Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-05
SUMMARY.

beecner SCANDAL. II
The Lee county CAlabama) fight
has been very much exaggerated. ]
No person was killed, and only one
chruch was burned. All is now I
quiet there. 1t is believed that no
one was much hurt.
Alexander Fl. Stephens remains
firm in his resolution not to return
to Congress. His constituents need .
q we'll man to represent them, he .
says, and he is a sick one. F
The majority against the new .
State constitution at the recent cleo +
ton 10 Ohio was l47,2S4, and the I.
majority agairst liquor license y
2S6.
Official election returns received .
from all The counties except Union .
ami Wayn- KY, give the vote for
Jones. for Clerk OF the Court Of /
Appeals, ll4,34S; Cochran, 81, 5O4;
Jones majority, GOSH
Two suicides, three homicides, and /
three cases Of dangerous wounding T.
ave reported 10 have occurred in (
New Orleans within twenty-four I.
hours.
Fred Douglass hes declined 10
serve on the Board OF School Trus- |
tees of the District of Columbia ow-
ing TO the views expressed by Com
missioner DennisOu in opposition
to mixed schools.
Brigham Young has filed his an
swer to Ann Eliza Youug's suit for
divorce. He says that his income
is only $4,000 a month. and that he
has a family of sixty three persons
dependent on him for support.
The Arkansas Constitutional
Convention yesterday struck out
/ the section in the fnaRce report
| forbiddiBg the Legislature from ev-
er providing for the payment OF the
State levee bonds, and the Halford
bonds.
1t takes five pages and u supple
ment Of the New ORLEANS Republican
to contain the names of the citizens
Of New Orleans delinquent in the
payment OF their city taxes. This
is the way that Kellogg's usurpa
ton and the bankruptcy wrought
by the usurpation are getting their
history written.
On the 29th ult. eight hundred
armed negroes threatened the ex-
termination of the whites of Red
River Parish, La. Five white Of
fee holders and some of the lead
ing negroes were arrested and
started to Shreveport, but were in
terupted and killed by a body Of
Texans.
Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan has receiv-
ed an order notifying parties now
reported organizing at various
points on the border to visit Black
Hills in search of gold, that they
will not be permitted to 90 unless
under authority of the Secretary Of
the Interior or of Congress.
The Democratic State convention
] Oh DGldhdIGs AuNA at ALAuAlGAIhll Ou
the 9th, and nominated John J.
Cochran for governor, and James
Williams for congress. Each Of
the nominations were made on the
first ballot. The resolutions are
vigorous in the announcement of the
administration and civil riE hts bill,
and censure the course of Represen-
tative Lofand, and extol the Demo
cratic policy in'the State.
Judge Bradley, of the United
States Supreme Court, has issued
an order removing the present re-
ceivers, Abraham Murdoch and a.
Foster Elliott, and authorizing the
trustees of the first mortgage bonds
of the Alabama ard Chattanooga
Railroad Company to take posses
sion Immediately, and also to sell
the road for their benefit, subject
to court certificate and charges, and
said trustees are authorized 10 re-
ceive bonds for that purpose.
On Monday last near Cleveland
Ohio, Constable George Cuttings,
in company with 4 number of au-
thorities of Brooklyn township, in
Cuyahoga county, attempted to
arrest a party of Bohemians who
were violating the law by hunting
on Sunday. One of the hunters,
named John Skasne, resisted, and
tried to shoot Cutting. His gun
missed fire, when the constable drew
a revolver and fired, the ball hit
ting Skasne, inflicting a dangerous
wound. Cutting gave himself up
and was admitted to bail.
The Reu. John S. Glendenning
of the Prospect Street Presbyterian
church, Jersey City, was in court
Monday on the suit of the poor-mas-
ter to compel him to maintain the
child of the late Miss POmeroy.
The counsel for the prosecution en-
deavored to have the statement of
Miss Pemoroy, made Just before her
death, admitted as evidence, and
failing in that withdrew the COM
plant. Glendenning is to be pro-
ceeded against on charges of seduc
ton and breach of promise.
The Democratic State convention
of Missouri, adjourned sine die at
three o'clock Friday the 2Sth after
completing the ticket and electing
q State central committee An err
ror having occurred in telegraph
ing one or two names as nominees,
the full and correct ticket is given
as follows: For governor, Charles
H. Hardin; for acknowledgement,
Norman j. Coleman; for secretary
Of state, NJ. K. McGrath; for audit
or, Thomas Halliday; for treasurer,
Joseph W. Mercer; for attorney
general, John A. Hockaday; for reg
lister of lands, George Deigle; for
superintendent of public instruction,
r. d. Shannon; for supreme judges,
W. Rough for the long term, and
William Napton TO fill the vacancy.
A Meridian, Miss, special TO the
Vicsburg Horald says: 'On Mon
day, in the northeastern portion of
LowDdes county, Miss, near Gale,
donna, Thomas IL. Barrentine and
Wallace Dowsing, white, shot and
killed Mrs. Anna Thomas, q widow,
in the presence of her four children.
The murderers fed and have not
been captured. The cause of the
killing was, Barrentine alleged, that
Mrs. Thomas had slsndered his
daughters. On the same night
(Monday) five negroes met tragic