Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-16
STATE NEWS


The Columbia Herald wants law
to prevent the marriage of minors
especially mere children.
Mr.. Mathew Jasper, who resided
near Columbia, committed suicide
on the Sth inst.
TGen. J. d. G. Atkins is elected to
Congress from the 18th district, by
about 5000 majority.
Cheatham beat johnson in Bed
ford county, although that great pa
per, the Rescue, is published there
Mrs. HeflIin died at the residence
of her son in GAINESVILLE last week
aged So.
w. r. Robertson, Esq, of Browns.
vile, is elected to the State Senate
from that district.
w. w. Rutledge, republican, is
elected to the House of Representa-
tives from Haywood county.
Nearly all the Independent candi-
dates in this State, are elected to
Congress and the legislature.
Bradley county farmers have sown
twice as much wheat this fall as
they did last.
The Knoxville Press and Herald
reports fire prevailing in the noun
tains of East Tennessee.
Ooltowah is to remain the county
seat of the new county of James,
SO decided by the Supreme Court.
There were four or five new cases
of small poX at BriJtol-On-the-Iine,
last week.
Mr.. Joseph Lamb, of Hawkins
county, died October 10th, at the
advanced age of 10 years.
VIM. ii. Simonton killed large
wild cat within two miles of Law
renccburg last week.
An election will be held at Hum
boldt next Friday, 22d inst for May
or and Aldermen.
Mrs. Elizabeth Park, of Columbia,
died of Lockjaw a few days since,
occasioned by sticking nail in her
foot.
Whitthorne is elected to Congress
N II
Bright in the 4th district. They
are liberals.
Holmes Cummins, Esq, one of
the best citizens of Upton county,
has been elected to represent that
county in the legislature.
Geo. &. Tinsley, Esq, has been
elected Chairman of Dyer county
court, in place of DR.. Stith Richard
son, deceased.
Mr.. Thomas Early, aged so years,
a citizen of Bradley county, was
thrown from his horse a few days
since and suddenly killed.
A negro man named Willis Web
ster stabbed and killed a white man
named VIM. Reese, near Cross Brid-
ses, Maury county last week.
Richard II. Barry, Grand Secre-
tary of the Grand Lodge, and Grand
Scribe of the Grand Encampment of
Odd Fellows, of this State, died in
Nashville, Nov. 9TH.
The Greenvillc Sentinel learns
that two cases of small pox had oc-
Cured at Rhea town, on the East
Tennessee and Virginia road, last
week.
A man named Bob Cox, a fireman
in Memphis, shot and killed Philip
Martin, laborer, last Saturday
evening. a woman was at the bot
tom of it.
y new line of railroad is being
surveyed by a competent corps of
engineers, from Chattanooga to
Cumberland Gap, by way of Rock
wood, divers Springs and Coal
Greek.
The trunk of Miss Fannie Caruth-
ers was stolen from the platform of
the railroad at Union City last
week, carried a short distance, bro
ken open, and about 5000 in money
and jewels stolen. No clue.
Lun Dozier, negro man, got in
to drunken difficulty at Yorkville,
Gibson county, last week, with a
white man named w. ~. Under
wood. Underwood shot him in the
arm, and the negro cut Under
woods throat, so that he died.
A difficulty occurred at the 9th
precinct in Lawrence county, on the
day of election, between w. +.
Blakemore and Thos. Hippo, in
which the former shot the latter,
slightly, in the head. No politics
in the matter.
The Chattanooga Herald i'm a COM
pliinentary notice of Hon. William
Crutchfield, who has just been cleo
ted to Congress from the third dis
trict, pays him the high compliment
of calling him "the Davy Crockett,
of that learned and august body"
We learn from the Columbia Her
aid, that Robt. ID. Ricketts,, former
Sheriff Of Maury county, last week
shot and killed his brother-in-law,
,Ino. l.. Grimes, at Mount Pleasant.
The difficulty was about a settle
ment.
a frightful accident occurred the
other day at Phillips Mill, near Dy-
Railroad. Mr.. Ben Phillips was
pouring grain into the hopper of
the mill, when one of the mill stones
burst, wounding him so severely
that both legs will probably have to
NC dIIlputdtGu.
Mr.. J. Il. Dickey, a merchant at
,lohnSonvillc, was assassiuated in
his store there Friday night, Sth
inst, it is supposed, by Il. o. Parks,
who was the telegraph operator,
and temporarily occupying the posi-
ton of railroad agent, and agent for
the Southern Express Company.
Mr.. Felix johnson sued the Mem
phis and Louisville railroad for fifty
thousand dollars damages, because
he feel with his back across a cross
tie, at Brownsville. The case came
to trial in the first Circuit Court at
Memphis last week, and the jury
gave him two thousand three hum
dred dollars.
Peter Bean was in the bottom of
a well on Front row, Memphis, last
week, when his faithful dog missed
him and run to the mouth of thu
well and reared up on large buck
ct to look for him. The bucket fell
into the well, splitting Beams head
open, and killing him.
We subjoin the aggregate vote of
Haywood county: Grant 1892, Gree
ley 1915; Freeman 29I2, John c..
Brown 1l10; Congressman at large,
Maynard 2945, Cheatham 141O, John
son 354; for Congressman Sth dis
trict, Num- S07S, Caldwell 2SS,
Campbell 1913, Bell 81; w. w. Rut-
ledge is elected to the legislature,
and Jno. II. Bond floater from Hay
wood, Madison and Hardeman.
Miss Lou F. Hightower, daughter
Of the late DIR. II. II. Hightower of
Williamson county, died at the resi-
dcnce of her grand father, Robt. e.
Foster, Esq, in Haywood county,
oct. 27th, from the effects of milk
she had drank, supposed to have
been poisoned by some thing the
cows had eaten. What adds to the