Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-10-07
IN BRIEF.
Summary of tho Leading Events Of III
Week.

Summary of tho Leading Events OF the
Week.
Heavy snow storm at S~heboygan, Mich.
Virgins earthquake failed to material
lie.
A volcanic eruption is reported from
Alaska.
A. K. Cutting claims $50, 900 damages
from Mexico.
Attorney General Garland has resumed
his duties.
President Cleveland will attend the
Richmond (Va.) Fair on the 2lst inst.
About half of the Kentucky tobacco
crop is uncut, and is badly injured by
frost.
Heavy frosts In the vicinity of Lynch
burg. Va. seriously damaged a large
portion of the tobacco crop.
Ex-President Arthur, since his arrival
at home in New York from the seashore,
has not been feeling SO well.
The first Cabinet meeting since con-
gress adjourned was held last week. Sec.
rotary Manning will return to Washing
ton.
Full reports show that the crop through
out the West was so we'll matured as not
to have been injured by the recent heavy
frosts.
1t is no y stated that Secretary Manning
will remain at the head of the Treasury
Department as long as his health will
permit.
The Tennessee State Baptist owen
ton will be held in the city Of Nashville,
at the Central church, commencing
October 18th.
A U. S. Senate committee met in Bos.
ton last week to confer on the p~rellmina.
ries Of the investigation into the fishery
question in accordance with the resolu-
ton passed at the last session.
The twenty-sixth triennial convocation
of the General Grand Chapter Of the Roy
al Masons of the United States began in
Washington City Thursday last and con
tinued three days.
Slight shocks of earthquake are felt al
most daily at Charleston and Summer
vile, but none of them more percepti.
BILE than the tremors felt almost daily
since August 31st.
The charge of libel brought by Major
Price, Of the Pension Office. against F.
D. Mussey, correspondent Of the CONNER
cial Gazette, has been ignored by the
Grand Jury Of the District of Columbia.
A rehearing has been refused in the
celebrated case Of T. ]. Cluverius, con
: victed Of the murder Of Lillian Madison,
at the old reservoir, Richmond. Va.
: The culprit's recourse now Is to hang.
There is much causeless alarm through
out the country regarding cattle disease,
$ Many symptoms that have been thought
to be pleuro pneumonia are purely loca
q and comparatively harmless complaints
Q General Cassius M. Clay, Of Kentucky
who is seventy seven years old, writes
e that he has determined to re-enter poll
tics. He has not made up his mind
whether to run for Congress or fol
Governor.
The Comptroller Of the Currency re
ports a decrease during the last month Of
81, 157, 593 In the amount of NationaI
bank notes outstanding. The decrease
: since October 1, 1885, aggregates $13,
: $40, 652. The amount outstanding to-day
is S3O3, 212, 152.
| Commissioner Miller, the head Of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, continues firm
in the conviction thatt the law ought to BIZ
changed SO as to permit distillers 10 pay
their tax on whisky whenever they de
sire to sell 1t, whether that time be one
month from the date Of manufacture OF
ten years.
Two hundred and twenty -four EN-
ployes of the Government Printing OF,
fee at Washington, including a hundred
women, were discharged one day las
week. 1t is probable that two hundred
and fifty more discharges must be made
! to bring the payroll within the appro
priation for the present half Of the fiscal
year.
The General Grand Chapter, Roya
Aich Masons. meeting in Washington
> City, elected Noble D. Larner, Washing
J ton, General Grand High Priest; David
!, f. Day, Buffalo. N. Y, Deputy Genera
Grand High Priest; Joseph P. Hornor
|, New Orleans, General Grand King; Geo
, McCahan, Baltimore, General Crane
Scribe. They selected Atlanta, Ga, a
its next place of meeting,