Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-08
STATE NEWS.

The wife of l.. a. Harper, of
Huntingdon, died at her home there
on the 9th ult., of typhoid fever.
Mr., John Weaver, who resided
five miles South of Tullahoma, died
recently at the age of %.
Rev. w. a. Cobb, formerly Of
Trenton, died in Arkansas a few
days since, of cancer in the mouth.
The U. S. Circuit and District
Court-Judge Emmous, presi ding
met in Memphis last Monday.
George Greeley, late Register of |
Shelby county, died of small pox
ten days ago.
The Chattanooga Times says that |
have one of the largest and best OF |
cotton factories in the south.
Mrs. Minnie p. Greene, wife of |
Mr.. Simon w. Greene, Of Memphis, !
died on the morning of January |
3Oth.
The Senate last week passed a vote
of thanks TO the retiring Secreta-
ry of State and Comptroller, for IA
vors shown the members.
j. II. Cunningham, an old an
honored citizen of Hickman county,
died at his home in Centreville, re-
Gently Of congestion of the brain.
Three citizens of Carroll county,
living near Mckenzie, last week !
caught thirty-eight rabbits in one
field, all in one day.
Mrs. McNairy, the venerable wild
ow of the late Nat. McNairy, and mo-
Their of Col. II. G. McNairy, died sud-
denly in Nashville, few days ago.
Gen. Vim. a. Quarles has been
commissioned a special Judge to
hold the Criminal Court at Clarks-
ville-Judge King being sick.
Henry J. Merritt, an old and hon
ored citizen of Williamson county,
died at his residence six miles South
of Franklin, last week, aged about
20 years.
The Rock City distillery, of Nc
Crea, Maury " Co., of Nashville,
was destroyed on the 28th of Janu-
airy, by fire. The losses set down at
S90,OOO-insured for $4,000.
The fine residence of Col. j. l..
Poston, on his plantation in the
southern portion of Crockett cOun-
ty, was destroyed by fire on the Goth
of January. Loss about $4,000.
The Chattanooga Times says that
whatever party adopts the "opeR
river" policy, and passes a bill to
appropriate at one time enough to
open Muscle Shoals, will, for years,
control Tennessee and Alabama.
The Tennessee River News, print
cd at Savannah, Hardin county,
says: We understand the small pox
is still confined to the 2d district of
this county. There have been TWEEN
ty-two cases, fourteen of which
have died.
The Trenton Gazette says: There
is Il vacancy at the West Point Mil
itary Academy from the 9TH district.
Applications must be made to Hon.
Il. Z. Caldwell before the goth inst.
10 fill it.
The Nashville Fair grounds are TO
lie sold shortly to foreclosc, mort
cage for $52, 900. They talk of issu-
iNE ldtA 8ANNAAANA JULIUS lpl ft Il Ill Ill
of tho debt, and paying up the
amount.
\ counterfeit fifty dollar bill was
recently passed upon ticket agent,
n conductor, and the treasurer of
the Memphis and Charleston Rail-
road, and was only detected when
the treasurer attempted TO deposit
it in bank.
Strenuous efforts are made in
the legislature to repeal all or near
~ all the Courts of Shelby county,
aud re-orgnize them. There may be
too many Courts in Shelby, but any
interference with them viii be re-
sisted to the death
Six prisoners escaped from the
GAINESVILLE Jail last week, through
hole from which lot of prison
ers escaped a couple of years ago
Five of them were recaptured and
returned-tO escape again,-if they
want to-we suppose.
Mr.. Nathaniel L. Fitzpatrick, a
soldier of 1872, aged nearly ninety
years, died at his home near Santa
Fee, Maury County, last week. Also
Mr.. VIM. &. Luckett, also a soldier
of 1912, died in the same neighbor-
hood.
The tax collector of Shelby coun-
ty last week paid to the Comptrol-
lcrs Office thirty-eight thousand sew
en- hundred and sixty dollars in
state warrants, and fifteen thousand
five hundred dollars in currency and
Tennessee money.
One of the most cruel and outra-
gcous cases OF cruelty on record oc-
CURED in Marshall county, accord
inc to the Lcwisburg Gazette, a
week or two since. Two drunken
men found poor man barefOoted.
aud procured pair OF horse shoes,
and with hammers and nails, pro-
ceeded TO nail them on his feet.
using their knives freely in pairing
the feet 20 make the shoes fit. One
of the aggressors has left for parts
unknown.
John L. Bond, Esq, the Repre-
sentative from Haywood, Harde-
man and Madison, has introduced a
bill into the House of Representa-
tives. to exempt manufactures i'm
this State, from taxation for a speci-
bill, but the general idea is worthy
of being incorporated into law,
snd we know Of no one from whom
such bill could come with more
propricty than from Mr.. Bond. We
hope il will pass.
Chancellor Fleming, Of Columbia.
I'm suit before him, touching the
legality and validity of the new, or
Torbett issue Of the Bank of Ten
uesscc, has decided that that issue
is a. binding upon the Bank and the
state, A. the old issue, and that the
holders OF that paper, no matter
how they obtained il. have lust as
many and as good rights as the hol-
d.r- Of the old issue. The case, OF
course, goes To the supreme Court
The right of Maj. James d. Rich
rrti-Ou. tho sitting senator in the
Legislature from Rulhcrf1rd aud
Brd,ord counties, is To Toe uIVrsti-
Gated hv the Senate. Tac CnuSii-
Iuiiou provides that .'t1 person
Snail bc n Senator who IL not thirty
,.r..r. ot ave IA i said tltat Major
E,.hyrd-un will not be thirty wears
nl.i liulil sometime in March about
,be tiue the Legislature will adj
fouru. 4 motion was made last
SATURDAY. indefinitely postpone
The consideration OF the matter,
which was voted down by 10 nays
to ayes.