Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-06
STATE NEWS.


Nashville has been shipping axe
handles manufactured there TO bos-
ton. Why not?
Col Jas. G. Luttrell has been NOM
mated by a large public meeting in
Knoxville, for Mayor.
Hon. John v. Wright, formerly
Congressman from the McNairy dis
trict, has located in Columbia.
George W. Coleman, the oldest
butcher in Nashville, died there of
gravel, last week.
The Athens Post-the best news
paper in East Tennessee-is to be
enlarged this week. Success to you,
Ivens.
-Col. George Williamson, of Green
Hill, Wilson County, died at his
home on the 18th of December, aged
70 years.
Mrs. Mary j., wife of Hon. Robert
j. Mckinney, exjudge of the Su-
preme Court of Tennessee, died at
Knoxville, December 18th.
Thomas T. Somerville, Esq, a
prominent citizen Of Mason's Depot,
died last week, of dropsy of the
heart.
The Pulaski Citizen has bought
out the Giles Press, and will hence
forth be known as the Pulaski Citi-
gen, under the sole control of l.. w.
McCord.
judge Andrews, formerly of the
Supreme Court of Tennessee, has
been appointed u. S.. District At
torney for East Tennessee, vice
Camp, resigned-or kicked out?
Gen. Albert Fink, the General Sup
erintendent and Vice President OF
the Memphis and Louisville road,
has appointed John 7. Flynn, an old
and valued Gttdche of the road, for
the Memphis division.
JIM. Thornburg, Attorney Gen
eral for the third Judicial Circuit,
including heretofore, Knox County,
has resigned, in consequence of the
County Of Knox being enacted into
a separate district.
G.. NJ. Charlton, of Knox, John
Moffatt, of Davidson, and w. b.
Donohoo, Of Shelby, have been COM
missioned by the Governor, Com
missioners of immigration for the
State Of Tennessee.
The Franklin Reviet0 and the WI
Hanson Journal have been CONSOLE
dated. Figuers, Allison and House,
of the RevietO, retiring. Haynes
and Bro, publishers, and Burke
Bond editor of the ReUieao and Jour
nal.
A part of the records of the Coun-
ty ofMcMinn were stolen from the
Register's Office in Athens, recently
-embracing book L., containing the
records of the County from Dec. IA,
1854, to January %, 1858.
Neil S. Brown, Jr., Chief Clerk of
the House of Representatives of this
State, was married in the First
Presbyterian Church in Nashville,
Dec. 10th, to Miss Sue, daughter of
Col. w. b. Walton, of Davidson
County.
Nashville has decided by a very
large majority of votes, to have but
one public market, and that is to be
on the Public Square, where the old
one has stood for three-fourths of
century. But they viii have a Tleao
one.
The Knoxville Chronicle learns
that there is current rumor in that
end of the State that Senator Brown
low was about to resign his seat,
and thinks 1t worth while to deny
the truth of the report. Few radi-
cal office-holders die, and none re-
sign.
Gen. Robert G.. Foster, Sd, well
and favorably known throughout
the State, was the eldest son of Hon.
Ephriam II. Foster, of Nashville,
died at his home in that city on
Thursday morning, December 2sth.
The Governor, Secretary of State,
COMPTROLLER, and Treasurer, of Ten
nessee, succeeded last week in COM
pleting the duty devolved on them
by the Legislature, of destroying
9iO.SS9, 900, OF State bonds, which
had been paid in by delinquent rail-
roads,
Gallatin is jubilant over the accep-
tance by the Cumberland and Ohio
railroad, of the $4,000 of capital
stock subscribed by Sumner County,
upon condition that the road should
be built to Gallatin This secures
the completion of the road to Nash
Vile.
The Mississippi Central Railroad
paid into the Comptroller's office,
Dec. goth, through the banking
house of j. ID. Alexander s. Co.,
New York, their January interest,
amounting TO $S6.0S5, in State bonds
and coupons.
The Tennessee Central Railroad
the one that our old friend, DIR.
w. w. Lea, of Fulton, has been ham
mering at for thirty years, with so
much persistency-is likely to ex-
tend through Trenton to Hunting
don. Success to it.
A week or two since, Mr.. James
Harold, 90 Paris, on exhuming the
remains Of q daughter of his, who
had been dead four years, found the
corpse in perfect state of preserva-
ton, every feature remaining as nat
ural as when buried.
Frank Graves, who was on trial
in this city before the Supreme
Court last spring for murder, and
was remanded back to Shelby Coun-
ty for a new trial, was last week
acquitted of the crime and set at
liberty. Poston, his confederate, ii
is now believed, viii be acquitted
also-
There was evidently glass OF
egg-nog flying around in the Union
and American Office when the first
side Of their daily Of the 9th of De-
cember was made up. We don't
know what Mr.. Secretary of State
Buffers habits may be but if he
appended his certificate five times