Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-03-04
Some of our town people are getting
ready to make garden.

Suhu"y MoiuiuS WIFI u WIZ anu u
whir, thunder, sheet lightning and
rain.
Robert Broyles and S. w. Beasly,
merchants at Brownsboro, were in
town Monday. They are Brownlow
men to the hub. .
1t will snow in this Congressional
District on the 18th of April, and An
derson and Milburn will be caught
under the drift.
Dnring these piping times of political
pressure our country correspondents
will have to pardon us if their letters
are crowded out.
j. s. Mcclure, of Knoxville, came in
las Saturday evening from an extensive
tour of North Carolina and was a guest
of the Planters House over Sunday.
Arthur Simpson, one of Jonesboro's
favorite young men, has accepted a po-
sition with Mitchell, Powers & Co., at
Bristol, and went to work last Monday.
Richard Venable and wife, of Marion,
Va, who spent some time with Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank L. Fornshell left last week
for Bristol to visit relatives at that
place.
Misses Inez and Cordie Martin, who
have been out of school on ccount of
sickness, are back again, entirely re-
covered, and we are glad to see them
once MORE.
The candidates for the Legislature
addressed a good sized audience in the
Court House on Monday. DR.. Royston
withdrew from the race and it is now
a triangular fight.
Raiding Deputy Taylor, with deputy
marshals Parry, Davis, Maupin and
Simerly, recently captured a moon
shine distillery in johnson County.
They destroyed six hundred gallons of
beer.
We understand that a band of white.
caps is organized in the Second, and
one night last week stripped and whip
ped a citizen of that locality on his
naked hide. 1t is said that some of the
regulators are known.
Our neighbor, johnson City, had a
fire last week. The heading factory
of Lide, Russell and Dickinson was en-
tirely destroyed. Loss $4,000, insur.
ance $1,000. Two fremen Samuel
Mumpower and Garner Range were
pretty badly hurt.
Kinney Brobeck, who lives in the
vicinity of Washington College, has
completed a uice residence. Mr.. Bro.
beck takes a great interest in fruit cul.
ture. He has a splendid orchard and
one of the finest strawberry plats aud
graperies in the county.
Joseph Dove and his daughter Elite,
who were dangerously wounded in that
family shooting scrap near May Day
a few weeks ago, have about recovered.
All the parties engaged in this dis.
graceful affair are thoroughly ashamed
OF it. 1t should be an impressive les.
son to the community.
r. NJ. May is making substantial i'm.
provements on the. Chase farm two
west of town. He is cleaning I'D
the fields, building plank fences and
repairing the house which is one of the
oldest landmarks in the country. 1t
was built for the double purpose of a
fort and a residence.
The publisher, editor and one of the
typos of the Herald and Tribune dined
last Sunday at the hospitable home of
and Mrs. A. f. Shipley in the West
The king dish of the elegant
spread was a royal bird that dressed
twenty four pounds and everything
else was in proportion.
The Holston Presbytery will meet in
johnson City on Wednesday, April /,
$3.50 PM. All sessions are requested
to send delegates with assessments and
records and to forward the statistical
and other reports to the Stated Clerk
by the Goth of March.
j. E. ALEXANDER, S. c.
j. FL. and w. G. Propst, of Telford,
in town during County Court and
report their locality as almost solid for
Brownlow. They are original Brown
low men, voting for him when he had
only four supporters in the district.
Times have changed nightly since
then, and the bottom rail has got to be
the top.
A series of meetings have been in
progress at Washington College for a
number of days. Much interest has
been awakened and there had been
about a dozen conversions up to last
report. Rev. B. B. Bigler labored in
the revival nearly all last week,
preaching twice a day. The good work
still continues.
The weather has been exceedingly
fine for the professional horse swap.
pers, but an unexpected spasm of de-
cent regard for the rights of the people
and the interests of civilization has
superinduced a period of mastery in
in their line of business.
P. S.-Last Monday took the pith out
Of this item.
S. T. Martin and his son, Brookins,