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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31
SPURGIN.

Since the recent rain the farmers
have been more than busy blowing and
rebuilding fences and water gaps. Not
for a number of years has the creeks
been as high as they were last week.
With the exception of spring houses
OVERLOOKING, but little damage were
done on this, Cedar Creek, but on
Ford Creek, the damage was great.
S. D. Hall lost about $50 bushels of
oats and some hay. Quite a number
of farmers lost a large amount of corn
and hay: Mrs. Jane johnson is indis-
posed this week. Miss Julia Yoakley,
of johnson City, passed through Spur
gin Friday en- route to her sisters Mrs.
NJ. G. Yoakley, of Wahoo. Mrs. L. H.
Bachmsn, of Yorktown. Mr.. and Mrs.
s. I. Boring, of johnson City, and Mrs.
P. H. Boring. of this place, were the
guests of Mrs. Samuel Devault Thurs,
day and Friday. Martin Devault, of
Flourville, spent Sunday at the home
of your scribe. Willard Gray spent a
few days last week with his Uncle,
Ebert Gray. Misses Eva Conner and
Julia Brown, OF Douglass, Tenn, were
the guests of the Misses Conner Satur-
day night and attended services at
Buffalo Ridge Sunday. Mrs. s. A.
Hall, Mrs. Simmerman, Misses Mary
and Mamie Hall, Rebecca Ford and
j. B. Hall, all of Fordtowd, spent Sat-
urday at F. W. DEFAULTS. Mr.. and
Mrs. G. Dove have gone to Bays Noun
tain to spend a few days with relations;
Miss Crawford accompanied them to
her home at the above place. Messrs.
P. H., s. l. and Robert Boring spent
several days last week on the river
fishing, and from all reports think they
were successful and had a glorious
time. George Hodges had the misfor-
tune of getting a horse killed last week
by falling into a gutter. Mrs. Mary
Dillow was visiting at v. Adams,
of Free Hill, Saturday; Miss Sarah
Adams accompanied her to her home
and will spend some few days. The
Sunday School of Yorktown is prepar-
ing for q picnic, which will come off
in the near future. Early Sunday
morning lack Crow and a Miss Curtis
were united in the bonds of m%atrimony;
]. NJ. Grisham, Esq, officiating. Miss
Ella Kitzmiller, of Yorktown, spent
Monday with your scribe. Miss Inez
Martin spent last Sunday night with
us. LITTLE PANsY.
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THE NEWS.

Nashville, Tenn, July 19.-The board
of prison commissioners have broken
up the convict camp at lockwood on
the Tennessee Central because of the
terrible conditions prevailing among
the men. In a short time seventeen
had died of fever and sickness was
common on account of the food pro-
vided. The sick were brought to the
main prison and the we'll convicts sent
to another camp on the Tennessee Cen
trail. The mem clothes were rotting off
them.
Knoxville, July ga man named
Breeder was killed neal Sevierville by
Deputy Sheriff Mitchell this morning.
Mitchell had a warrant to serve on
Breeder, who started to run when he
saw the officer approaching. Mitchell
says he intended to fire over Breeden's
head, but his foot slipped and the bull.
let went through Breeden's body, kill
ing him instantly. Mitchell has been
arrested, charged with murder.
Clarks-ille, July 25.-Joseph David.
son, who was shot last Sunday in this
county by Will Upshire, another color
ed man, in a fightover a young colored
woman of that vicinity, died last night.
Upshire has not been captured. Six
murders have been committed in this
county in four months.
Centreville, Tenn, July 25.-Yester-
day evening, during the heavy rain,
lightning struck and killed six good
mules while they were hitched to wag-
ons loaded with phosphate on the
Grimnett hill, two miles east of here.
The wagoners escaped unhurt.
Sixteen hundred armed men in Car.
ter County Kentucky, successfully re-
sisted the collection Of railroad tax in
that county, last week. Some mules
had been levied upon, but were taken
away from the collectors and returned
to their owners. The county had issued
bonds to aid the railroad scheme, and
the people swear they will not pay
them of.-Claborne Progress.
Jellico, Tenn, July 26.-The Jellico
and Bird Eye Coal Company properties,
consisting of eight miles Of railroad,
5000 acres OF land and mine equip.
ments, were sold yesterday by E. T.
Halsey, assignee, for S175, 900 to w. w.
Hill, who bid it in for the bondholders.
Bill Griffith, the champion snake
and ground hog hunter, went out on
the Holston Mountain one day recently
and killed a rattlesnake six feet long.
1t is said to have been the largest snake
ever killed in this country. He has
also killed ten ground hogs this sum.
mer. -Mountaineer.
Milan, Tenn. July 25.-Charles Wood,
a prominent attorney of Martin GO.
into trouble here this morning with T.
]. Harrison, one of our leading citi.
zens, owe an attachment. 1t ended in
Harrison shooting Wood in the back
and leg. The wounded man is resting
easily. The man who did the shooting
is under arrest. Both men have fami.
lies.
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A US QUESTION:.

