Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04
STATE NEWS.

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DIR. r. Thummel, well known
German physician in Chelsea, Mem
phis, committed suicide last Mon
day, by taking Morphine.
Four thousand five hundred bales
of cotton were sold in Memphis
Monday.
The Somerville Falcon says the
people of Fayette county are unal-
terably opposed to the erection of
the new county of Bell.
The celebrated dance house and
drinking house, known as the Mag
nolia Gardens, mile from Memphis,
was destroyed by fire last Monday.
VIM. Street died in Robertson
county the other day at the advanc-
cd age of 88 years.
The Bolivar Bulletin of the 9th,
announces that Maj. Jno. II. Bills,
of that place, is quite sick.
The residence of George Smith,
on College Hill, Brownsville was
burnt down on the 25th.
The Catholic Church at Franklin,
will be dedicated by Bishop Feehan,
tomorrow.
The Franklin ReUiet0 is now pub
lished and edited by Messrs. H. p.
Figures, w. NJ. Allison and VIM.
House.
The Winchester Home journal
proposes to hang all criminals who
are now sent to the penitentiary,
rather than have them work at any
kind of business at which honest
men work.
The Springfield Record of Oct.
2sth thinks the Cumberland Presby-
terrain congregation of that place
will call Rev. A. s. johnson to the
pastonage of that church.
The Clarksville ChroRicIe says:
"Bust head whisky and concealed
weapons are fearful combination
against security to life, and the
peace Of society. .r
An editor in Tnnessee, over North
of us, protests in paragraph of
more than column, that he does
not like to engage in petty discus
sions. Why the deuce does he do
it then?
Hon. Jas. ii. Thomas, of Column
bia, who, when there was no candi-
date, consented to serve his district
in the State Senate, now declines
the position, because there are three
new candidates, and he win not be
the cause of unnecessary division.
The Somerville Falcon says Mrs.
Mary Swan died in Fayette county,
Oct. 18th, at the age of SO. She had
resided in Tennessee 20 years, and
in Fayette county sc years; and had
been a member of the Methodist
Church for 60 years.
The editor of the Clarksville
Chronicle met at the late Montgom-
cry county fair, Mr.. Somers, OF
Stewart county, who will be 100
wears old in February next. He
hoed his corn crop the past season,
and is quite lively, for a boy of his
years.
d. w. Street, who was shot at the
GAINESVILLE Fair, by man named j.
Il. Moore, while he, Moore, was
drunk, died of his wound, and
Moore was required to give bond
in the sum of $3, 500, for his appear
ance before the November term of
the Circuit Conrt.
Rev. E. Fl. Osborne, was still
preaching at Gallatin last Saturday.
The Dyersburg Progress wants to
lock and dam Forked Deer river, to
make it navigable.
WV. Davis, five miles northwest
of Dyersburg, had his tobacco barn
burnt last week. Loss $4O0.
WI. Curry, late of the Browns
vile Bee, has removed to Grenada,
Mississippi.
Brownsville votes on the 14th of
November upon n proposition to
subscribe $500 in the Denmark,
Brownsville and Durhamville Rail-
road.
The Trenton Gazette of the 28th
ult. paints bright picture of future
prosperity for that town. May its
vision he more than realized.
The surviving commissioners of
the Tennessee Central Railroad"
propose to hold a meeting and re-
organize the company under its old
charter, at Trenton, November 2Sth.
Mike Malowney, charged at Men,
phis with the murder of a negro
named Pleasant Blackwell, in June,
1870, was convicted OF murder in
the first degree by the jury on Mon
day last, and recommended to the
mercy of the Court.
Col. Ed. w. Munford, of Mem
phis, by invitation, win deliver an
o11wAa1 Uk,x..aHarr -
on the life and character of General
Albert Sidney Johnston. No man
in Tennessee is better capable of
performing the duty.
The Murfreesboro Monitor states
that William Young, of Bedford
county, has discovered a cheap and
sure method OF making good sugar
from the sorghum. He can make
400 pounds to the acre, and the resi-
due is very fine syrup
The Nashville Union of the 27th
ult. gives. the particulars of the
elopement of a negro barber named
Tom Beaumont, of Clarksville, with
awhite woman, whose name is not
given. The same paper gives an ac-
count of a man LOG years old cutting
thirteen new teeth very recently.
Early Eason charged with the
killing of Ed. Lyles in June last,
near Memphis, was convicted by the
jury of murder in the first degree,
on Monday. His attorney moved
for new trial, which was over
ruled by the Judge, and he will be
sentenced to death on Saturday
An appeal, the AUdlGnche says, will
he taken to the Supreme Court,
which will delay the execution.
BROWNSVILLE STATEs.-Our
sympathies are excited and our