Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.

Gate City Gazette: The politician is
my Shepherd; l shall not want for any
good thing during the campaign. He
leadeth me into the saloon for my votes
sake. He flleth my pockets with fine
cigars, and my beer glass runneth over.
He inquireth concerning my family,
even to the fourth generation. Yea,
though I walk through the mud and
rain to vote for him and shout myself
hoarse, when he is elected he straight
way forgetteth me. Yea though l meet
him in his office he knoweth me not.
Surely the wool has been pulled over
my eyes all the days of my life, and I
shall dwell in the house of ~obscurity
forever.
Examiner: An English firm has be-
gun to spin yarn from chemical wood
pulp. This is wonderful; but there are
some Yankees who can spin yarns, and
very long ones too, from nothing.
An exchange saws: A, bald gentle
man has a wife who is clever with the
brush, and who has recently painted a
spider on his denuded pate. Her object
is 10 scare away the flies and prevent
them from disturbing the rest of her
spouse.
Cincinnati Tribune: Special Agent
Ayers report shows the United States
produced o than Al, 900, 900 pounds
of tin plate during the last quarter of
the fiscal year. One half of this was
made from American iron, nothing i'm
ported beyond the Malacca tin, which
is alike imported by England and Wales
This is a magnificent showing for an
industry that had no existence until
the Mckinley tariff breathed into it the
breath of life.
The Staff: The friends of Hon. A. B.
Bowman can now congratulate him
upon the advent Of a ten pound boy at
his house on last Thursday. Mr.. Bow
man is happy and his congressional
aspirations are much more vigorous
now while the prospects are frightening.
Knoxville Sentinel: The county
court system is the most costly and
clumsy piece of machinery in our
government. Nearly every other State
in the Union has replaced it with i'm
proved forms of county government.
There is no more sense in Tennessee
retaining it than there is int farmer
using an old sickle when he could cut
his wheat with a reaper and binder.
Rogersville Star: Judge A. j. Brown
closed court here last Thursday morn
ing after a long session. The Judge is
a candidate for reelection and his past
record is without a blemish.
Tennessee Tomahawk: Judge John
P. Smith has been in the city this week
holding court. He will be a candidate
for reelection, and, it is likely, will
have no opposition. With the record
he has made a man who would try to
beat him would have a hard road to
travel. In our opinion it can not be
done.
Rogersville Review: Hancock County
Court at its meeting last Monday agreed
to submit to the voters a proposition to
appropriate bonds to the amout of SO,
900 per mile to the Powell's Mountain
Mineral railroad. Election Nov. IS,
1898.
National Tribune: Last Saturday
the United States Treasurer mailed
bondholders 27,257 checks to pay a.
$50, 1877, 80 of interest due Oct. /. We
haven't heard that he notified any of
them that he had decided to suspend"
the payment of their coupons until
they could furnish additional proof"
that their claims were just and legal.
That method of dealing with the Ma
TONS creditors seems to be peculiar to
the pension bureau.