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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-03-27
KEEBLER'S INSTITUTE

The farmers are very busy at this
writing preparing their ground for
spring crops. They are progressing
nicely, considering the late spring, but
there is plenty for them to do yet. G.
II. Diehl has purchased a piece of land
of |. H. d. Beals. There is plenty Of
grip in this locality. The quarterly
meeting proved TO be a failure at Chest
nut Grove; they moved it to Marvin
Chapel. 1t has been almost "a month
since our school was out, but we feel
that there is praise due to our teachers
for the way they conducted the school:
| never saw greater interest in pupils.
We are glad that we will have Mr..
Squibb to teach for us next winter.
The spelling match at the Institute on
last Wednesday night was quite small
on account of the inclemency of the
weather, but we lean they had a nice
time there will be a spelling match
at that place ON next Thursday
night. Sunday School organization at
the Institute on the fourth Sunday
evening. Your scribe had the pleasure
of being at a quilting at E. Archer's on
last Wednesday; we certainly had a
nice time, If it did rain, and oh, how
we did enjoy the nice dinner. Miss
Callie and Gentry Barnes were visiting
at James Colts on last Saturday and
Sunday. We are panied to announce
the death of Mrs. Bette Bales, who
died March a, with pneumonia fever;
she was not sick but about eight or
nine days. Mrs. Bales was forty eight
years old, she was q good neighbor, a
kind mother and was loved and respect
ed by all who knew her; she leaves a
husband, eight children and a host of
relatives and friends to mourn her loss;
we sympathize with the bereaved fami.
ly, and would say-do not weep for her
as those that have no hope, but go to
God for comfort, for certainly He who
makes a wound is able also to heal that
wound. Will Wilson died on March 6,
and was buried on the 7th in Fair View
cemetery; he leaves a wife and several
children behind. Mr.. Wilson seemed
prepared to die. but was reluctant to
part with his family; funeral services
at the church; we also sympathize with
them in their sad bereavement. Mrs.
Sena Jones, from North Carolina, is on
a visit to her relatives and friends: she
came to see her mother, Mrs. Bales, but
was too late to get to see her; she will
return home in a few days. d. F.
Meyer is all smiles, for it is another
big boy. DEXTER.
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GROVE.

Sabbath School was organized at this
place last Sunday and meets at 3 PM.
every Sabbath. The meeting at Ru.
bush, conducted by Revs. Mr.. and Mrs.
Wescott is still in progress and a good
feeling is being manifested by those in
a~ttendance; may much good be the re-
suit. Your scribe had the pleasure last
Saturday of entertaining Rev. Wescott
and lady. Columbus Keys, of Luke,
was our guest Sunday. James Camp
bell and lady, of Limestone, were the
guests of Mrs. Campbell's mother Sun.
day. The scribe made a flying trip to
the vicinity of Luke and Morning Star
last Tuesday and found Squire r. NJ.
K. Deakins preparing for the opening
up of his stock of spring goods recently
purchased while in New York. We
were glad to learn that our old friend,
w. ID. Squibb, was improving in health,
but sorry to learn that Mrs. Joseph Ba.
con, OF Luke, does not improve. While
in the vicinity of the Star we met with
Jul old school mate, w. II. Hunt,
Esq, and had a social chat. We spent
the night with John Hartman, Morn.
ing Stars noted mechanic, and found
him in his shop busily engaged in over.
hauling an engine. w. B. White and
q. w. Jones recently returned from
the old North State where they were
buying cattle they report plenty of
snow yet in the mountains. 1t seems
from the recent snow and freezes that
hory old winter is loath to loosen his
grip on us, but prefers to bask in the
genial CLINE of u sunny South and
linger in the lap of spring. Four or
five OF Prof. E. E. Shipley's family are
down with mumps, and several other
cases In the surrounding neighborhood.
DR.. Smithpeters is reported on the sick
list. Jackson Birdwell, one of Locust
Mounts colored citizens, is in a verv
low state of health. Charles McAdams
has recently erected an ell to his resi-.
dence. Misses Mary and Martha Dunn
were the guests Of your scribe Friday;
come again, young ladies, we enjoy
your social %loquacity. Kelly Shanks,
OF Hascne, was in this section one day
last week on business. Jesse Moore, of
Butchertow n, is now making frequent
trips to the mountains which border
the western portion of this county:
some think he is a minerologist and the
magnetism of the ore supposed TO be
imbeded in that section is attracting
him, others think it is dress goods Mrs.
Y. E. Wilhide is preparing to move to
Bryson City, North Carolina, where
she and her husband will try house.
keeping. KEN.
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sion was made by Turney's counsel
that eighty nine witnesses for whom
Evans lawyers demanded subpoenas
would swear they voted for Evans, al
though the count only showed q total
of twenty three for him. Further proof
of frauds in this district is to be taken.
In the Fifth District it was conceded
by Turkeys counsel, under similar cir.
cumstance, that about 100 men would
testify they had voted for Evans, al
though the returns gave him only nine
votes.
AS proof to show that the poll list of
the Fifth District contains forty eight
fictitious names, the names of five dead
men and twelve non-residents are be-
ing offered by Evans counsel.
The poll tax law was wholly disre.
garded in many districts of this county.
When the Republicans we're represent
ed at all on election boards the Judges
selected was usually a negro that could
not read or write.
The election in every district investi.
gated was irregularly conducted, so
that Evans counsel say they must all
be thrown out.
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In Memory OF A. G. Mason.

