Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-20


elected City Attorney of Memphis.
STATE NEWS. T
Union City has elected r. A.
Pierce, Esq, Mayor for this year.
McMinn County Court on the LIST
inst, rejected the proposition 70 levy
= common school tax for 1872. 81
The Lebanon "Free Press" has
been discontinued, and removed to
Woodbury., Cannon County %
The Pulaski Citizen has bought
out the Giles Press, and consolidate
ed. 1rrIW tatr
The Courter-a live paper-repre-
sents Union City as growing very
rapidly in population and wealth.
The Democrat urges capitalists TO
invest In real estate at Huntingdon,
saying Il viii soon outstrip all its ri
walls. ff ~
NJ. Robinson, Esq, has been re-
elected Chairman of the Loudon
County Court, and David Rogers
and s. @. Simpson, Quorum.
j. G. Montgomery, Esq, has been
elected Chairman Of the Maury
County Court, and Elisha Kim
brough and VIM. Dyer, associates.
Lincoln County, at the January
term of its County Court, levied q
tax OF thirty cents on the hundred
dollars for school purposes. ~ ls-s
It. d. EIdridge, Esq, formerly
States Attorney at Memphis, has
given up the law, and Joined the
North Mississippi Conference and is
preaching at Friar's Point.
George Cathey, who resides near
Chapel Hill, Marshall County, re-
Gently killed bald eagle which
measured seven feet seven inches
from tip to tip Of wings. 7.iij
A freight train on the Northwest
err road, going east, was wrecked
one day last week, being thrown
from the track on account of bro
ken rail, one mile east of Waverly.
Hon. S. A. Thompson was elected
Chairman of the Lauderdale County
Court, and Daniel Mcleod and II.
Meadows, members Of the Quorum
Court. ~, ~. =, 49,. :
Professor j. G.. Buck has become
associated with w. Ivy Westbrook
as editor of the Brownsville Bee.
He wields the pen of aready writer.
We wish the Bee and all concerned,
success. faDfW ,gfFfI1 %
DR.. J. A. C. Manly, an excellent
physician, Jealous minister Of the
gospel, and an upright citizen, died
at his residence at Newbern, Dyer
County, or the I'd inst.
The Nashville Union and Aneri-
can says Hon. Geo. w. Walters,
Representative from Decatur Coun-
ty, has become q permanent citizen
of that city.
The Paris LatetligeRcer has been
forced at last, into charging for long
obituary notices in its columns. II
has taken It q long time to see that
il was losing business to publish
such things without compensation.
Mai. j. L. Armstrong, one of the
most distinguished citizens of Bed
ford County, died athis residence at
Fairfield In that county, last week,
of pneumonia. o-,. ~
Rufus X. Dean-better known
about Nashville as Roots Dean
died in shat city last week, aged So.
He was a soldier in the Florida and
Mexican wars, and was his own
worst enemy. We have known him
all our life. le
A man named Delffs, residing in
Bedford County, and cultivator of
grapes, according 10 the statement
Of The Bedford Bulletin, speaks
FreHch, German, and Italian, with
iuency, and has no superiors in
Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.
According to the census, the value
of the farm products of Tennessee,
exclusive of live stock, for the year
ending june so, 1870, was $50 472.s47.
The wool clip Of the same year
amounted to 81 Sss.762.
a.. E. Pinn, one of the colored
oCouHciimen elected from the 9TH
ward in Memphis, hiss been declared
Ineligible, having resided in his
ward only three months, whereas
the charter.reQuires six months. A.
J. White was elected to I'LL the va
cahcy. n' 20
The Clerk of the Gibson County
Court issued 367 marriage licenses
during the year 1871-more than one
each day-and yet the Clerk, him
self, . gay and dashing single man,
escaped.
Bolivar elected for Aldermen for
the current year, r.. s. Hardy, j. J..
Nicely, j. w. Tate, j. A. Baker, T..
j.. Walton, G.. NJ. DUNCAN and Il. B.
Adams. G.. NJ. DUNCAN was elected
Mayor, T. B. Adams Recorder, j.
A. Baker Treasurer, A. p. Tiller
Constable, and II. M. Hill City At
torney. rli
The Mckenzie Times says a move
in the right direction, by RESPONSE
BILE parties working to the erection
of q steam Touring and planning mill,
is being made at that place. 1t is
expected to be put in motion during
the summer. sraf I,i..-eI
The Ripley NelcS represents Lau-
derdale county as being in very
healthy condition, financially. Its
bonds are better than greenbacks,
they don't owe anybody dollar, has
lower rates of taxation than any of
it's neighbors, and has seven thou
sand dollars cash in the treasury.
E. r. Seruggs, Esq, has been cleo
ted Mayor of SomerviIie, j. G. Nc
Carley Recorder, and G. w. Tatum.
kaf MaCI.1
Ian, II. @. Moorman, w. A. Bell,
d. G. Collier, Aldermen III, -s'1
The Columbia Herald of the 18th
says that over three hundred color
ed laborers had left Msury County
the proceeding week, to work on
internal improvements, for better
wages than they could get on the
farm. .f
A personal difficulty occurred at
Mount Pleasant, Maury County, last
week between Martin L. Stockard
and Mr.. Red Henry Grimes, neigh
bors, and the lie being given by
Grimes, Stockard pulled out a der
niger pistol, and accidentally shot
his friend, w. b. (Sawnie) Harris.
The wounded man died a day or two
after shot.
Sam. p. Ivens, editor OF the Ath-
ems, East Tennessee, Post, intimates
in his issue of that paper, of the 18th,
that he will be candidate for Con.
4ifess in the second Congressional
Ms6Set, at the election next Novem.
bec. Ehe t0aIlts to go to Congress.
Sve%giAhA&fnay succeed, but we are