Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-06-15
STATE NEWS.

tional Bank at Union City.
Capt. Meredith Helm, of Column
bia, died june Sd, in the saith year
of his age.
Rev. III. III. Banks was installed
~ pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at Murfrcesboro last Sunday.
N. III. Currie, for reasons he could
not control, declines to further can
vass for Sheriff of Haywood county.
The GAINESVILLE papers report the
wheat crop in that section as very
fine.
Mr.. Edward l.. Cherry, one of
Brownsville's most enterprising
business men, died last week.
The Lincoln county News thinks
the wheat crop of Lincoln county
will prove TO be full average.
VIM. J. Hamilton of Lincoln coun-
ty, is a candidate for floater from
Lincoln and Giles.
DR.. III. Whitfield is a candidate to
represent Lincoln county in the
next legislature.
The Columbia Herald calls upon
Hon. John V. Wright to become a
candidate to represent Maury coun-
ty in the legislature.
The Brownsville Bee reports the
crop prospect in that section as be-
ing good, Notwithstanding the
drouth.
The Murfresboro News urges the
claims of Gen. Jos. Il. Palmer, of
that city, TO a seat in Congress from
the fourth district.
Gen. j. b. Palmer, of Murfrecs-
boro, is urged by the executive COM
mittee of rutherford county, to be-
come a candidate for Congress.
n vein of excellent coal has been
found in Lawrence county, by Mr.
a. a. Lippo. The quality is said
to be good.
VIM. Irwin, Collier and Superin-
tcndent of the coal creek cOaling
ground for the Lagrange Furnace,
killed one of his hands named Win
tiers, with u shovel, last week.
w. p. FOLEY, editor of the Lin
coin county News, and j. ID. Til
man, are candidates for the Senate
from the counties of Lincoln, Frank
lin and Marshall.
Terry DOdson, a young man in
the employ of John Mitchell, of
Weakly county, committed suicide,
by shooting himselfin the left breast
with a rifle, on the I'd inst.
Col. w. II. Handy, of the Union
City Courier, announces himself as
Il candidate for Presidential electOr
for Greeley and Brown, in this, the
Sth district.
Dan Smith, colored, who killed
James MeriWether in Shelby coun-
~ in 1871, has been sentenced to be
hanged on Friday next, June 21st,
iii the Jail yard at Memphis.
Jacob Sebring, a carpenter, and
partner of II. E. Lee, in Memphis,
decamped from that city last Fri
day, with five or six thousand dol
lars of money belonging to the firm.
We are glad to note the fact that
the editor of the Waynesboro Re-
view is a diligent reader of the
WING AND TRIBUNE. 1t will do
him gOod-especially il he follows
our advice.
Fayette county holds a Congress
sional, Senatorial, Pictorial and
Representative county convention
next Monday, under the auspices of
the democratic executive committee
of said county.
Our old friend, E. j. Read, ESQ,
of Brownsville, was chosen by the
bar at Dyersburg last week, to pre-
side over the court, in the absence
of Judge Black. He makes a good
one.
Col. Jas. IL. Hughes, late Senator,
probable candidates for the State
Senate from the counties of War
rem, Coffee, DeKalb and Cannon.
The Methodist Church at Muir
freesbOro is now under process of
remoddling, and the congregation
have the use of the primitive Bap-
list Church in the mean time.
Hon. a. .. T., Nicholson, Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of
Tennessee, has at last been relieved
of his political disabilities, and the
indictment against him for holding
Office in violatioR,of the fourteeth
constitutional amendment, has been
dismissed.
The Columbia Herald yields the
Senator from that district to Will
Hanson county with i'll concealed
orvann which l. nN-oY, xtror.ca
pen revolt against the action of the
Convention. Men who play with
edge-tools--couYentions--haVe no
right to complain, if they get their
fingers cut.
The Brownsville Bee calls Moves
Circus, which showed there last
week, ''tlabergasted" concern,
that don't advertise, and saws the
show lost three or four hundred
dollars, because it did not advertise,
while if it had done so, it would
have carried away thousands on the
credit side of its cash account.
The Brownsville States is a naugh-
ty fellow. lie not only quarrels
with us men editors, but is trying
to pick gu rrcl with'Mrs. Eliza
beth Avery Meriwethcr, editress of
the Memphis Tablet. go, Willo,
let the girls alone, and let them quiz
ct be-"
The North side of the Public
square at Pulaski was destroyed by
fire on the 9th of June. j. Il. and
Ill. G.. Grove, Barbour Il Tarpley,
Josh Caruthers, Is. Hymes IL Co,
w. G.. Flournoy, Richard Harris,
John Clcgg, Il. j. Choat and w. \.
Malone were the business sufferers.
The losses amount to SIS to $25, 900.
Insurance only $500.
Hon. Duncan X. McRae, of Mem
phis, having been numerously call
ed upon to become a candidate for
Congress from that district, re-
sponds, saying If he is nominated he
will be a candidatc-not otherwise
that he is not an applicant for the
nomination. He is man of char
acter and talents of the highest or
der, aud, if nominated and elected
and a nomination is 4 virtual cleo
tion-will be an honor to the dis
trict.
The Waynesboro Review saws
Cornelius Brewer, an old soldier of
the war of 1912, was in town last
Monday. lie is 81 years old, and
rode on horseback a distance of
twenty miles, remained for some
time in consultation with his attor-
ney, and then returned home. He
reads without the use of spectacles.
aud is as stout as most men at fifty.
He was a private in Col. Benton's
regiment.
Mr.. Charles Shivers, of Marble
llill, Moore county, was driving n
two horse wagon along the road in
Giles county the other day, and was
summoned to halt by n man with a