Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-12-13
STATE NEWS.

pound.
A Lodge of the Knights Of Ply
thias has been organized in Browns
Vile.
1.-The Memphis and Knoxville rail
road has been surveyed TO Fayctto-
vile.
The value of town property in
Bolivar is estimated at S54j, OOO.-
SO says the Bulletin.
Tho Nashville Banner says $780,
900 of the State debtwas funded on
the 18th nit.
Horse swapping is great nuis-
ance in Trenton. The town au-
thorities have prohibited its prae-
tice by special ordinance.
From thirty to sixty thousand
dollars Of Shelby county warrants
arc said to be on the market with
cut authority. Something rotten
down there, we fear.
James McAlister Crockett, May
or of Troy. Obion county, and
lawyer of that place, died at his
brother'p residence, on the 10Th
ult., in the 24th year Of his age.
Tho Trenton Gazette Of the 9th
says: Ii is rumored that u young
lady Of our city is going to read
law. She can get as much practice
here "a eba can atfopb IN
Crockett county has her full quo
"A of subjects in the State Lunatic
AsylunN at Nashville, and wants so
send more, but the superintendent
refuses TO receive them.
The Crockett, County Sentinel
solemnly afiirms that hail stones
fell in Alamo and vicinity, on We'd
nesday week, large as oyster cans.
We suspicion that the Sentinel man
never saw an oyster can.
Tho business on the N. 4 ID. Il.
Il. has increased during the last ten
days 80 as to neccssitate the putting
on of two special freight trains
each way every day, and three eve
ry other day.
The Lexington Reporter of the
lth says: The citizens of the town
were supplied with pork at 6 IL
cents net. 1t was brought from
Perry county, and all who bought
are we'll pleased.
Mangrum, one of the celebrated
East Tenn. outlaws, whose tragic
history was published by MS last
week, has been sentenced by the
Supreme Court to 81 years in the
Psnitcntiary.
The total value Of property IN
the CITY of Memphis, according to
the report of the Clerk of the Coun-
ty Court, is S35,47S,004, divided as
follows: Real estate, S28, S06, 725;
merchandise, S4,2O7, SAG; other per-
sonal, 1868, 637.
The Union and American of
Nashville says: At m Getting of the
graduating students (66 in number)
of the Medical College, Mr.. IL. ID.
d. Eve, Of this city, aud son of
Prof. Paul +. Eve, was elected val
edictorian of the class.
On Thursday night week u sa-
loon keeper in Memphis, by the
name of Alexander w. Taylor, was
shot and instantly killed by John
=. Grace, fireman, because Taylor
refused him credit for q drink.
The Huntingdon Republican
tells ola Hollow Rock man by the
name of G. w. MeMaekins, who
came near bleeding to death from
having a tooth extracted. He
bled at intervals FOR four weeks,
and finally had to go to Nashville
to get relief.
Twenty counties have not yet
received their school warrants,
simply from the fact that the Coun-
ty Court Clerks have failed to re-
port the names of the county trus-
tees, and that they have given the
requisite bond TO receive and dis
burse the educational fund.
Memphis has organized u cotton
exchange at last. The following
are tho officers elect: President, w.
b. Galbreath; Vice Presidents,
Bronson, Bayliss, j. j. Rawlings,
A, A. Patton; Treasurer, II. G. Dan
iel; Board of Directors, w. w. Guy,
j. Il. Landaur, Napoleon Hill, Q.
f. Smith, J. Il. Petit, Il. IL. Hart
mus, J. T. Stra.ton.
A delegation Of colored men left
Nashville on Sunday last for Wash
ington, to lay before tho President
aud Congress, The fact that they
have been ignored in the distribn-
tiOn of official honors, patronage
and omoluments of the Govern
mont, there being not one colored
citizen in a national Office in n vo-
ting population of near 10000, and
requesting that this oversight be
remedied in Tennessee.
The Murfreesboro News of the
9th has this: On Saturday, the I'D
ult., an old man named Thos. X.
Haynes, who resided about twelve
miles west of town, near the Viii
hanson county line, committed sui
edo by hanging himself with a
trace chain. Mr.. Haynes had been
in bad health for a long time, and
was subject to periodical fits of in
sanity. 1t was while laboring I'M
der one of these fits that he hung
himself. He leaves q largo family
to mourn his untimely death.
The Lexington Reporter of the
4th says: IL. +. Douglass, a citizen
of this county, left his home on the
morning of November 18th, and
travelled horseback in the direc-
ton of the residence of his brother,
Mr.. Pinkney Douglass-during the
day he was found dead on the road
near the farm of Mr.. 2. D., with
out mark of violence on his per
son. A jury of inquest, held by
Esq. L. N. Hart, returned verdict:
"Tho deceased came to his death by
the immoderate use of intoxicating
liquors."
The Trenton Gazette of the 9th
says: The stockholders of the Glib
son county A. & NJ. Association at
their annual meeting on last Satur-
day, elected the following officers
E to serve the ensuing year, viz: Hon.
Il. p. Caldwell, President; Geo. Z.
Glass, First Vice President; DR.. w.
II. Wilson, Second Vice President;
i. L. Johnston, Treasurer; w. w.
Harrison, Secretary; B. Lands,