Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-03-15
STATE NEWS.

J. Walter Montgomery, Tax Col
lectOr for Carroll county, died at
his fathers residence, February q.
w. b. Watts has been elected
Mayor of Mckenzie, by ? single
vote.
Porter Newell, Trustee of Ham
blen county, died in Morristown, on
the goth inst, aged II.
Haywood county has voted by
decided majority, in favor of free
schools.
The Bolivar Bulletin is complain
ing or bad roads in Hardeman.-
Ours are as bad, they make their
own complaint.
The criminal docket Of the Har-
deman Circuit Court is said to be
smaller than at any term since the
war.
Humboldt grows excited over a
proposition to make a double side
walk on both sides of every street
in the town. Ambitious Humboldt.
Mai. Thomas T. Hurt, promi-
nent citizen of Upton county, died
February goth, at his home about
fourteen miles east of CoVington.
The Lexington Reporter says
there were seventy-seven true bills
returned at the late term of the
Henderson Circuit Court.
A fellow who went to Lexington
week before last to get his marriage
license, was snatched up on jury
and detained from his charmer.-
Both the Methodist and Baptist
Churches at Dresden, are going to
erect new houses of worship the
present season. So says the Demo
crat.
MIN Crisp, colored man and
hard drinker says the Bolivar Bull
letin, died suddenly there last week.
King Alcohol is too many for any of
them.
One of the Senators from Shelby
county in the egislature-Dr.
Leake-died at the st. Cloud Hotel,
Nashville, Friday evening, March
9TH, at 5! O'Clock. He had a con-
gestiVe chill on Sunday preceding.
The Gallatin Examiner of the Sth
announces the death of Mrs. Gen.
Hall, the venerable widow of Gen.
VIM. Hall, March 9th, in the S7th
year of her age. She was a relic of
by-gOne age.
The Gallatin Examiner, says that
town wants another hotel, and that
an enterprising citizen is going to
let her have it. Jackson wants one
hotel, and our lack of enterprise
prevents anybody from furnishing it
Two men named Robert and Hen
ry Ford, arrested as the perpetra-
tors of the robbery committed on
the safe of Messrs. Senter 81 Baird,
at Humboldt, were on trial last week
for the offence.
The Bolivar Bulletin reports ac-
tive work on the Memphis and
Knoxville Air Line Railroad be-
tween Bolivar and Henderson Sta
ton. We learn the Engineers were
at Henderson Station ten days ago.
The McAIinnvilleN New Era records
the burning to death of a little
daughter of Josh Penning West, of
that place, last week, by falling into
burning brush pile. Her clothing
and hair, and her eyes were literal
ly consumed by the fire.
James Rogers, whose chronic hab-
it of borrowing his neighbors hor-
Ses-some times without leave-and
swapping them of for animals of
his own, was numerically sent to
board at the psychological institute
Sat Nashville, for five and q half
years.
While VIM. West, who is in the
employ of John Kinney, of Harde-
man county, was driving n wagon
loaded with wood down a hill, the
other day, he fell off the wagon, and
some of the wood fell on him, brui-
sing him badly, but breaking no
bones.
A. w. Hawkins, of Huntingdon,
who has recently been appointed by
the President, Collector of Internal
Revenues for that district, has re-
tired from the editorial control OF
the Republican of that place, and
f. G.. Ridgley, Esq. hereafter wields
the destinies of that paper.
John Clinton, for five years Re.
corder of BrownsYille-an and n good
one TOBIAS been appointed Post
Master at Brownsville, and has re,
signed both his Recordership and
his seat as one of the Aldermen o.
the town. VIM. Sangster, Esq, sue
cceds him as Recorder. John p
Mcleod succeeds him as Alderman
The Lebanon Herald records
singular case of a child four months
old, in Lebanon, being fed on pin
and needles, by a colored nurse, wht
was soon 10 be discharged. Tn,
child passed twenty-seven pins anC
needles. and a small agate button
aud no ill effects were experienced
therGfrom.
A negro church four miles from
Lewisburg, on the Mooresville roai
was burnt last week. Believed t,
be the work of an incendiary. Tn
colOrcd people had been holding Sc
Grct meetings there, guarded b.
armed sentinels. and the Lewisburi
Gazette says some of them had be
come dissatisfied with the wa,
things were going, and tits beiiever
they set fire TO the building.
The Winchester Home Journal q
the 9th SAYS: On Sunday night
February 10th, near Estelle Spring,
in Franklin county, four men calle
at the house of n Frenchman there
and asked to he allowed to warn
themselves, which was readily gran
ted. The family consisted of huS
band, wife and two daughters
They soon commenced to act disoI
derby, and attempted to lay unchast
hands upon the girls, but they e;
capped to the woods. One of the in
truders menaced the old man, Will
the other three violated the perso
of his wife. n writ has been i.
sued for the arrest of Dick an
Tom Hampton and George Farri.
Ii they are the guilty parties the
ought to be burnt.
ca One of the most enterprisin
and promising young business me
in Memphis, is Mr.. S. Toube, Who'll,
sale dealer in Boots and Shoes. Gu
merchants will do we'll to give hiI
call when visiting Memphis, fo
we assure them that he is a live IT
liable merchant.
Tn New Quarters.
our accomplished friend w. l
Harris, OF Louisville, we learn,
now with Edelen, HufiaLer & Sh,
one of the largest and best Hat, Ca
aud Fur houses i'm the West. In a
sincerity, we will guarantee tn,
any of our merchant readers wh
will call on Bill Harris at Loui
Nille- thAt he will sell thnn tho