Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-07
STATE NEWS

EuWdIu MUM mas Decn elected
Mayor of Columbia.
They arc boring for oil in White
county.
ssMcMinn county Jail, at Athens, is
full of prisoners.
The Pulaski Citizen announces
the discovery of silver mine near
Aspen Hill, Giles county.
The hog crop of Warren county,
says the McMinnville New Era, is
heavier than usual.
Jno. S. Cooper, Esq, is spoken Of
as a candidate for Mayor OF Tren-
ton.
Hon. c. f. Trigg, Judge Of the
United States Court opened that
Court last Monday, in Memphis.
Tho editor OF the Union City
COurics has been presented with
turnip weighing 81 lbs.
The corn crib of Francis Fentress,
Esq, of Bolivar, was consumed by
fire last week.
Moses J. Wicks, Esq, has resigned
the Presidency of the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad.
The dwelling of Mr.. Jas. II. Nc
Key, near Wayland's Springs, Giles
county, was burned last week.
Col. Jno. f. Morgan, a prominent
citizen of Columbia, recently died
from rupturing a blood vessel.
The fine residence of Capt. r. A.
Bennett, in Gallatin, was DESTROYED
by fire last week.
Gen. Gidden ]. Pillow, OF Mem
phis, was married to Mrs. Marie +.
ID. Trigg, of New Orleans, on the
9th of November.
Newbern, containing sixty barrels
of corn, belonging to a colored man
in Bolivar, was burned up last
week.
Thanksgiving, in obedience to the
proclamation of the President and
Governor of the State, was general
ly observed last week.
Our brother editor, John w.
Brown, of the Gallatiu Examiner,
was married last week, to Miss Min
ME Ida Foster. of Sumner county.-
May they live long and prosper.
The corn crib and stables of Vir-
gil Rawlings, below Raleigh, were
set on fire by an incendiary some
ten days ago, and consumed. Nine
mules, four horses, and large lot
Of forage persisted in the flames.
The Courts in the counties of Car
ter, johnson and Sullivan, East Ten
nesses, have been suspended on ac-
count of the prevalence of small pox
in that vicinity.
The Paris Intelligencer records
the death, on the 22d ult., of Mrs.
Elizabeth Culpepper, in the 90 year
Of her age. Her maiden name was
sweeney, and she was married in
1882, near Nashville.
Willie, son Off. l.. Booth, of Par
is, the other day, in fit of cough
ing, elected a cockle-bur from his
wind-pipe, which he swallowed
fourteen months age. The boy is
twelve years old.
David G. Shelton, young lawyer
of Columbia, died at the residence
of his father, Rev. w. NJ. Shelton, at
Nashville, last week.
Jas. G. Wilson and Anthony Ran
kin, two of the oldest and best citi-
zens of Greenville, died in that place
last week.
Several out-houses belonging to
Allen Bowden, near Mckenzie, to-
gether with his smoke-house, and
about 5000 pounds of Seed Cotton,
were burned last week.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle is to be
enlarged and improved in appear
ance the 1st of January. 1t can't be
made much better.
DR.. Augustine o. Stanley, Rector
of the Church of the Messiah, at
Pulaski, was recently ordained a
Priest of the Episcopal Church, by
Bishop Quintard.
Judge 10. c. Guild, of Nashville,
has resigned his commission as
Judge of the Common Law Court of
that city, and will return to the
practice at the bar.
Mrs. Sloan, widow of King Sloan,
deceased, of Sumner county, was
thrown from her horse and intantly
killed, one day last week.
The Troy Times says, notwith-
standing the drouth of last Summer,
corn is selling there at 81 per barrel
delivered.
The dwelling of Henry Graves,
seven miles from Huntingdon, was
destroyed by fire November 2lst,
with nearly all its contents.
Jordan Carter, citizen of Sum-
ner county, who had been dissipa-
ting freely for several DAYS, week
before last, in drunken mood shot
himself through the brain with a
pistol, and died immediately. If
he'd only waited little while the
whisky would have killed him.
The Moore county Pioneer had an
old citizen of Lincoln county in its
office the other day. He had resided
in Lincoln county sixty-Odd years.
was never in a drinking establish
lnent in his life, and never saw any
man pay for drink OF liquor.
There was a golden wedding at
the residence of John Ursery. i'm
Montgomery county last week, be-
tween that venerable citizen and his
venerable wife, Rebecca. They
have lived together more than fifty
years.
Rev. Samuel Watson, OF Mem
phis, who has been, for a wear or
more, preaching the dangerous
heresey OF Spiritualism-so-ealled-I
was arraigned before the recent ses-
sion of the Memphis Conference, at
Somerville, aud charg es preferred
against him. lie agreed to recant
all his teachings on that subject, TO
withdraw his insidious book, "The
Clock Struck One" from circula-
ton and sale, and return to the cold
paths of Methodism, +" as understood
before intidelity had infused the
heresey of Spiritualism into the
minds of some of its members.
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