Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-09-02
THB NEWS IN BRIEF.
summary osss Leading Event. of the

Week.
Another call for SIS. 600. 900 three pc,
cent Govern3s cent bonds is expected /,
September.
Editor Cutting has been released b,
the Mexican authorities. No excuse foi
war now.
Rev. JamdI @. Beecher, brother o
Henry WardlB eecher, committed suicid,
at q water cure in Cincinnati last week
he was the youngest son Of DR.. Lyman
Beecher.
The saving to the Government By
President Cleveland's 1902 pension vetoe,
Is about one-ffth the amount that will BIZ
expended In ftting up his residence il
Washington.
The Beta Theta Pi fraternity, which /.
n OF the largest and most popular col
iege societies In the country, held ia
forty seventh annual Convention in Gin.
cinnati last week.
At the Prospect House, in the Adiron
dack Mountains, last week, Mrs. Cleve-
land touched the electric button that set
the machinery In motion at the Mime
apolis Industrial Exposition.
The Republican campaign in Maine
was opened on the 24th ult. In Cumber.
land County, with speeches by James q.
Blaine and Congressman Reed, of Maine,
and General Gibson, Of Ohio.
Proceedings have begun in New York
to bring to account the Anarchists who
made speeches on Friday night at the
meeting called to sympathize with con
demned Chicago bomb. throwers.
The Admiral Of the Canadian fishery
protection fleet has started out with q yes.
sci armed with one brass gun, and IL Is
announced that American fishermen must
obey the laws or be blown out of Cana
dian waters.
DR.. David Sullins, of Cleveland, has
been appointed to I'll the unexpired term
Of the Rev. Z. L. II. Carlock, as pastor
OF the Church Street M. Z. Church,
South, Knoxville. DR.. Sullins is one of
the finest pulpit orators in the South.
The Johnson City base ball club made
quite a successful tour In East Tennessee
last week. They beat Morristown by n
score Of 40 to Q, W~hitesburg by a score
OF y to ID, and Knoxville by o score Of
10 to n. On Thursday night johnson
City gave the club a benefit supper.
Governor GaSx Of Indiana. has issued
a proclamation calling attention to five
l%ynchings in that State, and offers a re.
ward of 81 1000 for the arrest and conyic.
ton of any one engaged in them. The
Governor offers the reward more In the
hope Of deterring future violence than in
securing convictions for those to which
he refers.
A Laredo dispatch says; Great un.
easiness prevails on the border concern
ing the utterly defenseless condition of
the people, and sharp criticism ON all
sides is heard Of the Presidents fishing
trip to the Adirondacks while Mexico il
pushing her troops to the Rio Grande IN
order to strike hard In the event of war
being declared.
Mrs. Francis Folsom Cleveland has be.
come a member of the First Presbyterian
church at Washington, d. @. DR.. Sun.
derland Is the pastor, and the distinguish.
ed lady Is the first lady of the White
House who has Joined a church while oc.
c!upying that position in society. The
lady Joined by letter from the Central
Presbyterian church of Buffalo.
During the recent tornado at Indianola,
Texas, fire destroyed two blocks of build.
ings. Captain Isaac Reed, Signal Oh.
server, and DrSH Resecfans perished IN
the flames. The Total loss from the Gulf
storm as now known In Texas is: Human
lives lost, SS; loss to crops, 81, 0OO, 900;
loss to city and town property, So, 100000:
loss to shipping and harbor improve.
ments, 5000, 900.
Slavery, under no matter what dis.
guise, will have to be abandoned. The
shameful abuses which have grown up
on the convict farms and camps will have
to be purged away. The nal. treatment
OF colored people, against whom petty
offenses are charged, must stop, and thew
must be treated as white misdemeanants
are treated elsewhere, or the. "solidity''
OF the South. TO say the least, will be en-.
dangered. IN. y. Tribune.
The Chicago Tribune says: "The
grandest mission conceivable belongs to
the newspaper. With inadequate fnan.
cial or moral encouragement, the press
keeps apace with the times, in fact Keeps
ahead of them. Always q grade better
Than its surroundings, the best type of
American newspaper will surely fulfil It's
high mission, the enlightenment of man.
Kind, and the realization Of the brightest
dreams OF oil true disciples Of progress
Outside Of Alaska we have 800, 600 In.
dams, and every buck, squaw and par,
poose, be he, she or II full blood, or half
breed, possesses on the average 500 acres,
and yet the government feeds the last
n Of them-a few In the Indian Terri.
tory alone ~cxcepted-at a large annual ex.
pense. Last year 1t cost &c. 500, 900 to
feed and blanket the noble red man.
Three years ago we expended upon these
people nearly double that sum. Since
1915 we have expended 1856, 0O0, 900 in
taking care Of the Indians, and probably
as much more in various efforts of sub.
due or exterminaic the pesky creatures.
When Cupid pierces with his sharp ar.
row the heart Of a heather the poor
DEVILS sufferings are manifested in the
usual Christian way. An attache of the
Chinese Legation at Washington, who
has loved, not wisely but too well, q pref.
~ Caucasian maid, has tried thrice to
Kill himself In a very. awkward manner.
He cut himself a little with a harikari
sword. and hung himself q little with a
bell-cord, and drowned himself a little In
q bath-tub. But he still lives, and under