Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-03-20
STATE NEWS.

their work in the Seventeenth District
last night, The smoke house of Sam
Swagerty was robbed of a supply of
provisions. Samuel Crisis lost a fine
mare and Hugh Hydel a valuable pony.
Pulaski, March 15.-Hume Roddy,
son of WI. Roddy, of the First District,
was recently caught in the shafting of
machinery at Morell's Mill on Elk
River, and had his clothes torn from
his body and his arms badly lacerated.
With difficulty his life was saved.
Knoxville, March 14.-Chief Deputy
Chas. NJ. Taylor, of Collector Essary's
office, made q raid in the mountains Of
Meigs County last night, He captured
and destroyed q sixty gallon still, but
made no arrests. The revenue officers
are fast breaking up this notorious
business in East Tennessee.
Humboldt, March 14.-The Board of
Mayor and Aldermen met in called
session today and passed an ordinance
quarantinlng against Hot Spring, Clar-
edon, Paragould, Arkansas; st. Louis;
Missouri; ~Covington, Tennessee; Chi
cago, illinois, and other cities and
towns infected with smallpox.
Elizabethton, March 15.-In the Cir.
cult Court at this place yesterday,
Cora Batty, a colored woman, re-
ceived 5000 damages against the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail
way Company for injuries received
while alighting from the train at
Johnson City about eighteen months
ago.
Huntsville, March 14.-James Peters
Powell, colored. was arrested here yes.
terday on a charge of carrying a razor.
AT the request of parties at Gallatin,
who thought he was John Young, the
escaped Kentucky murderer, he was car
ried to that city, but he proved not be
the man. He was then released on
bond.
Knoxville, March IA telegram
received by Collector Essary states that
Deputy Collector James T. Taylor, of
Clinton, vas waylaid, shot and robbed
of 1914 on Jellico Mountain, neal Elk
Valley, in Campbell County, this morn
ing. About 1858 of the money belonged
to Mr.. Taylor personally, while 1854
belonged to the Government.
Clarksville, March ia rabid dog
created much excitement at the Home
of Esq. H. H. Mockabee in this county.
The dog, which had received hydro.
phobia from being bit by a mad cat, en-.
tered the kitchen, where the lady was
preparing breakfast, and she had hard
work to fight it off with a chair. After
some further trouble the dog was kill.
ed.
Clarksville, March 14.-This morn
ing's south bound Louisville & Nash
Vile train brought another pair o!
Kentucky clippers to this city, w. G,
Brewer and Miss Jessie B. Wade, both
of the Fairview neighborhood. They
were welded o o after their arrival in
the Arlington Hotel parlor; Rev. P. A
Sowell, of the Madison Street Methods,
Church, officiating.
Chattanooga, March 14.-Miss Hattie
Cooper, a fascinating and pretty young
lady of this city, and j. II. Atchison
of Nashville, travelling solicitor for The
SEMI eekley American, were secretly
married last Tuesday. Rev. j. A. Darr
of South Chattanooga, performed thu
ceremony. The young lady returning
to her home with her lover as though
nothing out of the ordinary had occur
red.
Savannah, March Capt. j. w
Irwin and surveying party have put il
another week in laying out the Shiloh
Park. 1t is understood that Maj. Davis
from Washington, will be here today
to aid in making the permanent bound
aries. The survey at this time enclosei
about 5000 acres, most of which the
Government has options upon at per
haps an average valuation of IS pc
acre.
A gentleman who has just returned
from Johnson County and the adjoin
ing section of North Carolina state
that there is still an abundance of snow
in the mountains. Some places it il
twenty inches deep, and other place.
where it is drifted it is almost tina
many feet deep. There are placesi in tn
mountains where the last of the snov
will almost get the fragrance of jun
roses.
Knoxville. March ia report from
Maryyille today tells of a serious acct
dent which occurred at Howard's Mill
in Blount County. Gamble Armstrong
was driving over a bridge which cross
ed the milldam. He had a four hors
team, with a wagon loaded with say
logs, when the bridge broke down an,
fell into the water. One horse wa
drowned, three were crippled aud tn
driver was hurt.
Jackson, March, 14.-R. M. Asley,
farmer of the Eighth Distict of thi
county, walked into u drug store to
night and purchased two ounces o
laudanum, which he swallowed sool
after the bottle was handed to him
nnd cnolu nnnonnnod thak ho .au