Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-15

The Springfield Record, of the
9Th says: Robertson county let ny
for the month of December, IS, 5O3
gallons of proof whisky, distilled
from grain, for which the govern
ment derived the square sum of $685.
442 10. That's rather more than we
should care to be responsible for.
President Grant has vetoed bill
passed by the two houses of Con-
gress, granting East Tennessee Uni
versity $1S,500 for damages done TO
their property by the Federal army
during the war. He says it would
be bad precedent, and open up an
interminable source of expenditure.
A bill has passed the Senate, and
will doubtless become a law, that
the property of the wife shall not
be liable for the debts contracted by
the husband, before marriage, and
also relieving the husbands proper
ty from liability for debts contract
ed by the wif6, before marriage.
The WING AND TRIBUNE FISHES
that those editors in Tennessee, who
appropriate lis articles without
credit, would, at least, take pains TO
copy them correctly. 1t is painful
to us to see our bantiings manned so
that we hardly know them-al-
though they may be doing duty as
the productions of others.
The Lebanon Herald announces
i'm appropriate terms the death of
Mai. Burtis w. Terrell, of Sumner
county, at the age of seventy-nine.
He was one of natures noble men.
The writer of this notice met him
once at Gallatin, and has treasured
him Ia memory for nearly a score OF
years.
The Mckenzie Times, of the 9Th,
says: Rev. Acton Young, a well
known minister, hotel keeper, &c,
was brought to that place the even
ing previous in a very precarious
condition, from injuries received in
a smash-up on the North Western
road the night before. He soon rail-
lied and was well enough to return
to his home in day or two.
August Sudekum, foreman of the
Carpenter shop at the Decatur de-
pot at Nashville, was run over and
killed by freight train a few days
ago. He was on his way from the
shop TO his home, after the days
work, and stopped on the track to
see a passenger train on the Chatta-
nooga road pass, at short distance
in front Of him, and did not notice q
freight train which was backing Gu
the Decatur road behind him, until
he was knocked Down by tho fore
most car Ills legs were both cut
eg, and he died Immediately.
The only railroad constructed in
Tennessee since the war, is the sAori
one from Nashville to Lebanon
We trust the next seven years will
hundred fold, over that beggarly
amount. They produce wealth. OF
make wealth where poverty abound
ed before. Push on the column
and let as many roads as possible bC
built. In the brief span allotted us
we still hope TO see every county il
our native State strapped all Over
with railroads.
Somebody has been threatening tC
withdraw "patronage"-so-called-
from the Mckenzie Times, unles,
that paper will pursue a certain line
of policy. 1t says, "for this class o.
people we have the most supreme
contempt; and that he neither courts
their smiles nor fears their frowns.'
Fools of that class have lived eve
since newspapers were published
and will live after all publication
cease, if possible. Let them live
They are more in their own wal
than that of any body else.
The Legislature is making a grea
fuss about the subject of common
schools, public education, and kin
bred subjects, and yet there is
very grave doubt in the public min'
whether any dlfnite and we'll di
gested plan for that purpose will b
adopted by the Legislature. 1t is
subject upon which the people hav
not thought much, although the,
have talked a good deal. There ar
many prejudices against making an,
public provision for the education
of the rising generation. Almos
ali admit the abstract importance o
the matter; but many say they havl
educated their children, and feel un
der no obligation to assist others il
the work, and thus, while in the alb
straet all agree that education is i'm
portant, they differ in regard to tn
necessary means to attain the end
The legislature, guided by liberia
and enlightened public spirit, ough
to go forward and enact such a law
as, in their best judgment, will mos
effectually accomplish the desires
object, aud then adjourn, and G
home to their constituents as 500
as the other necessary legislation j
accomplished.