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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
A Ghastly Joke,

A CHASTITY joke was perpetrated the
other day in the old potter's field,
Portsmouth. An unknown young white
man had placed box in an open
grave, blacked his face and hands,
entered the box and was covered with
dirt by friends, place being left for
air. When the cemetery hands came
to remove the bodies not already taken
up, the dirt was removed and the box
containing the joker opened. He then
raised up, although nearly suffocated.
With yell the men fled IN every di'
reotion, several becoming unconscious
from fright. During the excitement
the joker and his friend escaped =
Baltimore American.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
result in good times but it certainly
has Its influence.

result in good times but it certainly
has It's influence.
For myself, | never wouid have
thought of hard times had | not heaed
others complain. Aud now word to
all who have formed the habit of grum.
bling. No matter how hard up you
are for money, no matter how much
you are in debt, no matter how many
people owe you dollar or two, no
matter who you owe q dollar or how
much money you need, grumbling will
not pay debt. 1t can not make your
circumstances any better in any way,
and you do an injustice to mankind by
grumbling as it makes others feel dis
couraged and can not encourage you
or anyone else. Use reason and judg.
ment and if you think grumbling will
benefit you, grumble; and if not my
advice would be, don't discourage
others. This is not law nor legislation
but sound advice, and if you find it
worth consideration use it, otherwise
you have done no harm l-y writing
this. BUSINESS INTEREST.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
For the Herald and Tribune.
Grumbling.

Grumbling about hard times. seems
to be so natural with some people that
they often grumbe uncopsciously that
is, not thinking of what they do say.
Some grumble because they don t
know anything else to talk about
Others because they have been in the
habit of it all their lives, and others
because of actual calamity.
AS / have travelled in various parts
of the country l have heard all kinds
of grumbling. But in my opinion the
person who is in gooi circumstances,
with no wish but what can be gratifed
at his or her will. who will say, II
don't know what is to become of us,
times are so hard we can't live;n and
use other such expressions, certainly
do great injustice to their neighbors.
If these people would only be cheerful
and use their influence to make others
feel cheerful, and if men who have
money would go down into their cof-
fers and put their money in some en-.
terprising business, talk business as
lively as il no hard times had ever ex
listed and persuade themselves that
times are going to improve, honestly
and truly believe we would soon have
as good times as ever brighteped Amer
lea. Only push up the times and times
will improve. do not claim thai
grumbling is the cause of hard times
nor that silence in that respect would
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09

to Congress any more from this district
but he became twice Governor of Ten
nessee and United States Senator.
As an Ex-Governor and United States
Senator, he received the vote of the
Tennessee delegation for President of
the United States in the National Dem
ocratic Convention ut Charleston in
1860. Then the stand he took and the
speech he made in the Senate in favor
of the Union in 1860 81, did more than
any other one thing towards making
East Tennessee SO intensely Union, in
1861. and in fact, all through the war.
Had Andy Johnson not taken the
stand he did for the Union, then East
Tennessee would not have been so in
tensely loyal during that critical pc
riod from 1861 to 1855; had Johnson
ami all the men he could and did in
fiuence directly and indirectly, given
all their might and influence to the
South instead of to the Union, who
can now say how the war might not
have terminated?
And much, very much of this history
is directly traceable to that Wing gerry
mander of 1851.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
The True Doctrine.

