Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-03-02
STATE NEWS.


ford county.
About thirty miles of new iron on
the Nashville and Chattanooga road.
have been laid.
Mrs. Charlotte Bell, widow OF
late DR.. S. W. Bell. died in Hunting
don last week aged "a.
The residence of M. L. Baird. at
Milan, was slightly damaged by fire
last Sunday week.
A little son of BENZ. Job, of Hem
fy county was thrown from buggy
ana Killed last week, the horse at
tached to the buggy ran away.
w Mcfarland has been elected
magistrate in the 4th distrit of Hen
Ty county, in place of William Col
Inns, resigned.
AT recent revival in the Metho-
dist church at Springfield, there
were ten or twelve accessions TO the
church. ''''
John T Hart accidentally shot
Charleston, on the Ococe river in
East Tennessee, February 18th.
The Southern Security Railroad
Company, with Tom Scott at its
head, last week gobbled up the
Memphis and Charleston road.
The Brownsville Bee says the
election for county officers in the
new county Of Crockett, will take
place next Saturday, March 9Th.
A correspondent OF the Ripley
Neios calls upon Col. t. p. Glass Of
Lauderdale county. to run for State
Senator. Election in August.
They already have two candidates
for the legislature in Carroll coun- |
ty: The election is only nine months
ID. ID. Nancy, of Murfreesboro.
respectfully declines to become a
candidate for the State Senate from
rutherford and Bedford counties.
The Knoxville Chronicle favors
the nomination of Hon. Horace
Maynard for the Vice Presidency.
on the Grant ticket.
The political disabilities of Col.
Lea, of Brownsville, and Gen.
y. ID. Z. Atkins, of Paris, have been
removed. Look out Caldwell and
Vaughan.
The Ripley NetDs states that rem
resentatiVe w. T.. Lynn contain
plates rendering his resignation to
Gov. Brown, before the meeting OF
the extra session of the Legislature.
Rev. Jas. s. Leftwich, of Atlanta.
Ca, has been called to the Presby-
terrain church at GAINESVILLE as Pas
tor. lie has not yet signified his
acceptance.
Col. w. r. Butler and Capt. John
l.. carney are called on in the MUIR
freesboro Monitor to become candi-
dates to represent Rutherford coun-
tY in the next legislature. I
The Murfreesboro Monitor repre- &
sents the wheat crop of Rutherford a,
as very unpromising, on account of !
the dry, cold winter-and says there d,
was less than usual sown.
The water mills around Mu-frees-
boro were all started to running af- '
ter good rain last week. Thew
have done no grinding before this. c
since last Spring. =
The Cumberland Presbvteriap r
Church at Cleveland, East Tonnes =
see, has secured the services of Rev.
James 5. Porter, formerly of Athens
Ala, as their pastor. He has en-, t
tered upon his duties. a
The first Presbyterian church in
Nashville has extended a unanimous
call to Rev. DIR. Henry j. Van DYKE
of Brooklin, New York, to become
their pastor. The result of the cali o
is yet unknown. n
The Manchester Democrat and u
Tullahoma Times have been con- a.
solidated, and the single paper is B
now published either at Tulahoma NJ
or Manchester-we don't know -
which! N
There was serious stabbing af- -
fray at Mckenzie 10Th ult., between ~
two drunken men named, Daniel Ell
Shotfner and Eli Jones, in which pl
Shotfner was seriously cut in the M
abdomen by Jones. n
Carroll county is to take vote 70
to-day, to decide whether thev will -
levy school tax or not. The Re- ~
publican thinks it will be voted IN
Town, put thinks the people will re- he
psnt of it before the year closes. st
They are clearing up the rubbish. ly
to rebuilding the burnt at
portion of the Methodist Publish -
ng House at Nashville. They ought p'
% pull down what was nor burned tn
md put new and elegant building sti
n its stead. ms
"A young man named Emmett
Wright, while engaged in cleaning
he sand out of a we'll on the place
f Mr.. Mccain, in Upton county
ist week, was buried twenty feet cal
nder ground by the caying' in of WI
he walls above him. car
Col. VIM. S. McLemore, one of de-
he purest and best men in Tennes- ISIS
&c, or out OF 1t, has been called up Ia,
n TO become candidate for Judge -.
I the Criminal Court for the coun- sol
es of Williamson, Marshall, Maury Tn
nd Giles. tin
Two white men, named John sta
'ney and II Todd, broke Jail in wa
road day light, at Bolivar, last ne,
eek, and walked away, and Nose
arish, of the Bulletin talks seri- mo
lsly of the duty of the county to pee
lild Jail. the
The Columbia Herald of the 23d VIII
ys that John Thomas, a son of ty,
on. Jas. IL. Thomas, was found ton,
ar the Pulaski road, Thursday 22d. ~
18th his head terribly mutilated' ehn
I'd in an insensible condition. His and
'rse had thrown him, and his skull the
as fractured. He was recently Che
arried, and was on his way TO his son
other-in-law, Mrs. Spain, to see
s wife.
A difficulty occurred last week in r
between three men.
med IL. Il. Chunn and VIM. Hol- mp
NIB on one side, and Hal Holcomb MOI
the other. Hal Holcomb is a bilit
phew of VIM. Holcomb. VIM. and
,lcomb went to Halls house and g..
ed at him, when Hal fired on him, ',oii
ling him instantly. The BODY the
IS taken to Chunn's grocery to d
Iunn was drunk, drew his knife den,
d attempted to cut all who came and
reach. Officer Aydelott tried to -
city, but he grew more furious, OHl
ed into the crowd, and was pre- whe
ring to repeat it, when Aydelott 81
Ed, shooting him through the IN T.
lrt. There the matter ended for 60.
present. Irlei
Correctly stated.