Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-06-14
STATE NEWS.

The. Kendrick reached Nashville
Monday with three convicts.
We regret to learn that the resi-
dence of p. III. Marberry, of Troy,
was destroyed by fire last week.
Wheat harvesting commenced in
earnest in Williamson county last
Monday.
There were twenty-nine deaths
from Cholera in Nashville on Sun
day and Monday.
The Banner reports one death Of
cholera at Lebanon, and one at
franklin.
The Christian Church at Bells
station are having fine brick house
OF worship erected at that place.
Mr.. Gregory, who lives between
Alamo and Bells station, lost mare
aud colt by lightning last week.
a German named Leopold Myers.
while bathing in the river at Mem
phis Sunday night, was drowned.
The saw mill ut Meeks city-wher-
ever that may be-in Henry county,
was destroyed by fire last week.
A drayman named Morris Lomas-
ky, died of SuDstroke, at Nashville
ON Tuesday-so says the Banner.
In consequence of the prevalence
of sickness of an unusual character.
in Nashville, all the courts there adj
journed last Monday.
The Nashville papers announce
the death L. A. Thompson, bet
ter known as Black, in Columbia,
on Tuesday evening OF Apoplexy.
According to the Progress, Dyer
county last year raised 1854 bales of
cotton; averaging the cotton at $65
per bale, this yielded 1862, $50.
A convict in the penitentiary,
named John Thomas, died of chole-
ra, and three others were sick, up to
Monday night.
Mrs. Cant, the wife Of Judge Jno.
Q. Cant, formerly of Cleveland,
East Tennessee, died of cholera in
Nashville last Monday.
The fourth OF July comes on a.
pace. We don't believe the people
would care cent if it came in a gall
lop.
The Humboldt Journal announces
the death, near Hope Hill, in Glib
son county, May 9th, OF Mr.. Reu-
ben Dockins, aged 50 years.
John Webb, Sheriff of Perry coun-
~, was kicked by a horse, and one
OF his legs broken, two or three
weeks ago.
Bonnie, son of Mr.. Ben Ferguson.
of Columbia. last week was playing
in canoe in Duck river, when he
fell out and was drowned
The Battle House and St. Cloud
Hotel at Nashville, which have been
closed temporarily, on account of
the prevailing sickness, will be re-
opened July 1st.
There is such thing as being over
Jealous in good cause. We drop
the hint to our friends of the Co
lumbia Herald in its persecution of
the Mail.
The States announces the marri-
age in Brownsville, last week, of j.
b. Turner, county Superintendent
of schools for Haywood county, to
Miss Jennie McLemore.
The Springfield Record recorded
the fact of duck being Matched on
the place of j. e. Hill, in Robertson
county, with four legs and four
wings-thats dual duck, Archie.
The Record says the corn crop of
Robertson county is late. The
wheat, il thinks is goodwill be an
average-aud the tobacco promises
well.
The Athens Post thought while
ago they were going to have a new
depot at that place. Hope deferred
has made its heart sick. 1t don't
think so now.
The Crockett county Sentinel
says that John +. Rawlins, ESQ, ed
itor of the Humboldt Journal, has
gone to Palmer's Springs, Va, to be
married. Success 10 him and his.
There were twenty-five deaths at
Nashville last Saturday, twenty-one
Of which were said TO be Of Cholera.
They say that the disease is not
epidemic.
The Athens Post records the
NtdLu VI 1NOuLs II . OiOWhtI ailu w III.
Mayfield, on the Slst of Nav, and of
Mrs. Mary Blackburn. aged 40, on
the 2d inst.
The store of GleaVes IL Co., at
Green Hill, Wilson county, was des-
troyed last week by dog overturn-
ing coal oil lamp Loss $40, 0O0.-
Insurance $1,000.
The Columbia Herald says Mr.. f..
V. thurman, well To do merchant
Of WaynesbOro, who has been insane
about two months, passed through
that place last week, on his way to
the Asylum.
In consequence of the prevalence
of cholera in Nashville. Rev. w. r.
Ward last Saturday dismissed his
school. The commencement exerci-
ses were to have taken place last
Wednesday.
The Lexington Reporter announ-
ces the death of Mr.. James Story.
one of the eldest citizens of Hender-
son county, aged eighty-fve; and of
Mr.. w. G.. Gullage, aged about 30
Years.
The first new wheat received at
Nashville, was received last Satur-
dav, by John J. McCann, and was
from the farm of Col. Stevens, of
Williamson county. II was week
earlier than usual.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ridley, the vener-
able mother of DIR. JAS. a. Ridley,
the talented and efficient State SEN
ator in the legislature of '70-7l. died
at her residence near Smyrna, Ruth
erford county, May ID.
A destructive fire occurred in
Ccntreville, Hickman county, on the
2d inst. Ii was discovered i'm an
uuoccupied house on the northeast
corner of the square, and consumed
eight houses.
The purchasers of the Kentucky
aud Knoxville railroad last week
paid into the Treasury TWENTY-FIVE
State bonds Of one thousand dollars
each leaving only eleven thousand
five hundred dollars of the original
purchase money unpaid.
The prevalence OF Cholera At Nash
willie has induced the authorities TO
organize sanitary board; precau-
ton which every city ought TO take
al the approach OF warm weather.
aud not wait 10 he compelled to il
by the prevalence of deadly disease.
The two papers at Columbia, the
Herald and the Mail arc quarrelling
about an abstraction. They are
both i'm favor of building railroads.
but they differ about the means. II /
is about the difference between
tweedledum and tweedledee.
rho Troy Timas gives tho 1sta;ls