Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-07-13
STATE NEWS.

for Senator from 0helDy county.
Sheriff Curry, of Shelby county,
retains Capt. ID. f. Jackson az
jailor.
John Il. Johns has been nOmina-
ted by primary vote, for tax col
lector of Rutherford county.
Wilson county has at last passed
a dog law, for the protection of the
sheep of that old county.
Major ]. w. Eldridge consents TO
serve Shelby county in the legisla-
ture, if elected.
A. T. Lacey and J. J. DuBose, of
Memphis, are candidates for Con-
gress.
= Col. Hugh ID. Greer is q candi-
date for the State Senate III Shelby
county.
w. J. Hamilton, of Lincoln coun-
ty, Is a candidate for noater, from
Giles and Lincoln.
Col. w. G.. Peak is candidate
for floater from the counties of
Cumberland, James, Rhea and
Meigs-up in the mountains.
In. Beckerdite, of Huntington,
is announced as candidate for
Senator from Gibson and Carroll
counties.
Hon. j. NJ. Coulter, of Gibson
county, is a candidate for the State
Senate. lie was member of the
last legislature.
a ~ oO4L sc T,,o tho rnui1o nco
of Mr.. Oscar Manifee, short dis
tanCe from Covington, was totally
destroyed by fire.
W. Walker is announced in
the Brownsville Bee, as a candidate
to represent Haywood county in the
next legislature.
The Talluhoma Independent is
the title of a new paper just started
at Tullahoma in this State, by w.
Il. French, editor and proprietor,
General David +. Douglass, q ma
tive of Sumner county, died in Cal
ifornia-at simultaneously, aged
flfty-one years.
Mr.. MemnOn Alexander, aged
seventy years, died at his residence
six miles north of Lewisburg, Mar
shall county, 22d ult.
John MUIR, of Cheatham county,
hung himself on the 9th ult., to a
sapling. He was for some time, de-
ranged.
Tom Neal, of the Dyersburg Ga
zette, thinks he can do better as an
editor than as Senator. His head
is level.
w. A. Blackwell, who was an
nOunced as a candidate to represent
Lauderdale county, now declines
the contest.
The Lebanon Herald says the
Jamestown weeds i'll the public
square are not quite as high as the
court house.
The McMinnville New Era mott
ces the death, in Warren county,
juno goth, of John Martin, aged one
hundred and nine years.
A monster wild cat was killed in
McMinnville last week by Gen. b.
j. Hill. 1t was robbing his hem
roost.
The editor of the Pulaski Citizen
acknowledges the receipt of an in
yitation to attend q barbecue on the
4th, with "some of the bOhOgs." -
What does that mean?
Sumner county is to vote on the
10th of August, upon a proposition
to subscribe $500, 900 of stock in the
Greensboro and Russelville rail-
road.
The Mckenzie Times of last week
says a prominent citizen of that
place is making arrangements TO go
into the wholesale shoe business
there.
Enoch Ensley, Esq, of Memphis,
is called upon by very large num-
Der of citizens, to become candi-
date for State Senator from Shelby
county.
Col. j. Il. Killebrew has been
called on by fifteen citizens of
Montgomery county to become a
candidate for Congress for the State
at large.
Capt. Sam. Il. Cannon, Jas. NJ.
Harris and NJ. S. Jay, are candi-
dates-with an hundred, more or
less-and not much less-in Shelby
county. n~s-.s
Candidates for Congress, the State
Senate and Representatives from
Shelby county, are as "thick as
leaves in Valambrosa. The woods
are full of them.
There are fewer prisoners in the
Memphis Jail just now, than at any
time in the last twelve months
The general average has been from
eighty to one hundred. There are
only fifty now.
The Hartsville Vidette represents
the corn and wheat crop of Jack
son, Clay and Macon counties as be-
ing as fine as can be, with album
dance in prospect.
Some wag has presented the edi-
tor OF the Huntsville Vidette with
ga little old white hat" but he says
they must give him new one.
Simon w. Green, of Memphis,
fearlessly places his name before the
people of Shelby county as a candi-
date for Representative lie for
merly resided in this city.
Col. J. NJ. Crews, who represen-
ted Shelby county in the House last
session, is a candidate for Senator.
He is good man and viii make
first rate Senator.
Dr.. Lackey, of Lauderdale coun-
ty, last week, while holding his
horse, got his fingers wound up in
the bride in such a manner, that on
suddenly jerking back by the horse,
one of his fingers was broken.
Col. IL. Clay King has been called
on TO run for the Senate in Mem
phis. The call is signed by about
one hundred and seventy of the best
citizens of Memphis, and responds
that he will serve, if elected.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle says
Mr.. Thomas Thompson, on the
South side of Cumberland river, on
the goth uIt., while threshing wheat,
had the misfortune TO get one of his
legs broken III two places, by being
caught III the machinery.
The Avalanche intimates that
Maj. Gen. GideonJ Pillow, of Mex
lean and Donelson fame, may be-
come a Grant man before she Presi-
Dental election.
a man named Williams, a market
gardner, having a garden joining
the Leath Orphan Asylum, recently
shot five cows belonging TO the Asv-
Jun, because they broke down tri-
ding fence and injured his garden
truck.
Dan. w Baird of Wilson county
has invented and applied for pat
ent for sclf-actiug ely brush"