Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-10-04
STATE NEWS.

] he residence of Charles Vaught
six miles north OF Columbia, was
burned down last Monday week.
Mr.. Richard Spence, aged So
years, died at his homo in Ruther-
ford county last week.
The Baptist at Somerville are a.
bout 10 commence the erection of a
new church edi6ce in that place.
Sewer county has 8 total scho-
lasuc population of 4,153; white
males 2,0l2, females 1919; eolored
males l25, females 81.
The Upton Record, at Covington,
has been enlarged to an eight col
umn paper, and shows evident signs
OF thrift and prosperity.
Herbert w. Culberry, of Mem
phis, on account of family trouble,
shot and killed himself last Mon
day.
The Lebanon Herald says the
kitchen OF w. NJ. McCorkle, ESQ,
of that place, was destroyed by FIRE,
Saturday night, 18th inst.
There was a brilliant Jewish
wedding in Murfreesboro, last
week. A. G. Rosenfeld, a mer-
chant of that place, married Miss
Fannie Laudsberger.
Lauderdale county, the other
day, by a vote of more than two to
one, refused to levy an additional
tax of one mill, for school purpo-
ses.
Col. John R. Nelson, an old and
well known citizen of Big Creek,
Shelby county, fell dead from
chair in which he was sitting last
Monday, it is supposed of heart
disease.
The Trenton Gazette ef the goth
announces the death, on the 18th,
of Mrs. Frances Wade, wife of Lew
is Wade, aged 65-at the family
residence near Brazil, in Gibson
county.
At last the town of Dyersburg is
made happy by the certainty that
the railroad will run by, through,
or over the town-we don't know
which it will do; but Tom Neal is
happy, we are happy-and reader,
go thou and do likewise.
The Seventh Tennessee Confed-
crate regiment will have a reunion
at Gallatin, October 9th. Gen.
Jno. B. Gordon, of Georgia, now U.
S. Senator, and Gen. W. B. Bate,
of Nashville, have been invited to
deliver addresses on the occasion.
Union University, a large Bap-
tist Institution, located at Murfrees-
bOro, has been compelled to close
its doors and suspend operations on
account of the meagre and altogeth-
er inadequate support rendered it
by the denomination and the pub
lie. Let us hope the suspension is
only temporary.
Ground was broken last Monday
by Bishop McTeiyre, for the foun-
dation of VanderbuiIt University
at Nashville. Everything beto-
kens a much earlier completion of
the work than usual in buildings
Of the magnitude of this one. The
money is in hand to "psy as they
CO."
The city fathers at Nashville
tried to get up a Yellow fever ex-
element there last week, be-
cause a large number of colored
people from Memphis were going
there to attend the coIored fair then
going on. The utter folly of any
excitement there on the subject,
caused the panic to cease.
The three civil districts of Fay
cite county. which embrace La
Grange, Lafayette and Moscow,
have circulated a petition asking
for the privilege of erecting q court
house at Moscow, in which to try
all cases that may arise in said dis
tricts, and the Falcon hopes their
petition will be granted.
The McMinnville New Era, of
the 18th, says: 4 negro girl, who
was bitten by rabid dog, not sup
posed to be mad at the time, about
three weeks ago, died of hydrephO-
bia in that place on the 10th. The
usual symptoms, with great aver
sion to water, were marked charac-
teristics in her case.
The Board of Health in Mem
phis last Saturday resigned, unani-
mously, because the city authori-
ties did not give them power to
carry out their designs for the good
of the city. Memphis, in its pres
ent emergency, cannot do without g
Board of Health, and the sooner
one is organized, with full power
to execute its own recommends
tions, the better it will be.
Some unknown villain attempted,
iaSb WOOAJ " s@5SeAf7SiuatO young
man named VIM. Vernon, who re-
sides a short distance north of Gov
ingten. While quietly riding along
the road, his clothes were perfora-
ted by two pistol balls, fred from
behind a fence. The would be as
sassin was seen running off through
u field, but not sufficiently near,
says the Covington Record, to be
recognized, Jealousy is supposed
to be the cause.
Mrs. PATTERSON, who presided ever