Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-21
STATE NEWS.

Chattanooga reJolces IN hVe WINE
and five colored policemen.
The Moore county Pioneer says
there is good opening at Lynch
burg for tailor and wagon maker.
Archie Thomas, of the Springfield
Record, is candidate for Door
Keeper of the Senate.
They have both measles aud small
FOX at Humboldt, according to the
journal. Not very much of either.
G.. II. II. Broom, proprietor OF
Broom's Variety Theatre, died in
Memphis on the 18th.
Miss Sallie Buck was married to
Mr.. Collins Bruce, in Brownsville,
last week.
Al b. Hughes, Of Maury county,
recently trapped beaver weighing
fifty pounds.
Mrs. Mary Huisell died recently
in BIount county, in the SD year of
her age.
The dwelling of Alexander
Sproule, two miles North Of Paris,
was burned about two weeks ago.
There were twelve marriage IL
censcs issued in the new county of
Moore. week before last.
Dir. Horace F. Anderson died sud-
denly at his residence near Gala
tin, on the nth.
Lawrcnceburg taxes Billiard Ia
bles-of which she has one-twelVe
dollars and fifty cents per annum.
A. G. Carroll, OF the Carroll
House, Chattanooga, died in that
city OF pneumonia, last week.
They have-or had last week-the
snail pox in a mild form, at Browns
vile.
The Appeal says there arc TWEEN
ty-tivc candidates for the speaker
ship of the State Senate. There are
but twenty-five members.
Lynchburg, the county seat Of
Moore county, has no grave yard
What's the use of a grave yard, If
the people don't die?
The Steam Saw MrfS of a Mr..
Woods, on Short Mountain, Can
non county, was destroyed by fire
last week.
The store of II. g. Potter, at Fow-
lcr's Mill, Warren county, was des-
troyed by fire, week before last
The result Of accident.
a. w. Hawkins has sold the Hunt
in%dOn Republican to T.. &. Ridg-
ley, but continues to edit it as here
toiOre.
Mrs. Margaret Stark, aged IS,
died vt the residence OF her son,
Col. 10. &. Stark, at Springfield,
Robertson county, last week.
The Pulaski Citizen expects to
lie printed on a new power press at
the commencement of 1873. Sue
cess.
staggering juice" iw what the
Murfreesboro News calls the arti-
cles the votaries of Bacchus use in
that burg.
Mr.. WIN. Craig, a Memphis law
yer, died in Missouri last week,
whittier he had gone in search of
health.
l.. w. Harris has been elected
Mayor, G.. Il. Wright, IL. A. Schell,
>. NiCkelson, Il. III. King, w. r.
Tompkins, Il. +. Moore and w. j.
Henley, Aldermen Of Gallatin.
Mrs. Trousdale, the venerable
widow OF Ex-Governor Trousdale,
fell in her cellar the other day, and
broke one Of her arms, and other
wise injured her self She resides
in Gallatin.
The BrOwnsvill Bee, in the midst
Of the cold of last week, was clam
Oring for some one TO establish a
"cOal yard" in that place. IL ought
to have been done last summer.
A couple of belligerent citizens Of
Carroll county, got into an cold
fashioned fist fight" ut Huntingdon,
last week. The Recorder assessed
assessed ono OF them So for his share
of the fun.
Mrs. Anna II. Fleming, wife of
Col. John NJ. Fleming, wife of Col.
John NJ. Fleming, editor of the
Knoxville Press and Herald, died in
that city on the 9TH inst.
The Catholics of Lawremceburg,
in this State, are building Con-
vent, which the journal of that
place, says begins TO assume proper
tions.
Mrs, Nancy Baxter, wife of Jos.
Baxter, near Caledonia. Henry
county, was stricken with paralysis
on the I'd inst, and no hopes OF her
recovery are entertained.
Mr.. James Banks, formerly a citi-
zen of Henderson county, but fer
many years a citizen of Memphis,
died in that city on the 18th inst,
aged 76.
). G.. Stratton has been elected
Mayor, and j. NJ. Andersoe, NJ. Il.
Bennett, J. f. COe, Il. O'Brien, j.
w. Phillips, ii. =. Stiles and J.
Matt Woodland, Aldermen of Leba-
non.
After all that has been said and
done, l.. l.. Boyd, floater elect from
Favettc and Shelby, has resigned,
and an order has been issued for the
election of successor, on the I'd
day of January. There are numer-
Gus candidates.
A negro man, Reuben Murray,
who Killed another negro about a
year ago, and has been ''lying OUT
until two or three weeks ago, when
he was arrested and put in Jail at
Pulaski, where he died of dropsy,
last week.
Doak of the Clark sville Tobacco,
Leaf, thinks the present Leap year
has been an immense success, and
that ii the ladies' had leap year priv
ilcgcs every year, il would beat an
emigration society all hollow.
Sam Ivens, of the Athens Post.
has been giving his readers more
than they descrvcd-i. Chan
they would pay for, and has resoly-
cd to do SO no more. lie has re-
luccd The size of his paper to CORES
pond with the patronage il receives.
II il had the patronage il deserves,
he might print a paper as large as a
he'd blanket.
Rev. Carson L. Rcid-the father
of Rev. w. L. Reid, who died at the
house Of the late W. II. Long, OF
this city, during the WSr--died at
hiS residence near Pulaski. on the
ii lust, in the 7jd year OF his aye.
He was Minister for nearly half a
century, in the Cumberland prcshy-
terrain Church.
The Springfield Record says: In
the month of November, Robertson
county disiillers, from grain, pro-
duced 54,262 gallons of proof wills
Nv The Tax on the same is S23.-
9S6 90. Revenue. The total revc-
uue paid iuto the Treasury, 10y Rob
ertson county, during last month
was s2t,24l 90, There is not enOth-
or county in the State that beats
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