Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-06-14

deaths IN Nashville on Tuesday,
| from all causes; only eleven ofwhich
were from cholera. Stillit is repor-
ted that cholera is killing them of
by the score and hundreds there ev-
cry day. 1t Is a pity that people
will talk without knowing what
they are talking about.
The Moore county Pioneer says
this: GAS a general thing our citi-
zens are loud in their denunciations
of the late Assessment law. They
look upon it as super1uous piece
Of nonsense, and swear by all that
! is good and bad that our present
lawmakers will never be employed
to transact business for them again.
'Imbroglio" is what the Bee calls
/ the little difficulty which has sprung
up between the Durhamville,
Brownsville and Denmark "narrer
gauge" and the "city dads" of
Brownsville. We always had our
suspicious that there would arise
some trouble in attempting to do so
ridiculous a thing.
The Lexington Reporter makes
this cheerful note of things in Hen
derson: Crop prospects in this coun-
~ are encouraging. Some cotton
has been plOughed up but there is
good stand generally. The young
corn looks beautiful. The wheat
crop is good. The fruit crop looks
gerry fine, and we have a glorious
prospect OF peaches and cream.
The Ripley News of May 80 says:
This years crop of hay growing in
Court Square was sold at the Court
house door, 10 the highest bidder,
last Tuesday. Sheriff Griggs bid it
on at $40. Cheap enough. The
proceeds go TO repairing the fence
around the court yard.
Rev. Moses S. Royce, rector of
Trinity Church-EpiscOpal-Nash
vile, was taken with the prevailing
cholera last Sunday evening, and
died early Monday morning. 1t
was cur fortune TO know Mr.. Royce
well, and to esteem him highly
He was a good man, and his death
will leave a void not easily filed.
Neither Nashville or Memphis
now attempts to deny the existence
of cholera in their midst. We have
had two or three fatal cases in Jack
son, and several which were not IA
tai. Every case here has been trace
able to imprudence in eating or
drinking or both. The whole coun-
try is more or less affected with the
disease.
They had jolly time over at Ala
mo, Crockett county, last Saturday.
An editorial in the Sentinel says
Every man, woman and child, old
or young, in and near Alamo, is in
Vited and expected to join the excur-
sion TO Cooper's mill on the river to-
morrow. All go-fun and pleasure
in store for ALA big fish fry on the
bank of the river.
The Athens Post says this: There
are not less than thirty-tiYe stores
in McMinn-enough almost TO ruin
any county in the State. 1t is get
ting to be the practice when man
gets too lazy to work on the farm
or in the workshop, he hustles
round, gets up fifty or hundred
dollars, buys a shirt tail full of
goods, and goes to excepting store,"
expecting to get rich in week, or
a month at most.
Brownlow threatens, at the expi-
ration of his Senatorial term-only
two years off-to revive his old pa
per, the Knoxville Wing. He's try
ing to frighten the people into re-
electing him to the Senate. 1t is
too thin, sold proc" Such a paper
could not live longer than the sur
plus money its starter had in his
pocket at the time. Such papers as
Brownlow used to edit are "dead
issues"
Mr.. J. NJ. Fryer, of Decaturville-
says a correspondent of the Hunt
ingdon whose wife was
suing for divorce, attempted to
kin our friend Geo. Walters, Esq,
who was preparing the bill for di-
Vorcement, by shooting at him, bare
ly missing his head. He was arres-
ted, and his bail fixed at s., 0OO-fail-
ing to give which he was committed
to jail, but effected his escape, aud
is still at large.
Walter, son of ID. &. Helm, of Co
lumbia, went out hunting last week,
in company with a young friend
He dismounted for some purpose,
and leaned his gun against a tree
After mounting his horse he at
tempted to take the gun up by the
muZzle, and in doing so the ham
mer was sprung and one barrel was
discharged into his arm. His friend
stanched the blood, and he rode
home, but died in a few hours, from
loss of blood.
The Nashville Union records rs
singular circumstance, thus: The
wife of John McCool, living near the
mouth of Whites Greek, gave birth
a few nights ago to q male child that
only had one perfect arm, the right
arm being on above the elbow, but
perfectly healed. The child is strong
and healthy, and except the above
related strange freak Of nature, is a
model baby.
The Moore county Pioneer is re-
sponsible for the following: Several
large trees have been felled in this
county lately, but the largest yet re-
ported was that cut down by our
old friend JEFF Hippo, not long
since. lie says (and he is truthful
man) that he took from this mann
moth tree one set of house logs. l9x
10 feet in length; one set of stable
logs, 10x12 feet; 1000 feet of floor
ing; one set of still logs; burnt Is
feet of the butt, and was occupied
four days in hauling off the top
How is this for big? Next!
The Nashville Banner says Gov.
Baown is on visit to his family at
Pulaski; Secretary of State, Char
ley &ibbs, has brought his family to
Union City; DIR. Morrow, State
Treasurer, has taken his family to
Knoxville; Col. Fleming, Superin-
tendent of Public instruction, is on
a visit to East Tennessee; and Col
Burch, the Comptroller is the only
member of the State government.
who is at his post, and he is engaged
ciphering upon "bills of cost and
jail fees"
SENSIBLE AT LAsT.--The Mem
phis Appeal has found out by hard,
practical experience that it takes
considerable money to run news
paper, and that a journal to live and
be successful, cannot afford to adj
vertise and give prominence to all
sorts OF interest, private and other
wise. 1t says, and its remarks car
~ no little force: publishing pa
per for glory is played OUT We
have already notified the poIitici-
ans that they must hereafter pay
for whatever they want in the An
peal, aud we now notify watering
places, private schools churches, and
others having private interests to
subservc, that The Appeal is opea TO
them only at regular rates. Our