Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-06-01
STATE NEWS.

Two mad dogs were killed near
Shelbyville last week.
j. a. Mccall, who represented
Obion county in the last legislature,
is candidate for the State Senate.
G.. w. Kinzer is candidate to
represent Maury county in the next
legislature.
Gen. Tom. Benton Smith is an
nounced as a candidate for rcpresen-
tatiVc from Williamson county.
Bishop Feehan dedicated the new
Catholic Church at Lawrenceburg
on the 10Th of May.
j. r. Mccall and Holmes Cum
minis are candidates for the legisla-
ture from Upton county.
Col. j. NJ. Crews, of Memphis, is
n candidate for State Senator from
Shelby and Fayette counties.
DIR. l.. d. Ring, n distinguished
educator, died at his home at Clarks-
Vile last Tuesday, aged seventy
five years.
VIM. B. King, Esq, died at his
residence, near Triune, Williamson
county, May 2lst, Of paralysis, in
the fifty-third year of his age.
Mr.. w. l.. HOLLY died suddenly,
of hemorage of the lungs, at the res
idenc0 of Harry Trevathan, Of Hen
ny county, last week.
DR.. George A. Mathes, one of the
editors of the Somerville Falcon, is
a candidate for hoater from the
counties of Shelby and Fayette.
Col. James White is announced as
candidate for the State Senate
from the counties of Sullivan, Haw-
kins, Hancock and Hamblen.
The Athens Post says: Wheat on
the South side of McMinn county
generally looks well. Other crops
are suffering for want of rain.
Col. James w. Gillespie, of Rhea
county, is called on to become q can
didate for Congress in the second
district.
Mr.. James Green, one of the old
est citizens of Bedford county, and
soldier of 1912, died at his home
in Bedford county two weeks ago.
A horse thief named Jordan Rid
dy-an old convict-was recently
arrested in Lawrence county upon n
stolen horse.
Covington has dog law very
similar to that of our city. Let the
work of killing so on with an oven
pace.
WCol. l.. p. McMurry and DIR. j. l..
Javrell are announced as candidates
for the legislature from Gibson
county.
A colored church in Trenton has
just introduced a fine organ, and the
Gazette learns they make good mu-
sic on it.
Alexander Coleman, living three
miles North of Humboldt, had the
misfortune to lose his stables and
cribs, and all their contents, by fire
on the 18th ult.
Edward II. East, sr., father of
Chancellor East of Nashville, at last
accounts was lying dangerously i'll |
at his home near Nashville. He is |
in his eighty-fifth year.
10 Weems, of Bon Aqua Springs,
Hickman county, has peach tree |
over thirty years old, healthy, beau |
tiful, bearing for thirty years, and |
is three feet eight inches in circum- |
ference.
Mrs. Mary A. Craighead, widow |
of the late David Craighead, of !
Nashville, died in that city a few |
days since, at the age:of eighty-fo ur
years.
The engines and rolling stock for
the Memphis and Raleigh narrow
gauge railroad have been ordered. |
and the road will DO opened ON the |
4th of July, for regular travel.
A Fountain Head correspondent
OF the Gallatin Examiner calls upon
julius A. Trousdale, who represen-
ted Sumner county with so much
ability in the last legisture, to be-
come q candidate for reelection.
The Methodist church at Frank
lin, which has remained in an I'M
finished condition for three or four
years, is to be completed at once
the necessary funds are already in
hand for that purpose.
Col. w. S. McLemore, of Frank
lin, Hon. L. M. Jones, of Pulaski,
and Hon. Arch. NJ. Hughes, of CO.
the Criminal Court of Williamson,
Marshall. Maury and Giles.
The Bishops of the Methodist
Church South, in session at Nash
vile, week or two ago, set aside
the week from the 18th of August
as week of Prayer throughout
their denomination.
The Trenton News learns that the
reported death of five persons out
of seven, in one family, from eating
fish which had eaten caterpillars, is
utterly untrue, no such thing hay
ing occurred.
A Mr.. Patton, living near Milan,
last week put his little nine year old
boy on mule he had been blowing,
to ride to the house, himself walk
ing behind, when the mule took
fright, throwing the child, who be-
came entangled in the gear, and
was killed.
The Trenton News learns that a
larger amount of cotton is being cul-
tivated in that county, than for
merly, while the breadth of land
sown in grain is greater by far than
heretofore. The negroes are work
ing admirably.
A 'Jour" printer, employed by
the Troy Times-over in Obiou.
left that ancient town ''between sun
down and sun rise, taking with him
the EDITORS best clothes, pipe and
gold penn We can believe the sto-
ry about the best clothes and the
pipe, but that golu pen is little too
thin!
The Trenton Gazette learns that
five persons, out of n family of sew
en-, who resided in the Skull Bone
neighborhood, died a few days ago
from eating fish that had been feed
learn that a child, two or three
years old, ate caterpillar and died
in less than two hours.
The Trenton News learns that
Col. Long, who lost a leg in the
''unpleasantness," was out hunting
on horseback last week, and at
tempting to dismount, placed the
butt of his gun on the ground, his
hand over the muzzle, when the
gun was discharged, injuring his
hand and arm. Serious but not
mortal.
A man working on the farm of
Mr. Coward, near Randolph, Upton
county, met horrible death on
the 18th ult. lie had been blowing.
and took his horse from the pillow
with harness on, mounted him and
started to the house. The horse
threw him, his feet became entan-
gled in the harness and he was lit
orally kicked and dragged to death.