Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-03-29
STATE NEWS.

| STATE NEWS
The Troy Times wants a Jail that
| will hold the prisoners when they
are confined in it. If you will build
a Jail that will eORfhe them when
they are put in, we think you viii
have what you want.
The Columbia Herald records the
killing, in the streets of that town,
on the 18th inst, of Ned Jordan, by
a machinest, named VIM. Shockley,
| by stabbing in the neck. Jordan
was very drunk, and it is supposed
Shoekley was more or less so.
The new dwelling house of Mr..
John T. Whitson, of Dyer county,
which had not been given up TO him
/ by the builder, was destroyed by
fire last week, and Mr.. Hurd, the
contractor lost all his work on the
building.
The Gazette says il expects to an
nounee every week as long as it
hIives, the continued arrival of twin
babies in Dyer county. The last
pair is credited to Mr.. Thos. James,
OF the Redwood country.
The Paris Intelligencer chroni-
cles the death of Mrs. Martha Pill
low, in Henry county, at the age of
| 80years. Also OF Johu Martin, ESQ,
an old and respected citizen, near
Conyersville, of dropsy.
A desperate fellow known as 10
Ketehum, was shot and instantly
killed at Mason's depot, last Satur-
day night, while attempting to
break into the cabin of a negro
known as "the butcher" The ne
gro escaped.
In the U- S. Senate, Friday, 14th
of March, Jno. ID. Lewis was con-
firmed as Post Master at Pulaski,
A. G.. Sharp as z. NJ. at Chattanoo-
ga, VIM. Rule as p. NJ. at Knox
vile, James =. Baird, as p. NJ. at
| Columbia, and a. f. Blount as p.
NJ. at Cleveland.
The Lawrence Journal says that
| fire started on q farm near Mount
Ararat church and spread over a
considerable territory, making sad
havoc with the fencing in its course.
The farms of Col. j. l.. Stribling,
Mrs. Kennedy and DIR. Bowman suf-
fered most-probably several hun
dred dollars each.
There was a proposition submit
ted to the people of Wilson county
two or three weeks ago, to sell the
stock held by said county in the
Tennessee and Pacific Railroad. 1t
was voted down by a majority Of
twenty-four votes, in an aggregate
vote of only 720 whereas, if there
had been a full vote there ought to
have been 1882 votes.
A son of Hon. ]. w. Deadrick,
one of our Supreme Court Judges,
was married at Frankfort, Ky.,
March the 10th, to Miss Sallie Har-
din, daughter of the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of kentucky.
Mr.. Deadrick is a representative in
the Kentucky legislature, from Pen
dleton county.
The Union City Courier says Mr..
l Frank Beasley, of Henry county, re-
Gently visited Danville, on Tennes-
see river, and discovered the skele-
tons of forty or fifty persons of ex-,
traordinary size, nearly all OF them
over seven feet in length, and appa-
rentiy well preserved. They are
supposed to be the predecessors of
the Indians.
A citizen of Milburton, Greene
county, thinks he has discovered a
silver mine, and every hill in that
region is being explored, and every
/ stone analyZed to find the precious
metal. 1t is abundant in every
wheat, Oat and hay field, and NAV
be seen in many of the orchards of
that section.
In speaking of the Spanish Re
public'-we believe that's what
they call the new machine they have
! erected over there the Franklin
Review and Journal expresses Very
grave doubts about the capacity of
any but the Anglo-Saxon, for self
government. He might include
them in his doubts, without treason
to reason.
Jno. P. Mckay, Esq, one OF the
i oldest and best citizens of William
| son county, died at his home, three
miles North of Franklin, on the
Nashville pike, Feb. 28th, in the I'D
year of his age. We have known
Jno. p. Mckay every day of fifty
years, and never knew a truer or
more upright man.
DIR. j. Berrien Lindsey, of Nash
vile, is freely spoken of as a proper
/ person to be appointed to the Office
of State Superintendent of Educa-
! tion. We have personally known
Mr.. Lindsey for thirty years. He
is scholar of high standing, and
has been for years Chancellor of the
| University of Nashville; he is a gen.
tleman of experience in teaching, of
unimpeachable moral and religious
character, 8 minister of the gospel
of long standing and high charae-
/ ter, and his appointment could not
fail to give satisfaction.
/ Angelo Marie, a notorious rascal
about Memphis, was a short time
ago, sentenced TO the penitentiary
for four years, for participating in
the robbery of the safe belonging to
the Chief of Police, and had taken
an appeal to the Supreme Court,
has succeeded in getting the Attor-
ney General to not pros other char
ges against him, and has withdrawn
his appeal, and goes at once TO COM
mence his four years service.
''The funeral sermon was preach
ed on Sunday" is the way the crit
ic of the Tennessee press gets up
notice of the death of one of its
friends. Here we have been trem-
bling in our shoes for the last three
or four years, whenever it seemed
necessary for us TO write the word
on as indicating the day OF an occur
\ renee, for fear we'd get raped a.
cross the knuckles for it, by the ed
itor of the Lebanon Herald, and
here he is, himself guilty of what
he has so often and so mercilessly
criticized in others.
THE retiring members of Con-
gress voted themselves each five
thousand dollars additional back
pay before going to their homes
cOntented and disgraced This is a
fine appendix of the Credit Mobil-
ier investigations. President Grant
will do well to veto the bill, and in
cur the expense Of an extra session
of the new COngress.-AUalGnche.
PvE NEVER KNowN.-I have new
er known a poor man to be respect
ed because he was poor.
have never known q rich man
but what he was respected for his
riches.
have never known a merchant
to continue his conversation with
poor man when q rich man enters.
l have never known a white
handed hairy-faced Office seeker TO
be very conversant with poor man
after his election.
have never known anything too
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