Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-19
STATE NEWS.

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the Summer than it is at present.
There are eight hundred Jewish |
citizens in Nashville.
The residence off G. Thomas, Of |
Hamilton county, was destroyed by
fire recently.
The Nashville Post Office has dis
posed of l67, 900 postal cards since
their introduction.
The sale of the Nashville Fair
Grounds, to pay mortgage of $50
600, has been postponed till Sept.
Col. Chas. N. Gibbs, Secretary Of
State, is at present on visit TO his
family at his farm near Union City.
The Union City Courier SAYS
ObiOn county was named i'm honor
of French officer named O'Bion.
Jas. Anderson has been elected
School Superintendent in Wayne
county.
Haywood county has fixed the sal
airy of her School Superintendent at
500 per month ofservicc.
Montgomery has elected her School
superintendent, and placed the sal
airy at 500 per month.
Roam county pays her School Su-
penintendent 800 per annum. and
81 Tor each teacher he examines.
Mr.. j. II. Biggs has taken edito-
rial charge OF the Trenton News
Success to him.
n
ed Post Master at Dyersburg, in
place Of Frank Luscomb resigned.
Mckenzie holds her fall Fair, COM
mencing 9th and ending 18th of Oc-
tober next.
Carroll county refused by vote
of its county court, 26 to Is, TO levy
any special school tax.
Mr.. ]. NJ. Gilbert, of Huntington,
was elected tax collector of Carroll
county, on the first Monday in July.
The residence of DR.. w. ID. Rod
gers, near Concord, Knox county,
was consumed by fire on the It'll
instant.
Shelby County Court has refused
by vote of sixteen to five, to order
subscription of 800, 900 to the Sci
ma railroad.
Mrs. Ellie, wife of 5. G. Ramage
ofthe Knoxville Press and Herald
died at her mothers in Philadel
phia, July 18th.
T.. b. Kernodle was elected super
intendent of Public Schools i'm Nc
Marry county on the first Monday il
this month.
Col. p. ii. Marbury has been cleo
ted President, and Col. John II
French Secretary of the Manchester
and McMinnville railroad.
The corner stone of a new Meth
odist church was laid i'm Dresden
last week. If they could only gel
Baker into it!
Prof. w. f. Shropshire, of Troy
was elected Superintendent of Pub
lie Schools for Obion county In,
first Monday in this month.
Obion County Court has ordered
two new cages for their Jail at Troy
The Union city Courier says the,
had better build a new Jail.
The Trenton Gazette says the corr
crop between that place and Eaton
is very unpromising, much of 1t be
ing past reclamation.
Moreau Brewer has filed n bill TO
divorce from his wife, 5. l.. Brew
er, in the Circuit Court of Gibso
county.
Vegetables are now freely sold il
the market in Nashville, all restric
tions on their sale being removed
by municipal authority.
They have a county Attorney il
Giles county, and Capt. G.. T.. JOne
was elected to fill the Office on tn
first Monday in July.
Lauderdale county is about I,
erect new jail-the old one leak
ing so that prisoners fell out thro
the cracks.
The Mckenzie Times SAYS, Earn
est Hawkins, son of Alvin Hawkins
has been appointed deputy u.
Revenue Collector for that district
The salary of the county Super
intendent of Public schools for Car
roll county has been fixed at $40
per annum, payable quarterly.
Col. L. ID. Myers, of Columbia
was last week elected President o
the Duck River Valley Marrow
Gauge railroad.
The city authorities at Nashville
have at last passed an ordinance t,
forbid hogs running in the street
of that city. 1t ought to have beer
done twenty years ago.
A mail line has been establishe,
between Trenton and Eaton, in Glib
son county, and the Trenton Ga
zette wants it extended to Friend
ship and Chestnut Bluff.
Mr.. George Erwin of Obiun coun
ty-according to the Troy Times
recently killed a rattle snake owe
five feet in length, and had thirty
five rattlee.
The Jonesboro Herald fears tn
wheat crop of Washington count
has been greatly injured by heav
rains after it was cut and put i
shocks.
l.. w. McCord, editor of the Pu
laski Citizen was one of Clu
which held ticket $3.50 in the Lou
isville Library lottery, and whic
drew $4,000.
The Ripley News learns that G
M Ferguson, near Double Bridge,
killed rattle snake the other day-
the snake was said to be fourtce
feet long.
The mail between Tunahoma an
McMinnville is carried in an oil
fashioned stage coach, although
railroad is in full operation bctwce
the two places. The railroad re
fused to carry the mail.
The Banner says that three chill
drcn i'll one family, at Pegram's sta
ton, on the Northwestern railroad
died OF diptheria the other day, GU
of five attacked.
The Columbia Herald SAYS IN
taxable property of Maury count
amounts for this year, to eleven mi
lion five hundred thousand dollar,
being an increase of one and a hal
millions over last year.
Young Jas. McKissack, who som
months since attempted to Kill mi
father near Spring Hill, Maury com
~, was transferred from the Jail a
Columbia to the lunatic asylum las
week.
The Paris lntelligenccr SAYS a Iii
ticulty occurred at Orange valley
Henry county, the other day, bC
tween Mr.. Robert Cole and ma
of color, in whioh Cole cut the co
ored mans throat, and no hopes ar
entertained that he can recover.
Toof, Phillips " Co., of Mcmphi,
the other day, received the first opc
.nIInn hnll of the snnsnn from 1 d