Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-30
STATE NEWS

Pork was selling last week at Gal
latin, at $S,75@4.
On the 18th inst D. A. Smith
killed a wild bear one and @ half
miles from Knoxville.
C.. Hawkins, editor of the McKen-
zie Times, rejoiees in the addition
of junior to his family-a boy.
E. M. Wight, republican, has been
elected Mayor of Chattanooga, with
a majority of republican Aldermen.
The Columbia Herald says farm
ers are delivering pork there at nVc
cents.
Mai, w. J. Sykes was in Column
bia last week, working for the Mar
row Gauge Railroad.
The tobacco barn of l.. Herndon
Montgomery county, was burned a
few days ago. Loss $500.
The great Memphis Exposition
closed last Friday, after a run of six
weeks. 1t was a success.
The Pulaski Citizens says there
are one hundred horses in that town
down with the disease.
The Union City Courier say Col.
Morton killed a large bear in the
edge of that town last week
The dwelling House Of II. G. Nor
ton, six miles east of Paris, was des-
troyed by fire last week. House
and contents total loss.
Mr.. Thomas p. Evans, died in
White county recently, very sud-
denly. He was the father Of Mrs.
II. E. Dunlap, of Paris.
A man named A. G. Ewing, a
native ofDavidson county, commit
ted suicide at Pulaski last week, by
inhaling chloroform.
Sam Rankin, on Hickory Greek,
Warren county, last week killed an
eagle measuring seven feet from tip
TO tip.
The Rogersville Reporter men
tions the death of Mr. Joseph Lamb
recently at an age not less than ITO
years.
Gov. Brown has appointed Jos.
r. Mosly, Of Somerville, q director
on the part of the State, in the Mem
phis and Charleston Railroad.
Our old friend Thos. Priddy OF
Henderson country has a hog one
and half years old, weighing six
hundred pounds.
Jas. l.. Winfield Jr., Mayor of
Brownsville, died in that place. on
the goth of November. He had
been In feeble health for many
mouths.
L. l.. Boyed, who was elected
floater from Shelby and Fayette, has
resigned and a new election with
numerous caRdidates-will.probably
be the result.
Mr.. p. II. Price, who resides
near Morristown depot, on the Nc
Minnvillo and Manchester railroad
met with tho misfortune of break
ing one of his arms last week.
A case of Small Pox occurred in
Gallatin last week. 1t was child
of w. III. King, about two years
old. The child was reported doing
well.
The Troy Times wants TO build q
railroad from that place, down the
Davidson Greek bottom, to the near
est point on the Paducah and Mem
phis railroad.
The farmers of 0bion county have
a much larger breadth of land in
wheat than usual, and have "put in"
a good deal better than they have
been in the habit of doing.
The people of Gibson county will
assemble at the Court House in
Trenton to-day to concert measures
for the extention OF Tennessee Cen
trail Railroad from Huntingdon to
Fulton on the Mississippi river.
DIR. Joseph W. Richardson OF
Rutherford county-one OF the best
men in Tennessee-dieda f his resi-
dence, near Smyrna, November the
18th, in the esd year of his age.
The Murfreesboro News of the
ED says Col. j. NJ. King had his
children and grand children at his
residence on Wednesday last week to
celebrate his eighty-fifth birth day,
Hon. VIM, F. Cooper, one the
best lawyers in tho State, has been
appointed Chancellor at Nashville
in place of Hon. e. III. East, re-
signed.
Col. Joseph t. Motley, who was
elected one of the Greeley electors
for this State, for the fifth district
died at his home in Lebanon, No,
vember 16th., after an Hines OF two
weeks, The college will fill the va.
cancy.
The Gallatin ErdmineT says Rev
Mr.. Shearer, of Virginia has accep
ted a call from the Presbyterian
Church of that place, and will entel
upon the discharge of his dutieI
early in January.
Our old friend DR.. W. w. Lea
OF the Tennessee Central Railroad
has persistently followed up hi
idea for nearly thirty years, and il
likely, after all, to live TO see it bull
from Huntingdon to Fulton, on thu
Mississippi river. He has succeeded
in getting the Chattanooga anC
Northwestern roads to assist in thI
work.
The Huntingdon RepucIicG1
learns that little child of Mr.. Stan
ley's, in that vicinity was recently
playing with a canister of powder
threatening to shoot some of the
other children. He placed it on tn,
fire, and an explosion ensued, burn
ing the little fellow very badly.
We learn from the Ripley Week.,
News, that Mayor w. j. Stura-
want, a we'll known citizen of Lau
derdale county, residing near Oak
grove, went to town last Monday
week, got drunk, started home, fel
from his horse, was not found unit
Wednesday, and when found, wa
in q dying condition.
A little daughter of VIM. Hicks
of Gibson county, on a visit with
her monther, to Mr.. Anderson
Black, OF Carroll county the Other
day, while playing about the kitch
en- fire, suffered herself to go too
close, her clothing taking fire, re
sulting in her death.
The Trenton Nesos notices tn,
fact that Mr.. w. S. Hall of tn,
Christian Church, and Mr.. w. w
Garder, of the Baptist Church, have
been holding a public dispute sbour
the antRgonistic doctrines of theil
respective churches. There Is al
old truth, "Christ and him crucified'
which we commend to both OF theil
attention.
A negro man about seven miles
from Trenton, on the Popular Cor
ner road two weeks ago met a small
white girl of the name of Price, il
a lonely place, and by choking ant
threats accomplished a Hameless of
tense upon her. He fed the country
so closely pursued that he was com
PEELED to leave his horse and take
10 the bushes.
Sam. P. Ivens, editor of the
Athans Post tells his readers they