Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-31
STATE NEWS.

The Record reports COvington
still on the improve.
The last Upton Record has over
seven solid columns of advertise
ments of lands for railroad taxes.
Springfield, Robertson county, an
nually ships 10000 barrels of Whis-
ky, and ], 900 hogsheads of Tobacco.
Heavy on the poisons.
The Union depot, so much need
ed, and so much talked of, at Nash
vile, has been indefinitely postpon-
ed. Pity.
The Franklin Review chronicles
the death of Mrs. Margaret Horton,
at her residence, one and a half
miles Southwest of Franklin, in her
S0th year.
Gen. Jno. g. Breckinridge OF Ken
lucky, will deliver Masonic Ora
iiOn in Memphis, June 9th on the
occasion OF celebrating ST. Johns
day.
Our young friend Daniel L. Per-
kins, OF Nashville, was married in
MurfreesbOro last week, to Mrs.
Florence Fletcher, daughter OF
Hon. Edwin ii. Ewing.
The city fathers at Paris have
passed an ordinance forbidding the
erection Of any more wooden build
ings nearer than one hundred and
twelve feet of the public square.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle is APP
nFnhnnQVUn tnN "a voF
cold weather, and cut worms have
rendered the crop prospects in that
neck Of the woods rather uncertain.
The Paris Intelligencer notes the
clearing away of the rubbish of the
West side of the public square
which was burned a few weeks
since, and says q better class of hou
ses will be erected this season.
We regret to learn that Hon. Eli
jah Walker, Judge of the Eleventh
Judicial Circuit, is quite sick-tot
sick to attend his courts, and tina
Gov. Brown has appointed GU,
friend Jas. +. Mckinney Specia
Judge to fill the-let us hope-tem
porary vacancy.
The Trenton News complain
that the small boys of that low
congregate on Sunday at the vari
Gus church doors, and stare the girl
out Of countenance. Here it is tn
larger ones that are guilty of tina
rudeness.
The Lebanon Herald mentions tn
death ola daughter of Jos. Berry
10th district, Wilson county, by tn
explosion of coal oil lamp, whicl
she attempted to fill, while it wa
lighted. 1t will do it every time
There is not doubt about il.
The Athens Post reports the fl,
as seriously injuring the wheat ii
that section of country, and the gen
eral crop prospect as not at all flat
tering. Warm sunshine and fructi
flying showers, we trust will sool
dissipate all uneasiness on tina
score.
We regret to learn that Capt. w
II. Handy, of the Union City Cou
rier is necessarily absent from hi
post, in attendance upon his wife
who is an invalid, at Tate's Springs
East Tennessee. We trust he ma,
be soon returned to his post of duty
the cause of absence being restores
to health a happiness.
We are panied to learn that Wal
ker Wood, editor. of the Upton Ire
cord, at CoYington, has been dan
gerously sick of an acute bronchia
attack, for some weeks past; and ar
rejOiced to find in the issue of hi
paper of the Esd, that he is believe,
TO be now in a fair way to an carl.
recovery.
A prominent citizen of Knoxville
is charged with betraying tive limo
cent country girls and inducing
them to enter a life of shame, ant
yet the local papers, for fear of thu
libel law, fail to name him. w,
hope his name will be given, anC
that the scoundrel will be put in thu
moral pillory, where his crime anC
its punishment will be made public
Out with the scoundrel's name.
1t is none of our business, and w,
are too well-bred to interfere in
but we beg to be allowed to mildly
suggest that our contemporaries o
the Columbia Herald and Columbi
Mail are devoting more space TO bit
ter personalities, than is consisten
with the vie VS. of disinterestcd par
ties. Don't fritter yourselves away
boys; you're thin enough in you
best estate, and any further dilu
ton will render you nauseous to or
binary stomachs,