Yes, we say momentous and moment
GUS it is. Facing the neal future in
the front, surveying the Waterloo of
last year, bringing back to vivid re.
%membrance that wreck strewn field,
seeing what few escaped that general
slaughter engaged in fierce and irrecon.
cilable contentious, the brilliant If er.
ratio genius who edits the Louisville
Courier Journal earnestly, seriously,
approximately asks this question, "Have
we a Democratic partyp"
Though we are an interested witness,
we say a truth in saying that what
Col. Watterson has seen in a nightmare
OF gloom and dependency is a real,
genuine ghost lowering around the
graveyard of a buried political party.
Abram s. Hewitt, of New York, once a
proud and sturdy Democratic veteran,
solves the mystery in announcing with
funeral mien and solemnity a few
months since, 1.-THE Democratic party
is dead as Hector"
We answer yes and no. The party
of Jefferson and jackson died and was
buried with "Old Hickory" We now
have a composite of goldbuggery, sill.
yer beetleism, free trade, tariff for
revenue only, Coxeyism, mugmumpery
and cuckoo Clevelandism that is either
the modern Democratic party, or the
best substitute for it that has ever been
discovered.
Our sight is not extra good but with
the aid of a powerful tense we are able
to discern a few symptoms of vitality
in this wreck of a %hope-in this delu.
sion that has shared to ruin.
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LETTER FROM EPH.
PINEY PATCH, N. c., July "a, 1885,

PINEY PATCH, N. c., July "a, 1885,
DEAR Mr.. EDITOR: l aimed to a writ
you sooner, but hahn I had time. We've
been harvesting our wheat and oats.
Wheat is all right and oats is first
class an /. good prospec fer corn and
fruit. | jest sed TO Miranda toother
night, miranda" SEES !, what all we
farmers goin' to do this year, all the
crops Ia good and to save my life | cant
see what we can kick about this year,"
l tell you, Mr.. Editor, l was plum pes
tered, jest think of it, nothing fer us to
kick about. | don't know what will
become of us il we can find something.
Will Ruggles got his foot broke in
Sin Ely's thresher or rather in the horse
power. DIR. Bailey set hit an he is dom
well. Mary Vance an 81 Roberts was
married last Tuesday, May all the bles-
sins on earth foller 'em as they go hand
and hand thro' this vale of tears. Selah.
Thay was a dance on Spring Greek
last Saturday night, an the weather
was so hot they all danced bare footed.
Two sets had to be stopped while Mary
Brooks got splinters outen her heel.
Elihu Boggs smiles every time he meets
any body now; its twins this time AMI
recon now instead of buying paregoric
he'll have to git two par (egoric. The
humps is u ragin' in this neck of the
woods; nearly every body has their
jaws in a sling.
Miss Phoebe Roberts is visitin' at
Flag Pond this week.
Hannibal Shubert fetched us a mess
OF green beans tother day. They was
delightful.
Our people air about Disguised with
politics an have made up their mind
that hit pays better to work on the
farm than to fool with 'em.
Teke Bailey's boy, Tom, went to
Asaeville an got a job in a store thar
an hit pays him 500 a month. Hit
must cost a sight to run a big store like
that whar they pay SIGH wages.
DR.. Bailey ketched ten big red boss
in Jacks Creek last week.
low to come down to Jonesboro as
soon as | can git things shaped up and
see how the town is CROWN. Maybe if
your folks is away from home we can
have a lot of fun, so no more at pres
ent. Yours truly,
EPH BILLINGSLY.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

Last summer n Of u grandchild-
rem was sick with a severe bowel trou-
ble. Our doctors had failed, then we
tried Chamberlain 8 Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea remedy, which gave very
speedy relief. We regard it as the best
medicine ever put on the market for
bowel complaints. Mrs. E. G. Gregory,
Frederickstown, Mo. This certainly is
the best medicine ever put on the mar
ket for dysentery, summer complaint,
collie and cholera infantum in children.
1t never fails to give prompt relief when
used in reasonable time and the plain
printed direction are followed. Many
mothers have expressed their sincere
gratitude for the cures it has effected.
For sale by F. E. Britton, druggist.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

GROVER ought to apply to somebody
that knows and get a receipt. 1t is
foolish for a man to hope for a boy
when he is anxious for one. The best
way to manage that is to have no es-
pecial point in view.-Bristol Courier.
This settles it. Charlie Slack is fully
prepared to give all the information on
this subject that could be desired.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

and effective service. They are coming
to a point through the constant agita-
ton of the more liberal and progressive
when they won't mind expenses"
if the money is properly applied, The
County Court will run no risk of popu-
lar condemnation In adopting advanced
measures for needed public improve
ments and in making generous appro'
priations to sustain them. The first
step is to buy a rock crusher and
utilize the convict labor.
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THE SITUATION UP TO DATE.

