Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-01
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
The Grind Encampment Of |. o.
y. +. met in Nashville last week.
Brownsville is again lighted with
gas, and the States is happy.
The Tennessee Dental Associa-
ton was in session last week 1T
Nashville.
The rejected lovers at Someryille
have formed Il "brolken hearted
club"
The Athens Post says large
breadth Of wheat is being sown in
McMinn county.
The residence of Burt Leather
wood, in Lincoln county, was des-
troyed by fire last week.
Mr.. PaschaI Johnson, died in
Franklin county last week, at the
ago of SO years.
l.. Il. Richards, city Register of
Memphis. died last week, of Yellow
fever, aged about seventy-five.
The residence of John r. Tuck
CT, of Perry county, six miles East.
of Perryville, was destroyed by
fire, Oct. llth.
The meeting Of the Tennessee
Press Association, at Pulaski, has
been postponed from the 9th to the
18th of November.
HeiskelPs fourth volume Of re-
ports of cases in the Supreme
Court, is now ready for distribu-
ton.
Levi Galloway, brother Of Col.
NJ. G. Galloway, and we'll known
practical printer died in Memphis
last woek
Dir. j Joseph Williams, Il we'll
known and highly esteemed physi-
clan Of Memphis, died last week of
Yellow fever.
The General Association of the
BaptIsts of Middle Tennessee and
North Alabama, assembled at Co.
lumbia, Friday, Oct. 2lth.
Henderson county decides oil tho
10th of November whethcr she will
vote for $4,000 to two rail roads
through that county.
In East Tennessee, the Athens
Post says, the persimmon crop is
heavy, and Postum suppers will
soon be in order
Tennessee bonds were quoted last
week in New York, at 90 nominal
for old and new. And still the
work of funding goes on.
The Lexington Reporter an
nounccs the death of Mrs. Francis
Devil, at her residence in Hender
son county, at the age of 81 years
Mrs. Margaret Bell Osborne, the
mother of the late Rev. Z. IL. Os
borne, died Il few days ago at Gal
latin.
Mr.. T. b. Baynes and Miss Swan
mic Lea, were married Mt the Meth
odist Church, Brownsville, Octo
Der 22d
The Athens Post says the corr
crop of McMinn county in consid
erably above an average, both il
quantity and quality.
The Brownsville States says
"We saw many sweet girls at tn
Wednesday" Too much bourbon
or what?
a drunken man, named Juo. De
Ice, fell through the suspension
bridge at Nashville last Monda
night, and was killed.
The Columbia Mail announce
the death of Col. Jas. Webster, on
of the oldest and best citizens O
Maury county, on the Sth inst.
The Huntingdon Republican re
cords the burning of new gin re
Gently erected by John Wood, sev
en- miles East of that place.
The Someryille Falcon says Rev
Mr.. Long has been formally calle,
to the pastorate ofthe Presbyterian
church in that place. 1t does no
know If he has accepted.
Col. J. NJ. McKenzic-the maj
after whom the Railroad town o
that name was called-died at hi
home there, last week. AGED ,
years.
Nashville last week, by Il Prom
cnade Concert, held ut the Expos
ton building, raised nearly $3.50
for the relief Of suffering Mem
phis.
The Knoxville Chronicle say
that young Douglass who wa
wounded by young Rule, Is rapid,
recovering, and will soon not know
he was ever hurt.
The Dyersburg Gazette aunoun
ces the death of Mai. Toma
Fowikes, who settled in Dyer cour
ty, in 1884. He was IS years c
age.
The Nashville Banner says Rev
DR.. Summers received a sweet pot;
toe from Tho. J. Gray, Of FayettC
vile, which weighed eleven pound
and 4 half
Mr.. James Slack OF Richmond
Indiana, has moved his family t
Franklin, Tenn, and will shortl,
erect and put in motion larg
machine shop and mandatory.
The Upton Record says Rev. D
III. Cummins, Pastor of the Presby
tcrian church at Covington, died o
bilious fever, of not more thar
three or four days duration.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cox, who wa
born in the Block house, at Boon
Lick, Ky, about 1898, died at he
husbands home on Browns creel,
near Nashville, last week, aged 81
years.
A lad named Jas. Hicks, aged a
bout Is, ran away from his mother
near Catalonia, Henry county, OF
the II of Oct. She will be very
grateful for information of his pres
ent whereabouts.
Knox county has built a splen
did bridge over the Holster at tina
place, and now the people of Knox
Vile are unhappy, lest somebody
shnmlh hnrn II down Hnr.n /,