Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-14
STATE NEWS

ItOl ~ 4 tDAiEANDA4J NAAI VI NAA@ wa ]
est citizens of Lagrange, Fayette
county, died about two weeks ago.
Thirty-thousand dollars have been
subscribed for a cotton factory near
GreenYille.
The first brick house erected ut /
Erin, Houston county, is that just I
built by Jacob Buguo.
Friday the sum of S1,782 a was
paid into the United States internal |
revenue Office at Nashville.
Mr.. John Curtiss, aged 80 years, /
died at his residence six miles west 4
OF Paris, on the 2nd inst.
The Memphis Ledger thinks a new |
fire proof Courthouse in that city |
the one thing needful.
The Memphis and Paducah rail-
road is being pushed forward to |
completion very rapidly.
The Chattanooga Daily Herald
has gone dead. Gov. Bard will |
hereafter crate weekly-tiil he Sc
cures an appointment.
The Huntingdon Republican says
Frank Harrison of that place, killed |
a hog few days ago, which weigh !
ed 529 pounds.
A man named Palmer, was found
dead on heap of cinders hear Roam
q Cos pudding mill at Chattanoo-
a, a few days ago.
Rev. G.. A. Caldwell, Faster of the
Presbyterian Church at Bristol, has
received call to the Church at
Winchester, Ky.
Fayette county rejoices in u new
jail, from which the Somerville
Falcon thinks there will be no more
breaking.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle thinks
the people OF Rutherford county
are in a fair way to erect a 800, 600
cotton factory.
The Nashville Medical School has
240 students. 1t mas had in TWEEN
ty-two years 4, 626 students, Of whom
1865 were graduated.
The enterprising citizens of Muir
freesboro are actively agitating the
project of a cotton factory in that
placs. Why not?
The cotton gin and fifteen bales
of cotton, belonging to Jno. Church
well, of Hardin county, were re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
The residence in Mckenzie, be-
longing to Hillsman & Gardner,
was burned down on Tuesday night.
Loss, $4,000. No insurance.
Mr.. Jon Latta, the father of Capt.
). *. Latta, of Dyersburg, died at
the residence of his son, in that
town, December I'd, in the Nth year
of his age.
The festive youths of Murfrees-
boro, innocently anuse themselves
by smashing gas lamps in the pub
lie square and still they are not
happy.
The Post offices at West Point
and Palo Alto, Lawrence county,
which were lately discontinued,
have been restored-snd more are
wanted.
Mr.. John Scannell, a shoe maker
by trade, was found deadin his shop
two weeks ago, in SomervilIe with
pistol ball through his head. 1t
seems doubtful whether it was muir
der or suicide.
The Female Institute at Lewis
burg, Marshall county, was discOv-
cred to be on fire on the morning of
the 8th; but was extinguished be-
fore any serious damage was done.
There is a great deal of unpicked
cotton in the filds in Carroll county
yet. Ditto of a good many other
counties, Notwithstanding the IA
vorable fall.
The residence of John Jammer-
son, near Normandy, on the Nash
vile and Chattanooga Railroad. was
destroyed by fire last week. Defec-
tive flue.
The prisoners in the Montgomery
comfy Jail at GAINESVILLE last week
attempted to burn up that institu-
ton, but the attempt was discovered
before anyfmaterial damage was
done, and all the prisoners ere now
hand-cuffed.
In view Of the fact that nearly
every member elected to the leois-
lature wants to be Speaker. The
troy Times suggests that they take
II time about" as the bows saw
when playing "blindman's Buff"
The Union City Courier has seen
a poplar log which measured fifty
eight. inches inside the bark, at the
butt end, and fifty-tWo inches inside
the bark at the little end.
The Murfreesboro Monitor re-
cords the death in the woods, last
week, of j. w. Mcdaniel. an old
citizen Of Rutherford county. He
is supposed to have died of heart
disease
"A fight occurred in a drinking sa-
loon in Mnrfreesboro, last week, be-
tween j. Z. McDonough. formerly
city Marshall, and man named
VIM. Scruggs, who lives near Beech
Grove, Coffee county, in which Nc
Donough, was killed by a pistol
shot, having first shot at Scruggs.
The Murfreesboro News chroni-
cles the death of an infant of Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Harris, of Ruther-
ford county, by choking. 1t had
been fastened in a chair, and in at
tempting to get out of the chair, il
got the string about its neck, and
thus choked TO death.
Mr.. John Caldwell, who resides
near White Pine, jefferson county.
had been shooting some guineas for
his mother, and reloaded his pistol. !
putting it in his pants pocket. In
passing the corner of the breakfast
table hastily his pistol come in con-
tact with it, exploding the charge,
and severely wounding him in the
thigh.
The Dyersburg Progress records |
the particulars of q difficulty at /
New bern, between Dave and Doc |
Weakley, and J. w. Gray, in which !
the latter was shot through both |
jaws. The Weakleys made their |
escape.
The Avalanche says that after all, !
Dir. L. l.. Boyd, was in August last, |
elected Tax Collector of Fayette |
county, and who, from some cause |
failed to qualify at the proper time,
and was at the Novem Der election /
elected as the fioterial representa-
tive from Fayette and Shelby, will |
not resign, after all the TODD, and |
promises which he had made TO do
so.
The Chattanooga Times of the
5th saws: There was not a pound of
coal to be obtained in the city yes
terday nor the day before. If the
river is to continue going back on
us in this way we must depend upon
the railroads. Ii the Cincinnati
road was built we should never SUE
fer from want of Goa"
The Memphis Avalanche says: at