Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Chattanooga is to have an extern
sive car factory.
The public square of McMinnville
has been transformed into a park.
Cornelius Waggoner died near
Nashville last week, aged SO years.
Hickman county wants railroad
to Memphis.
Fayetteville is to have new court
house.
The wheat crop in East Tennessee
is reported promising.
The NJ. DIS. Of Dyersburg are 60
ing to form a medical society.
Memphis rejoices in a negro forger
by the name of John Hunt.
The Mayor of Huntingdon weighs
$50 pounds.
The Selden Irwin Troupe are per-
forming in Memphis.
A slight shock of an earth quake
was felt in Memphis on Saturday.
The annual German Mai-fest fes-
tival was celebrated in Memphis on
the 9Th inst.
Track laying on the Memphis and
PadUcah X. X. has been commenced
from Memphis.
The Lebanon Herald says the
strawberry prospect is bad since
the late heavy frost.
The machinery for barrel facto-
ry at Lebanon, is on hand, and will
speedily be put to work.
j. NJ. Towns and w. A. Coleman,
have been commissioned as Justices
of the peace for Carroll county.
The Springfield Record says the
entire fruit crop Of Robertson coun-
ty is killed.
The Memphis and Raleigh narrow
gauge railroad will be completed in
a few days.
A little girl named Hester John
son was burned to death in Win
chester a few days ego.
The News boasts that Ripley sells
ulOIC CuCWluR gum Shoh ohy ObANA
town in tho State.
Frat, while generally damaged
throughout Middle Tennessee, is not
a total failure.
Coal has been discovered near
johnson city, East Tenn, in great
abundance.
A number of farmers clubs have
been recently formed throughout
West Tennessee.
Bedford county has an eight
months baby that weight thirty-One
pounds.
Catcrpillars, thick as leaves in
Vallambrosa, are all over the Wes-
tern District.
The prospect for good wheat
crop in Middle Tennessee is report
ed fair.
The Independent Workingman of
Nashville suggests that the Printers
In the Penitentiary be employed to
do the State printing.
The Nashville papers speak in
high terms of the Exposition, and
say that it increases in interest ev-
cry day.
The Grand Commandery of knight
Templars, of Tennessee, will hold
their annual convocation in Clarks-
vile on the 18th.
The McMinnville New Era re-
ports the fruit crop in that section
almost entirely destroyed by the
late heavy frost.
Jesse Druke shot and killed Mr..
Grants in Fayette, Macon county,
last week. An old grudge was the
cause of the killing. Duke escaped.
Lexington is luxriating in tho
measles. The Reporter reports
twenty cases-enough no doubt on
hand already to go around.
IIBishop McTyeire opposes the pro-
ject of leVying a tax on the people
OF Nashville, or Davidson county,
to secure a site for the Vanderbilt
University.
The Shelbyvillo Commercial re-
ports the fruit crop badly damaged
in that section. 1t says 'the grape
crop, especially, is almost an entire
failure.
Jas. ii. Nancy, a son of General
George Nancy. of Nashville, has
been appointed cadet to West
Point, for the Nashville district, by
Hon. E. L. Golladay.
Col. r. w. McLemore, of Spring
Hill, has o Jennett colt, six months
old, that measures four feet and five
and half inches in height, and well
proportioned.
Dyersburg is about to lose the
town and the company look at the
contract between them through diff
ferent glasses.
The Trenton Gazett denounces Joe
Harland and John Fisher, protested
corn doctors, as s'unmitigated scoun-
drels,n for "beatingn an estimable
widow of that place out of weeks
board.
From Marshall county comes the
story that "twO men took q man by
the name of Wells and nailed a cou-
pie of horse shoes to his feet and
made him walk mile. When pros
ecuted they stated that they did it
for fun"
Hon. w. G.. Whitthorne of Column
bia, has been invited, and has &C
cepted, to deliver the annual address
the coming June, at the commence
ment exercises of the East Tennes-
see University at Knoxville.
Mr.. Geo. w. Benson, a salesman
in the Music house of E. a. Benson,
at Memphis, last week cit out"
with the proceeds of the sales of
tickets to the Grand Opera House.
He got about $700-and is clean
gone.
The charter of the Holly Springs,
Brownsville aud Ohio railroad has
been so amended as to authorize the
building of a branch road from the
main trunk to Alamo, the county
seat of Crockett county.
The citizens of Lake county are
planting this season twice the a.
mount of cotton planted last year,
on account of the low price of corn
and the difficulty of reaching a mar
ketwith it. A railroad to jackson
is what the people of Lake county
need.
Col. John G. Burch of the Nash
Vile Union and American has been
appointed State Comptroller, vice
Hobbs resigned. Col. Burch is a
man of ability, and for many years
closely identified with the political
history Of Tennessee.
Memphis is extremely exercised
about her Western railroad system,
and we'll she may be. While she
slept, st. Louis stole march on her,
and it will take years of energy and