A. Il. Mason was the oldest member
OF our Sabbath School, and had long
been q member of the Bible Glass,
known rs No. 6. He was noted for
promptness and regularity of his at
tendance. He took a deep interest in
the lessons, and in everything that
looked to the prosperity of the Sunday
school. lie w'as prompt and liberal in
his contributions, both to the church
n to the Sabbath School. He enter.
ed heartily into the spirit of the lessons
and always strove to find out the true
teachings of Gods word. He accepted
the Bible as true, with the simplicity
OF a child, and never allowed skeptical
doubts to find a Judgment in his mind.
lie was last at his place in the class
on the 18th day of February. 1895. On
that day we studied about how one
might inherit eternal life. On the next
Sabbath he was not able to attend,
That day we studied about that great
miracle wrought by Christ, IN giving
sight to the man that was born blind.
In the evening this lesson was read over
to him at mis- home by his teacher. He
manifested a deep interest in that beau.
tiful lesson. On the next Sabbath it
was not deemed prudent to call his at
tentlon to the lesson. At half past 3
O'Clock on Monday morning, March 4.
1898. he passed away almost without a
struggle. He has doubtless entered
upon the full enjoyment of that rich
Northumberland life-which had
formed the theme of his last lesson at
Sunday School. The blessed Master
who gave sight to the blind beggar has
opened his spiritual eyes TO behold the
beauties and glories of the better land.
H'He heard a voice we car not hear.
w men said you musLno stop;
lie saw n hand we cam not see,
which beckoned him away"
We will miss A. &. Mason as a genial
companion and a kind n~eighbor. We
Will miss him in the Sunday School
class. We will miss him as an officer
in the church. We will miss him as n
faithful attendant on all the ordinances
OF God house. We will miss him as
q devoted Christian gentleman. There.
fore
Resolved, That in the death of A. G.
Mason our Sunday School has lost a
worthy, faithful and devoted member.
Resolved, That we will each and all
accept this visitation of Divine Provi.
dence as a warning to us to be prepared
death, for in such an hour AS we
think not the Son of Man cometh.n
Resolved, That we will strive to emu.
late the virtues of our deceased brother
so that, though he may be dead, he
may yet speak through us.
Resolved, That a copy of these reso-
lutions, together with the memorial,
be spread upon the minutes of this Sab
bath School. and that a copy be likewise
furnished to the Herald and Tribune
for publication.
Glass No 6, committee-M. s. Elsea,
Newton Hacker, j.. B. Simpson, d. T.
Wllds, b. b. Bigler, John p. Smith, l..
G. Patton.
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SPURGIN.

Spelling matches and drummers are
carving the day in this community.
Miss Eva Corner, after pleasant visit ia
he. sister, Mrs. Sells, of Wahoo, has re.
turned home. Miss Annis Hale, II of
our accomplished young ladies, was
calling on your scribe Wednesday.
Misses Alice Sallie and Mary Wright
and Mamie Gray, of Boring, were Wis.
iting at the home of VIM, Hale last
Tuesday. AS the young ladies are
quite lively no doubt they had a gay
time and will long remember thei,
visit. Miss Alice Boyd, one of Slaugh.
ter,s charming young ladies, has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. NJ. V. Easily.
for nearly two weeks. Messrs. Carr,
Thomas and Harkins, representing NJ.
l.. Ross & Co. and Cowan McClung &
Co., of Knoxville, were at this place
Friday. Owing to a revival at Fall
Branch Rev. w. X. Cox. did not preach
DIT Buffalo Ridge last Sunday. E. T.
Wine was in Jonesboro Saturday prone
nading the streets, and from his talk |
think he must have had a lengthy con.
v%ersation with some of bis Jonesborc
friends. An interesting Sunday School
is in progress at Buffalo Ridge. C. B.
Cross, who bought some wheat of T.
w. Devault several weeks ago, was
hauling it away last week.
LITTLE PANsY.
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BROWNSVILLE.
LITTLE

