Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-03-04
Brownlow and Milburn are in john
son County this week.

the Third was in town last Saturday.
Pure Bred Brown Leghorn g g fifty
cents per setting. H. II. MCPHERSON.
S. A, Early, merchant at Washing.
inton College, was on our streets last
Friday.
In the Republican primary at John.
son CITY Mayor H. G. Hart, was nomi.
mated for reelection.
Milburn is now spending his time
dropping buckets into empty wells
and drawing nothing up.
If your watch is out of order take
it to II. Ii. Mcpherson he will do you
work right and guarantee it.
Ramon's Relief cures sick headache,
neuralgia, cramps, cholera, morbus,
diarrhoea, etc. 25c for large bottles.
A. c. Britton will receive this week
a nice line of percale shirts in all
styles, also a nice line of spring neck
wear.
A. j. Vines, of the Eighth, has a bad
case of grip. Jacob Carr of the same
district has also been seriously indis.
posed.
The balmy premonitions of advanc,
ing spring have changed the loafing
places from the offices and stores %
the sidewalks.
That Embreeville fake took in" the
boys right along. We are layin' for
the depraved and hardened wretches
who sold us out.
w. q. Mathes, w. w. kirkpatrick,
Maj. Cantwell, Capt. Henry Lyle and
Gabe Harris, of Johnson City, have
been down since our last issue.
The people are beginning to talk it
from the mouth out, and still we have
no occasion to change our mind in re
gard to the result of the primary.
have u stray shoat at my house,
anyone proving and paying charges
can have the same. j. SIFFoRD, Haws
y Roads, Tenn. ma At
A most interesting revival meeting
is in progress at Bells School House
conducted by Rev. S. w. Paul, of the
United Brethren Church, and Geo. w.
Cox. Of the M. E. Church.
George Barrett and o. D. Arnold,
two young men of Blair's Gap, Sulli-
a County, left Jonesboro last week
for Jefferson County, Illinois, where
they 20 to WOO the tickle goddess of
fortune.
We regret to learn hat James NJ.
Erwin died suddenly in Connecticut
last Saturday. Heart trouble is sup.
posed to be the cause of his death. He
was a mar of family and resided at
johnson City.
Col. Jack Faw is going to have a pa
per of his W at Bristol, daily and
weekly, and the first number will ap.
pear about the 9th or 10th of this
month. 1t will be a Democratic paper
with a free silver gliding.
Landon H. Waddill, of the Second
District, was in town Monday mixing
with the sovereigns. 1t is quietly ru-
mored that he is a Democratic candi-
date for Congress, and the idea is tax.
ing like fire in a sedge field.
For reasons satisfactory to myself, l
hereby announce my withdrawal from
the race for Sheriff, thanking my nu-
nervous friends for their encouragement
and support. l am very respectfully,
JEFFERSON FIELDS.
The Embreeville Iron Company shut
down last Thursday to put a new lining
in the furnace and to make other re.
pairs. A considerable number of hands
will be required to do this work and
the suspension will last about sixty
days.
We learn from the Greeneville Demo
crat that l.. G. Boyd, a former citizen
of Jonesboro and who lives at Greene
vile, came near losing his residence
recently. 1t caught fire and was only
saved by hard work after considerable
damage.
The Jonesboro correspondent of the
Chattanooga Times in his letter in last
Sundays issue says: THE outlook
seems to be in favor of Brownlow, that
is, his friends seem to be well satisfied
with the present outlook and claim that
he is steadily gaining"
If Bill Bowman and Landop Wad-
dill are both Democratic candidates
for Congress, they ought to get to.
gether and sorter compromise the
thing. If we have to have a Demo.
cratic Representative give us either one
and we won't complain
Robert ]. Rankin, of johnson CITY,
died recently at Chicago of Bright's
disease, He went to Chicago to go
into the banking business. His re.
mains were brought back and inferred
at Johnson City. He leaves a wife and
no children. He was a brother of C. G.
Rankin, of Alton, Greene County.
w. T. Martin, of Arkansas, is now
visiting relatives and old friends in
Washington and Carter Counties. He
is a brother of J.. M. Martin, Judge of
our County Court. He has lived in his
adopted State for 81 years and during