Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-08-24
STATE NEWS.

brandy distilling establishments in
Robertson county.
The vote in Green county, for SUI
preme Court Judge, was McFar-
land, 1876; Cooke, %.
Hon. A. +. Garrett is announced
for reelection for Congress in the
second district.
The Catholic church in Nashville
has purchased about $4,000 worth
of property there since the war.
Ephraim w. McRady, aged seven
ty-two, died at his home near CO.
lumbia, August 18th.
There are only seven candidates
for the legislature in Maury county.
More expected.
Frank Travis, who has been col
lector of Interval Revenue, for the
last four or five years, has resigned.
They are about ready to COM
mence the brick work on Bethel
College, at Mckenzie.
Mayor Alternately, of Mckenzie,
resigned that Office last Monday, and
will at once remove to Hico.
The tax collector of Maury coun-
ty has but one arm; the Trustee of
Williamson has none.
A Mr.. Stroud, living near Linton,
has COW 10 years old, weighing one
thousand and seventeen pounds.
Dyer county, with an aggregate
vote of 1899, only cast 1887 votes in
the county elections.
There are three hundred and six
ty-eight patients in the hospital for
the insane near Nashville.
E. A. James, Esq, of Chattanoo-
ga, has been nominated for the State
Senate.
EIWilson, who was shot by his
brother-in-law, Ray, at Brownsville,
is dead.
w. p. Ii. Turner is candidate to
represent Lawrence county in the
legislature.
Jos. NJ. Sowell, w. c. Whitthorne
and I. II. Gibbs, are candidates for
Congress in the 9th district.
Marshall county wants Hon. Ed
mund Cooper, of ShelbyVille, for
Elcctor for the State at large.
They were needing rain badly at
Gadsden, Crockett county last
week.
A new National Bank will COM
mence operations at Springfield in
few days.
The Paris Intelligencer of the 18th,
chronicles the death in that place on
the 9th, of Mrs. Dorinda Peden, a.
ged seventy-four years.
Geo. w. Martin has been nomina-
ted by primary election to repre-
sent Weakly county in the next leg
islature.
Col. IL. w. Wall, of Mckenzie,
and VIM. |. Mcfarland, Esq, of
Humboldt, are candidates for foater
in that district.
DIR. A. Harris, DR.. III. +. Fergu-
son and Dick Williamson are candi.
dates for the Legislature in Dyer
county.
John l.. Brandon has been nomi-
mated, by a convention, for Senator
for the counties of Giles, Lawrence,
Wayne and Lewis.
SIN. Howard, II. w. Powell, aud
f. ID. Edwards, are candidates for
the legislature from Obion and Lake
counties.
All the officers elected at the re-
cent election will take their respec-
tive positions on the first of Sep
TENDER.
L. a. Dean was elected Sheriff.
III. &. Campbell, Tax Collector, and
Daniel Dean Trustee, of Hickman
county.
DIR. j. l.. FARRELL, who has been
for some time before the people of
Gibson county for representative,
now declines.
"A. 5. Goodwin and Rufus Il.
Polk, of Naury county are candi-
dates for foater from that county
and Williamson.
Alfred Caldwell, of Knoxville
formerly of Athens has been NOM
mated as the Greeley candidate for
Congress in the third district.
Col. 10. c. Stark, of Springfield,
is a candidate for Congress, against
T.. l. Golladay, in the Nashville dis
trict.
Charles L. Herrin is candidate
for the State Senate from the district
composed of the counties of Giles,
Lawrence, Wayne and Lewis.
The Gadsden correspondent at the
Humboldt Journal always knows
80.
old friend Henry WEIGH always
appears punctually ON that day.
Gen. Jno. G. Vaughn, late Speak
er of the Senate, declines, in a card
in the Athens Post, to become
candidate for either the State Sem
ate or for Congress.
Chancellor ID. NJ. Key has been
nominated for Congress in the Chat
tanooga district. Gov. Brown will
have to appoint his successor as
Chancellor, If he resigns.
Hon. A. Z. Garrett, at present
member of Congress from the I'd
district, is an Independent candi-
date for reelection, against the
nominee.
Judge j. .. Shackleford, of Nash
vile, late one of the Judges of the
Supreme Court of Tennessee, has
abandoned Grant, and is out for
Greeley.
The Brownsville Bee chronicles
the death, in that town, last week,
of an old negro man, named Frank
Lee, aged one hundred and fourteen
years. He leaves a sister there aged
one hundred and eight.
DR.. G. a. Mathes, editor of the
Somerville Falcon, who declined the
nomination for floateF, is out in a
card explaining tohy he declined
Division at home was the cause.
The newspapers throughout the !
State with few and rare exceptions |
arc just now heavy in their wrath |
upon the devoted head of one Ed |
ward Baxter-that's the way thew /
put-because he is solicited 10 be 4
candidate for Governor.
Mrs. Martha Hamilton, aged nine
ty-fve years, died last week in Lin
coln county. Her husband died in
February, 1872, aud she remained a
widow till her death.
Maj. George Lipscombe, OF Cross
bridges, Maury county, this wear
raised eighty bushels of wheat per
acre, aud Col. n. j. Cooper, of Sa-
Vannah, Lewis county; ninety-seven
bushels of W heat Der acre PRATT |