Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-07-01
CURRENT CULLINGS.
NEWS AND NOTES.
gathered From Various Sources and Para.
graphed to Save Space.

Crops have been ruined by water.spouts
in parts of Tennessee.
Southwest Virginia reports unusually
bountiful wheat and fruit crops.
The word measles meant leprosy, al.
though in modern times used for diff
ferent disorder.
A beautiful white backsnake has been
captured near Jewell, Md. 1t is six feet
long and as white as milk.
According to General Rosecrans the
war of the rebellion cost SO, 1S0, ,92O OOs.
T: S.-The Democratic party comes
high.
Justice Stanley Matthews was married
to the widow of S. C. Theaker, of Cleve.
land, at New York, on Wednesday of last
week.
Nine Indian raids are reported from
Arizona, and mining and farming inter.
ests are suffering great loss in conse-
quence.
Mr.. Cleveland has sent a check to the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for the
amount of his honeymoon expenses at
Deer Park.
ADAM" the Irish organ of Memphis,
has announced its purpose to support
Randolph, the Republican candidate for
supreme judge,
The four most important towns of Aus.
tralasia are now Melbourne, population
2S2,947; Sydney, 24,211; Adelaide, 1903,
1854 and Auckland, 10000.
The freight blockade continues in the
Lake Shore yards at Chicago, owing to
the switchmen's strike. 1t is asserted
that the strike will be general.
Two men have been arrested at Racine
Wis, for the explosion of bomb in at.
tempt to kill a citizen. One of the scoun-
drels was injured by the explosion.
A number of noted highway robbers
have been shot in different parts of Mexi.
co under the new law authorizing the i'm.
mediate killing on arrest Of highway and
railway robbers.
A large number of railway mail service
men Republicans) have been removed
for organizing an association which the
Postmaster General says meant a strike
to embarrass the department.
A convict in the Ohio Pcnitentiary says
that bogus quarter and half dollars were
made at the prison right along during
the Democratic administration of affairs,
and without molestation.
Ex-President Arthur, improved in
health, has gone TO New London, CT, fol
the summer. He has lost some flesh and
his famous side whiskers, but Is in cheer.
full mood, and his near friends are en-.
couragcd in the hope of his recovery.
A contract, farming out the labor of a
large number Of West Virginia Penitcn
tiary convicts to Wheeling cigarmaker,
has been annulled in Difference to the
wishes of Knights Of Labor, Trades As.
semblics and the Wheeling Chamber of
Commerce
A Chicago jcweler has invented self.
winding watch. BY an arrangement
something like the carefully balanced
lever of pedometor, the watch is wound
blythe motion of the wearer when walk
ing. a walk of seven minutes will wind
the watch to go for forty.two hours
Here is the latest small.boy story, told
at Washington dinner the other night.
The new rector gazes mildly at the small
boy in the Sunday school and says: My
dear little fellow, have you read the thir-
ty-nine articles?" NO" rei0ins the
small boy, "but I've read the forty
thieves"
Little Willie prayed long and ineffectu-
/ ally for little brother. At last he gave
it up as "no use" Soon after his mother
had the pleasure of showing him twin
babies. He looked at them moment and
then exclaimed: "Iow lucky it was that
! stopped praying There might have
been thrccv'
Mr.. Boyd Winchester, champion Ken.
tucky poker player and Consul. General
Of the United States to Switzerland
thinks that he has discovered some
cheeses in that country that are 200 years
old. That is impossible. When cheeses
have advanced to that age they have be
come chestnuts.
A Kingston family moved from theil
house month ago, and recently the lit
tie girl Of the family and her mother
went to call on the new tenant. While
there the child saw small BABY that had
arrived a few days before and said
Mama, we moved too soon, we'd have
got that baby If we had stayed here, y
Mrs. NJ. X. Burton, spiritualist, gave
a seance to large crowd at her home.
She warned those present that she would
60 into trance and would begin the
performance. The room was darkened.
Everybody was silent for half an hour.
Then one of the men touched the woman
and found that she was cold, A further
examination revealed the fact that she
was dead.
! A woman belonging to one of the old
est families Of Derby, Conn, promised
her husband before his death that she
would wear his ring as long as she lived.
In the grief that followed his death she
| forgot about the ring, and it was on his
finger when he was buried. A few nights
ago, at midnight, the sexton opened the
grave and took Off the lid of the coffin
and the widow went down into the grave
and removed the ring from the dead
hand. She paid the sexton $25 for his
work.
A statistical expert calculates that II
1000, 900 babies started together in the
race OF life 100000 would drop out in tho
first year, 1000 in the second, and %. .0O(
In the third year. AT the end Of forty
five years about half Of them would b,
still In the race. Sixty years would Sc,
$40, 900 gray heads still at 1t. AT the ent
of eighty years there would be 97,00O
remaining on the track; fifteen year
later the number would be reduced to 90
aui tka ,.,,,un, mould n,tt ba tro olr Far