Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-04-07
ALL OVER THE STATE.
Items Of News Gathered From Our
Exchanges.

Dover is to have an axe-handle fac
tory in the near future.
cambridge, the county seat of Jeffer'
son County, is to have newspaper.
An early morning fire consumed four
frame buildings in Ripley last week.
The Hawkins County Auxiliary Bible
Society has passed its twenty-third year.
| The tax rate of Bristol has been
raised to S1.25, an increase of $40 per
centum.
The police of Columbia recently cap
tured sixteen crap shooters in single
raid.
The depot at Rugby Road, Scott
County, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, $3.50.
A fire near Culleoka destroyed q
dwelling house occupied by Mrs. Han
cock. Loss, $4,000.
The contract has been let for 81, 800
Jail building by Sevierville, to be COM
pleted by October 1st.
"A man whose identity is unknown
was found dead one day recently in
Union City-a victim to hard drink.
Mr.. F. T. Wells, a pioneer of James
County died at Ooltewah recently, aged
7S years.
A negro woman named Anica Sim
mons, living at Decherd, has been
awarded $3,Ol9.S6 back pension money.
A large illicit distillery was lately
discovered in Blount County by officers
and 500 gallons of beer was destroyed.
The jackson improvement bonds were
sold last week to Messrs. ]. L. Williams
& Son, Richmond, Va, 5000 net.
Sam Roberts, farmer living near
Bristol, has become insane from acute
pain induced by rheumatism and white
swelling.
Bill Haynes, colored, the murderer of
Mollie Oldham at Martin, has received
a sentence of fifteen years in the peni-
tentiary.
Atlas Lee, widely known resident
of the sixth district of Carroll County,
died few days ago of old age, aggra-
waited by la grippe.
The Cleveland Journal notes the or
ganization of Farmers Institute in
Bradley County, emphasizing its non
political and open nature.
While burning sedge grass little
negro girl, daughter of Abe Eaton, was
burned on the farm of Ronee Payne,
near Covington. Death resulted.
The prospects in the western part of
the state are quite good for cereals and
grasses, through the fruit season has
been retarded by the sudden cold spell.
The store of R. s. McDale, of Noun.
tain City, johnson County, was entered
by thieves and $23 in money togther
with $50 to S75 worth of jewelry Sc
cured.
The dwelling house of Mack Harris,
farmer in the twelve district of Upton
County, recently caught fire while the
occupants were away, and was destroy
ed. Loss, $1,000.
A large barn filled with grain and
farming implements, the property of
Mack Phillips, living on Eagle Creek,
Benton County, was burned not long
since, the cause of which is unknown.
The Leaf Chronicle, of Clarksonville,
takes pride in the fact that not single
car load of Northern hay has found q
market in the county. The people of
Montgomery County make and bale
their own hay.
A number OF experienced lumbermen
from Northern points are just now in
terested in putting up manufactures
and saw mills in Lenoir City for utiliz-
ing the abundant timber resources of
the Little Tennessee River.
In the sixteenth district of Henry
County a pack of four blood thirsty
CANNES not long since made descent
upon flock of sheep belonging to A..
A. Barnes. Twenty three Of the flock
were killed and Injured.
Mrs, Caroline Sheriff. died few days
since at Covington, aged SO. Mrs. Sher-
rill was the last Of eighty colonists who
came from Iredell County, N, c., in
/ 1884, and as the first Presbyterian pio.
neers to settle in Upton County estab-
lished the Mt. Carmel Church.
An effort will be made to get meas
ure providing for bridge across the
Emory River at Hartman favorably
passed upon at the April meeting Of
the County Court for Roane County.
The cost of the bridging the Emory at
this point is roughly put at from $4,000
to $4,000.
! Montgomery County has proposed to
neighboring counties to work their idle
work-house prisoners with short SEN