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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18
Only sac, 900 of Polk's Bond Recovered.

The question is frequently asked,
"How much money has the State ever
received from the estate of NJ. T. Polk9"
A Banner reporter to-day made this in
quiry of the Comptroller, who replied
that the State thus far had received only
about $40, 900. This sum was recovered
from his bOndsmen Several of the
bondsmen are insolvent and there is no
speedy prospect of recovering anything
from them. OF the actual cash balance
of $503, ,566 As reported in the treasury
December, 1884, there was one item of
$21, ,141 Al deposited in the Mechanics
Bank or Mechanics National Bank of
Knoxville. The sum was receipted for
to Polk, Treasurer, as being on deposit
in one of these banks. The Mechanics
Bank was found to have become extinct,
and the Mechanics National Bank re.
fused to honor the check of the Treasur-
er therefor.
Thereupon suits were instituted in the
Chancery Court at Knoxville upon the
bond given by the Mechanics Bank as a
State depository, and against the Me.
chanics' National Bank of Knoxville for
this sum. These suits are still pending
1t was understood that they would come
up at the last term of the Chancery
Court, but they failed to do so. The
State officials say and believe that the
State will never realize much, if anything,
for the Polk mines in Mexico. 1t is also
thought that nothing will accrue to the
State from Folks interests in Florida,
North Carolina and Cheatham county
Tenn. Unless the Mexico silver mines
turn out to be bonanza, it is safe to say
that $40, 900 is the fullest amount that
will be recovered by the State. Sub
tracing the $4,000 reward paid by the
State for the return of Polk and the costs
attending his prosecution there will not
be much left to go into the Golfers of
Tennessee -NdSh0SlIe Banner.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18
ODDS AND ENDS.
CURIOUS, STRANGE AND FUNNY
Odd Jots Hunted up in tho Nooks and
Crannies OF journalism.
Complicated Opening of Romance.


About two years before the war; near a
pretty and substantial residence near a
prosperous little town, beautiful young
girl, about fourteen, was sleeping in a
hammock swung from two stately oaks
in a grove. She was pretty picture of
innocence and grace, and won the ad.
miration of the passers. In meadow to
the rear. fat, meek-eyed COW reclined
il the shade, ruminating the food she
had gathered in the cool of the morning.
But what has the COW to do with the
sleeping girl? is propounded; well, wait
and see. Across the road from the house
the girl and COW is q meadow, branch
running through it, and coming up the
branch is boy with gun. When with
in one hundred yards Of the girl, and
about one hundred and fifty from the
COW, bird flew up and sailed in the air
toward the COW; the boy fired at the bird
which flew on unhurt, but the COW re-
ceived pretty strong dose of shot, she
Immediately arose in fright, dashed
through the grove, caught the girl and
hammock on her horns, and rushed with
her shrieking victim about the lot. The
terrified girl became silent, and the crowd
of relatives and friends in pursuit thought
that she was dead. The wild fury of the
COW as she rushed around soon tore the
netting loose, and the girl dropped un-
consciously TO the ground unhurt She
was picked up and taken into the house,
and on examination only few minor
bruises were found The boy, thinking
he was the innocent cause of the killing
of the young girl, disappeared. All trace
of him vanished. twas thought that he
had perished by his own hand; but about
six years after the war travel.stained
stranger was in the town inquiring for
persons most of whom had been swept
away by the war. After a long search
the stranger found an old man on a load
of wood and in conversation with him
learned where one of the parties he was
in search of lived, few miles out of
town. He went there, made himself
known, and turned out to be the boy of
the gun. The people he found were
father and mother, who had mourned
him dead for eight years. The boy had
been in South America, got rich, and
yearning for the love of the old folks, re-
turned to the desolated home of his
childhood, made his lbyed ones comfort
able. For the first tine then, hearing
that the girl was uninjured, he called on
her, found her pretty, good, and first.
class home woman, he put in with a will
got her heart as his own, and the old
folks consent, and has been for the last
twelve or fourteen years one of the lead
ing men of his section This is fact
1DlericHS Ga Recorder
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18
STORY OF GREAT GEORGE.
New Anecdote of the Father of the Big
gest of the Republics.

