Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-26

J. / fLOURISHING.--1ne new JempeIahc
}. order called the Friends OF Temperance,
in a fouri,hng condition in this city
!. Quite a number Of ladies have Joined tn
: order, giving tone and increased interest
the meetings. It was good idea TO admi
the fair sex, for wherever the ladies sr
with their graess and smiles, there the mel
| will gather like bees around a Towering
rose bush.
, To THE LADIKs.-Mrs. Christiana Ian
desires to inform the Ladies Of Jackser
and vicinity, that she is prepared to Gu
and Make Dresses in the latest style anC
finish. She has no superior in her depart
ment, as the ladies who have tried her viii
testify. Hor Rooms are IN the Hall Block
next door 10 DIR. Arrington's Denta
Rooms.
CITY HACK.-That enterprising livery
firm, Tomlinson, Howard & Co., have placed
hack on the streets to run TO any part
OF the city, from O'Clock n. m, TO u O'Clock
at night. Single trip Soc per head, or from
81 to 81 per hour for families. Orders left
with the hack driver, or at the stable will
be promptly attended to.
APiiiD--bs
LET ALL GO AND HAVE LAUGH.-A
real good, jolly laugh will do our people
4 deal OF service. The truth is, we all need
regular shaking up" n kind Of "siftins"
as it were, and hence lets all go and hear
the ''Fat Contributor"
RAILROAD AccIDENT.-The North and
1 South Mail trains on the New Orleans,
jackson and Great Northern Railroad col
lided eight miles South Of Jackson, Miss.
on Tuesday. The Baggage and Postal ears
OF each train were "teleseoped'' and both
Engines badly wrecked Sta anSs TO say no
one was hurt, although all ON the trains
were well shook up.
The FFsTIvAL.-The ice cream and
strawberry festival at Tomlin's Hall, for
the benefit Of st. Luke's Episcopal Church,
realized sl34 %. A very respectable mum
Der Of persons visited the Hall during the
festival, snd everything passed of very
creditably TO the lady managers. Had the
weather been more propiiious, the result
would have been more satisfactory. How
ever tbs entertainment wRs-under the cir
anstanees-eminently successful.
FIRE BELL.--It has been suggested--and
we think very properlY-that the Board Of
Mayor and Alderman pass an ordinance,
iorbidding the ringing Of any other bell,
than the fire bell, on occasions Of fire-so
that the fire bell may be heard. Il is an
outrage, after the authorities have gone to
the expense Of providing fire bell, that it
can't be heard for tina racket made by all
the Iittle bells in the city.
TIE WRONG GLAssEs.-A somewhat
befuddled Individual chased cat down
Main street the other night, in a decidedly
vigorous and persistent manner. The eat
finally reached his home, jumped upon the
door sill and faced his pursuer. The
pursuer halted, looked a moment, and then
turned away with an air OF supreme dis
gust, remarking "d-nit, thought it was
a rabbit" He WAS looking through the
wrong glasses, that's all.
DECORATION DAY.-It is time that some
day was fixed upon for the decoration Of
the soldier graves in our City Cemetery.
Preparations should be made for the occa-
sion, that the beautiful tribute may be
worthy both Of the Living and the dead.
Let the Committee call primary meeting
at ence, arrange a suitable programme, and
appoint day for the dutiful and touching
ceremony.
A RARE TREAT.-The lecture of Mr..
Griswold, the far famed humorist, known
by the non de plume Of "Fat Contributor"
will prove a rare literary and humorous |
treat to our citizens. His style IS seiio-
comic, and resembles that Of Artemus |
Ward. Wherever he lectures he is urged |
to come again. Indeed, we underwrite |
that our citizens will be amused and inter- |
ested with his lecture, and we urge them to |
turn cut in force on Thursday night.
WHEN HARD-UP.-AA old offender |
against the peace and quiet of the City, |
one Jane, (col.) or as she is more generally |
called, "the Maid" alleged before the Re
corder this week that whenever a certain
Policeman was hard-up for ''cases," and
she was on big sober, that he would come
down and brick bat her house just to make
her cuss, aud then he would arrest her for
disorderly conduct. How is that, Me-?
ARTIsTIC.-If any one is curious to hear
real festive. on-hand, yet artistic swearing |
that attacks both ends OF a /
question and breaks 1t in two in the mid |
dle-that species of charming "Reglige"
and unsophisticatedIy promiscuous swear
ing that would pass in any market as
double rectihed, double distilled, two hun |
bred proof chain lightning, why just go to
the kecordor's Office when n couple of |
darkies, with a half dozen witnesses each,
are being tried for some OfFense.
A BLIND Boy RAN OVER BY HAND
CAR.-At noon on Wednesday James r.
York, the blind son Of Mr.. ID. Z. York was
run over by a hanI-car while crossing the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad on Chester
Street, and dangerously bruised about the
legs anu head, from the effects of which he
was insensible for hours. Little Jimmie
was returning home from the Institute,
where he had been taking music lessons. at
the time Of the sad accident. A negro man
named Charley Nash W as driving the hand
car and could have stopped it easy enough
II he had tried. The negro is guilty of
criminal recklessness or base brutality. He
was arrested and lodged in jail. Jimmie
York is Is years cid, and blind from birth.
Bro BoTTLE.-There are kiRd of men
vegetAting upon this Spontaneous ediice"
as an orator OF our acquaintance once re-
marked, men whose necks are peculiarly
formed for bottle gymnastics; men who
have been known on occasions frequent, to
piously put down and philosophlcally an
initiate a half dozen spirits-in bottles
in short men who never yet encountered
bottle that they hesitated a moment to
tackle-who would give 1t up, or like Dayy
Croekett's eoon-eome down, at one sight
OF Duncan's great bottle; which ''towers
like some tail steeple HIGH" in front of his
Drug store on Liberty street. This bottle
is i've feet high, two foot square, and sup
posed TO have been the pocket flask OF the
Cardiff giant.
ANOTHER DISASTROUS FIRE.-On Sun
day morning last, the large brick residence
Of ESQ. b. r. Person, on West Nam street
was totally destroyed by fire. The fire was
discovered between four and five o'clock,
a. m, by Mr.. Sam Norwood, who states
that with a ladder and few buckets Of
water he could have saved the house when
he first discovered the flames. However,
before the slarm was given and the crowd
J assembled, the house was too far gone to be
rescued from the burning. Well near all
the furniture was saved, though some of it
was damaged. From all the circumstances
there is but little doubt that the fire was
the work Of an ineendiary. Suspicion,
however, has not singled out the bastard.
The buildings consumed were valued at
about 81 600, with an insurance in the New
York Home, of 1900.
Esq. Person requests us to return his
heart felt thanks to the iremen and citizens
who so nObly worked to save his house, and
whose efforts to save the furniture were I'M
| precedeutly successful