Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-10-04
STATE NEWS.

Inc MARSHALL Gazette says: as.
Haynes, an old and respectable cit
izen, died at COrnersville, Tuesday;
23d of September.
DIR. Jno. d. Winston, one of the
most eminent medical practitioners,
in Nashville, died in that city last
week.
Mr.. Eugene McGevney, an old
and we'll known citizen Of Mem
phis, died at his home in that city
last Sunday.
The Gallatin Tennesseean says
that Typhoid fever is prevailing to
a considerable extent in Sumner
county.
A private letter from Williamson
county last week, says the fiux has
prevailed in almost all parts of that
county for three months past.
The Chattanooga Times thinks
the weak point of that city, if it has
any weak point, is "modestyp-
There's richness, for you.
The Bolivar Bulletin wants a tax
levied on dogs, and all the proceeds
turned into the school fund. A
good idea.
A Grain Elevator is to erected at
Johnsonville. The lumber is being
EOt ready for the work, and it will
soon be completed.
The county seatof Grundy coun-
ty has been moved from Altamont
to Tracy city, by an overwhelming
vote Of the people.
Frank Taft, Clerk of the first
Circuit Court of Shelby county,
died in Memphis, of yellow fever,
last Saturday.
The Huntingdon Republican, of
Sept. 10Th, announces the death of
Capt. Nathan Massey, of Dropsy,
at his home near Marlboro, Carroll
county, Sept. goth, aged so years.
Nathan Davidson, who fed from
Memphis to avoid Yellow fever,
took the disease and died at his
fathers residence, in the Northern
part of Shelby county, Friday,
Sept. Goth.
Jno. f. Titus, the eldest son of
the late Frazier Titus, was taken
with Yellow fever after he left the
city, and died last Sunday, at the
residence of Mr.. w. r. Edmondson,
twelve miles from Memphis.
Hog or no hog, was voted on by
the citizens of Nashville last Satur-
day, and it was nip and tuck, winch
should win. There were 1899
votes polled, and ono hog" beat the
hog by only 5 votes.
The Bolivar Bulletin says: The
frame building, near the railroad,
in that place, known as PowePs cor
ner, and occupied by Jno. B. Muse,
as Family Grocery and Saloon,
was burned down last week.
The Brownsville Bee records the
death of Annie, aged IL years,
daughter of Jas. T. Hopkins, who
resides near Brookliu, Haywood
county. 1t Is the old story of kind
ling a FIRE with coal oil, an explo-
sion and death.
Willis Barnes, colored man who
was tried last week ut Nashville,
as an accessory, before the fact, to
the murder of Mrs. Susan Housen
in Davidson county, last spring,
was found guilty by the jury, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for
life.
The Troy Times office was NOV
ed to Union City, with a view to
publishing the Obion News at the
latter place. After the removal,
Messrs. Blankenship & Baker
bought the Office, and moved it back
to Troy, where they will publish
the Obion News.
The Appeal of Monday says that
Capt. John Clark, a conductor on
Memphis and Louisville railroad.
who was early last week taken
down with Yellow fever, on his ar
rival at Paris, has successfully pass
ed the cris is of the disease, aud will
soon be at his post again. Also
Mr.. Robert Walker, who had the
disease at Paris, is on rising ground,
and, without accident, will soon be
we'll.
The Memphis Register calls up
on the city fathers to pass an ordi-
nance to forbid the digging of sand
on the river front of that city. 1t
says property worth thousands of
dollars now, and prospectively
worth millions, will be rendered
valueless, unless the city puts a stop
to the habit of digging building
sand from nndar the hlnfRa