Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-01-09
COUNTY COURT.
Prolonged Scssi0n-.Ne Officers are
Selected,

to their names when the roll was called
except c. r. Jones.
Judge Hart submitted his annual re-
port as Chairman of the County Court
for the year 1894, which will be found
in full in this issue, and contains fig
ures that ought TO interest every tax
payer in the county. On motion of f.
A. Simply the report was adopted and
court adjourned at 1890 Am. to 1 p.
M. The Republican magistes then
held a caucus in the County Court
Clerk back room to nominate candi.
dates for Chairman and County Super.
intendent. E. A. ShipIey and ]. M.
Martin were the only candidates for
Chairman and the result of the ballot
stood Martin 10, Shipley Z. Mr.. Martin
was then declared the nominee for
Chairman of the court.
Miss Bradshaw, Mr.. Garst, Mr.. Watts
and Mr.. Cox were placed in nomina.
ton for County superintendent and
after several ballots w. H. Cox, hav-
ing received a majority of the votes,
was declared the nominee.
Nomination for Jail Commissioner
and examine settlements were also
made, but we failed to get the names.
Court met again at ITO PM, Judge
Hart in the chair. County Superintend
n Watts then read his report to the
court, showing among other things the
scholastic population to be 1909 schools
in the county seventy five, teachers
employed eighty two, average paid
teacher SS2 10, average days taught
ninety nine, value of school property
S46 ,96l, teachers examined 100, teach
ers licensed ninety one, school re.
ceipts $32, l57 IS, expenses $24,9 25 81,
balance on hand 1921 OF. The re-
port of the commissioners of the poor
was then read and will be in this is
sue.
DIR. Clark, who made the report, sub.
mitted some verbal remarks in support
OF report and the report was thereupon
adopted.
j. M. Grisham moved to proceed to
the election of officers. Mr. Gump
moved to postpone the election of of.
Ulcers until tomorrow. The ayes and
noes were called on the motion to post
pone, and the motion was carried ayes
twenty, noes eighteen. So the election
OF officers was postponed until tomor-
row. The local business of the court
was then taken up by districts and the
balance of the day was spent in dis
posing of the same.
Court met Tuesday morning at 10 A.
NJ, Judge Hart presiding. The roll
was called and only ten justices an
swered to their names. The Chairman
ordered the Sheriff to call the absentees
at the Court house door, which was
done, but a quorum failed or declined
to attend, and th%ereupon court was de-
clared adjourned until / Pm. A eau
Gus of Democratic members was report
ed to be in session in the office of S. S.
kirkpatrick when court met, and as
they did not appear in court, the i'm.
preston prevailed, that the effort to
break a quorum was part of the pro-
gram to defeat the election of the Of
ficers nominated yesterday by the Re.
publican caucus.
Court met again at 1 o'clock P. NJ,
only twenty two members answering
to their names, twenty four being nee.
essary to constitute a quorum. After
the absentees were called at the door a
second roll call of the Court was made
and showed twenty six members pres
ent. A motion was made to fix the
salary of Chairman for the ensuing
year at $400, the same as last year.
Mr.. Duncan moved to amend the motion
30 as to make the salary $3.50. A mo-
ton to make it $500, by Mr.. Kincheloe
was further amended by Mr.. Shipley to
make it $500. These various PROPOSE
tons were discussed by several mem
bers of the Court, after which a vote
was taken on fixing the salary at $500,
which was defeated by, Ayes 10, Noes
"a. A vote was then taken on making
it 5000, which was defeated; Ayes 9,
noe 80. A vote to make it $3.50 result
ted, ayes IA, noe %. The vote then
required on the original motion to
make the salary $500 and it was de-
feated: ayes ~, noe %. On motion
the salary was then fixed at $500; ayes
"a, noes 4, Notwithstanding a few min
utes before the Court had rejected this
proposition. The election of Chair
mau was then ordered, and the nomi-
nations were duly made. J. M. Martin
received 81 votes and ]. L. Clark 16.
and Mr.. Martin was declared elected
Chairman of the Court for the ensuing
year. DR.. ]. Clark was then unani.
mously elected Vice Chairman. A
motion was made to fix the salary of
County Superintendent at $3.50 was
adopted; ayes 81, noes 10, and the sala-
ry will be $3.50. Nominations were
then made for County Superintendent,
aud the vote stood 20 for w. Fl. Cox
and IS for ]. R. Carson.
j. T. Carr and G. NJ. Farnham were
elected Jail Commissioner, and s. II.
Pouder, H. j. Depew and ]. c. Smith
were elected Commissioners to Exam.
inc Settlements. A number of Magis-