Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-08-03
STATE NEWS.


Carroll county.
DIR. ID. J. Noblett, of Bonneville,
Moore county, is a candidate for
foater from that district.
w. A. OFT, of Bedford comfy, is
candidate for hoater from Ruth
orford and Bedford.
Ed. Singleton, colored, il an indie
pendent candidate fer Sheriff of
Fayette county.
Geo. p. Shelton, Esq, on account
of feeble health, has resigned the Of.
fee of Mayor Of Lagrange.
The Bedford Bulletin has been
moved from ShelbyVille to Lynch
burg, Moore county.
Hon. G.. A. Henry, OF GAINESVILLE,
has gone TO Allegheny Springs, Va,
for his health.
5. w. Sharp, OF Milan, Is spoken
of for Greeley Elector in this dis
trict.
The Baptists at Troy are soon to
commence the erection of new
brick church edifice.
The Springfield Record says Mr..
=. Y. York threshed 1900 bushels of
wheat from ninety acres.
Mr.. Jas. Z. Pybass died at his
mothers in Trenton last week, af-
ter a lingering illness.
The GAINESVILLE Building and Loan
Association has been in operation
for two years, and shows a nett
profit Of twenty-five per cent.
w. 4. Laird, and his wife, Matil-
ia, of Clarksville, celebrated their
golden wedding-tifty years-last
week.
Col. Il. IL. Baker, editor OF the
Huntingdon Democrat, announces
himself a candidate for elector in
the 7th Congressional district.
The Baptist Congregation at
Brownsville talk of erecting q new
and elegant church edifice there,
right away.
A u. S. Soldier was sent from
humboldt TO Trenton, TO jail, last
week, for an attempt to commit a
nameless outrage upon little girl.
The Brownsville Bee says the
Post Office at BelIvilIe, Crockett
county, has been made n Money Or
der Office.
Milton Barnes, who resides eight
miles West of Trenton had a thigh
broken last week, by the falling of
limb on him. The animal he was
riding was also badly hurt,
We rejoice to learn from the
Trenton News, that John II. Glass,
Esq, editor of the Trenton Gazette,
who has been quite i'll for some
weeks, IS rapidly convalescing.
The Dyersburg Gazette, of July
eth, announces the death, in that
zier, Esq, for twenty-seven years a
merchant there.
Mrs. Polk Harris, OF Dyersburg,
last week presented her husband q
pair of boys, who have been named
respectively, Allen aud James Coul-
ter.
Two hundred and ninety-three
thousand three hundred and ninety
two dollars of Bank of Tennessee
h4OiiGl WClG t0uICilGu ~ NabuNAllt
one day last week.
Major Henry Heiss, late of the
Nashville Banner staff, has gone to
st. Louis, and is the editor of that
sterling paper, the st. Louis Times.
Long may it wave.
There has been good deal OF
sickness of one kind or other about
Paris, if we may judge OF the health
Of that locality by the local notices
in the Intelligencer.
Eggs are only selling at five cents
per dozen st Woodbury., Cannon
county. Wouldn't work, il we
were a hen, till the price advanced
to at least ten cents.
The Shelbyville Rescue continues
to abuse Horace Greeley and his
supporters, and to spatter -lulsome
praise upon Andy johnson. DegHS-
ti6as non diSDutGndum:
The Brownsville Bee of last week
regrets to learn that the wife of Col.
w. w. Vaughan was lying danger
ously i'll at the family residence
there.
The editor of the Chattanoooa
Herald-so-called "Gov." Sam Bard
lis making desperate efforts to
make it appear he is prosecuted and
hunted by somebody in that city.
Gov. Brown has commuted the
sentence of death against Dan
Smith, for the murder of Young
Meriwether in Shelby county, Ia
imprisonment for life.
Mrs. Nancy r. NIcLemore, widow
of the late Sugars McLemore, was
stricken with paralysis of the brain,
while at the Methodist Church in
Brownsville, July 21st. and died in
three or four hours afterwards.
Chattanooga wants cotton fac.
tory, and a correspondent of the
Herald suggests that if they do not
get the Baptist Institute located
there, they turn the amount, sub.
scribed for that purpose into stock
in factory.
The Hartsville Vide,te-the pa.
per too democratic to support the
nominee of its party--cOmp plains
that its visitors steal its exchanges
IL tho exchanges are no better than
The Vidette, we cannot perceive the
indueement TO steal them.
The Troy Times says there are
three persons living in halfa mile oil
each other ali natives of Ireland,
but long residents Of ObiOn county
aged respectively ninety-two,
ninety-four and ninety-six years.
On waking up one morning last
week, Mr.. and Mrs. John e. ar
brough, who reside near Toon's sta
ton, Hardeman county, found their
infant daughter, about Is months
old, hanging by the head between
the bedstead and the wall, dead.
Rev. Jas. Il. Bradley, who resides
in the first civil district in Law
renee county, last fall, sOwed, three
aud a half bushels of wheat, and
reaped one hundred and eight bush
els of understandable wheat.
The Knoxville Press and Messen-
ger brings TO light little radical
trick among the candidates for
Sheriff of Knox county, by which
one was to be withdrawn, and in
the event of the election of the 9TH
"a, he was TO be deputy and iaiior,
paying $50 n year for rent.
A row occurred between a couple
OF negroes in Brownsville last sun
day week, in which Dick Wilder
drew his knife and attempted to
fnd out what Bob Lawson had been
eating, but Bob retreated a few
steps, seized an axe and drove it in-
10 Dicks head. Nothing of that
sort ever having entered his head
before, lie was astonished. Bob is