New Anecdote of the Father OF the Big
gest of the Republics.
When Washington was young man,
in travelling along the upper Potomac, he
stopped at an inn one day and inquired
the news. The landlord told him the
sensation of the day was jumping match
for a wife on the estate of one Of the
richest planters near by. On being told
that it was open to comcrs Washington
started for the place and arrived there
just as the jumping was about completed.
He noticed that the young lady in ques-
ton was highly pleased with the success.
full jumping of one of the competitors
who had outdistanced all of the others
At the close Washington asked if he
might try his chance. He was told to 20
ahead, and he made by far the best Jump
of the day. AS he returned to the crowd
he noticed that the young lady's face
had fallen, and he went up to her and
remarked: You would have preferred
! had not been the one to excel the other"
The lady candidly said this was so. Then
said Washington: II give my chance to
him, and he returned as unknown as he
came Towards the close of the Revo-
luton this young lady, now the wife of a
colonel of militia, met Washington, and
on telling her husband that she had met
him before, he doubted the fact, and the
two went to Washington to decide it.
Eyes, replied General Washington. Il
saw your wife at the jumping match be,
fore she was married, and | believe |
won her Washington Letter tnhe Clere-
land Leader.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18
LORILLARD ON LABOR.
A Millionaire Tells the Bread-winners
What They Ought to Seek to Do.


The danger to the people by the ac-
emulation of the enormous fortunes OF
the present day, and the fact of their be-
ing owned by persons who seem TO have
no respect, love or common feeling for
the people, seems to me great and i'm
portant problem. In Europe princes,
kings and persons of great wealth use
their means in thousand ways for the
qualification, happiness and refinement
Of the people around them, whereas in
this country they act selfshly, and they
are, or appear to be, utterly indifferent to
the suffering at their doors As.to your
hint of an impending rising among the
people, personally l have nothing to
fear. Almost all my means are in my
factories, and will always be in the
front rank of those who love the people,
and shall do all in my power to check
them in any madness that bad or ambi.
tious leaders may advocate.
hold that labor's remedy is in the bal
lot 1t now has power stronger than
armies or navies By means Of it the
working classes can so WELD the machin-
cry Of legislation as to give them all they
can ask for in justice have no politi-
cal ambition. will never willingly en-
ter into political life unless some uprising
or concerted action on the part Of labor
make it my duty to try to guide this ris
ing tide. For any uprising, even if sue
cessful, would be of no benefit TO the
people unless il was directed by capable
leaders Destroy all the wealth and f.
nancial ruin, deprive labor Of employ
ment, and in six months starvation would
stare 50,000,000 people in the face.
When time brought its remedy, we would
be the subjects of a modern Bonaparte or
Caesar.
If should ever be tempted to take a
part in public affairs, it shall be simply
as friend of the people. want no of
flee and should accept nothing in the
gift of the nation; but | should like to
see labor organized in such manner as
! could easily suggest, with labor lodges
organized on the principle of benevolent
associations, and so thoroughly knit To-
gether that they would act as one man,
thus make their views respected and their
influence felt politically and at the cleo
tion by their ballots. Pierre LOrilldrd in
the North american ReCie1C
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18
Though True, II Reads Like Romance,

A sensational death that occurred here
not long ago, being without precedent, is
worth relating. A young doctor, hand
some, strong, popular and of great prom
Use, was called from his office to attend q
lady in carriage at his door Receiving
no answer to his greeting to the patient,
he thought she had tainted He stepped
into her coupe and found her already a
corpse. He drove by the side of the
dead woman to her house and thence to
the hospital, where he was expected to
participate in meeting of the managers.
Apologizing to his colleagues for his
lateness, he related his ghastly expert
ence. Then remarking, Il feel faint, ="
he fell, struck dead by paralysis. Hale
and hearty hnt a moment before, even his
magnlncent frame cOulu not withstand
the shock of such a sudden introduction
into the presence Of death, coupled with
the grim ride by the side Of corpso.-
Washington Letter in the Chicago Tribune.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18

