Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-07-20
STATE NEWS.

n. Kean has retired from the
Maxwell House at Nashville.
Shelby county has assessed a fine
Of 50 on all taxable dogs.
The merchandise of Shelby eoun-
ty is taxed at IS, 648, 707.
Total number of persons liable to
poll tax, in Shelby county is 1884.
There are 2,163 dogs in Shelby
county-two thousand too many.
Hog Cholera prevails fatally, at
Froglevel, Obion county.
Thomas G. Little has resigned the
office of Deputy Sheriff in Bedford
county.
1t Is said they have colored can
didate for Tax Collector in Bed
ford county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Reaves died in
Bedford county last week, at the
good old age Of ninety-two years.
Tho Brownsville States urges the
erection Of a cotton factory at that
place. 'Twould be a good thing.
Mai. James Britton, a prominent
lawyer and politician, died at Green
vile, last week.
Tennessee has more counties, area
and population considered, than any
State in the American Union.
Alexander Mckenzie, formerly a
large stove dealer at Nashville, died
in that city last week.
MaryviIle, in Blount county, East
Tennessee, Is to have a colored col
lego.
Memphis Is soon TO be well water
ed. The water works will be COM
pleted in sixty days.
Tho total State and county tax for
Shelby county for 1872, is $3.50 on
each 500, 900 of taxable property.
The real and personal property of
Shelby county is set down In round
numbers at e38, 341 ,sO7.96.
Gov. John Sewer, of Tennessee,
was the first member of Congress
from the Mississippi Valley.
Shelby County Court, on July
18th. reduced the tax on privileges
AOA CO0ASy RAA POoCD ~
of what 1t was last year.
The Bulletin learns that the aver
age corn crop of Bedford county
will be about eight barrels-forty
bushels-per acre.
A negro candidate for TAILOR of
Davidson county was recently ar
rested for carrying concealed weap-
ons.
Dyer county instructed her dele
gates to vote for Gen. Bell for this
district, and old Frank Cheatha N
for the State at large.
We learn from the Dyersburg Ga
zette, that a new Encampment of
Odd-Eellows was instituted at New
bern, Dyer county, July 4th.
DIR. J. w. McSlarrow, a drug
clerk in Dyersburg, recently sIoped
from that place with Mrs. Thorn
as, the wife of stage driver.
The Times says Sam Jackson, of
Troy, raised an onion this year,
which was thirteen inches in cir
conference.
II. W. Garrison, of Obion county,
while cutting wheat, found a Guinea
fowl hen nest with ninety-eight
eggs in 1t, all sound.
Col. j. NJ. johnson, ex-sheriG and
ex-State Senator, Is announced as a
candidate for Representative from
Bedford county.
In boring well in Williamson
county, q vein of pure mineral wa
ter was struck at the depth of one
hundred and fifty feet.
Van Buren, county dominates Gen.
Cheatham 1for Congress at large,
and Hon. John II. Savage for the
third district.
Col. N. BRANDON who served so
ably and efficiently in the last State
Senate from Stewart county, is q
candidate for reelection.
Mrs. Nicey Russ, the venerable l
mother Of Il. G. Russ, of the Shelby
vile Rescue, died in that place last |
week in the 81st year of her age.
A little son of Mr.. Boatright, near
Prospect church, Dyer county, was
seriously, though not fatally iniur-
cd by being shot with q gun he was
handling 1t had no cap on, either.
Eayette county has a coIored can
diGRte for constable in the third civ
il district. His name is A. G.. G..
Burton, formerly known as Cooper
Bullock.
The Marshall Gazette Ssays Mr..
Wilson Loudon, near Wilson Hill. /
Marshall county, raised seventy-fiVe /
bushels of wheat from one bushel |
sown.
Four White men, confined in one
room of the jail at Dover, Stewart
county, recently made their escape
lit Is thought with outside assfs-
lance.
Tho Bulletin says that wheat o.
pened in Bedford county at 81 so
per bushcl, but is now going down,
so that purchasers refuse to buy ii
above 81 per bushel.
The solid men of SheIbyville are
contemplating largo manufactur.
ing establishment of some kind at
that place, and the.Bulletin promises
TO keep up the agitation until it is
done.
The name of Spring Hill Station,
on the Nashville and Decatur road.
has been changed to Ewell Station,
in honor of the late Gen. EweI'
who owned the land around the sta
ton.
VIM. Mclean, State and county
Tax Collector for Shelby county, for
1859, 1870, s1S71iand 1872, is reported
by the GrandiJury as defaulter to
the amount of $105, 900.
Marshall T. Polk, ESQ.,, who was
called on In the Bolivar Bulletin, to
become candidate for fioater for
Hardeman, Madison and Haywood.
under tho circumstances" de-
clines to consent.
An incxhaustiblc quarry of fine
marble has been found on the lands
OF VIM. Matloclz, eight or ten miles
from Winchester, in Franklin coun-
ty.
Col. j. Il. Killebrew, of Nashville.
publishes a card in the CiarksviIle
declining to allow his
name to be used in the canvass for
Congressman for the State at large,
He is for Cheatham.
The senior editor OF the Trenton
has been quite sick for sew
eral weeks past, but is now on ris-
ing ground, and hopes to be able TO
resume his labors soon.
VIM. Young, of Bedford county.
has invented a plan by which as
good sugar as the market affords.
can be made out of Sorgum and at
mere trifie of cost. He has a patent
for it.
The Dyersburg Progress has the
following item of personal news