Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-29
STATE NE WIS.

himself IN fdyOr OF the popular cry I
for the annexation Of Cuba
Memphis is making extensive (
preparations for their annual Mar .
ii Gras festival
What has become OF that lead .
mine, IN Obion county, he discov- /
cry OF which the Troy Times an
nounccd some two weeks agol
Col. II. S. McCombs, President
Of the Southern railroad Associa-
ton, has assumed the Presidency
Of the Miss. and Tenn. railroad
Sheriff Doyle, of Shelby county,
has appointed Mr. Geo. Dashiell,
son OF DR.. i. r. Dashiell, of this
city, ono Of his deputies
The elegant residence of Col. +.
=. Davis, Of Memphis, was partial
ly destroyed by fire on the morn
ing Of the 2lst.
The Somervillc Falcon says
bear was seen in Rayner's cauo
brake, one mile South of Oakland,
last week.
They have "a new and elegant no
tel building at Bolivar, and now
they are unhappy because they
have no one to keep it.
The Athens Post, has entered
upon It's seventh year, since the
wan. tits II vigorous, out spoken
sheet, and deserves to succeed.
The Humphreys county friends
OF Jnc. S. Kerr, of Memphis who.
ever they may DISCONTINUE to
urge his name for Governor.
Mr.. John S. Toof has been elect
cd Secretary OF the Memphis
Chamber OF Commerch, vice Col.
Leon Trousdale resigned.
Ono Conrad Kessler shot and
killed his wife in Edgefeld on Sun
day evening last. Domestic lnfe-
Lefty, etc.
The Memphis papers announce
tho birth Of a daughter TO Gen.
Gideon J. Pillow, of that city, last
week. The General is about 20
years of age!
The Murfreesboro Monitor is
anxious to know to what party the
Murireesboro News belongs; and
1t says the News won't answer
and yet it is not happy.
Hon. JEFF Davis returned TO
Memphis last week, after an alb
scnce of two or three months, du.
ring which time he was for several
weeks at the point of death, at Lou
isville, X.
A large portion OF Henry coun-
~ was visited by the storm last
Sunday was a week ago, and good
deal of damage was done, in the
destruction OF buildings, fencing
and timber.
The Mckenzie Times says: Col.
II. w. Wall had about two hun
dred PANELS Of fonce burnt one
night last week. a broomsage field
was set on fire by passing loco
motive.
The Memphis Register has this:
"Wo learn that Gen. Forres has
written to Gen. w. 4. Sherman,
proffering his services, with an in
indefinite force in case Of war
with Spain.
Jno. Il. Bell. of the local staff of
the Nashville Union and American,
was married last week, at Omaha,
Nebraska, to Miss Isabella S. Nc
Candlish, daughter of Rev. VIM.
McCandlish
Decatur, Gibson, Hardeman,
Henderson, Lake, Shelby and Tip
ton counties in West Tennessee
have not yet made their reports on
the scholastic condition. 1t is i'm
Portant that they should do so at
once.
Rev. Bishop Myers, os the color
cd Methodist church, preached to
the white people of Bolivar, by re-
quest last Sunday week, at 8
o'clock, p. III. The Bulletin speaks
highly Of the sermon.
The republican friends of Dr..
w. p. Jones, VINO represented Da-
wilson county in the last State Sen
ate, still continue to speak of him
as suitable person to lead the re-
publican column in the next guber-
Material canvass in this State.
In consequence of the serious i'll
ness OF Gen. John G. Vaughn, who
was on trial at Knoxville last
week, on charge Of forging boun-
~ warrants, the case had to be
postponed till the January meeting
of the Federal district court.
ThO Bolivar Bulletin says the
body Of TN unknown man was
found last week in tho road, short
distance north Of Grand Junction.
No marks Of violence could be dis
covered, and the jury of in quest
decided that he died from natural
causes.
The Crockett County Sentinel
says: VIM. Davis, familiarity known
as Yankee Bill who lives near
Friendship, in this county, sent
turnip to our office the other day
that measured thirty-one inches in
circumference, and weighed thir-
teen AID a half pounds. Next.
One J. Fletcher Woodward has
been arrested in McMinnville for
assassinating policeman Enoch
Cooksy The crime was commit
ted ten weeks ago, but up to Wood
wards arrest was shrouded in mys-
terry. The criminal is the son of
an old and greatly respected minis
ter of that section.
The Ripley News says tina; f.
NJ. Adams, J. NJ. Adams, L. :
Johnson, and one Wilson, of Henry
county, Tenn, tobacco peddlers,
were arrested in Lauderdale coun-
~ fast week for passing counter
ft money" 1t seems that they
we're also dealing in unstamped to
bacco.
The storm Of last Sunday week
was very disastrous ut Bolivar,
tearing the lin roofs from, and 9TH
crwise damaging, the store houses
Of Messrs. j. IL. Nelson Il Bro, J.
W. Tate, Kahn Il Sons, Ramsey 4
Harris, and Gen. r. p. Neely's Of
flee, and J. W. RObertson's photo
graph gallery was completely de-
molished. The colored Episcopal
church, near the Union cemetery,