Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-03
STATE NEWS.

All P~A 70 " viz osAeO Nil ShSAi'
Lawrence county rejoices in a
greatly improved wheat prospect.
Professor A. NJ. Burney has been
elected School Superintendent for |
Warren county.
Judge George X. Foote, of Lex
ington, has pulled up stakes and To- |
Gated at Milan.
Mr.. Thomas Thompson, eight
miles West of Bolivar, killed two
mad dogs last Sunday week.
Mrs. Nancy Rankin died at Ruth
erford Station, Gibson Co., April
21st, in the 96th year of her age.
The Spring races, over the Nash
Vile course, will commence May
18th, and run through the week.
Maury County Court voted the
first Monday in April to put a clock
on the Court-House in Columbia.
Mr.. James Galloway died at his
home in Maury county, last week,
at the age of 80.
The frost last week played havoc
with the peaches in some localities
in Madison and adjoining counties.
Mr.. Joseph McMurray died at
Gibbs Cross Roads, Macon county,
week before last, at the age of SO.
James L. Guest was last week
elected a Justice of the Peace for
the Columbia district, in Maury
county.
The Lawrence Journal says: "The
general impression is, that if the Cir
cult Court don't break pretty soon,
the county will"
HydrophObia is said to be very
prevalent among the dogs about
Mount Pleasant, Maury county.
Exterminate the race, say we.
The Trustees of the University at
Nashville, have decided not to merge
that institution in the Vanderbilt
University.
The Athens Post announces The
death of Mr.. James S. Bridges in
that place, April 21st, in the 18th
year of his age.
The Trenton Gazette says-The
Epizooty has reappesred in this
vicinity in a more malignant form
than at its first appearance.
Capt. w. G.. Price died at the resi-
dence of DIR. X. N. Price, near
Eaton, Gibson county, April 22d, at
an advanced age.
Hon. w. G. Whitthorne, of Co
lumbia, has subscribed 81, 200 to the
endowment of the Vanderbilt Uni
versity.
The City Recorder, at Nashville,
the other day, fined Saloon keeper
$50 for selling whiskey to minor.
Served him right.
Bedford county claims to have the
finest Court House in the State, and
they are going to put a thirteen or
fourteen hundred dollar clock in the
cupola.
The Courier reports Union City
as still on the improve and the
Wheat crop as looking much i'm
proved over what it was a short
time since.
The Bolivar Bulletin-ye local of
which pirouettes about the country
good deal-says there is a good
prospect for an abundant mast crop
this year.
The Jury in the Mclean case at
Memphis charge of embezzling
the taxes he was employed to collect
could not agree upon verdict, and
were discharged.
The matrimonial business in
Rutherford county, has been good
the past season. The County Court
Clerk issued ITO licenses between
January LIST and April LIST.
The Dyersburg Gazette says
Ruffin Reed, who was in Jail on a
charge of obtaining money on false
pretenses, escaped, and is still at
large.
The Moore County Pioneer learns
that Granville Allen, who was re-
Gently sentenced to the Penitentiary
from that county for ten years, has
made his escape, and is now at large.
A lad. fourteen years old, SON Of
Elliot Knowles, of White county,
recently while assisting his father
in hauling wood, was suddenly
seized with epilepsy, and died in
the woods.
The McMinnville New Era re-
ports the death, from his clothes
taking fire, on the 2lst of April, of
William Robertson, of White co.,
aged 80 years. He was a soldier
under Jackson, in the war of 1872.
81. N" the so-caIled s'Philoso-
pher," may be looked for along here
as soon as he can get a "dead-head"
pass over the railroads. We see the
nuisance is being inflicted on Mid
die Tennessee, at present.
The Brownsville Bee, having pass
cd through five years of life sue
cessfully, enters this week upon its
sixth year. May it continue to grow
and flourish as long as time shall
last. -
IL is intimated in some of the pa.
pers that w. w. Hobbs, the present
Comptroller, in consequence of bad
health, will resign, and one of his
unsuccessful competitors will be
appointed in his place.
The Mckenzie Times records the
sudden death of an eyed woman
named Ellis, at that place the Other
day, by attempting to get on traiI
before il had stopped. She wa
thrown under the wheels and in
stantly crushed to death.
The Bolivar Bulletin says-Pass
ing through the bottom last Thurs
day, we noticed that Mr.. John War
rem, with a goodly number of hands
was rapidly opening up a passag
through the timber in Hatchie bot
tom for the Memphis and Knoxville
Railroad.
A banking establishment in Mem
phis, known as the Memphis Lift
and General Insurance Company
has suspended. 1t is thought it
liabilities do not amount to NOR
than $500 What its assets ma
consist of is not stated.
The Columbia Mail SAYS the bar
aud stables of Il. +. Ledbetter, o
Maury county, were DESTROYED h
fire the other day. Every horse an,
mule he possessed was burnt up, a
well aS his years supply of proven
der, L WAS the work of an incen
diary.
o. tour persons who were ridin
ina wagon. crossing the railrOa
West OF Athens, last week, whe
the wagon was utterly demolished
the only person at all seriously hur
was the eolored driver. A lad
with an infant in her arms, wa