Every dollar sent across the sea to
purchase the product of foreign manu-
factured articles takes from our own
people the possibility of giving steady
employment to those who throng our
shores or patiently wait for day s
employment,
The markets of the world, of which
so many glowing pictures have been
painted by free traders of the United
States, are as nothing when compared
to the home market our producing mil
lions find for all of natures stores.
More than $5O,OOO,0OO,OOO worth of
goods, the product of our own country,
find ready sale in our own markets,
This is larger than all the foreign trade
of the world. Then why should we
exchange this safe, sure, excellent
place of finding sale for all we produce
for the indefinite one thatno Democrat
has ever been able to locate or find?
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
PUSH THE WILSON BILL.
The Troublesome Thing Hard Pushed
In Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, May 2.--Munici-
pal elections were held throughout In
diana yesterday. The only cities not
voting were Indianapolis and Evans
vile, which operate under special char.
ters.
rerre Haute elects the whole Repub-
lican ticket by majorities ranging from
900 to 1900, a Republican gain on ma
jority of $50.
Union City gives the usual Republi-
can majority
Bedford gives clean sweep for the
Republicans.
South Bend, usually Democratic,
goes Republican on the entire ticket
by 45O
Goshen gives clean sweep, with Re.
publican majorities of from so to 800;
it is usually Democratic. r
At valparaiso, where the Democrats
had majority of 100 two years ago,
Republican majorities range from 70
to 300.
At Kokomo the Republicans win by
largely increased majorities. Brazil,
usually close, goes Republican. Law
renceburg, usually Democratic, elects
the entire Republican ticket and three
out of five councilmen. La Porte and
Michigan City, usually both Democrat
ic, both go heavily Republican. Rich
mond elects all Republicans by increas
ed majorities, as does Kendallville,
Bloomington, Frankfort, Anderson,
Muncie, Greencastle, Elwood and Ma
rion.
All the gas belt cities show increased
Republican majorities. New Albany,
usually 1000 Democratic, elects every
Republican but one Councilman, and
Seymour, another Democratic strong
hold, goes Republican. Lafayette goes
Republican, with gain of 500.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
A ROLL OF THUNDER.
And Then the Earth Slid Off Into
the st. Anne River.
six Square Miles of Soil Washed Down
the Rapid Little River.

QUEBEC, April 30,-About $50 clock
Friday night the inhabitants of the vii
lage of st. Alban, situated some fifty
miles from here in Port Neuf county,
heard terrific noise, resembling the
roll of thunder, in the distance. The
soil commencing to vibrate, a panic
ensued. Farmers ran out of their
dwellings to avoid being buried under
the ruins, as they believed the ground
was going to give way beneath them.
AT the upper end of the village, some
three miles from the parish church, is
a curve formed by the river st. Anne,
and close to the curve is waterfall 150
feet high. The ground formed the
right hand side of the wall gave way
burying the pulp wood mill, which
was situated right underneath and
blocking the course of the stream.
The stream which was very rapid on
account of the melting snow over the
mountains and adjacent valley, spread
over the adjoining farms and caused
the undermined embankment to slide
into the river filling it up. Several
houses along the river bank were car
ried into the river. One of them was
occupied by family named Gauthier,
numbering four persons, all of whom
perished.
Smoke was seen to ascend from un-
der the ruins showing what an awful
death the occupants must have met.
The ground which slid into the river
measured about six square miles, whole
farms have been destroyed and their
stock and farm products.
People in the neighborhood of the
scene of the disaster are still terror
stricken. The oldest inhabitants of the
place never witnessed or heard of such
thing before, although several land
slides have occurred in the neig gabor-
hood during the last fifty years.
The rush of water from the Lauren
tian chain of mountains is tremendous
during the spring time, owing to the
melting snow, and it is thought by
scientific men that the ground had been
followed by the water, owing to the
fact that the lower strata of soil forma-
ton are mostly clay.
Large tracts of land with trees and
vegetation have been shifted without
the least disturbance, while in other
places the land was completely turned
over. The losses are estimated at
$500. 900.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
Poverty Drives Her Ont.

NEW YORK, May Mrs. Henry
Ward Beeecher, whose send birthday
will occur on August 20, was obliged
by financial stringency and the hard
ness of the times to move today
from her comfortable little home
at the corner of Hicks and Orange
streets, to small fat in the Plymouth
apartment house ON Orange street.
within stones throw of the church
in which her distinguished husband so
long ministered.
Mrs. Beecher is entirely frank about
the reason for the change. She says:
II move out of the house because ! can
no longer pay the rent. Dearly as l
love the place, l must go. When l
moved here, hoped never to leave the
house; but l must co."
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
Crazy Kansas Official.

