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Convention.
Confederate soldiers on the Bluff sym
pathise with France in the present war
adJ.ieE. Dromgoole is a candidate fo
Congress from the Fourth District.
Hons Ard Fletcher died on. Saturday
of congestion of the liver and brain.
A scafold, fell on a convict in the pen
4 itentiary On Saturday and killed him.
Hon. Gus. A. Henry is considered Out
of danger and slowly recovering.
Lands are selling IN McNairy county
from s. to 800 an acre.
The wheat crop in Coffee county has
yielded from five to ten bushels an acre
There is great want of energetic la
Dor in Wilson county.
Prospects for fine crops are good in
Carter county. g
Burglaries by negroes frequently occur
in Nashville.
Z Hon. { John M. Lea, Of Franklin, de-
clines to run for Congress.
Another concert this evening by the
Sodality Silver Band.
The, Radical party will have o pow
WOW tonight. gstbgsfsE(kh%i
Remember the tournament at Hum
boldt Park on the 25th.
The Ku-Klux are cleaning out the
negroes at Humboldt.
Major Thomas G. Peek has become
editor of the Little Rock Gazette.
Cincinnati is tosbuild a direct line of
railroad to Nashville.
The Government. wont take the Fort
Pickering property ass cabbage garden.
The Memphis, Chelsea, Raleigh, San
pDpisege and Pacific i railroad u progress
ling.
AS means of SOLDERING himself, a
drunken man tumbled down stairs last
night.
Barbour Lewis will be Judge of the
United States Court in this city under
the Enforcement bill.
The Judge of our Criminal Court says
"the purity Of the ballot-box must be
protected" That's enough.
"If any one is guilty of stirring up
law suits, he is the pest of society" So
says Judge Flippin. -..~.,,,s-
EOne-halfithe people ofthis community
are calling for immigration and the other
half are cursing all foreigners.
The hills of Wayne county are full Of
the finest iron ore, but the people there
want somebody to work it for them.
Hon. Edward H, East is candidate
for reelection as Chancellor of the Da-
wilson County Chancery Court
Because the, wal. in Europe'is about
the Rhine, is it any reason that it should
be melancholy.
IA The parties charged with the Cuba
murder have been indicted by the grand
jury.
A window-sash fell on the hand of
lady in north Memphis last evening, and
inflicted a severe wound.
A hack and horses were lost on Friday
while endeavoring to cross the Waten-
saw lark. bayou. 4
If all the reports Of murders we find
in our country exchanges be true, there
are more mad men than mad dogs about.
If tits good to close liquor shops on
election days, we think it better to close
them on convention days.
The cotton crop in parts of Arkansas
will average a bale and half to the
acre.
Rev. DR.. Osborne in card in Nash
vile paper politely and religiously says;
"The report thatI was drunk is simply
a iei"
Captain Fleming, who ran against
Stokes for Congress- was committed to
jail in Murfreesboro on Saturday for cut
ting yellow girl with penknife. F.
All the Democratic and Conservative
papers throughout the State approve of
the nominations made by the late Judi
cial Convention.
+. Judge Flippin's charge.to the Grand
Jury of the Criminal Court yesterday
was pretty hard on Arkansas tooth
picks. p'b4h aii % rss'iFf h1A tNt
Pete Owens, q negro, was hung on
tree near Franklin on Friday. On his
breast was pinned card bearing these
words: Another of the Ezell murderers,
and this is what rapers come to-. X. K"
Bill johnson last week blew the brains
out Of negro named Saunders, work
ing on the plantation of Mr.. VIM. Rob-
inson, in Richwoods, Ark. sbl gid
Myra Day, who killed Banks, says she
never had such gay time as she now has
in jail. She is not the only one charged |
with murder VINO could boast Of gay
and festive time in our fancy jail.
According to our new Criminal Court |
Judge, gambling is one of the favorite !
amusements of our big and little men.