Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-24
STATE NEWS.

one mile per uay'
One thousand hogsheads of To-
bacco were sold in C1arksville, week
before last.
The residence of w. ID. Lanier, six
miles from Brownsville, was des-
troyed by fire few days ago.
DIR. J. II. baskerville died at his
residence ia Fayette county about
the LIST of May, aged II.
The Exposition at Nashville is
still in successful operation, and |
will be 10 the close OF this month
next Saturday.
The residence of our old friend |
Levi Wade, near MurfreesborO, was
recently DESTROYED by fire. The loss |
cannot be less than $40, 600 to Si2, 900.
The Marshall Gazette says the
scarlet fever is prevailing at Berlin,
Marshall county, TO an alarming e@-
tent.
Rev. DIR. j. G. Mitchell, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church at Pulas-
XII, has resigned, and accepted a call
to the Church at Columbia.
The Mckenzie Times comes to us
considerably enlarged, and we note
with pleasure this evidence ofpros-
perity. lf4 a.
Rev. J. NJ. p. Otis, late pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Column
bia, has resigned, and accepted n
call to Wilmington, Delaware.
Tillotson b. Mcdowell, late Clerk
Gfl.orcaa-tr z fnnFsf at
Bolivar, died at his home there on
the 9Th inst, aged Sc years.
The Gayos0 Gas Works, of Mem
phis, were sold at public auction
last Tuesday, to Cincinnati COM
pany, Cor $1OS,OOO.
The Ripley News says: The peach
trees in this county Lauderdale-
are well loaded with fruit, and the
prospect for large yield is good.
Andy Dotson, who lives near Ea-
gle Mill, Lawrence county, the 9th
err day killed a six foot rattlesnake,
with fourteen rattles.
A man namek s. j. CLANCY, cili-
zen of Kramer, McNairy county, COM
mitted suicide at GuntOwn, Miss, a
short time since, by taking NOR
phine.
Mrs. Margaret Plummer. wife OF
Rev. w. T. Plummer, late Principal
of the Somerville Female Institute,
died at Coiliersville, OF the Sd Of
May.
The t9nth ward OF Nashville,
which few weeks ago seeded from
the city, has now decided by vote
of more than three TO one, TO be-
come an integal part of the city, and
to share its destiny for veal or woe.
The Lawrence Journal states that
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis is pre-
valing in Lawrence county. One
person had died of the disease, and
four or five others were in n very
dangerous condition.
Haywood county being largely
under the necessity to plow up and
replant much of the early planted
cotton land, complains of the scar
city of cotton seed.
The old court house at Fayette-
vile, which had stood the storms OF
more than fifty winters, has been
torn down to make room for more
modern, and let us hope, a more
comfortable structure.
Thos. II. MilliBgton, who has been
Chief Engineer of the Memphis and
Knoxville railroad, has resigned
that position, and is succeeded by
Col. L. L. Upshaw, who is said to
possess Engineering capacities of
the highest order.
The old Parsonage in the rear of
the first Presbyterian Church at
Nashville, which has been in use
nearly half century, is to be torn
down, aud a new and elegant par
soHage will Immediately be erected
in its stead.
Gov. Brown left Nashville last
Sunday for Atlanta, to attend a
meeting of the Governors of the
Southern States, who meet to pro-
mote the internal interests of the
South. May wisdom preside in
their councils.
The people of Nashville have wise
Nv chosen Saturday to-day for the
decoration of the Confederate
graves, instead of Sunday, as here
Iofore. Let Others who contemplate
decoration follow the sensible eX-
ample.
Chancellor Livingston has appoin-
ted James Fentress, Jr., son OF the
late j. X. Fentre4s of Bolivar, to be
Clerk and Master of the Cbancery
Court at Bolivar, IN place of L. b.
Mcdowell, deceased.
Rev. Z. ii. Osborne, the eloquent
Baptist minister at Gallatin, has
been quite seriously sick for some
weeks past. His friends hereabouts
will be glad to learn he is in fair
way to get mp again.
Here's modesty for you. The u
nion City Courier says: "There arc
twenty men in this (Obion) county
worth a trifie less than Sl00, 900 each;
modesty forbids ms from saying we
are one OF them" We should say
truth ought to forbid it.
Gen. Henry S. Foote, one of the
most changeable, and yet one of the
ffrmest men in the world, has just
returned from flying visit to San
Francisco, and is delighted with the
country. He is going to Washing
ton City, to practice his profession.
The residence of James Farris,
Flat creek, Bedford county, was des-
troyed by fire last W eek, and one OF
his daughters, in reseuing a little
brother lost her life, by her clothes
taking fire, and burning her so that
she died.
Moreau Brewer, in card pub
lished in the Trenton Gazette, an
L - 4. Il al l.,
editorial command of the Trenton
News, on "account of circumstan-
ces over which nc had no control"
We WISH him well, in whatever he
engages.
Last Saturday Memphis lost two
of her leading citizens. Col. Rich
ard a. Pinson, late President of the
Chamber of Commerce, died at the
Peabody Hotel, and Hon. Jas. Phe-
Ian died at his residence. Maj. Pin
SON was eminent as a merchant. and
Col. Phelan as lawyer.
MIR. j. b. Kirkland has replevied
the money and assets of the Jackson
Insurance Company of Memphis,
which were recently attached, and
has again commenced business. The
name of j. B. Kirkland is a SYNONYM
for integrity.
A little SON of w. G.. Smiley, who
resides near Shelbyville, last week
went with his father to catch min
news for fishing, and the father star
ted the little fellow home, but in
stead of going home, he got on a
plank, fioated cut into the pond, in
to the forebay and was drowned.