CHICAGO, May IA Topeka, Kan,
special says: R. S. Osborne, Secretary
of State, when told that Gen. Coxey
was arrested, became much excited
and gave utterances to some wild re-
marks. He said II know what the
charge is. | expect that this uprising
must be put down. There will be no
overt action by the people until the
next election, then simultaneously
with the returns flames will be shot up
into the air from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and every palatial residence
i'll the land will be destroyed in this
spontaneous uprising of the people.
Woe unto themSwho have sought to
stay this tide for the last six months.
The farmers are preparing for this.
They are selling horse or COW and
bnying rifles with the proceeds, and
many mechanics are doing the same"
Governor Lewelling believed that the
arrest of General Coxey will prove
serious blunder. He said: "It will
have the effect of uniting the masses in
a common cause. The P9pulists, as a
rule, look upon the demonstration in
Washington today as the beginning
of revolution. y s
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
Break the birmingham Jail.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 1.-Y. G.
Hughes, Sam Mclendon, Abe Griffith
and George Rice, colored, made dar-
ing and successful escape from Jeffer-
son County Jail yesterday morning.
Hughes was convicted of murder, and
under sentence of death. McLendon
and Griffith were under indictments
for murder, and Rice for burglary and
grand larceny. The Jail is new and
was thought to be the strongest in the
South. A hole foot square was cut
out of solid sheet of iron in the top of
cell, through which the mob got to
the roof, after breaking through the
roof, they escaped over an outer wall
by means of blankets. The wall was
four feet away. Bloodhounds were
used as soon as the delivery was dis
covered, but the men were not recap
tured.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
The Coming Crisis.

The crisis brought upon the country
by attempted legislation at Washing
ton becomes intensified each day. Men
who labor with their hands are not
trained in law, nor do they have the
means of employing practitioners of
that art to guide them when they seek
redress OF their grievances; conse-
quently, in tn, nature of things, they
are prone to act injudiciouslv and are
not always able to follow legal meth
DDS. They realize that they are at this
disadvantages; and, because of it, they
hesitate to enter upon course of
action that otherwise they would in,
augurate without hesitation. They
desired to be regarded as law abiding
citizens. They want to enjoy the re
Spect of their fellowmen. They are
proud to be known as Americans. So
strong is this feeling that but very
small proportion of those who sympa-
thize with the Coxey movement either
join in or show their Sympathy openly.
But it is from such seed as this that
revolutions grow. If Congress con
tinues its present course of action.
whereby these men are deprived of the
means of earning livelihood, the
present restraint they are under be-
cause of their respect for themselves
and the law, and because of their love
for this country, may give way and
result in their seeking relief regardless
of consequences.
1t seems useless to look to Congress,
as now constituted, to meet this emer-
gency. The majority is so befogged
with visionary theories that sensible
action in a practical way is not to be
expected un til there is chab1e in the
membership. Meantime the crisis
grows, and it may be that it is too late
to escape great public calamity be-
fore the needed corrective can be ap-
piled by the people at the polls next
Novem ber.-Commercial Gazette.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
For the Herald and Tribune.
How to Manage a Son.