They sigh, they pray, protest and fuss,
They rant, they snort, they rave, they cuss
They'll rip themselves from stern to chin
To keep in blast this DEVILS din.
This side, Watterson and Carlisle
And Grover C.. so free from guile,
And Wall Street, too, with all the rest
That harbOr in the cuckoo's nest.
That side, Kaintuck's favorite child,
Flaming irebrand and Fury wild;
The honest culprit, Isham G.,
That cussin' man from Tennessee.
The giant of the gorgeous West,
The wondrous and the pompous Vest,
And all the tribe of statesmen grand
That once belonged to Gideon's band.
Once all bowed at silver's shrine,
The mintage of no other kind
Would cheer the stout, the joys prolong
And make of life "one grand, sweet song.
Since Greed and Grind have got the hold
The "plan" is now barbaric gold;
Grover Cleveland is good enough,
But the observation-disclosures the "stuff.n
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31
What is
IG!S7IaEJ

CastOria is DIR. Samuel Pitchers prescription for Infants
and Children. 1t contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. 1t is q harmless substitute
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil.
1t is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years. use by
Millions of Mothers. CastOria destroys Worms and aIlays
feverishness. Castora prevents vomiting Sour Curd,
cures DiarrhGa and Wind Collie. CastOria relieves
~teething troubles, cures constipation and fatulency.
CastOria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas-
tOria is the Children's Panacea-the Mothers Friend.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

A WESTERN college advertises for a
professor who must be a Democrat
and must not be a Presbyterian" The
professor required, if he can be found,
will have exclusive control OF the moon
shine distillery department. Any Ten
nessee Democrat who failed to get his
part of Peters pie will fill the bill.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

PROSPERITY will ''come on back
just al fast as the Republicans win
elections, and the people advance in
the confidence that the Democrats can
never WIN another National victory.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

The AMERICAN says that Lord Rose
berry will o o visit Nashville. Just
30. He is coming to see how a man
can hold Office and yet not be elected.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

BOB TAYLoR's friends are going to
send him to the United States Senate.
He will not get his commission, how
ever, until he makes money enough out
of the lecture business to entitle him to
q seat in the Millionaire's Club.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

1T matters not how splendid q man.
talents may be, nor how brilliant his
record, if his morals are impure, he can
not stand before the antagonizing
power of u~nfranchised women.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

WE hear little about Prohibitionists
nowadays, and it is q strange coinci-
dence that the limits for the sale of
whisky is all the time gradually mar
rowing down.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

CLEVELAND is always drunk-not on
amber wine. red lemonade, or mellow
Bourbon, but as Henry Watterson
would say, ION the verbosity of his
own rhetoric"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

IT is now generally conceded that
Populism wasinvented when the crank
inventor was passing through a crisis
of brain fog.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

CLEvELAND's trimming for q third
term exhibits "a recklessness of selfish
ness'' most stupendously amazing.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

YELLOW fever is now dong the me-
diation between the Spanish soldiers
and the Cuban insurgents.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

THEY are still marking the line be-
tween Tennessee and Kentucky with
dead mems bones.
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Good as New.

Tate Springs Mineral Water will
make you feel as good as new. For
sale by Msthes & Patton.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

"castoria Is the best remedy for children of
which 1 am acquainted. I hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the
real interest of their children, and use castoria
instead Of the various quack nostrums which
are destroying their loved ones, by forcing
opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other
hurtful agents down their Threats, thereby
sending them to premature graves"
DIR. J. F. KINcHELoE,
Conway, Ark.
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Castoria.

"castoria is an excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its
good effect upon their children"
DIR. G. c. osGooD,
InNuaii Mace
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Castoria.


"castoria is so well adapted to children that
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-"
H. A. ARCHER, M. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
"our physicians in the cbildren's depart
ment have spoken highly Of their expert
ence in their outside practice with castoria,
and although we only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits Of castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it,"
UNITED HOSPITAL AND DIspENsARY,
Boston, Mass.
ALLEN c. SMITH, Pres.
|urray Street, New York CITY.
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The centaur Company, TT Murray Street. New York City.
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COLLEGE

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Opens Sept. u, 1895. One of the leading
Schools for Young Ladies in the South. Mag
nifcent buildings,a all modern improvements
Campus ten aces. Grand mountain scenery
In Valley of Virginia, famed for, health.
European and American teachers. Full
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Music. Students from twenty States. For
catalogues address the President,
W. A. HARRIS, DID,, Roanoke, Va.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31

