Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-06-22
STATE NEWS.

CldIhHFilt HIS 3ICdlh III y Cii
gine.
The wheat crop of Bedford cOun-
ty is represented rs being very fine
The News reports the Gotten
wheat and corn in Rutherford coun-
~, as being very fine.
The residence of T. ID. Martin, oil
Gardeners station was, short time
since, accidentally destroyed by fire
The third annual tobacco fair, al
GAINESVILLE, last week, was, in all
respects, a success.
Joel Pitts and Miss Lavania Yates
were the first couple married. in
Moore county.
l.. p. Bright, of Fayetteville, is a
candidate for floater from Lincoln
and Giles counties.
DIR. S. w. Frierson positively de-
Clines to be a candidate for the leg
islature from Maury county.
The Trenton Gazette represents
the crop prospects in Gibson coun-
ty as being first rate.
Giles county is going to have a
fruit exhibition at Pulaski, from the
18th to the 18th of August.
The Lawrence journal reports
the crop prospect iii that county as
being very iattering.
Cannon county calls upon Gen.
10. Il. Palmer, of Murfreesboro, to
become candidate for Congress.
Harry NJ. Hill, Esq, of Bolivar, is
called on in the Bolivar Bulletin, to
become candidate for the next leg
islature.
DIR. Willis Ii. Farmer, a resident
of Robertson county, committed SUI
icide recently by blowing out his
brains.
David w. Ballew, formerly a dis
tinguished State Senator from Nc
MINI county, died at his residence
i'll Fayette county, few days since.
Geo. w. Shipman, of Hardin
county, was last week nominated as
the Grant Elector for the 9TH dis
triCt
L. G. Houk, of East Tennessee,
and John Trimble, of Nashville, are
the Grant candidates for Electors
for the State at large.
Alexander Russell, of Trenton,
has been appointed a cadet of West
Point, and has passed his examina-
ton successfully.
Jno. Il. Dean and w. IL. Morgan,
of Bedford county. are announced
as candidates for floater in Bedford
and Rutherford.
G.. NJ. Hazen's paper mill, three
and half miles from Knoxville,
was destroyed by fire on the 11th.-
Loss S25, 000-insurance $4,000.
N. p. Hight, of Sweet Water, is a
candidate for the State Senate from
the counties of Loudon, Monroe,
McMinn, Mcigs, Bradley and Polk.
Wise A Cooper, of Trenton, posi-
lively declines to become a candi-
date for the legislature in Gibson
county.
There has been no year since 1855,
when the universal report was so
favorable as TO crop prospects in
Tennessee as at present.
Our confrere, VIM. j. Ramage, OF
the Knoxville Press and Herald,
was married in Buffalo, New York,
18th inst, to Miss Marion Church.
J. NJ. Heating, of the Appeal, is
of on Summer tour, and will
probably visit old Ireland before
his return.
NJ s. jay 10 announced as a can
didate for one of the six seats Shell
by county is entitle to fill in the
next legislature of Tennessee.
The Athens Post says 10. Math-
ews, of McMinn county, has cut a
field of wheat that will average thir-
ty bushels to the acre.
ii. w. Phelps has purchased the
interest of Col. III. w. Wall, in the
Mckenzie Times, and, with G.. IIaw-
kins assumes the editorial control.
Success attend them.
The Athens Post says information
from Rhea county represents crops
as good, and every body-demo-
Gratis and republicans, out and out
for Greeley and Brown.
The Trenton Gazette chronicles
the death of lad about IL wears old,
son of Mr.. Geo. Terrence, from eat
ing an apple, supposed to have been
impregnated with locust eggs.
j. E. Dromgoole, of Murfreesbo-
TO, announces himself a candidate
for Congress for the State at large,
subject to the action of a cOnyen-
ton.
The Columbia Herald saws: John
Shull, near Mount Pleasant, aged
about twenty-One years, poisoned
himself last Tuesday, by taking rats
bane. The act seems TO have been
deliberate. ~rs- -
The Mckenzie Times says an old
lady named Finch, who resided in
that sec ton, recently died. Her
son, who was in perfect health, was
SO shocked when he heard it, that
he died in two hours.
Gen. Il. z. Nicely, of Bolivar, re-
turned home last week from New
York, where he had been soiourn-
ing for some weeks upon railroad
business. His health is not good,
but he is able to attend to business.
w. S. Ncwbill-an appropriate
name, at lcast-is announced in the
Pulaski Citizen, as candidate to
represent Giles county in the next
legislature.
The Pulaski Citizen relates that
Mr.. Alex. G.. Steel, who resides
three miles West of that place, was
knocked in the head with a six
pound rock, by a negro named Bry-
ant the other day.
DIR. j. a. Ridley, of Murfrccsbo-
ro, is announced in the News as a
candidate for the State Senate. lie
was one of the best Senators in the
last legislature. The race will be
between him and Dave Spence.
10. NJ. Sowell, of Lawrenceburg,
announces himself Il candidate for
Congress in the 9th district, COM
posed of the counties of Williamson,
Maury, Giles, Dickson, Lawrence,
Wayne, Hickman and Lewis.
VIM. Eckle, who has represented
Jefferson county two terms in the
legislature, declines to be a caudi-
date for reelection, upon the ground
that rs n republican he has had no
influence in the Legislature, and does
not feel disposed to be as "knot
on log" any longer.
Col. II. w. Wall has sold his in
tcrest in the Mckenzie Times to
Messrs. Hawkins and Phelps, and
retires from the editorial control of
that paper, to become a candidate
for floater from Carroll, Gibson,
Henry and Weakly.
The Huntingdon Democrat says
tree was blown down on the dwell
ling Of j. IL. Williams, near Hollow
Rock, last week, smashing the front
part of the house, with the furni-
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