Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-31

: a sTRIKE.-All the Iaborers on Hopper's
new building struck for higher wages on
, Wednesday, but Rance took it easy, and
the darkies soon returned. "For why :"
Wy Hopper '.jiggers7 his hands, that is,
gives them a dram four times day, and
hence not mothers son Of the strikers
could stand out beyond the first quarter.
DIDN'T Go FAR-A party OF dashing
young men from this City, while en- route
for brandance on Friday evening OF last
week, were caught in the storm about four
miles West Of town and pelted back by
/ wind and rain, while the loud thunder and
the fierce lightning frightened the warm
"spirits" which ordinarily strengthen and
embolden youths who are on lark, . into
! chilly silence and Il want 70 get home"
enthusiasm. One of them told US in conf
dence, that wind and rain and thunder and
forked lightning were entirely too many
| for Messrs. Robertson Bourbon, even with |
a brandance in perspective.
THE VERY THING.-Messrs. Perkins & |
Morgan and Hopper & Son, have resolved !
70 arrange the upper floors Of their new |
buildings on Market and Lafayette streets, |
for a Hotel. We were shown the plan for |
the improvement by Mr.. Kennedy, who IS |
the architect, on wednesday, and were |
very much pleased with it The plan en- !
braces some forty rooms, and viii be de !
cided Improvement on anything in the way |
Of Hotel now in the City, although below !
the demands Of the public even at this time. |
SHAVE HEADs.-On Saturday evening |
last Pete Carroll and Wiley Perry were re- |
turning home well loaded with "benzlne," |
and becoming quite stirred" just after pass
ing out Of the Corporation on North Royal |
street, they laid themselves down meath /
the spreading branches of an ancient ches-
nut tree TO rest. The soft velvet sward, the |
genial shade, the cooling zephyrs and the |
benzine soon wooed them 70 slumbers /
sweet and profound. While thus uncon-
sciOus Of wrong and i'll, some party or
parties unknown, with malice and all I'M
charitableness, literally "snatehed them
bald-headed." In plain words Pete's head |
was shaved closely in front, back 20 the top I
OF the Uranium and from ear 70 ear, while !
Wiiey's was shaved bare on enc entire side |
by the aforesaid unknown party or parties. |
They both had an unusual wealth Of hair
and hence when partly shaved their ap-
pearanee can better be imagined than de-
scribed. On Sunday morning they came in
and paid barber dollar and a half each
20 finish the job.
WEsT TENNESSEE AND JACKsON.-No
portion of the South Is more rapidly in
creasing in wealth and population than
West Tennessee. This fact is not so much
attributable to the unsurpassed richness Of
her soil, as to her fine and constantly in
creasing Railroad system. There are now
nine railroads IN operation in West Tennes-
see, and eleven either in process or in con-
temptation of construction When all are
completed not a County will be without 4
railroad, and some win have several. West
Tennessee will then be perfect net work
Of railways, and far ahead of any other
part Of the South. Those roads already
completed are rapidly developing the re-
sources ofthe country and filing it up with
an industrious population. On the COM
pletiOn Of all now contemplated, in pOpu-
latIon and wealth West Tennessee will be
second to no section Of the South of the
same territorial area. Villages will be-
come tow ns and towns cities. Memphis
will become great metropolis second only
to st. Louis, in the West and some interior
torn will become 4 great commercial and
manufacturing city like indianapolis. For
many reasons, which on reflection viii
occur TO the reader, there will not be more
a.. IN. /
for fifty years at least, and the question |
now is which of the ambitious towns in the
interior will be that second leading city.
from location and present advan-
tages, would seem most likely to take that !
rank, but il must be remembered that Jack
son is surrounded by active, enterprising,
ambitious rivals who are cOntes,iug with
her every inch of ground. No enterprise,
whether a railroad, a machine shop, or any ;
thing calculated TO promote the prosperity |
of a community, Is Jackson permitted TO !
appropriate without contest. A more
lively conflict for supremacy was never
witnessed than the one now going on in
the heart of West Tennessee among the
rival towns. And jackson is at once the
stimulus and the central figure of this con- /
test against whom all the rest are strug- | {
Cling. Our position, superior size and ad-
vantages make us the envy Of our neigh
bors aud doubly arms them with energy
and common sympathy against US. This
fact we must look squarely in the face and
meet with promptness and irresistible
vigoF. Noto is the vital time and the town
that succeeds in obtaining the best and
most comprehensive railroad system. VIII
be the victor in this contest for supremacy.
There are several railroads of incalculable
importance, now projected through West
Tennessee, the location of which is not de-
termined. For instance, there is the Evans
Vile road for which Union City and jack
son are Tivals-the Huntingdon road for
which Trenton and Milan have combined
against Jacksonville Jackson and Tennes-
see River road, which Bolivar is trying to
defeat the Birmingham and st. Louis road
for which Corinth and Jackson are contend
ing-the Jackson and Memphis road,
which Brownsville and Bolivar are trying
to defeat by agitating the extension of the
salisbury and Ripley Narrow Gauge road,
through Bolivar to Brownsville, there con-
Meeting with the Brownsville and Union
City road-and the Tiptonville, Dysrsburg /
and jackson road, which Humboldt is con-
tending for. All these roads, it is true,
VIII not be built very soon, but some of
them toiIl, and If Jackson gets either or |
all, she will have to do her level best. We |
have stated the situation fairly and invite |
our citizens generally to contemplate IT,
Jackson has no time tolose, and expert |
ence has taught her the danger OF gong to |
sleep under the meSmerie influence of the |
cold fogy" lullaby Of ''they can't build it," |
or ats bound to GENE to Jackson anyhow" |
The Huntingdon and the Birmingham |
roads will render Jackson secure and lay |
a foundation broad enough fer n great City. |
The loss of either one will prove serious |
draw back to her future, while the loss Of |
both will simply be fatal. With their con-
struction We are sure Of the rest, and for |
the present they should command our un-
divided ability. Shall they be built! Can
Jackson afford to procrastinate any longer?
Is Il not meet to act at once and with mean |
ing!
nECUSrONS N supREmE C0VRT