THE largest quantity of actual
money in any one house on earth" said
Rufus Hatch, in New York, the other
day, 'is right over yonder." And he
pointed to the sub Treasury-a structure
that looked low and squat compared with
the tall buildings around it. This solid
pile of granite, in Wall Street, at the
head of Broad, with its Grecian pillared
front, has the statue of Washington on
the steps, looking down on the hurly
burly. In it most of the revenue of the
United States from customs is handled,
and the accumulation at times gets to be
enormous. In that house" said Mr..
Hatch, "sit two friends of mine, neither
worth $4,000 to his name, counting
millions and millions of dollars. ~ 7.
Sun
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18
A THING TO KEEP CLEAR OF.
something About Pneumonia SO Likely
to Arsail One at This Season,

TO hrsatl One at This Season,
Pneumonia usually begins with a chill
intense and prolonged, generally at night,
and followed by correspondingly high
fever and sharp pains in the sides. The
disease is very rapid in its progress,
reching a crisis in from five to six days
and sometimes causing death within
three days, Usually but one lung is af.
fected and often the disease is confined
to single lobe. A person may have
double pneumonia, or pneumonia of
both lungs, and recover from it, but the
chances are against him. When the di-
sease spreads to all Of the lung lobes
death is certain, as the patient can not
breathe and dies Of suffocaton. The di-
seased lung, at first infiamed, soon be-
comes hard and leathery and incapable
Of performing its natural functions A
curious fact is that usually no second
chill occurs when another lobe is attack
ed, and there appears to be no relation
between the amount of lung affected and
the intensity of the symptoms. All ply
oiSi"ho uSiSO III odg llir tiuJ tllC uloCdst Is
not contagious, but may be epidemic,
and it has been noticed that it is develop
ed under the same conditions as diphtheria
that is, the conditions which produce
diphtheria in the young are apt 10 cause
pneumonia among adults
Without specializing upon these diff
ferent theories, from what has been said
in which all agree, it is plain that any,
thing which lowers the vitality of the
system is conducive to the disease and
should be carefully avoided Overwork,
either physical or mental, has much to
do with it and this explains why so many
business men and brain workers become
its victims. Sudden changes of the
weather and draughts of all kinds are
also to be guarded against. In a word,
live temperately, dress warmly, avoiding
all manner of imprudences, and you need
have no fear of pneumonia. From Hats
Journal Of Health.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18
The Crank Defended.

What would we do were it not for the
cranks? How slowly the tired old world
would move, did not the cranks keep it
rushing along! Columbus was crank
on the subject of American discovery
and cirCumnavigation, and at last he met
the fate of most cyanks, was thrown into
prison, and died in poverty and disgrace.
Greatly venerated now! Oh, yes, Tele-
machus, we usually esteem crank most
profoundly after we starvc him to death.
Harvey was crank on the subject of the
circulation of blood; Gaiileo was an
astronomical crank; Fulton was crank
on the subject of steam navigation
Morse was telegraph crank. Ali the old
abolitionsts were cranEs; the Pilgrim
Fathers were cranks; John Bunyan was
crank and any man who doesn't think
as you do, my son, is crank.
And, by the bye, the crank you despise
will have his name in every mans
mouth and half completed monument
to his memory crumbling down in a doZ-
en- cities, while nobody outside of your
native village will know that you ever
lived. Deal gently with the crank, my
boy. OF course some cranks are crankier
than Others, but do you be very slow TO
sneer at man because he knows only
one thing and you can't understand him.
A crank, Telemachus, is thing that
turns something, it makes the wheels go
around. it insures progress. True, il
turns the same wheel all the time, and il
can't do anything else but that's what
keeps the ship going ahead. The thing
that goes in for variety, versatility. that
changes its position hundred times a
day, that is no crank; that is the weather
vane, my son. What? You nevertheless.
thank heaven you are not crank DOM
do that, my son. May be you couldn't
be a crank if you would. Heaven is no,
very particular when it wants weather
: vane; almost any man will do for that
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18
Sam Jones Talks.

