Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-06-07
STATE NEWS.

prospect IN East tennessee IS gcner-
ally bad.
Hon. Horace Maynard has appoin.
ted Geo. w. Baxter, son of Col. Jno
Baxter, as cadet TO the Military
Academy at West Point.
Giles county last week sent con-
tributiOn OF ten persons to the pen
itentiary, for an aggregate ofthirty-
nine years.
The Athens Post says John Blan-
kenship, an old citizen of McMinn
county, died May 22d Of apOplexy,
aged GO years.
The Paris Intelligenccr fears the
continued rains for ten days will
greatly injure the growing wheat
crop.
Fred Douglass will deliver the an
nual address before the Tennessee
colored Agricultural and Mechani-
cal Association at Nashville, in
September.
There was but one marriage Ii
cense issued to a white couple in
Lauderdale county In the "merry
month of May" That won't do,
Sparks.
We understand that the contest
for the removal of the county seat
OF McNairy county from Purdy to
Bethel Station will be renewed the
coming fall.
James w. Brizendine, five miles
east of Fountain Head, Sumner
county, was found dead between a
fallen tree and fence the other day.
Crushed to death by the falling tree.
Maj. w. j. Sykes, who has been
employed by the Duck River Vally
railroad since last September, as
canvassing agent, has completed his
work, and sent in his resignation to
the directors.
The Huntingdon Republican re-
cords the death, by apoplexy, of a
man named Richards, living seven
miles from Trezevant. He was
chopping wood in apparent good
health, when he dropped dead.
The Clarksville Chronicle OF the
3lst Of May announces the death of
Rev. Henry Wilson, pastor of st.
Johns Baptist Church (colored) of
Nudb Cltl VII but lllCNAOub OuhAol
eccasioned by fall from a horse.
Col. David NJ. Nelson, son of
Judge Thomas A. X. Nelson, who
killed Gen. ClantOn, of Alabama, in
Knoxville last year, in "a street fight,
was tried last week at Knoxville,
and acquitted.
Some of our State exchanges are
frctting themselves unnecessarily a
bout President Grants Southern
tour. If he wants to come let him
come; if he don't want to come, let
him stay where he is.
The editor of the Ripley News
has recently passed through por-
ton of the counties OF Lauderdale,
Upton and Fayette, and gives fiat
tering account of the crop prospects
over there.
The Ripley News chronicles the
death, by lightning on the Goth of
May, of Mr.. Seaberry Templeton,
near Oak Grove. He was scraping
cotton at the time, and other per-
sons within thirty feet of him were
unhurt.
The Ripley News learns that dis
ease closely resembling Cholera, had
made its appearance at Fulton, on
the Mississippi river, and one man
who had eaten heartily of vegeta-
bles, had died of it.
Contracts are now being made for
the building of the Columbia and
Lewisburg Narrow Gauge Road
Its construction at an early dav is
assured.
j. Il. Harwcll, Grand Secretary OF
the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows,
instituted a new lodge at Upton
vile, Lake county, on Tuesday night
of last week, May 9th.
a proposition is before the city
fathers at Nashville 10 divide the
9TH aud 8th wards of that city into
three wards. Ample provision was
made in the annexation of the ter.
ritory, for the purpose of division
On Thursday, 9th May, while
Mr.. Nathan COpass, of Washington
county, was attending to his stock
in his barn yard, he suddenly fell
dead, it is supposed, of heart dis.
ease.
A fatal disease has made its ap.
pearance in one district in Knox
county, among the cattle and hogs
1t seems to affect the kidneys, anC
generally proves fatal. 1t is regar
ded as another species of zootic.
From the Paris Intelligencer We
learn that that place is just now in
tested with night providers. No lesi
than three cases of burglary are
mentioned as occurring in one nigh
last week.
The storm which blew so heavily
here on Monday of last week, pass
ed over Henry county, doing a gooC
deal of damage. a Mr.. Pritchet
had a stable blown down and n mul,
killed, and his orchard and that o
Mr.. Hearn, were ruined by tn,
storm.
Mrs. Diggs, widow of the late Eli
sha Diggs, of Henry county, receiv
ed fall last week, breaking one o
her thighs. 1t was set, but tn,
break was so high up that no splint
could be applied to hold it in posi-
ton.
Stanford l.. Warren, Esq, Stat
Senator from McNairy county, wa
married on the Goth of May, to Mis-
Alice l.. Pharr, daughter of the lat
a. u. Pharr, of McNairy county,
May the blessings which flow from
virtuous love ever be theirs.
Judge Elijah Walker, of Savan
nah, who has been confined by an at
tack OF paralysis, we are glad L
learn from the tennessee Rive
News, is again able To be about, ant
we trust he will soon be able to re
sumo his duties on the bench.
The IIartsville, Trousdalc count,
Sentinel, says about two miles iron
that place, hill of sand, suitable
for making Glass, has been discov
cred, aud intlmates that glass fac
tory will soon be established near il
A difficulty occurred at Santa Fe
Iaury county, last week between
VIM. L. Erwin and Ped Fitzgerald
in which the latter was shot through
the heart. Erwin was bailed in tn
sum of $500. Whisky was tn
cause of the trouble.
DIR. Francis II. Gordon, one of tn,
best writer's, but poorest farmers il
Tennessee, died at his home il
Smith county short time ago, il
the Goth year of his age. TheorE ii
cslly he was q good farmer; practi
cally he was a very poor one.
The nett proceeds of the so-calle,
spiritulistic debate at Nashville, be
tween Harrison and Hull, was SIS
and so cts.-which was divided be
tween them each receiving S75 &C
What a contemplate figure, for :,
much blowing. They expected a
Last n Thousand dolIars aacb