.one are still under the surgeons
care.
The women of the Salvation Army in
Bristol Conn, have armed themselves
with Cayenne pepper, TO throw in tn
faces of the rufiians who are accustomed
10 annoy them in their street paradcs.
While Southern military company
was in camp recently near Augusta, Ga,
one of the privates made moro than his
expenses by opening barber shop,
| where he advertised "a shave and hard
boiled egg for ten cents
There is said to be in one of the Ger.
man wards of Springfield, Mass, liquor
club called "Wissenschaftlichek
acknowledgements" One OF the by
laws requires that member must spell
the name Of the club after every drink
If he spells 1t correctly, he is sober enough
for another drink.
Georgia planters kill good many
crows and the way of doing it is thus de-
scribed: Catch one of the BIRDS tie it to
your body, and walk through the field
with your gun cooked and finger on the
| trigger The cries of the bird will cause
others Of its tribe to flock around you and
they can then be easily shot"
An extraordinary rain-storm occurred
at Xcnia, o., on the 10th inst. The wa.
ter fell in torrents. Shawnee Run sud
denly rose aud swept away number Of
houses, mostly occupied by poor people.
A large number of people were drowned,
including a whole family of seven per-
sons. About twenty eight dead bodies
have been recovered. There are several
others known to be drowned, besides q
number missing.
The first fire insurance company in
, America was the "Phialdelphia Contribu
tionship," organized in 1752. This grew
out of system of private underwriting
through brokers, which began at least al
as early as 172l 1t was not until 179.
that the first marine insurance company
as such, was organized the Insuranc,
Company of North America, also o
Philadelphia, which has just published {
history Of the beginnings of underwril
ing in America.
Tobacco blindness is becoming a com
mon aiiliction. AT present there are sew
eral persons under treatment for II at ont
London hospital. 1t first takes the form
of color blindness, the sufferers who have
smoked themselves into this condition
being quite unable TO distinguish the col
or of piece of red cloth held up before
them. Sometimes the victim loses hi
eyesight altogether Although smokin.
Is to large extent the cause Of the mala
dy, and so gives II its name, heavy drink
ing is also partly responsible.
A Moscow newspaper has sent specia
; correspondent all the way to Chicago L
investigate the circumstances connecte,
with tho riot of the anarchists. Bein
b. somewhat familiar with the dynamit
n bomb business, the readers of the Ru'
h sian newspapers would be naturally cur
Gus TO see how ii takes in the Unite
9 States. 1t would be good idea 10 han
c few OF the Chicago anarchists for h
l.. benefit during hi, visit, so that he migl
IS assure the anarchists of his own quartz
of the globe what hot welcome await
them in this country.
Besides the disaster at Xenia, the Gil
cinnati Commercial Gazette reports dan
ages at Springfield, Middletown, Hami
= ton, Lebanon, Wilmington, Washingto
c. H., Albany, Lancaster, Grcenvill
Piqua, Dayton. Marietta ard other point
U and in Indiana flom Liberty, Richmond
IS Lafayette, Shelbyville, Logansport, Ant
IT erson and elsewhere. The Great Milan
g River was on rampage. The G. II.
. d. II. r. had four bridges washed ou
A freight train ran into washout at Ca
1t rolton, and the men escaped with injurie
n AT Dayton the Wolfe Creek levce burs
inundating Kcmptown. A number {
n fatalities are reported from the regioI
/. swept by the storm. The losses in Il
,r farming districts are incalculable.
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