Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10
General News.

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At recent snow storm in Kansas
fifteen persons were frozen to death.
Thurlow Weed is dangerously i'll,
at his residence in New York.
Gen. Garibaldi is reported alarm
ingly i'll.
Chicago and St Louis were both
visited by disastrous fires last week.
Little Rock, Ark, had a first class
fire on the 5th.
The Ohio Legislature has passed
a resolution condemning the Con
gressional salary grab.
Ben Butler announces his firm de-
termination to be the next Cover
nsr of Massachusetts,.
Hon. Jas. L. Orr, L. S. Minister
to Russia, died suddenly in St. Pc
tersburg on the 9th of May.
Abouta thousand additional troops
have been sent against Capt. Jsck
"of the Modoc braves"
Olive Logan takes her husband,
Writ Sykes, to Europe this sam
mer.
Ten thousand emigrants left Liv-
erpool last week for the United
States.
All the strikers in New York have
acknowledged themselves defeated
and resumed work.
Stonewall Jackson is to have a
monument-paid for. it is stated-by
members of the English Parliament.
It is predicted that the earth will
be burned up on August oath, at u
o'clock p. IN.
Jacob Bright tried to get a vo-
mans rights bill through the Brit
fish Parliament last week, hut
failed.
A Louisville negro drank a quart
of whisky at three drinks the other
day in Louisville. He wont do II
again, as he died next morning.
The monarchical party of France
demand that the President remodel
the ministry, and that it be made
more conservative.
John f. Hatcher, Esq, has resum-
ed his old place as the witty para
grapher of the Louisville Courier
journal.
It is reported that the Carlists in
tend to withdraw from Spain and
abandon the contest for the pres
ent.
The U. S. Treasury has paid the
citizens of Loudon county, Va, fol
the stock taken from them by Gen
Sheridan during the war.
Harrison Grambo, a banker Of
Philadelphia, Pa, failed few days
ago for 100000. AS usual it wai
mostly other peoples money thai
Grambo lost.
Mexican robbers are still raiding
upon the Texas frOntier-in thu
mean time U. S. soldiers are KEEP
in Louisiana to uphold the Kellog
usurpatiOn.
President Grant, family and few
officials have been for the past few
weeks, on a grand Western tour
In the meantime the Indian war ant
the Louisiana troubles increase il
magnitude.
The Third Annual Industrial Elk
position of Tennessee, opened il
Nashville on the first, under brigh
auspices. Gen. w. b. Bates deliV
cred the opening address.
Col. VIM. Botelor and Major Win
field McClelland fought a duel witt
shot guns near Horn Lake, Miss, OF
Friday, the End. McClelIand wa
wounded.
The Universal Exhibition, hell
this year in Vienna-the capitol cit,
of the Austrian Empire-Was open
ed on the first by the Emperor
Francis Joseph, amidst the most i'm
posing ceremonies.
A meeting of Western Congress
men will be held in st. Louis, Oh
the 18th, for the purpose of deter
mining on a line of policy to be pur
sued in the next Congress, and unit
ing upon all questions affecting
Western interests.
All the departments of the grea
| Vienna Exhibition are filled witt
! goods except the American depart
ment, which is still empty. Tn
sharp practices and knaVeFy Of on
Commissioners is the cause.
The roof of Westminster Abbey
in London, long supposed to be o
oak, when recently examined as tt
its soundness and found to be per
feet, was at the same time discOv
cred to be of chestnut. 1t has stood
for eight centuries already.
The remains of Bishop McIlvaiI
of Ohio, were received in New YOrl
from Europe on the 9Th, with tn,
most imposing ceremonies. a com
mittee from Cincinnati took chsrg,
of the remains, after services in st
PauPs Church, and conveyed tlen
to that city, where the last solemn
rites were performed on Friday.
One of the most remarkable adj
vertisements of the season is from :
corps of literary gentlemen, at L.ba
non, who profess to furnish on slor
notice all sorts of literary produc.
tiOns in nearly all the modern anC
| dead languages. Wonder if tley
would like to take a contract to edit
few news papers for the SAX, o
variety?
The Washington Star says: "Thes,
remarkable facts are worthy of be
ing noticed, namely, that the De
claration of Independence was frs
copied from the original draft by al
Irishman Charles Thompson) who
was Secretary to the first Congress
that it was first read to the peool,
from a window of Independelc,
Hall, Philadelphia, by an IrishmIn
| (C0l, John NiXon,) and that it val
first printed by au Irishman, (JohI
Dunlap"
Fire at Paris.
PARIS, Tenn, May 6.-This nom