Turn him out in the world at the age
of six to run when and where he
pleases; if he wants to go to school go !;
if not. let him loaf from place to
place. If he can't gamble and steal
enough to buy his clothes, help him to
do 80. Tell good tale for all lis mis-
doings. Let him live this life till
twenty one and then what is he fit for?
He is like salt that has lost its SAVIOR,
good for nothing. Why should parents
allow such hypocrites to put on Sun
day face and come into their homes
and deceive their precious daughters
drag them down to perfect torment
on earth to themselves and parents.
What is more fathers duty than to
look after the welfare of his children?
A young man that can not conduct
himself manly and respectfully in the
presence Of all classes of persons, is not
fit to put on his flowery face and seek
the company of respectable young
ladies. If all young ladies had the
grit and courage to not notice such
characters it would certainly put an
end to so many vagabonds. Chaiacte
is the brightest gem of youth and it
often is the case that those soft tongued,
sap headed, Sunday gentleman 60 into
the homes of the most cultured fami
lies and possibly by their pleasant t
speech and flattering outward appear
ance, win an influence over some pure.
innocent hearted girl, and spoil her
happiness and popularity forever.
Young lady be cautious in choosing
the young man that is to escort you
before the eyes of the enlightened peo
pie of this country. Remember that
your choice and conduct is watched by
all; and that lasting opinions are
formed oI you whether good or bad.
Use your best judgment in your selec
ton and not be pursuaded by those
worthless scoundrels, who have mean
enough principles in them to connect
themselves with some church or sacred
organization, in order to put cloak
over their past conduct. Under this
pretention of being pious they try to
gain their popularity.
Such lewd young men make open
confessions for no other purpose than
to throw a screen over their heinous
crimes and by so doing they think they
will be permitted to associate with
decent young ladies. Such characters
should never be allowed the privilege
OF entering the parlors of refined young
ladies, for they are nothing more nor
less than Sunday Christians and every
day devils. w.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
The GlOrieS of Free Trade.

Sir Edward Sullivan, an eminent
Englishman, asserts that ''since 1876
the value of lands and the income
from farms have fallen from 30 to 90
per cent, but the interest on the mort
gage remains the same" He quotes
Lord Derby as stating that the losses
of English landowners have been 800,
100000 pounds (equal to 81 ,459, 800, ,00O
in United States money, and he esti-
mates the losses of tenants at 5000, ,OOO,-
600. Hundreds of thousands of acres
have gone out of cultivation within lC
years. All this in glorious free trade
country.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
HOKE SMITH Is "SLICK."
Why Local Boards are no Longer Per.
mitted TO Rate Applicants for
Pensions.

About the first question of admins,
tration policy which Hoke Smith Of
Georgia took under serious consider.
alton was how not to do anything in
the pension bureau, or how to do Just
as little as possible and still have an ex.
cuse Disappointing hundreds of ex-reb
els to the place heretofore given to ex.
Union soldiers.
1T would, for Illustration, look bad
for the bureau to issue pension fol
only S6 when the rating of the local
board was for Sl2, or to reject one alto
gether when the local board had rated
for 50 or $40 per month. But if there
be no rating of the local boards in the
way the whole matter of disability OF
no disability, and if OF disability of de
gree, is tn the board of medical ex.
aminers in the pension office, who are
Immediately under the hand of the ad-
mlnistration, and pensions are turned
out or refused altogether, according to
the strte OF the atmosphere in the pen
sion office-no, the pension freezer
He found fine way to do this, how
ever, by new order limiting the au-
thority of the local examining boards
and prohibiting them from rating ap.
plicants.
This is entirely new. Always here
tofore in the history of the bureau the
local boards have not only given min
ute and careful description of the con
dition of the claimants, but with the
law before them, the schedule of rat
ings fixed by the bureau before them,
and the man himself before them, they
have given their opinion as to the de-
gree of his disability. 1t has always
till now been thought by the pension
authorities that the opinion of the local
boards, with their better opportunities
for knowing the exact condition of the
applicant, being informed, as they are,
by the eye, the greatest of all instruc
tors, was entitled to great weight in
fixing the rate of pension to which he
was entitled. Though not conclusiy G
upon the bureau, it has always been
thought to be the very best light it had.
In the very nature of things, it is the
best guide they have in determining
here in the Office the degree of that
man S disability, who is hundreds, per
haps thousands, of miles away, and
whom no one here. in the bureau has
ever seen. But now the only surgeons
who have seen the applicant and made
personal examination of him are for.
hidden to say anything about the de-
gree of his disability"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
Employment and Wages.

