Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-07-01

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to hand too late for insertion this week
Several other letters crowded out also.
The sixteenth annual meeting of the
Tennessee Press association will take
place at Monteagle on Tuesday July 18th
Col. W. A. Henderson's lecture OF
Nola Chucky Jack, delivered here
some time since, is printed in full in the
Nashville american of June 2S.
On the first of July a new system Of
depot and freight agents reports will BE-
adopted on the E. r., Va. & G. r. r.
Daily returns will be required instead Of
weekly. This will make o good deal more
work for the boys along the line.
The photograph is now as nearly Gin.
Simultaneous as possible. When every.
thing is ready, "Click!' and the artificial
eyelid has opened and shut. Photo
grapher Keen's bear show picture is
fine specimen in this line.
There will be an exhibition at War.
ner Institute tomorrow night, July q
commencing at 8 o'clock. Miss Mary
Spence, of Fisk University, will take
charge Of the music. Admission, 10
cents. The public cordially invited.
The funeral sermon of George W.
Bell of the Eighth district, who died on
the 18th of June, will be preached by
Rev. George Cox, at Bells school house,
Sunday, July 1S. Mr.. Bell died Of con.
gestion Of the lungs and was buried al
his fathers house.
After the first of July the Jonesboro
express Office will be a billing Office
and goods can be billed direct to other
points and goods will also be billed di.
rect to Jonesboro. This will have the
effect of lessening the liability to error in
the delivery of goods.
I'VE acknowledge an invitation to at.
tend the Fourth of July celebration un.
der the auspices Of the Garfield club of
Knoxville, on the 3D. inst. The best eff
forts of the club and the citizens of that
city, without regard to party, will be ex-
erted to make it a peoples day and an
occasion of universal pleasure.
Mrs. Syrena Caroline Wilds, widow
Of the late John A. Wilds, died at her
residence in Jonesboro on the morning of
June 30 in the 8lst year of her age. The
funeral services will be held this Thurs.
day. morning at 0 o'clock at the Second
Presbyterian church. A more extended
notice in memory Of this old and estima-
bic lady has been prepared for these col
umns which will appear next week.
The Democratic County Executive
Committee met in Jonesboro Monday and
set July 8 as the time for holding the
dirtrict meetings to select delegates to the
county convention, and July 10, as the
date for the meeting of the county con-
v%ention, to appoint delegates to attend the
gubernatorial convention; to be held al
Nashville on the 18th of August. The
time for selecting a nominee for repre-
sentative for the county was deferred.
-Drs. d. j. Gibson and N. N. War
lick have entered into a partnership in
the drug business under the firm name
of Gibson & Warlick. The new firm will
lay in an extensive stock Of drugs and
chemicals, toilet articles and other goods
usually handled by drug houses. We
understand that the doctors will give
their personal attention to filing pre-
scriptions and will always have on hand
a irst.class stock. We bespeak q full
share Of patronage for the new firm.
On Monday last one Of the largest as.
semblages that ever came together at Old
Providence grave yard Witnessed the last
sad rites Of respect to one of Washington
%county's Oldest and best citizens1V Moses
Carson of near Millbrook. Mr.. Carson
had been ailing some time and finally
succumbed to the destroying angel about
8 o'clock Saturday night last. He was
between 70 and so years of age and had
lived an exemplary christian life. Fer
many years he was an elder of Old Prov.
idence Presbyterian Church. He leaves
awidow and one son the other son-Hugh
having died in California in 1874.
One Of our popular young men in the
person Of ]. M. Fink left Sunday night
for Tuscumbia, Ala. where he was united
in marriage Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock with Miss Lula G. Marshall of
Winter Haven Florida. The ceremony
was performed at the residence of the
brides uncle, Prof. Flournoy at Tuscum.
bia. Matt. and bride will arrive In Jones
boro on train No. 4 Friday morning.
Friday night, Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Math.
cs will hold n reception at their residence
for the newly married couple. Mr.. Fink
and lady will We understand make their
home in Jonesboro. May prosperity,
peace and posterity fall to their 10; is the
wish of the II. and T.
We are in receipt of Il number of com.
munications for which we cannot find
room this week, because of the late hour
at which they come to hand, and their