Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-12
STATE NEWS.

Mrs. Betsy Estes died last week,
in Giles county, at the age of cigh-
ty-four.
w. w. Neal is a candidate for the
State Senate from the counties of
Lawrence, Giles, Wayne and Lewis.
Mr.. VIM. Solonan, aged seventy
four, died at his home in Gallatin
last week.
Gen. George Nancy, of Nashville
--eX-Confederate-is out in a two
column letter in favor of Grant.
Judge Emmons opened the Dis
trict Federal Court at Memphis Rst
Monday.
At AshpOrt, in Lauderdale coun-
ty, the equiHoctial storm blew down
five houses.
Gen. Frank Cheatham is to be
publicly received by the citizens of
Nashville, next Saturday, Oct. 18th.
Up to last Saturday, 2O12 bales
more of cotton were received in
Memphis, than at the correspond
ing season last year.
Jacob st. John and Mr.. Browder,
Of Obion county, each lost barn
filled with new tobacco, last week,
5y-are.
The Bolivar Bulletin chronicles
the death of Jesse Pipkin, in Har-
deman county, Sept. 4th, in the
eighty-ffth year Of his age.
The radicals in the Nashville dis
tict have nominated Richard 5.
Tuthill, of Nashville, as a candi-
date for Elector of the 9th district.
No stamps are required on any
legal documents, notes, or other
writing, except bank checks, since
last Tuesday, Oct. LIST.
The Ripley News chronicles the
death in that place on the 28th ulti-
mo, of Mrs, Scales, wife of the prin-
cipal of Ripley Female Institute.
The Lawrence Journal says Chan
cellor Nixon has been sick for sew
eral days of malarial sickness, con-
tracted on Tennessee river.
Mr.. Jas. Il. Reed, a worthy and
respectable citizen Of McMinn coun-
~ died last week, aftcra few hours
Illness.
The great Memphis Exposition
opened Thursday, with tremendous
eclat. Long and prosperously may
il wave.
The Dyersburg Progress says full
ly one thousand squirrels have been
killed within one mile of that place,
within thirty days, and that the
woods is still full of thOnI-
The Athens Post announces the
death, on the Gath of September, of
Capt. Thomas Prigmire, aged eigh-
iy-iive years. lie was soldier of
the war of 1912.
n lad, sixteen years old, son of
Porter Folice, of Shelby county,
was burnt to death in his fathers
gin, which was destroyed by fire
near Bartlett, last week.
DIR. Stith Richardson, one of the
oldest and best citizens OF DYER
county, died at his residence in Dy-
crsburg, Sunday morning, Septen-
Der 2oth, aged seventy-four years.
\ negro man stole pocket book
from a woman of his own color the
other day, at Pulaski, was arrested,
true bill found; he was tried, con-
dcmned To eight years in the peni-
tcntiary within twcnty-four hours
of the theft.
The Athens Post says: 'The pain
full intelligence reached here a few
days ago, from Blount Springs. Ala.
that David e. Gillespie, formerly of
This vicinity huh
eide by shooting himself.
Ed. Wallace, a lad of fifteen. in
adjusting band about the ma
chinery of the wooden mill, at Hum
bOldt, on the Sd, was caught, the
arm was crushed and afterwards
amputated, and his life was despair
ed of.
The Paris Intelligencer saws: ait is
publicly stated that Frank Travis,
the late Revenue collector of this
district, has gone glimmering to
parts unknown, with a large A.
mount of Government funds unac-
counted for.
The Pulaski Citizen notices the
singular fact that spring on the
place of Mr.. Alfred White, in Giles
county, which had afforded IAN a.
bundant supply of water for sixty
years, was found the other day, af-
ter the equinoctial storm had pass
ed, to be entirely dry, not afTording
now drop of water.
The Progress says that during the
equinoctial storm last Tuesday
week, tree four feet through was
blown across n log corn crib belong
ing to j. NJ. Porter, between Dyers-
burg aud Newborn, breaking every
log init, killing one fine mich cow.
breaking the back of another, and
knocking of horn from q third.
Capt. Robt. W. Haywood. late of
the Brownsville States, and am en-
thusiastic friend of Andrew John
son, made a glorious Cheatham
speech at Brownsville, last Satur-
day night. by the time of the cleo
ton, everybody will be for Cheat
ham.
Everything in the Jewelry line Just re-
Ceived NJ KELLY,S.