Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-10-04

1 six and fWentv-One years VIII De taught al
the branches laid down in the Free school
Law. free Of charge, ami parents in thu
= 18th district are requested and urged to
send their children promptly on the open
ing day. or as soon after as possible. The
most experienced and thoroughly compe-
tent teachers have been employed, and it l.
the determination OF the directors 70 make
the school second to none in the State.
Arrangements VIII soon be made to opeu
school for white girls; one has already beer
for the eolored children of the district.
W. 2. ROBERTSON, Chairman.
A. s. SALE, Sec and Treas.
ODD FELLOWS COLLEGE While in
Humboldt on Saturday last. We called upon
Prof. G. W. johnson, President Of the Odd
Fellows Female College Of that city. We
found the Professor very pleasantly stu
ated and full Of confidence in the future Of
| his most promising school. The school was
opened with 135 students, and many more
are promised and VIII come in within the
next month. This is certainly most fiat
tering beginning and gives assurance Of a
bright future. With an educator so emil
nent as Prof. Johnston to direct, assisted by
an able and experienced corps Of teachers,
Hum bo'dt College viii take rank at once
with the leading institutions of the country.
! The building is large and elegantly arrar g
ed for school purposes, containing nine
/ large, well ventilated, comfortably furnish
/ ed school roous, with a large and hand
/ somely designed Hall and Chapel. II ia
one Of the best College buildings in the
/ State. We feel every confidence IN the
future OF this school unde Prof. JOhnston's
management.
- ~UMAN AND Two CHI DREN DROWN
ED.-On Friday night, 26Lh ult., mau, his
wife and two children stepped INTO the
Mississippi river at Columbus. Nv while
attempting to pass from the wharf boat to
the ste1mor Illinois, and the wOmaa and
two children drowned. The steamer had
Just backed out from the wharf but the
| light ia its bow 30 blinded the man ard
tn: woman tn t they did nor discover the
fact, and they stepped into the rushing
river instead Of on the gangway, as they
expected. \ rope was thrown out and the
man saved, but the woman who had one
child IN her arms and was leading the other,
went down with her children and neither
were ever seen after the waves first closed
over them.
RELEASED ON BAH.-On Friday the |
10th ult., motion for a new trial was
made by the defendants counsel in the |
case Of the State against Patrick Joyce. |
Gen. A. w, Campbell, one Of the defend /
ants counsel, made one Of the best legal !
arguments on the occasion ever delivered |
in Jackson. 1t was logical, eloquent and |
replete with legal learning. Attorney |
General Skefington pronounced il one Of
the closest, most pointed and ingenious le- |
gal arguments he ever heard. However, |
theimotion for new trial was oyerruled; also |
a motion for arrest Of judgment. An APP
peal was then taken 10 the Supreme Court, |
and the vexed question of bail deliberately, !
ably and eloquently argued by Gen. Camp |
bell and Attorney-G eneral Skefington. !
On this question the judgment Of the Court |
was that the prisoner, Patrick Joyce be ad- |
mitted TO bail in the sum of $1,000. (joint
and several bond). Joyce gave the requir-
ed bond on Tuesday of this week and was
released. John Touhey and John O'Cala-
han are his bondsmen.
PERILs OF THE SPEED BING.-An ama-
teur s'Rob Dobble'' of this City got him
trotting sulkg for the purpose of training
his Bucephalus in the speed ring for the
coming Fair. He went out to the grounds
one day this week TO inaugurate the train
ing, accompanied by large crowd ef adj
miring acquaintance. So soon as the
spectators were seated and the timer an
nouneed bis readiness, the second edition
Of '.B9b D0bglie', drove into the ring, lock. I
ing awfuliy Joekey-like and moved his
restless steed to the starting point. At the
word away they went, making fine time
around the ring, although the roughness Of
the track, which was just being put in con- |
dition, caused the driver to make several |
rather sudden pluuges into the air, lighting I
however, every time plump in his seat
But instead OF checking up after passing
the starting point, he dashed on and essay
ed to display his grace and skill as
whip" Among other feats he attempted
to cut a small circle at full speed, when
over went the Sulky and out went our
hero, landing very gracefully on his head,
some thirty yards distant, while away went
the horse, reducing she splky to splinters
at his leisure. Our hero picked himself up,
felt his head carefully, looked around
mildly at his friends, gave one melancholy
glance at his horse and the remnants of the
Sulky, and sat down to-pray we presume.
4 SAD ACCIDENT.-On Thursday the
2tth, near the Memphis and Paducah cross
ing on the Mississippi Central Railroad Ex-
II nj ~
in the Vice Presidents Office at New
Orleans, was injured in an accident to
Construction Train, and died on the next i
day Mr.. Mcconnell and Mr.. James Hall,
Cashier of the road, were riding on the
pilot Of the engine, which was running
backward drawing after 1t a long train Of
fiat and box cars. A eew attempted TO
cross the track and was struck by the tend
er of the engine, throwing the tender, en-
CINE and four fat cars off the track, one Of
the flats mounting the pilot, upon which
Mcconnell and Hall were riding, crushing
MeConRelPs right thigh and head, from
which he died next morning. Mr.. Hall
was considerably bruised but not seriously.
There were twenty-six persons on the train |
at the time but none were injured but the
two mentioned. Mr.. McConnelrs home
was Philadelphia, Pa, where he had a wife
and two children. He was held in high |
esteem by the Company in whose service
he lost his life, and although comparative /
stranger in Jackson has many friends here /
Indeed, he was a favorite with all who /
knew him-kind, afIable, accomplished
and full of true manlineSs. His stricken /
family in their distant Northern home,
have the deepest sympathy of many South
ern hearts.
PROF. MeDUFF.-The lectures of this |
gentleman, inaugurated in Tomlin's Hall /
on Friday night the Goth, and which have
been continued since in the Hall of the
Stoddert House, have attracted deserved /
attention. Ia Prof. McDuff's bills an
nOuueing his lectures he styles them
chronological Lectures" but his theory 4
partakes more OF Anthropology than of /
Phrenology. In judging of Character he |
takes the whole man into view, not only /