Pennsylvania employs more people in
the shops and factories than the II
Southern States combined. Pennsyl-
vania pays more wages to labor than
all the States of the South. Massachu.
setts spends more money in wages than
all the Southern States combined, but
Massachusetts has but two votes in the
United States Senate, where the South
ern States combined have 26.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
ST A YEAR In ADVANCE
100000 and even $500, 900 eggs have
been found in roe of single cod.

100000 and even $500, 900 eggs have
been found in roe of single cod.
Mount Hercules. Island of Papua, is
the highest in the world, its altitude
being 39,7S6 feet. Mount Everest, In
dia, was until recently put down as the
largest, but it is only 29,0O9 feet high.
Ice one to two inches thick will bear
men, two inches thick will bear in
fantry, four inches thick will bear
cavalry and light guns, six inches will
bear teams with moderate loads or
heavy field guns, and eight inches
teams with heavy loads.
Most persons will be surprised to
learn that a needle in the course of its
manufacture and before placed on the
market for sale passes through the
hands of from eighty to one hundred
and twenty people. Eleven complete
processes, each involving several mi
nor operations, are necessary before
sewing needle is fit for sale.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
COXay Goes TO Jail.

WASHINGTON, D. c. May 2.--Carl
Browne, chief marshal of the common :
veal, and Christopher Columbus Jones,
leader of the Philadelphia contingent,
were placed on trial in the Washing
ton City police court this morning on
charges of violating the United States
statutes and interfering with an arrest
respectively. Coxey was In court and
was arrested on the charge of unlaw-
fully entering the United States capi-
tol grounds and displaying there "ban
ners and did injure certain plants and
shrubs in said grounds.
Browne demanded jury trial for
each prisoner, which was granted, and
the cases went over until Friday. Bail
in $500 was demanded in each case,
and Coxey, Browne and Jones were
locked up until it could be obtained.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
Six Interesting Facts.

The earth's low est body of water is
the Caspian sea. which has been sink
ing for centuries.
Robbing the ostrich of its feathers is
a cruel operation. Tie feathers are
imbedded SO tightly in the flesh that
each quill is covered with blood when
is is wrenched out.
The Goldfish is the most prolific fish
of the sea, yielding S5,OO0,OOO eggs
each season. As many as 5000, 600,
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09

There are holes that am always
sorry not to find in my shirt" said
Jokus, as he drew a clean garment
from a laundry package.
"Holesl" said his friend. "What do
you meanY"
II mean button holes," said Jokus,
as he pointed to ripped up neckband,
and laughed in his feeble, idiotic way.
Chicago Record.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09
A Pension is Certificate Of Honor.


The Congressional Record thus re-
ports passage in the speech of Dan
Waugh of Indiana in the house:
" want to say, here and now, in my
place on this floor, that would rather
be the possessor of the pension certif-
cate issued to the humblest of all Indi-
ana soldiers than to be the possessor of
the highest commission issued in the
armies of treason and rebellion against
NV country" Applause on the Repub-
lican side.
OF course the applause WIS ION the
Republican side. The sentiment was
such that it could be received only with
freezing silence on the Democratic side.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09

DR.. S. F. Scott. Blue Ridge, Harrison
Co., Mo-, says: For whooping cough
Chamberlain 8 Cough Remedy is excel
lent" BY using it freely the disease is
deprived of all dangerous consequences
There is no danger in giving the Rem
edy to babies. as it contains nothing
injurious. 20 and 90 cent bottles for
sale by F. E. Britton druggist.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-09

If King Solomon was alive he would
now say: "Go to the travelling man,
learn his ways, and be wise." Mr.. G.
w. Battell, Cincinnati travelling man
representing the Queen City Printing
Ink Co., after suffering intensely for
two or three days with lameness Of the
shoulder, resulting from rheumatism,
completely cured it with two spplice-
tions of Chamberlainb Pain Balm.
This remedy is gaining wide rsputa-
ton for its prompt cures of rheuma-
tism, lame back, sprains, swellings and
lameDess. 90 rent bottles are for sale
by F. E. Britton druggist.