Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-26
STATE NEWS.
Gibson county owes sd. 472.

Henderson county postponed the |
election of school superintendent |
till the first Monday in July.
The dwelling house of Mrs. Robt.
Moore near Columbia, was destroy
ed by fire last Sunday was a week.
Jas. NJ. Bradford, a prominent
and honored citizen of Lake county,
died at his home there, April 10th.
Obion county has put the tax for
county purposes at twenty cents on
the hundred dollars of property.
Moore county taxes, for county
purposes, forty cents on the hun
dred dollars.
Mrs. Bayless has bean appointed
Post Master at Springfield, Robert
son county, in place of l. A. Eckles.
The top of the court house, at
Washington, Rhea county, was re-
Gently blown off by a storm.
There are ten persons living in
Knoxville, who have resided there
fifty years.
LoudOn county has levied an addi-
tional school tax of ten cents on the
hundred dollars, but will not elect
the school superintendent till July.
The steam saw mill at Riceville,
on the East Tennessee and Virginia
railroad, was accidentally destroyed
by fire last week.
The Morristown Gazette sa,s the
wheat in that region has "come
out" wonderfully, and now promi-
ses fair yield.
The dwelling of Jno. Holt, five
miles northwest of Morristown,
was destroyed by fire, last week, to-
gether with its contents.
The Paris Intelligencer announces
the death, near Manlyyille, Henry
county, of Mr.. Leslie Hancock, aged
about 20 years.
Trusty Glass, a colored man, was
sworn in as a justice of the peace
in Fayette county, on the first Mon
day in April.
The Columbia Mail says Mr.. Dan
iel Roane died near Neapolis, Maury
county, on the 10th inst, in the Goth
year of his age.
Rutherford County has fixed the
tax for County purposes at Is cents,
and for school purposes Is cts,
making thirty cents for the two.
r. NJ. Dickinson, editor of the
Paris Intelligencer, has been elected
school superintendent for Henry
county.
We regret to learn that w. w.
HOBBS, the present Comptroller of
the State, has been for some time
confined to his room by sickness.
Montgomery county is a cheap
one to live in. 1t taxes, for county
purposes, only twenty cents or the
hundred dollars.
- Themes Alexander Douglass has
has been appointed Post Master at
Huntingdon, in the place of Martin
Dill, deceased.
Jas. Caldwell, Esq, aged 40 years,
died at his home eight miles West
of Union City on the Sd inst. He
had been forty years a citizen Of
Obion county.
Rutherford county fixed the sala-
ry of the superintendent of schools
at $500, and allows him to collect
50 80 from every teacher he exam
ines.
Jno. Z. Hatcher has sold his inter-
est in the Columbia Mail, on account
of his feeble health. His partner,
Captain Jas. ID. Murphy, becomes
sole proprietor.
An old Williamson county farmer
predicts a killing frost the 18th of
Maryland says all the cotton up at
that time will be killed. Well wait
and see.
The venerable mother of Hon. A.
o. p. Nicholson, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Tennessee, died
at Columbia, April 18th, in her Goth
year.
Rev. VIM. Mowbray, of the Epis-
copal Church at Knoxville, has &C
cepted call to parish in New
York city, and has removed to his
new place of residence.
The Huntingdon Republican SAYS
they have a colored man in that
place who frequently carries bar
rel of apples and two or three boxes
of ale from the depot, up town.
quarter of a mile, without once
stopping to rest.
VIM. lily Smith, an old, able and
incorruptible editor, and late agent
for the Associated Press, died at his
home in Nashville, April 18th, in
the SO year of his.age. His was of a
warm and generous nature.
The Moore county Pioneer re-
cords the singular fact of a eve on
the place of Tod Robertson, Esq,
giving birth to three lambs at one
time, and three weeks after giving
birth to another.
Coon Horn, who resides two and
hals miles from Lexington, in
forms the Reporter that he caught
in trap the other night, an owl,
which measured four feet seven
inches from tip to tip of wings.
Captain David d. Bell, OF Union
City, lately received a silver mount
ed Deringer pistol, which his faith
err, Hon. John Bell, loaned to q sol
der in Georgia, during our late civ
il CONFUSION.
The Nashville Banner wants two
more railroads from that city point
ing North. 1t says the burning of a
bridge on the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad made business very
dull in Nashville.
A committee of the Davidson
county colored Agricultural and
Mechanical Association went to
Nashville the early part of the week,
to Invite Fred Douglass-one of the
most eminent men of their race-to
visit Nashville.
The little city of Edgefield-
the river from Nashville-last Sat
urday, by vote of more than three
to one, decided to issue eight thou
sand dollars in bonds, to raise funds
TO build school houses.
Mrs. Sophia S. Searcy, the below
ed wife of our friend Geo. Z. Pur-
Wis, of the Nashville Banner, died at
her home in Nashville last Saturday.
From her childhood the writer of
these lines has known the deceased.
None ever knew her but to love her.
Our young friend Jos. N. Hall,
recently of jackson, has taken ND
his residence in Lexington, where
he is selling drugs. He was elected
one Of the Aldermen of that town
at the recent election. JOIN do to
tie to.
The accidental discharge of an old
musket heavily charged with buck
shot, in the hands of boy of ten