Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-01
STATE NEWS.

We copy the following from the /
Trenton News, of last week:
John i. Hide, a prominent Odd
Fellow, died in Nashville last week.
Bedford County issued eight mar
riage licenses last week.
VIM. Prestwood has been elected
Mayor of Dresden.
McKenzie-in humble imitation Of |
those who have gas-so-called-
wants street lamps!
The Mckenzie Times comes TO us
somewhat diminished in size. But |
large enough.
Rev. +. o. Randle, OF Mckenzie,
has been quite sick for a couple of |
weeks, but is recovering.
Geo. G. Allen, a we'll known cot |
ton broker, of Nashville, died at
Augusta, Ga, Jan. Esd.
The Union City Courier has in
troduced "birth" department in
that paper.
The residence of Asa w. Moore,
of Elkton, Giles county, was de- |
stroyed by fire last week.
A negro woman at Unionville,
Bedford County, had the small pox |
last week.
The expenses of holding the Cir
cult Courts in Robertson County in
1872, was 1854 65.
The public debt of Tennessee is
said to be increasing one million of
dollars per annum.
n. A. Patterson wants to be Post
Master at Cleveland, East Tennes-
see.
Stewart County, with S., 1862 % of
last years taxes still due, owes only
1881 %. Happy Stewart!
Rev. E. r. Osborne has taken
charge of the Baptist Church at
Gallatin.
Hamblen County-less than two
years old-with capital at Norris |
town, has just closed contract for |
a new Courthouse, to cost S21 $50.
A man named VIM. Boyd, of Lou
den county, while chOpping in the |
woods, was instantly killed one day |
last week, by the falling of limb.
The Roam Iron Works at Chatta-
nooga, will send specimens of their |
coal iron and ore to the Vienna Ex-
position.
Knoxville has a negro lawyer |
named Yaroby. He has been adj
mitted to practice in the Federal
Court.
Col. Israel McCarroll, an old and |
honored citizen OF Maury county,
died at Spring Hill, about two
weeks ago.
Capt. Joseph Jacques has just
completed new and elegant cottage
residence in the suburbs of Knox
vile.
The Gazette says Morristown in
Hamblen county needs bank, and
urges its capitalists to organize one
under the National system.
William Rule, of the Knoxville
Chronicle, has been elected Mayor
of Knoxville. over Van Glider, the
old incumbent.
During 1879, the Rock City Paper
mills at Nashville, manufactured
over one million one hundred thou
sand pounds of rags into paper.
Hamblen county had listed for
taxation in 1872 102, 1875 acres Of land,
valued at $1,000, 154, or $40 AZ per
acre.
Geo. hleiser, proprietor of the
Battle House Bar, at Nashville, died
very suddenly on the 10Th, of ''heart
disease" so the report calls it.
The editor of the Lexington Re-
porter complains that he is not in
vited to weddings, either white or
black.
Priestly Parker, whose Gin, and
Mills at Wildersville, was lately
burned, is busy rebuilding, and will
soon be going again. That's plucky.
The Moore county Pioneer, in
speaking of certain pretentious
snobs, SAYS: "This way of tieing a
maCkerel to ones coat tail, and inn
agining himself whale, won't do"
Mrs. Mary Ann Hastings, of Bed
ford county, has presented her lord
with two sets of triplets inside OF
two years
How is that for high?
The town of Lexington has never
been incorporated. The people
there recently voted almost unani-
mously, TO apply for a charter, to
the Chancery Court.
The Lexington Reporter says Ri |
ley Baker, accused of stealing a |
horse, was arrested by the Sheriff !
of McNairy county, and is now in |
Jail at Lexington.
80, ,,o,,,o@ L,,I-Ios ,,,,,,,l =, 8 1
the murder of Mr.. Parker, in Deca- |
tur county, has recently been cap |
tured, and is now in jail at Deca- |
turville.
There is bill pending before |
Congress, to pay East Tennessee |
University S1S,5O0 for the use and !
abuse of the University property by |
the Federal army during the war.
Mai. A. NJ. Shaw, one of the old
est citizens of Somerville, and pro- |
prietor of the Eagle Hotel at that |
place, died on Sunday evening, 10Th /
inst, in his 74th year.
Sycamore Powder Mills in Cheat
ham county, twenty-three miles
from Nashville, was blown up on |
the 18th of January, for the third |
or fourth time.
DIR. James Summers, at the youth |
iul age of one hundred and one /
wears, walked into the Dover Record |
Office, in Stewart county the other |
day, and subscribed for that paper.
Rev. II. \. Hoyt, of New York,
has accepted call TO the pastorate |
of the First Presbyterian Church in |
Nashville, and will soon enter upon
his duties.
The Rev. DR.. Van Dyke, who re-
Gently resigned the pastorate of the |
First Presbyterian Church in Nash /
vile, will at once return to Brook /
Iyn, New York, whence ne came.
q. n. Tilman, Esq, the floterial !
representative from Rutherford and |
Bedford counties, is confined TO his /
bed in the Maxwell house, Nash |
vile, with an attack of measles.
The contest for Sheriff, of Carroll !
county, between Alfred Bryant and |
Eph Williams, which was recently /
decided by Il. =. Rains, special |
Judge, in favor or Williams, has |
been appealed to the Supreme Court. |
Gen. Allen Brown, one OF the |
oldest and best men in Maury coun- (
~, died at his home in Columbia, ON
Friday, Jan. 18th, in the SOth year /
of his age. lie settled in Maury /
county in 1918.
John =. Dunlap, late States At !
torney for the Paris Circuit, and = |