Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-12-23
STATE NEWS.

The grocery house of Mr.. Thomas,
of Clifton, on Tennessee River, was
destroyed by FIRE on the Sd inst.
The people OF Wayne county are
good deal excited about the Mem
phis and Knoxville Railroad.
The Courier says an attempt was
mado to burn tho Express Office at
Union City last Monday night.
Humphrey Reynolds, one of the
Oldest and most substantial citizens
of McMinn county, died near
Athens, on the 9th.
Brownsville has organized a gas
company, and that benighted town
may soon luxuriate in good, clear
gas light.
Corn meal-which readily COM
mands dollar in Jackson-goes beg
ging at Huntingdon at 30 cents per
bushel.
The amount Of "new issue" of the
Bank of Tennessee, now outstand-
ing, is definitely ascertained to be
$1,6S5, 1920.
Rev, Stewart Robertson, of Louis
vile, preached in the first Preysby-
terrain church at Nashville last sun
day.
Edwin Forrest, the great actor, is
playing all this week at Masonic
Hall, Nashville. eHe must be getting
to be an old man now.
The dwelling of Prof. Denton, at
Fulton Station, with all its contents,
was destroyed by fire last Wednes-
day night week.
Powers and Hunts Carriage Fac
tory on north Market street, Nash
vile, was burned on Friday night
of last week. Loss heavy.
Our young friend VIM. Z. Duna-
way, formerly of this county, was
last week elected Senior Warden OF
Cumberland Masonic Lodge, Nash
vile.
II. McPhail Smith, who was re-
Gently removed by the President,
from the Office of q. S. district At
torney, at Nashville, has been rein
stated.
The contract to grade, bridge and
cross-tie the Memphis and Raleigh
Narrow Gauge Railroad, has been
let to DIR. Newkirk, and the work is
to be completed by the 1st of April.
Mr.. w. II. Lane, at.Raleigh has
now about ready to be set in motion
. first rate Cotton Factory. His
grist mill which is connected with
the factory, is already running.
The Courthouse at Arlington, the
county seat of the new county of
Houston, is to be completed, except
the plastering, by the LIST of jan
uary.
The Nashville and Northwestern
Railroad, which was mostly built
during the war, and without much
regard to grades, is to be at once re-
duced to the average grade of Rail-
roads in this State.
Julius Palmer, charged with kill
ing Jack Blakemore at Union City
few weeks ago, was last week taken
taken before Judge Porter, at Paris,
on a writ of habeas corpus, and
admitted to bail in the sum of $4,000.
So says the Union City Courier.
Mckenzie and Brownsville are
cOntending for the location of Bethel
College, which it has been deter
mined by the authorities having it
III charge, shall be removed from
McLemoresville.
1t is probable that the Nashville
and Decatur Railroad will pass into
the hands of the Louisville n Nash
wide Railroad on the lst of January
next, instead of July, as at first
agreed upon.
Ed. Lee, the negro who murdered
Elias King, in Haywood county
about tic 1st of November, has been
tried, condemned, and sentenced to
be hanged on the 2nd day of Febru-
airy next. He refuses to appeal, and
the Bee thinks they will have the
first hanging in Haywood since 184S.
The Athens Post has heard the
name of Col. Jas. b. Cook, promi-
Dently mentioned in connection
with the Supreme Court bench
Col. Cook resides at Chattanooga,
and is lawyer of his character.
- ReviVals of religion are in pro-
gress in the first Cumberland Pres
byteriRn and the first Presbyterian
churches in Nashville, and there
Here thirty odd members received
into the Cumberland and over forty
into. the Presbyterian church on
Sunday last.
The merchants of Memphis. hay
Jug failed to secure the repeal or
modification of the Merchants Tax,
10y the legislature, are now deter
lained to resist its payment by law,
until the Supreme Court shall de-
eide upon the constitutiOnalty of
The tax. We are glad this question
las assumed this shape, and trust
that they will be sustained in their
determination.
DIR. Crane, a so-called scientific
lecturer has been exposing the va
carries of the spiritualistic crew, in
Memphis this week. 1t is labor lost.
If let alone they will die of their
own inanities.
The Banner says that transcript
was sent up from the Chancery
Court at Nashville last week, to the
Supreme Court, containing 1,035
pages. We smypathhize with the
Court.
The name of Hon. L. Nixon Van
Dyke, of Athens, having been men,
toned in connection with the Su-
preme Judgeship, made vacant by
Judge Nelson's resignation, he au-
thorizes the Post to say that he will
under no circumstances, be candi-
date for that office.
A little daughter of Richard Null
len, living near Gum Spring, Stew
art county, the other day stood too
near the fire, her clothes caught fire,
and she was so badly burnt, that she
died the next day.
Jno. Il. Durf, a clerk in the Mem
phis Post office, is reported as the
fortunate drawer of a $50, 900 gold
prize in the Kentucky Library As
ISOLATION Lottery at Louisville. last
week. Now is a good time for him |
to quit lotteries.
DIR. Robert Lenox, who resided
near Harris station, Obion county, /
was found dead near his residence
The other day, with q gun shot in
ihe head, supposed to be suicide, as |
Inc had EXPIRE ssed his determination /
to destroy himself.
u. Il. Smythe, depot agent at Par /
Is. was at Guthrie Station last week, /
and having his attention attracted I
Inv something outside, put his head I
ont of the window, and just at the /
time the train he was on, passed a
car standing on side track, and his
head struck the car, and he was
killed