The usual quietness prevails in this
section. Farmers have begun their
spring work in earnest and are much
behind with their blowing. Joseph
bacon, Esq, returned from Nashville
where he had gone to receive medical
aid in the hope of at least a partial re.
%storation to health. His many friends
are sorry to find him not much i'm
proved. Jesse Bacon made a business
trip to Jonesboro last Saturday. Will
Miller, OF Buffalo Ridge, is lying at the
point of death with consumption. A
promising Sunday School was organ
lied lately at Berea with Seth Smith as
superintendent. Berea had another
spelling match last Saturday night that
capped the climax. Jake Keefauver
and Jesse Smith led classes OF thirty
two each; 100 might have spelled but
for lack of room could not. Every.
body were there excepting j. NJ. Bacon,
a prominent farmer, who, for obvious
reasons, stayed away. Prof. ]. B.
Shipley and Messrs. s.. T. Douglas, A.
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For the Herald and Tribune.
A Big Mistake.

Reports from Nashville show that
General Fite, Turney's closest political
family friend, and Estill, Railroad AS
SCISSOR Chairman, Turney's nephew,
have resigned their offices-not because
they have accepted brides of $500 each
from the penitentiary ring but because
the fact of their gifts has leaked out.
no! If the matter had remained in
the dark, Fite and Estill would have
continued as long al possible in the pa
triotic discharge of their official duties,
the leading one of which being to ac-
cept brides as lobbyists and 60. betweens
in bleeding the State Treasury of the
peoples tax funds.
But isn't it a great mistake for Fite
and Estill to resign instead of Turney ?
Peter s resignation is what the public
welfare demands. 1t is very true that
Peter has very little, in a legal sense,
to resign, All that he holds, officially,
is purely of a usurpation character.
Perhaps Turney would have resigned
when he saw the terrible exposure COM
menced of his official household but
for the fact that he saw no way open
for the regular partisan succession.
That is, that Speaker Pillow would not
be eligible from the fact that he had
deliberately voted at the November
election without exhibiting his poll tax
receipt.
No, he could not think of rendering
his resignation to Governor II. CLAW
Evans but why could he not have re.
signed to and in favor of either Fite or
Estill? Under all the circumstances.
either one of them would, just now, re
fleet as much credit on the State, act,
ing as Governor, as does or a Peter
Turney; and the Returning Publication
Board aided by Vertrees could easily
construe the hold over contest law as
fully authorizing the action. 1t will
not do to think of McCorry as in the
line of Gubernatorial succession. No,
Mike. Cory would not come within
smelling distance of so much official
rottenness. Some plan, however, must
be devised to allow Turney to get out,
and pull the rest of his political family
to a place of safe retreat before further
exposures are made. OLD REPUBLICAN,
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Death of Charles l.. Fuller,

