Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-12
rELEGKArnIC sUMMARY.

TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
There has been a destructive fire
ut Rl-selyiile, Ky.
The State Of New Jersey Is on
fire. Caught il tie pine woods.
Postmaster General Jewe has en-
tered upon the duties Of his Office
Alex. II. Stephens has been re
nominated for Congress.
A fire at GrccnviIie, Miss, last
week, almost destroyed tie town.
Robt NJ. Tilden, Of Mississippi,
has been appointed eonsu! at Can
/ ton, China.
/ In August, 1873, Is. 0OS emigrants
came to Castle GarHen; in August,
1874 I5,04l-a .aiiing off OF 2,G07
H. Clause. Chief of Police Of Ha-
/ zleton, Pa, was shO, and killed by
a drunken fellow recently.
The story Of rhc Brooklyn scan
.
volumes OF 800 pages each.
\ cargo ofIcad women from Chi
ma were lately shipped back trom
/ san Francisco, by order Of the Su-
premc Court.
The Black Hills gold hunters
/ seem TO have no difficulty iu eva
ding the vigilance o! the troops.
Ann Eli-as divorce suit against
Brigham Young, Il now in progress
at Salt LAKE.
\ fire at Fros,burg, Maryland.
destroyed sl45,OO0 worth OF prop
erty on ths 9Th.
The trial of the Bcachor- Tilton
case IS set for hearing on the third
Monday Of September.
Elisha Baxter Aa. been nomina-
ted for Governor hy the Democrat
ic State Convention Of Arkansas.
There are thirry-four alleged
/ murdere-s i'm the New Orleans jail
at this time
/ Southern Mail.route agents are
panicky since the killing OF JOY, the
agent on the Alabama and Chatta-
nooga road.
| Postmaster Jewell does not in,
tend that the post Office clerks shall
| have pocket knives furnished them
at the public expense.
Ex-Goveruor Charles Clark, oil
Mississippi, is dangerously 80 at his
mother-in-law's residence in Boil
var county.
The town of Mokelumne Hill
Cal. was entirely burned on Fri
day, involving loss of over Sl7O,
600.
Six surveyors from Laurence
Kan, were murdered by Indian.
on Wednesday last near For
Dodge.
The city Marshal of Alton, Ill,
kept near enough during murder
GUS ARRAY to become valuable wit
ness.
On the 9Th, at Sulphur Lick, il
Metcalfe county, Ky, VIM. Wis
dom was shot and instantly kille,
by DR.. W. II. Scott. Scott thel
ran, and was shot and killed by
Wisdom's nephew, Ed. Drummond
Tho cause was an old grudge
Tho Arkansas Constitutional Con
vention voted down a proposition
to submit 10 the people the ques
ton Of reputation, and rescinde,
tho ordinance borrowing the sink
ing aud school funds to pay the cur
rent expenses of the government.
, Election returns from Wyoming
, nearly all in, give Steele, Demo
{ crat, majority of between 500 an,
600, rejoicing him as delegate b,
double the majority he receive,
two years ago. The Democrat
ticket is pretty generally successful
= throughout the territory.
The Collector at III Paso, Tex
+ in Il late letter to the chief of TIA
Bureau Statistics, says! we hav
not had a drop OF rain in this "
entity for 365 days. Everything
scorching hot and burning up
= Many of the cattle have died O
I starvation.
A new straIghtout Republican papc
! is to be published in New York
and is expected to be issued a
bout the middle of September. I
, i said that it has capital enoug
to run it for two years without an
profits from the paper itself, anC
- that its corps of writer's and report
, ers will be carefully selected.
2 Brevet Major General, John G
Foster, who for some time durin
the war was in command of the Al
my and Department of the Ohio =
the latter including Kentucky an
/ Tennessee and other SOuther
States penetrated by his army
died at Nashua, n. H., on Septem
Der :, aged oil years.
The special telegraphic CORES
pOndence of the Courier-Journa
from Washington Saturday aight
3 says that q formal order was issue
, Saturday, assigning St. Louis a
, the headquarters OF the General 0
the army, beginning in October
The reason assigned for the chang,
is that the General of the army de
sired il.
The New York Freeman's Jour
nal has a special cable dispatch
from Rome, stating that San An
tonic (Texas) has been made a di
Geese, and Vicar General Pellicer
of Mobile, named as its first bishop
Also that the Rio Grande distric
of Texas has been made a vicarat,
apostolic, with Brownsville as it:
headquarters, and Rev. D. Manney
of Montgomery, Ala, its Bishop
These gentlemen are cousins, anC
both natives Of st. Augustine, Fla.
The Democratic and Conserva.
tive State Central Committee o.
Louisiana issued an address to the
people of the United States, Satur
day, asking a hearing in reference
to the alleged hostility to the col
ored race, and asserting that the
outbreaks have resulted from {
state of oppression and tyranny ere
ated by an usurped government
The address says that the people
opposed to Kellogg have never
nuestinned the rirht of the cnlnreC