Because the health Of every organ and
tissue OF the body depends upon the
purity Of the blood. The whole world
knows the standard blood purifier is
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quired, by new law, to. file with the
treasurer of the county certified copy
of the record of such conviction and the
expenses thereof is taxed as part of the
costs.
Another act provides that any per-
son who, between " o'clock Saturday
night and o'clock Monday morning,
in any place in which liquors are sold,
shall dispense, dispose of or give
away" any liquors shall be liable to
heavy penalty
BY another law saloons and dwellings
cannot be connected without the con-
sent of the county commissioners, The
commissioners are instructed to APP
point a suitable person to examine such
premises, and he is required to report
in writing.
The old law concerning warrants for
search and seizure is amended.
Another important act relates to pros
ecution for the violation of liquor laws,
For the first offense the person is fined
not less than $40 nor more than $500,
but each subsequent offense he may
be punished by such fine, or by impris-
onment from ten days to six months,
or by both such fine and Imprisonment.
If upon the first conviction the court
is of the opinion that the license of
the person so convicted should not be
revoked and his bond forfeited the
Judge may so certify in writing and
such certificate shall be filed as part
of the record; whereupon such convic-
ton shall not be basis for suit
upon such bond or for proceedings for
the revocation of the license. In the
absence of such certificate or for any
subsequent conviction the bond shall
be forfeited and license revoked in the
manner now provided upon first CON
viction. m
Another piece Of new Legislation pro-
vides that liquor license may be at
tached and taken on execution.
One more law provides that the pros
ecuting agent shall not be entitled to
his fee in any prosecution unless the
court certifies that the action wrs
brought in good faith, and upon such
| evidences as in the opinion of the court
made it his duty to bring such prose-
cution.
1t will thus be seen that the general
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much by experience, and while the first
has learned what suits American wa
tiers, the latter have improved their
knowledge of American winds. That
the contests will be keen and exciting
requires no prophet to foresee, and al
though (the wish, perhaps, being father
to the thought we think Valkyrie will
prove to be the winner, we hope the best
boat will win; and should Defender be
successful in retaining the trophy, we
shall not grudge her what must needs
be a hard fought for and we'll earned
victory"
Lord Dunraven, after consultation
with Designer Watson" says the same
paper, has decided to make some alter
ations in the boat. The principal of
these was the addition of several tons
of ballast, and the result, as shown by
the fine victory at the Royal Clyde
opening race ON Saturday, was extreme
~ satisfactory. Lord Dunraven's deci-
sion not TO race the boat again was a
great disappointment to the public, but
If he is quite satisfied that his new chal-
lenger Is the best boat, he is quite right
not to hurry the preparations for the
cup races. 1t is expected that Valkyrie
III. will sail from the Clyde on the 18th
inst, and Mr.. James Greenlees informs
our Clyde correspondent that Lord Dun
raven has promised that she will look
In, if possible, at Campbelltown on that
day, which is the one fixed for the local
yacht clubs first regatta
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Gu ESHIRE.

Aug. REV. Mr.. Phipps of Prospect
preached in the Congregational church
last Sunday morning in place of Rev
J. P. Hoyt, who is having short vaca-
tion. In the evening at z the Christian
Endeavor society held a very interest,"
ing missionary meeting.
Rev. Mr.. Hoyt and family spent Sun
day with friends in South Glaston-
bury.
On Thursday. August 8, quite a num-
her of the Sunday school teachers and
others will go to the Plainville camp
grounds. it being Sunday school day.
Mr.. Lancaster, formerly telegraph OPP
orator at West Cheshire station, opened
a. school Of biography Monday in the
building formerly used as school
house on Horton avenue. Day sessions
from a. m. to 70, and from 1870 to 4 p.
M, and evening session will be held if
found necessary. Mr.. Lancaster Is an
expert in the business. He would be
happy to receive few more pupils.
Mr.. A. Welton has added a bay win
dow to his house, which has made de-
cided Improvement,
Mr.. and Mrs. Titus B. Ives have been
spending some days on visit to their
daughter, Mrs. DR.. Baldwin, at Saranac
lake, N. Y.
Mrs. Holman, widow Of the late B. H.
Holman, died in Meriden last week af-
ter a illness of several months Her
remains were brought here Friday af-
ternoon and services held in the M. e.
church, where she had been a useful
and beloved member for number CT
years. Rev. A. v. r. Abbott, a former
pastor, and the Rev. Haugh. the pres
ent pastor, officiating.
Professor e. III. Welton and wife of
New Haven, spent Sunday with Mr. s.
Wythall and family.
A sight that does not come but once
in a year came Monday and Tuesday
evenings. When Mrs. e. r. Browns
might blooming cereus came out in full
bloom with four very splendid flowers
Monday night and two Tuesday evening
they were admired by quite large
number.
AS Miss Harriet Calhoun was coming
from Jersey City to New York last
week her pocket was picked of her pock-
etbook containing a small sum of mon
ey, with check for her trunk and the
key.