Charles l.. Fuller, one of the best
known men in Nashville, and one of
the most extensively known Masons in
the State, died at his home on South
Vine street at 1880 Pm. Saturday. lie
was Grand Tyler of the Grand Lodge
and also Tyler for all the Masonic
bodies meeting in the temple. He was
Librarian of the Masonic Library Asso.
citation, and was Tor II number of years
the President. In fact, the great sue
cess of this association was entirely due
to his good management and ability to
procure funds and make friends for the
institution. For nearly ten years he
gave u warm and an unstinted tealty
to this cause that was most commenda
BILE, while it was highly appreciated by
his brethren. From every State in the
Union and many foreign countries Wis.
ltorsat the library have been welcomed
by Brother Fuller, and been made 10
feel the real friendship and trust of
Masonry. And, too, they always had
a good word for the nice retreat and
lett with q friendly feeling for the faith
full Fuller.
Charles L.. Fuller was peculiarly
adapted to the work in which he spent
his last days and it is seriously doubted
If anyone a be found who can stand
as a bulwark againstfailure as he surely
did. While well meaning, he was not
always as full of smiles as some who
had less heart for the noble things in
life. He was the very soul of honor
IA stood alone upon his fine merit,
without suggested policy, For this and
his frankness he gained the writers
friendship, as he had many others. For
years he had suffered from the inroads
of disease and when attacked by pneL-
MONA his vitality was insufficient to
battle the destroyer. In these years of
suffering he bore his lot with manly.
heroic and Christian patience and met
the end as lone who lies down to pleas
ant dreams" and in the firm faith of a
higher and better life.
Charlie Fuller. as he was Familiarity
known, will be sadly missed. He had
many noble qllliti4; and his close
friends knew them. There was no os.
tentation in him, but a simple, genuine
manner that emphasized his earnest.
ness and interest in his business. What.
ever he did he did it we'll and with
method. To all his good qualities he
added "a true devotion to his church and
walked becomingly among men. Truly
no higher compliment is needed than
to say these made him a good and true
man and a good and rue Mason.
Mr.. Fuller was u member of Cumber-
land Lodge No. s, King Cyrus Chapter
No. 107 and Nashville Commardery
No. l. He was SO years old. He leaves
a wife and three children.
Mr.. Fuller married a sister of Mrs.
Murphy, of this place, who hasthe SYM
pathy of many in this part of the State.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-03-27

The East Tennessee Republicans re.
sorted to every sort of subterfuge and
trick to evade the poll tax laws, and
the evidence on this point is so abund-
ant hat the Legislature will have lit.
tie trouble in reaching a decision. 1t
is true some of the violations have oc.
Cured in Democratic counties, but it
was just as easy for the Republicans to
show that receipts had not been pre-.
sented in Democratic counties as it was
for Democrats to prove that it had not
been done in Republican communities:
and the fact that very few such expos
ures have been made shows that in the
Democratic counties the election was
as a general thing conducted in a fair
and honest way.-Nashville American.
No man with a particle of honor will
make such statements as are contained
in the above clipping. The partisan
committee formulated a set of rules for
the guidance of the sub committees
that gave the chairman of each COM
mittee power to exclude or declare ir-
relevant every bit of evidence which
did not accord with q verdict determin
ed upon before any witnesses were
heard. Turney said he haG names of
over 1000 persons in four counties Of
East Tennessee who had voted without
paying poll tax, and yet his committee
failed to produce evidence of as many
as twenty five such votes having been
cast. On the contrary in these several
counties in which such gross fraud was
charged, it has been proven that par.
ticular regard was had for the obser.
vance OF the election laws. But how
has 1T been in other counties of the
State? In West Tennessee, for in
stance, where fraud in elections ha.
long been the rule, Governor Evans
charged gross frauds, not only through
a failure to show the payment of pol
taxes. but by stufing ballot boxes,
changing tickets, counting ballots fol
Turney that were cast for Evans, and
voting dead men and non.residents-
all of which has been proven before the
committee investigating that part OF
the State. But of these facts the Amer
lean appears to have no knowledge.
Such blind devotion to fraud brings
discredit to the party such papers claim
to represent, and work an injury to the
entire people.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-03-27

THE Nashville American, leader
among the a~pologlsts for and defender
of the rape of the State, is Jealous in
finding evidence of illegal v)ting in
East Tennessee, but has no eye for
frauds of most shameful character
committed and proven in other parts
OF the State. AS one illustration of the
methods adopted in some of the rock
ribbed Democratic counties the follow.
ing facts, as brought out in the inves-
tigatiou of Fayette County, are pub.
lished:
Counsel for Turney today threw up
the sponge as to the Second District,
admitting Mr.. Evans charge that al
though eighty eight votes were count
ed only seventy eight were polled; that
sixty two of these were counted for
Turney, when he was only entitled to
forty two, Evans being allowed only
six votes, when he was entitled to six
teen.
This concession was made when
Evans attorneys demanded subpoenas
for witnesses to prove the facts and
without any request or agreement on
their part.
In the Fourth District a like conces-
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-03-27

