Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-05-25
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.

1--WE you u market Ior your crops al
your doors. There is money in raising
tobacco if it is given care and atten-
ton. !
Chattanooga Press: Hon. H. N.
spent a few days last week at
Rogersville, Tenn, and while there
learned that the Republicans of that
place are grooming II formidable can
didate for the next gubernatorial race.
Hon. w. 2. CLEARWATER Is the man,
and it is said he is willing to take the
race, and believes he can make it in
teresting for the enemy. The gentle
man is a prominentlawer of Rogersville,
about fifty years of age, and in 1878
was quite prominent in matters of the
State debt. He has all along been
with the leaders of the Republican
politics in the State, and his friends
believe he would make a good race for
Governor. The grooming is now in pro-
cess, although the rae is yet a long
way off.
The Richmond, Va, Times, in its
Washington correspondence says:
Judge William F. Rhea, of Bristol, and
Attorney General Scott, representing
the State of Virginia. and Judge st.
John, of Bristol, Tenn, representing
the State of Tennessee, got here yester-
day, and today appeared before the
Supreme Court of the United States,
asking that court to order a surveyor
to establish beyond dispute a boundry
line between the two States, which for
10 many years has been q matter Of
controversy. it will be remembered
by readers of the Times that a recent
decision of the Supreme Court was
against Virginia in this matter. The
request today does not reopen the case,
but, if granted, will settle for all time
the matter over which there has been
so much expensive litigation. The
court took the matter under advise
ment.
Newport, Tenn, News Mr.. w. V.
Fine is developing a new industry in
Newport-that of raising opossums.
He now has on exhibition in his store
an old opossum with her nine young
ones.
Elizabethton Mountaineer "Old
Pete" is losing prestige with his party,
The Nashville American is about to
''sour on him" and the Bristol Courier
says that he has disappointed the ex
pectations of his friends. "Old Pete
will find that his last days are not hi
best days by a long jump.
Ripley News: At the election held
in Covington last week to determine
whether or not they should have a free
school in the corperated limits by taxa
ton, only one vote was cast agains
the proposition.
Jellico Advance Sentinel: 1t il
claimed that the new law authorizing
Justices of the Peace to try United
States prisoners for violation of thu
revenue laws will diminish the feei
of the Deputy Marshals till that jot
will hardly be worth having. Tit
law directs the Marshal to take thu
prisoners to the nearst Justice. Thi
curtails his mileage, the creates
source of his revenue.
Greeneville, East Tennessee News
Hon. j. Q. A. Remine returned Sun
day from an extended trip through
Indiana, Illinois and the Southwest
He was at Chicago at the opening o
the Worlds Fair.
Rogersville Herald The price o
free trade is an income tax on sugar
coffee and tea. Are the people of thi
country ready to pay it?
Bakersville IN. c. News: Ware
Garland, a youth of thirteen sum
mers walked up to the lunch counte
of Marion Slagle and eat the following
One pound of pork, one dozen and
half of eggs, three dried apple pies
one ginger cake 12x15, seven biscuit
and drank six pint glasses of cider be
fore he quit. Garland is still aliv'
and "%hankerin" after more swee
bread and cider.
Appeal Avalanche: 1t is said that
Cleveland Will not appoint any men t.
Office who have called him q mugwum'
and doubted his Democracy. In this h
is right. 1t requires a good deal of as
surance to say that the nominee o
your party for the highest office in tn
land is not a Democrat, and then az
ply to him for an Office.
Morristown Gazette DR.. ]. B. +
Dice, U. S. Medical Examiner at thi
place, received official notice Sunda
evening from Washington that hi
services were dispensed with and tina
, DR.. Nelson would fill the position
e. DR.. Dice is a good Republican, but d.
Nelson is good Democrat, and we al
thankful for this small favor durin
{ the uncertainties of the present Demo
cratic administration.