Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-04-25

DIR. Leah visited his family at Locust
Mount Saturday.
An elegant line of fine silver ware at
ii. II. Mcpherson s.
Maj Jas. E. Deakins, of the first dis
trict, was in town Monday.
Return balls, tennis sets, and all
kinds Of toys, at Miss Murphy's.
Frying chickens are in demand at
the store OF Patton & Drummer.
Remove boils, pihples, and skin
eruptions, by taking Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla.
Shoes of all kinds high and low. cut,
to suit the most f~astidious at r. M.
Mays.
ID. Ii. Mcpherson will sell you jew
elry cheaper than you can buy it else
where.
Some of our citizens are identifying
their homes by improving their yards
and fences.
Go to Patton & Drummer and get your
seed sweet potatoes, Kentucky whites
are the best.
Judge A. j. Brown is holding a regu-
lar term OF the law Court at johnson
City this week
Blind Steve and his wife gave an
entertainmentin Temperance Hall last
Thursday night.
Jesse p. Hartman, of the Fourteenth
District, is reported very sick, II his
recovery doubtful.
1t might be that you will want a
nice suit, ii SO see my line of fresh
clothing. R. M. May.
The circus drew a large crowd to
town last Wednesday, and took away
many hard earned dollars.
The season for picnics and out door
festivals will be here as o as spring
quits sitting in the lap of winter.
The Mission Sunday School at the
Chapel and also the one at Jimtown
continues to increase in interest and
attendance.
The usual complement of gamblers
accompanied the circus, and we learn
they got in their work on some OF the
guileless ones.
The third annual session of the
Holston Baptist Sunday School Con-
ventlon meets in johnson City Friday
next at 1890 Am.
Next Saturday the Democratic Coun-
ty Convention meets in Jonesboro to
nominate candidates for county offices,
and Representative.
Wheat and oats are rapidly recover
ing from the effects of the freeze, and
it is probable the yield will be better
than the farmers expected.
A gentleman from the Fall Branch
district Saturday, reported that A. l..
Morgan and Amos Moulton, Jr., are Re-
publican candidates for Justice of the
Peace in that district.
Jonesboro and vicinity has more
widow ladies we believe than any
town of its size in America. Will
some one give us the number living
within a mile of the court housep
Prof. Henderson. accompanied by
Miss Gale, late teacher of music in the
Fall Branch School, called on us Satur-
day. The Professor has had charge of
Fall Branch School during the past
year, and met with much success.
Capt. Lewis A. hardwood, now in
his ODD year, was in town Saturday and
says he can walk thirty miles a day.
But few men of his age can be found,
enjoying such good health, with physi'
cal and mental strength so well pre-
served.
All members of the G.. A. R. Post
should attend the next meeting Satur-
day, May 8, as that will be the last
Post meeting before Memorial Day,
and all arrangements for the decora-
ton of graves etc., will be made at
this meeting.
1t is only of late years that rheuma-
tism has been treated as a blood dis
ease. But that this is a correct theory
is proved by the extraordinary success
attending the use of Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla, in this painful and very preva-
lent malady. 1t seldom fails of radical
cure.
Our prospects for pie for this year
are not at all encouraging, so far as
peaches are concerned, but our good
friend S. E. Hunter surprised us last
Saturday by presenting us with some
of as nice pieplant as n usually sees
at this time of the year. Mr.. Hunter
saved the plant from the freeze by
covering it with straw.
The J%onesboro Base Ball Club went
to Embreeville last Saturday and play
ed two games with the E~mbreeville
Club, losing the first one and tieing the
second one. This is a good showing
for our boys, as they have not played
together before this season while the
E~mbreeville boys have had a great
deal of practice.
No newspaper can be published with
out some patronage. Everyone is in
terested in keeping up a home paper