This is the way Sam Jones is talking
in Cincinnati: Brethren if you're ever
damned it will be on account of money;
mark what tell you. Brethren, these
things ought not so to be. If | had the
money that nine-tenths of your official
board has in Trinity Church, ! would
pay more than you did, God knows, as
sure as my name is Sam Jones! Brother
Joyce, you're never so much with the
church until you get the stingy men off
your board. | don't know how many
you have, but hunt them down; and tree
them, and smoke them out, and burn
them up. A church with liberal board
of stewards never has to rent its pews to
get money to run its preacher The
stewards wanted me to give you all Hail
Columbia, but mine is double backac-
ton concern that hits both ways, and
they've got little, you see. There are
some Christians in this city who are
everlastingly having visions and revela-
tions but | can eat pound of pork meat
for supper and go to bed and have more
visions in daylight than you will have in
10 years in your religion. Try the spir
its'-you are way Off Try the spirits
don't want Christian man to begin to
tell me what sort of impressions and Wis
ions he is having, but what | want to
know is what God is doing for him. l
want him to carry bread and water to the
hungry. That's it.
The supreme court of Indiana has
Just decided that where property has
been destroyed by fire from sparks neg
ligently permitted to escape from loco.
tive the owner may recover its full value
from the railway company, notwithstand
ing the fact that the property was fully
insured and the insurance company had
paid the loss.
AT a luncheon in Washington the
other day Roman punch was served in
. haskets formed from scoonad or.nUao
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18
A Hopeless Case,

"You haven't paid the last premium
ON your wife's life insurance, Uncle
Rastus," said the agent.
II knows hasn't. l got dat old 'omans s
life 'sured foah yeahs ago, an she hain't
been sick er day sense. Dis mawnin she
Kicked me out Of bed wifi wun fut. Bout
er hour ago she eat fo'ty cent water
mellon an drunk er quart oh cider, an
she am now sleepin off de effec's wifi de
persp' prashun rollin' down her face dat
am de perfect picture oh health. What's
de use 'surin' an ole oman like dat?
hain't ncbber goin' ter die, deed she
amt. Don't you go fo' ter ask fo' no
mo PREMIUMS.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18
A Bit of Humor from the Backwood

When DR.. Bowling, pioneer medical
man in the South began practice he set.
tied in the wilds of Kentucky, where he
sat in front of his cabin for six month
without call. At last he heard the clat
ter Of horses hoofs and lank, bare
footed Kentuckidn appeared. Are you
a doctor?" he asked. "Yes, and good
one" said Bowling. Whats the matter
with that ar foot?" the man inquired,
placing his heel on the fence Thedoctor
examined it closely and replied: That,
sir, is erysipelas. "Ery-hell," said the
man, "a bee stung me. The doctor
moved to Nashville. FLORIDA Medical
md Snr1icaL Journal.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18

A New Anecdoto of a Droll Man.

There are a number of anecdotes in
circulation about the late Congressman
Rankin and the brave manner in which
he met death. Almost his last words
were a joke. When the late Senator
Carpenter lay dying he showed a similar
nerve. A few hours before his death he
was seized with violent spasm and ask
ed the doctor what it was. "lts the col
on" said the doctor, referring to that
portion of the anatomy bearing that
name. Then I've little longer to live, "
replied Carpenter, eve never came to a
full stop at colon.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18

To carry Tennessee is to break the Solid
South and knock out 10 of the 152 solid
Democratic votes from that section.
Such result will make Republican sue.
cess in 1888 almost assured. When Ten
nessee goes North Carolina will follow
but the Republicans should have their
eyes wide open to the situation in Ten
nessee, 1t is full of hope and promise,
and to all appearance If the Republicans
lose that State next fall they will have
themselves to blame for it. A draft will
be made for number of Ohio speakers
to go there in the next campaign hear
Grosvenor has already consented to go,
and Foraker, Butterworth, Mckinley
and others will be urged TO go as a com
mittee to escort Miss Tennessee into the
Republican mansion, and give her seat
where she can warm her toes at the fire
of peace and plenty.
1t is interesting TO take review of the
last three Presidential elections in Ten
npcqap,
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18
The Blood at q Gallop.

