Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-24
STATE NEWS.

and Ladder Company at CiarksVllle.
There is a project on foot to build
a new and elegant hotel at Gallatin.
Capt. F. r. Burroughs declines to
be candidate for representative
from Rutherford county.
Anderson Delap, one Of the oldest
merchants of Memphis, died near
Humboldt, last week.
The dwelling of Mrs. Everett, near
Clarksyille, was destroyed by fire
last week.
A man named Smith, shot Elihu
Fults, of Warren county, through
window last week, and killed him.
A man named Thomson was
stabbed six times and killed, at
Kenton, Obion county last week, by
man named Thomas, who escaped.
The Supreme Court at Nashville,
will adjourn on the 10th of March,
to meet in Jackson the first Monday
in April.
Stricken Cooper, eldest son of
Hon. Henry Cooper, u. S. Senator,
died at the family residence, in
Edgefield, near Nashville, last week.
Jno. w. Childress, Jr. Esq, has
announced himself as candidate
for representative from Rutherford
county.
DIR. Philip II. Cook, well known
physician of Williamson county,
died at his residence in Franklin,
two weeks ago, aged forty years.
The Banner congratulates Nash
vile on the fact that her CONNER
cial credit is better at the east than
any city Of its size in the country.
Loves Chapel, on the Brick
Church pike, north of Nashville,
was accidentally burnt on Wednes-
day of last week.
Col. Granville c. Torbett, at one
time a citizen OF jackson, but for
many years a resident of Nashville,
died at his home in that city on
Wednesday night, 18th inst, in the
62nd year of his age.
More whisky is being made in
Robertson county just now, than at
any former period. There are not
so many distilleries, but they are of
greater capacity than formerly.
Claiborne Gooch, a very promis-
ing young student of the University
of Nashville, died suddenly at his
home in Smyrna, Rutherford cOun-
ty, last week.
Maj. David ID. Nancy, of Ruther-
ford county, has heen numerously
called upon to become n candidate
for the State Senate for Rutherford
and Bedford counties.
The people of the new county of
Bell are to hold an election the first
of March, to decide whether the
county shall be called into existence,
or not.
The Lebanon Herald man sends
his paper to all widows in Wilson
county who are unable to pay fOrit,
and yet really desire to read it.
That's liberal, Bob.
The Dyersburg GaSette says there
is not vacant house in that town.
Every one is full, and more would
be, if they were there. The same is
true of jackson. Houses can not
be built here fast enough.
The lumber yard of the Stevens
- WAS uC5-
troyed by fire last week, and il was
with great difficulty their saw mill
was kept from the same fate.
One hundred recruits to the U. S.
army, intended to fill up vacancies
in the 10th infantry, stationed at
Humboldt, Tenn, and Aberdeen
and Jackson, Miss, passed through
Nashville last week.
A farmer named Douglas Davis,
was shot and killed by horse thief,
whom he had arrested in the act of
stealing a horse from him, at his
farm near Caney Fork, last week
The thief escaped.
The Methodist publishing house
at Nashville, was partially damaged
by fire last week. DIR. BEDFORD, the
agent, is at work, and will soon have
funds in hand to improve and en-
large the building.
An old man named VIM. II. Wells,
once a well-to-do farmer in William
son county, but ruined by dissipa-
ton, died suddenly while riding
along the Lewisburg pike in wag-
on, the early part of last week. He
was eighty-one years old.
The gallant and invincible Mai.
ID. H. G. Spence,-he of the B. B.
Brigade--has been called upon to
become n candidate for the State
Senate from the counties of Ruth
erford and Bedford, and has an
nounced himself as candidate.
A public meeting is to be held at
Bolivar the first Monday in March
to take measures to build railroad
from Middleton, Hardeman county,
via Bolivar, to Denmark, in Madison
county. Look out for the whistle
when you see the cars a cOmingl
An effort is being made by some
of the business men of Nashville to
revive the tobacco trade of that city.
Formerly Middle Tennessee
al counties south of Nashville, at
least-produced a large amount of
tobacco, but since the war the I'M
certainty of labor, and the necessi-
~ for labor Just when il is most
needed, has virtually banished to-
baccO from that section as staple
article of commerce.
By a recent decision of the Su-
preme Court of Tennessee, the right
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this State, by the Governor, in the
case of death or resignation of an
incumbent, is affirmed. No such
authority is given in the Constitu-
tiOn-eXcept in a most latitudinOus
construction. The case under con-
sideration was that of Judge of
Davidson County Court Smiley,
Gubernatorial appointee against
Glenn, elected by County Court.
Smiley has been seated.
We fear our friend Wall, of the
Mckenzie Times will fall heir to
some of Hon. A. IL. Stephens fame
as brilliant paragraphist, unless he
learns to compress his squibs into
less space than two and three-quar-
ter columns. Your readers have
not, all of them the patience of Job;
Hor have they the prospect of emu
Iating the age of Methusela, that
they can afford TO consume the time
necessary to read such paragraphs.
SAD BEREAVMENT.
Rev. y. Shotwell, editor of the
Memphis Presbyterian, has recently
experienced the loss of two lovely