Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-26
STATE NEWS.


Horace Maynard, Gen. Cheatham's
opponent for Congress at large,
spoke TO about five hundred people
in Court Square, Memphis, Friday
night, 18th.
w. III. Timmons, Esq, of Maury
county, is candidate for ilOater In
the district composed of Maury and
Williamson counties.
The buildings of the Fair grounds
at Savannah, Hardin county, were
blown down during the equinoctial
storm.
A wild deer was lately killed in a
gentleman's garden at Waynesboro.
A young man named Miller, a son
of our friend John Miller, residing
near Cedar Chapel, Fayette county,
was shot and killed on the1eth inst.
by aman named Doyle.
The Ripley NeicS represents that
town to be growing rapidly under
the prospect for the railroad.
Two hundred and twenty-six del
egates were present at the opening
Nashville, last week.
Felix Grundy.Earthman, n farmer.
drew the capital prize, Sc, 800, Mr..
Ed. III. Miller, of Nashville, the sec
ond prize, $1,000, and MIR. l.. G..
Eastman, of Nashville. the third
prize, So, 100, in the Nashville Agri-
cultural Lottery.
The lrishmen of Clarksville have
organized society under the name
of the United Irish Benevolent So
ciety of Clarksville, with S. o. w.
Brandon, President; Ill. Stratford,
Nico President; j. Shay, Secretary;
and Nj. Sullivan, Treasurer.
DIR. j. S. Crouch, one of the old
citizens of Montgomery county,
died at his residence there on the
18th inst.
Itdon't look as if the cotton crop
OF Lake county would be "short.h
The Troy Times learns that the av-
erage yield there is from 1850 10
1000 pounds per acre.
The Times says III. NJ. Tyler has
raised the largest turnips in Obion
county this year,-sOme of them
weighing as much as fifteen pounds.
Col. John f. House, of GAINESVILLE,
has been making series of Cheat
ham speeches through Middle and
East Tennessee, which cannot fail
TO be effective for good.
VIM. s. Rose, of Lawrence county,
the other night killed a horned owl,
while i'm the act of descending upon
his hen-roost. IL measured four
feet ten inches from tip to tip of the
wings.
William Howell Davis, Youngest
son OF Hon. Jefferson Davis, died
at his fathers home in Memphis,
Wednesday, Oclober Is, aged ten
years.
The local Of the Appeal says the
owners of certain property in that
city are about to tear down certain
old shanties, and erect new ones in
their stead. Why not put up COM
Portable and slightly buildings, in
stead of shanties?
The ST. Louis concern which was
10 complete the Memphis and
Raleigh narrow gauge road, ''got
busted" and the work is not likely
TO be completed for some weeks to
come.
Mr.. Jesse f. Brown has consented
to be the leader Of the forlOrn hope
OF JOhnsonisIu in Shelby county, by
becoming an independent candidate
for the legislature. The people will
put him in his little bed'' on the
9th proxlmo.
Lewis Holmes aud j. Il. Eubank.
two citizens of Hardeman county,
got intoa pei soual difficulty at New
castle, Thursday, 18th inst, in which
Eubank struck Holmes with piece
of stovc-wood, from the effects of
whish he died soon after.
AngeloSNIarre, of Memphis, was
last Monday sentenced TO three
ySars in the.penitentiary, for receiv-
ing stolen goods. He asks q new
trial, which is to be argued to-day,
and if not granted, an appeal will
be taken to the Supreme Court.
Gov. John c. Brown andl a. \.
former for reelection
and the latter for defeat for the Of
flee of GoVernor-addreSs the peO-
pie of Shelby county At Memphis
last Monday.
The Shelby County Fair like our
West Tennessee Fair-has had very
bad weather for two or three days. |
Marsh It. Polk, of Bolivar, has
been nominated at 4 County Con-
TO represent Hardcman |
County IN the next Legislature. |
Nose Parrish, ofthe Bulletin is also |
a candidate.
The Memphis Ledger is printed |
daily in the presence of thousands of
people in the Exposition building in
Memphis, on a new fast Hoe press,
purchased for the occnsion,