Just before mounting our horses Ton
the morning of the second days fighD,
it occurred to me TO ascertain the pulsa.
tions to the human system in the excite.
ment Of going into battle, | requested
nv medical director, DR.. Brodie, to ex.
anime the pulses of myself and staff. He
found that they varied from 80 to 13O.--
Gen. Beauregdrd in the North american
Rerielc.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18

Thi, last summing up of the situation |
gather from Hon. W. p, Brownlow, a
member of the Republican National Com
mittee, careful and conservative man,
and as his name will show, at home in
Tennessee matters, historical and politi-
cal. f. ID. M.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18

But when it wants crank, my boy, it
looks very carefully for the best man in
the community Before you thank heav-
en- thst you are not crank examine
yourself carefully, and see what is the
great deficiency that debar, you from
such an election. Bob Burdette.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18

The hymn in some of the books used
in the Presbyterian church beginning
when through the torn sail the wild
tempest is streaming" is ascribed in those
books to Heber. 1t was written by Fran
els Key, author of "The Star Spangled
Banner"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18

M. Panali, of French note as an art.
ist, was about to be married in Paris.
when he objected to the bride wearing a
hustle at the wedding, declaring that that
part OF her attire was inartistic. This
did not please the girl, who was obdurate
and insisted on making her toilet to suit
herself. The match was broken off and
the artist went to Egypt.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18

"A man in Jamestown, Ohio, whs
was notorious reviler and blasphemer
at revival meetings, was converted by a
sudden visitation of lockjaw. Next to a
club, perhaps lockjaw is about as effec-
tive a remedy as could be tried upon a
disturber of other peoples religious gath
erings.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18

A New Orleans poet says: 81 kissed
her on the balcony" We have heard a
New Orleans girls lips referred to as a
hanging verandah, but never before as a
balcony.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18

The modern man is a healthier being
than his grandfather, and the same is
true of the modern woman. With all the
blather about the degeneracy of these
times, the human animal has developed
toward more perfect type The result
of the introduction of sensible methods
into the daily life has been to lengthen
the average chance for. People do not
expose themselves now as their ancestors
did; yet they take plenty of good health
full exercise, and, as result, are more
muscular than the preceding generation.
The popular superstition that each gener
alton is ''wiser and weaker" is sheer
nonsense
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18

, A drinking man. upon reading in a
novel that the heroines beautiful face
was "colored with pleasure" remarked,
Now l know what's the matter with
my nose"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18
A Crowded Week.

Mrs. O'Toolihan-Mrs. Gillicuddy,
darlint wull yez be on hand at the wake
this blissed noight?
Mrs. Gillicuddy (weakly)-Ah, Mrs.
O'Toolihan, the good Saint Pathrick pre-
sarve us. / fear not. What wild the ball
at O 'Lannigan's S on Chewsday noight, an
the supphrise paarty at Maloney's on
Winsday, an the O'Shaoghnessy dance
on Thoorsday, an the growler atween
toims, it's not Mary Ann Gillicuddy that
has the stringth to sthand the festivities
at all at all.
~ Y Sun: The majority of men are
either bald or partially bald, according to
recent scientific authority, because the
human race is going to lose the hair on
its head, and they are only the forerun.
ners Of the universal badness which is to
be. The bald heads of this day nav,
therefore, pride themselves on being
further along in the development of man
than the men who glory in their luxuriant
locks. The theory is that men will be
born without hair roots on ther heads, or
with only very temporary supply of
hair, which they will lose when they
mature, as they lose other features of the
child OF course, if that is sound, there
is no use in trying to oppose the general
tendency with hair invigorators.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18

AT a luncheon in Washington the
other day Roman punch was served in
baskets formed from scooped oranges.