M. Shipley aud Jas. Keefauver pro.
nounced; Messrs. j. M. Galloway and
j. ID. keefauver, assisted by Mrs. Isaac
Bacon and Mrs. Flora Douglas kept
tallies. After spelling forty minutes
they stood: No. 1, 1S; No. 2. 10. Misses
A. Shipley, Ollie and Matte Archer
delivered Rotations. Messrs. Ebert
Archer and Will Barnes furnished ex-
cellent music. A very entertaining
paper was read by S. T. Douglas. Mrs.
I. @. Garst, Miss l.. Hylton and her
sister, Lottie. were ut the match There
is to be another match before the first
Sunday of April. Your scribe was en-.
tertained by Whit Archer and S. T..
Douglas. In the language of Lucille {:
We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live
without heart;
We may live without friends, we may live
without books,
But civilized man can not live without
COOKS.
He may live without books-what is knowl-
edge but %grieving?
He may live without h0pe-what is hope but
decelving?
He may live without love-what is passion
but pinlng?
But where is the man that can live without
dining? Not /. C.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-03-27
Non. Resident Notice.
In the Chancery Court at Jonesboro
Washington County, Tennessee.

London Trust Company. Limited. VS..
The EmbIeevillp Town Company, Lin.
tied, ct al.
In this cause it appearing from the al.
legations of complainants bill, which
is sworn to, that the defendants, The
E~rnbreeville Town Company. Limited.
"A corporation under the laws of the
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
with principal Office in London, Hugh
Fleming, a resident of the County OF
Suffolk, England. and George Simonds
u resident OF the County of Middlesnx.
England. are o residents of the State
OF Tennessee: it is ordered by me that
publication be made for four successive
weeks rs required by law, in the Her
aid and Tribune, Il newspaper publish
ed in Jonesboro, Washington County,
Tennessee, notifying said non resident
defendants to appear before our said
Chancery Court mt the Court House in
Jouesboro. on the first Monday Of Nav.
1898, being a rule day of said Court,
and make defense to said bill. or the
allegations thereof will be taken ror
confessed and this cause set for hearing
expurte as to them.
w. +. Young, c. and NJ.
This March 90, 1865. piss
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EAST TENNESSEE.

lhe movement OF tne pot polltclans
to count Gov. Turney into an Office for
which he was defeated by the people is
directed mainly against the people of
East Tennessee, and is an unjust and
unworthy reflection upon them. From
its inception, when the champion puri.
fer, McCorry, sounded his bazoo in de-
famation of East Tennesseans, all along
the course of the counting in movement
the effort of the purifcationers has
been to throw odium upon the citizens
of East Tennessee. Governor Turney
boldly charged that there was deliber-
ate conspiracy of the people in a num-
Der of East Tennessee counties to avoid
payment of poll taxes and to fraudu-
lently vote without paying their taxes,
and the course of the Turney commit.
tee and the publications of the Turney
organs have tended all along to make
the impression that the people of the
Eastern Division of the State are a
lawless set, and that it is only in that
section that great election frauds were
perpetrated.
All this does rank injustice to East
Tennessee and the people of that sec-
ton. The evidence shows that the
election in that division in November
was remarkable free from frauds, and
no man who has observed Tennessee
politics can truthfully say that East
Tennessee does not stand as a section
as free from gross election corruption
as either of the other grand divisions.
Does any fair minded man believe that
the political history of East Tennessee
will show more election frauds than
that of West Tennessee or Middle Ten
nessee? Is it not monstrously wrong,
then, for a designing coterie of politi-
clans to try to cast opprobrium upon
East Tennessee and hold the people of
that division of the State up to the
world as a lot of conspirators and law
breakers? Is it fair and right for the
McCorry politicians to try to keep the
defeated Turney in Office by forcing
the Legislature to adopt q formal Sian.
der upon the people of East Tennessee?
The East Tennessee people, as a peo
pie, need no defense. No True Tennes-
sean will hear with patience the bu.
reau' s assault upon them. East Ten.
nessee is the historic division of our
great State. The noble record of her
people is the proud heritage of all pa
triotic TennesSeans Things have come
to a deplorable pass when the General
Assembly of the State is asked to adopt
a partisan report of a partisan commit,
tee which has refused to allow East
Tennesseans to vindicate themselves
and prove themselves innocent of q
charge made against them by an old
man who asks to hold to an office the
people have asked him to vacate.
The fair minded people in Middle and
West Tennessee, regardless of party af.
fliations, protest against the attack of
the scheming pot politicians upon East
Tennessee, and they unstintedly con.
denim the course of the partisan com.
mittee and the whole abominable count,
ing in scheme Nashville Banner.