Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1890-10-02
NEWS.

Two detectives, who have been
chasing the Fomaton train-robbers,
supposed to be RUDE Burrows and
his gang, returned after a long
through the swsmps of Flor
ida. They did not bring Rube,
but they brought a trunk which
they found in the house Of j. X.
Wells of Santa Rosa county, Fla,
at whose house the Flomaton train
robbers boarded for a month before
the robbery. Wells said the trunk
was their property, 1t contained
some money, a number of newspa-
per accounts of r~obberies, several
express money packages and num-
Der of cartridges and shells. The
detectives say the robbers lodged
them and report a rough excursion
through the Florida swamps. .r.
A gentleman who possesses an
unusual knowledge of East Tennes-
see and the railroads of the section
says that the Norfolk and Western
road will be built from Bristol to
Bean Station, and from there come
to Knoxville over the Knoxville,
Cumberland Gap and Louisville
tracks. He says the new route
will be twenty miles shorter to
Bristol than the East Tennessee,
and only five miles longer to Nor
ristown. He says that the Norfolk
and Western will then go to Chat
tanooga by the Knoxville Southern,
The South Carolina republican
convention adjourned without max
ing any nominations for State off
ces. E. H, .Deas, colored, of
Darlington, offered a resolution
pledging support to Judge A. G.
Haskell, of Columbia, for governor,
in the interest of q just, liberal and
impartial administration, but it
was defeated. Judge Haskell is a
leading nti-Tillmanite and one of
the foremost democrats of South
Carolina.
The live stock entries of Vice.
president Morton at the New York
State fair, in progress in Syracuse,
have been awarded a number of
prizes. The vice-president also
received the first prize and medal
for butter made at the fair. The
test showed, the vice-president says,
that 33 pounds of Holstein were re-
quired to make a pound of butter,
and but ~ pounds of Guernsey
milk.
The alliance men are cornering
in Alabama with the hope of
rtalizing a heavy advance when the
demand is created. In the end the
people will pay more for cotton goods
than now. We can see no difference
between a cotton corner and a sugar
corner. One step will convert an
excellent labor organization into a
grinding monopoly.
The Roanoke Herald says: The
aud Western people will
purchase the Shenandoah Vally
railroad on the Goth instant, rumors
to the contrary Notwithstanding,
A purchasing committee has already
been appointed by the parties in in
terest and it will pass into the hands
OF ylrglnia's favorite, the N. & W.
without opposition,
Some sly rogue, who had learned
the exact location of the boxes and
barrels in "a store at Woodstock, Ca,
crawled under the store and bored
auger holes through the floor into
the coffee and sugar. barrels and
then, by holding a sack under
them, succeeded in getting a supply
of these articles.
A Michigan woman, whose hus-
band went out to chop and didn't
return at night, dreamed that she
saw a tree fall upon ard crush him.
She got assistance to look for him
and he was found crushed. It
wasn't under a tree, however, but
on the public highway, where he
got drunk, lay down and let a load
of hay roll over him.
The Rev. Frank Forsythe, a
Methodist Episcopal clergyman, who
was very summarily dismissed from
his church at Rockland, N. Y, for
playing baseball, has. established an
Independent charge at that place,
and is to have a big benefit, for
which the pastor will play.
At a convention of millers re-
Gently held in Edinburg, the total
wheat crop of Europe for the cur
rent year was estimated at 1856, ZOO,
600 quarters, while the consump-
ton is estimated at 175, 900, 900
quarters to be obtained from the
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