Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-29

The people Of Great Britain and
ireland expended 5000, 900, 900 for in
toxicating liquors in 1872, and only
$500, 900, 600 for the tea, coffee, sugar
and cocoa which they consumed.
There was a Obstructive storm
throughout middle Georgia last week,
doing great damage at Macon, Fair
burn, Augusta and several other pOr-
tons of the country.
The Postmaster General in his
fourth coming report recommends the
establishment of postal savings depos-
itOries. He also recommends the as
sumption by the government of the
telegraph.
Mr.. Fisk, fiscal agent of the Herald,
Dayton, Ohio, has left for parts I'M
known, having cOnfiscated 5000, 900 of
the concerns money to his own use.
The Herald was the organ of the late
Clement L. Vallandigham.
LEAvENwoKTH KAs., November 25.
There are fourteen daily newspapers
in Kansas, thirteen of which have
squarely repudiated the action of
Gov. Osborn in nominating Robert
Crosier to the United States senane.
The New York Times says the fact
Is well authenticated that the bank
ing firm of Henry Clews & Co. hav-
ing effected satisfactory arrangements
with most of their numerous creditors
contemplate full resumption of bus
mess within four weeks.
ST. LOUIS, November pa prairie
fire in Kansas last Tuesday, in addi-
ton to destroying much farm proper
ty in the neighborhood of Usage City,
burned the town of Oivet, with the
exception of two or three houses. No
lives are reported lost.
A Prize fight in Illinois recently
between two men named respect
fully Rogers and Lewis, resulted
in the death of Lewis. The detailed
account of the fight in the daily pa
pers is both horrible and disgusting.
The steamer Alaska sunk Friday
night in the Mississippi river, ten
miles below Point Pleasant, Missouri.
There is about eight feet of water
over the main deck of e steamer,
u
No lives were lost.
PROVIDENCE r. l., Nov. 2l.-Fritz
Boehler, aged twenty-seven, shot
Mary Rose, aged seventeen, while i'll
q oyster saloon this evening, and then
shot himself. They had been keeping
company for sometime, and Mary in
formed Boehler that she was about to
entar n convent
Eleven out of thirty-three ladies
who were candidates for school SUI
perintendents in the recent Illinois
election, were elected. There are no
official positions better suited TO wO-
men than those connected with educa-
ton.
MILWAUKEE, November 23.-The
official majority of Taylor (Reformer)
for Governor over Weshburne is Is,
All, running nearly 1000 ahead of the
balance of the ticket. The Lcgisla-
ture will stand: Senate, II Republic
cans, 16 Reformers; Assembly, SO Re
formers and Al Republicans.
Cuba has but little over one mill
lion inhabitants, but in 1869 her i'm
ports were forty-three and half mil
lion dollars, and her exports fifty-sev-
en- millions. In 1870, despite the, war,
her sugar and tobacco crop was valu-
ed at 100000 gold, and the A.
mount of these two articles of exports
was computed at e200, 900, 900, or 81,
900, 100000.
The area of the city of New York
has been enlarged by the annexation
of adjacent territory, and on the first
of January, 1874, the three southerly
towns of Westchester county, MOrri-
siana, West Farms and KIngsbridge,
will form part of the metropolis. It
Will add Sc, 900 to the population of
the city.
Andrew johnson has published a
lengthy reply to 10. Hollis charge
that he knew Mrs, Surratt had been
recommended to pardon, in which he
directly contradicts Hollis statement.
It is reduced to a question of veracity
between two political dead-beats-in
which we feel no sort of interest, and
don't mean to.
: The San Francisco Bulletin asserts
that experiments have been carried far
enough now to show that all the Iais-
ms needed for consumption in the
United States can be made in Califor
mia, and not inferior articles either,
but equal to the very best imported.
The New York Sun says: A gentle
man of this city who not long since
spent sometime in Havana, informs
us that the remark was current in So
ciety there that the Spanish Govern
ment were regular paying 1000 a
wear to the sOn-in-laW of Secretary
Fish, which may possibly account for
the Secretaries peaceful disposition
in the present crisis.
The Oranges of the Northwest IA
vor the plan, which will be urged on
Congress, for deepening the Mississip-
nj River and constructing the Fort
St. Phillip canal. The object is TO
reach the sea, eastern and foreign
with all their grain and stock
bv way of the Mississippi River and
New Orleans.
26OO men are now employed in the
Navy yard.
vicksburg (AIiss.) Tines: Govern
or Powers has, we understand return
ed TO Jackson from his plantation in
county, where he has re-
Gently been soiourning, in much i'm
proved health. 1t is said by those
who are supposed to be correctly in
formed upon the subject that he has
fally determined, after due consulta-
ton with his attorneys, and mature
deliberation, to test the legality Of
the recent election by an appeal to
the courts of the country
NEW York, Nov. Blowing to the
statement contained in q letter from
Havana that on the night of the 18th
inst, when the news of the Virginius
reached Havana FROM Santiago, the
Spanish volunteers, in tiendish exul-
tation over their triumph, visited the
widows of the MasOns shot III 1868,
and brutality outraged the helpless
women; that in their struggles four
were killed, seven have since died,
and several are in such O dangerous
condition that they can not possibly
recover. ApetitiOn circulated in this
city is signed generally by the Mas
tiers of the Masonic Lodges in New
York, and the Past Masters of Lodges
here, calling for an emergent
session of the Grand Lodge of the
State to take such action as may be
Similar action on the
part of the Masonic fraternity is ia
ken in New Jersey and Massachusetts,.