Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-07-29
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
They hal a hail storm at Buena
vista, Cssroil county, last week.
Hon. Walker Il, Evans. one of the
oldest lawyers in East Tennessee,
died at Tazeviiie, July 18th, aged
63 years.
The Athens Post July 18th says
the wheat crop Of B;sdsoe county
Is failure, oats pretty fair, and
corn never looked better.
The Brownsville Bee says Jane
Powell negro girl Is or Is years
old, was killed by lightning in
that place one Friday 18th inst
a negro man named Sam. Nc
Ntfl, was convicted at Bolivar last
week, Of stealing mule. Ten years
In the penitentiary.
The Public well at Bolivar, so
long needed, and so urgently de-
manded by the Bulletin, has at last
been completed.
\, The rain we had on Tuesday night
of last week, was general-notices
have reached US from ell portions of
the State.
Mia. L. y. Patterson, widow of
DIR, Hugh Patterson, died, Of Apo
plexy, at his residence nine miles
South east OF Nashville, last week.
The safe of tbs southern Express
Company at Lebanon, was robbed
on the night of the 10th of about
$1,000.
The Treton Gazette Is jubilant
over the prosperous condition and
rapid impi'ovessssesssss.. OF OF that .se.. tegn.
We rejoice with him.
The Lebanon Herald rejoices over
stalk OF Timothy hay, raised by
Roland G. Andrews. The tim
othy was sIx feet seven inches high
A mortgage was recorded at Hunt
ingdon thu other day which,-the
Republican, says--was covered with
stamps s., 100.
The Lebanon Herald says negro
manin La Grande country recent
ly killed black snake, fifteen feet
long, and the body as big as the
thigh of a full grown mani
Ajoint Stock Company has been
organized at Franklin, Williamson
county, for the purpose of manufac-
turing all kinds Of Agricultural inn
PIGMENTS.
The Trenton Gazette of the I'D
brings us the mournful tiding of
the death OF Capt Robt Seat, one of
the eldest, as he was one ofthe best
citizens of chat town.
The town of Trenton win soon
have submitted to her voters the
proposition to subcribe 100000 of
stock to secure. the building railroad
to yellow bluff, IN Gibson county.
The McaIinnville Nep Era says
the dwelling of Mrs. Graves of that
town was destroyed by fire, suppos-
cd to have originated in the cook
room.
A negro man named Dan Mckis-
sack, employed on farm near Pu-
laslSi, last week, by John r. Camp
bell, was killed. Campbell was ac-
quilted by the examining court.
The Athens Post says: The oat
crop Of McMinn county Is very lit
tie, IL any better than the wheat crop
and the latter, from the Little
Tennessee to the Georgia State line,
the worst failure on record.
The Gallatin Examiner of the 18th
announces the presence OF our old
friend. MO. Blake, of this city,
as being o.l visit to his relatives
there.
The Brownsville Bee says that
Col. b. j. Lea of that place, had
slight attack 4of sun stroke last
week, but is entirely recovered from
1t.
Nose Parish Of the lively Bulletin
at Bolivar, is after the people Of
Hardeman county with sharp
stick, because they have no Agrieul-
tural and Msshanical Association.
Jas. L. Sparks sold his interest
in the Somerville Falcon TO His
brother, Sam G. Sparks, aud is go
Ing to establish q paper at Ripley,
Lauderdaie county.
James Rose, Esq, one the acting
,..yustices of Peace for Shelby coun-
ty, died suddenly, ct his residence
in Memphis last Friday, 2ist, in the
4Sd year of his age.
A negro boy on Isaac Reads
place, near Brownsville while driv-
ing up cow, two weeks ago, was
killed by lightning, and the COW
also.
The McMinnville Nesc Era of the
10th says the stage contractors be-
tween that place and Beersheba
Springs lost three horses from
oyerheat, last week.
A horse attached to a buggy at
McMinnville, in which sat Mr.. Nc
Miilen and Joe Scott, took fright
and run of, throwing Scott out
breaking his leg.
A correspondent or the Nashville
Union, writing from Wilson county
says Mrs. Margaret Reed, who re-
sides with her son three miles South |
of Lebanon was one hundred years
on Monday last, Gath.
A negro man named VIM. VIII
kinson was crushed to death in a
well on the premises of Wash New
bern four miles South of Bolivar
on the 14th inst by the caving of the |
dirt above him.
The Bolivar BWiietia reports the |
cotton prospect in Hardeman as be-
ing very good, and of corn that pa
per says: "Hardeman never saw
the like before-increased average
and all in splendid condition.
Nose Parish of the Bolivar Bull
letin set net in the Hatchie last
week, and caught q Mississippi |
river Alligator gar, over five feet
in length, weighing nearly forty
pounds. Did you eat it Mose2
zu-Fhe editor of the Lebanon Heral,3