Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-28
LATEST STATE NEWS.

LATEST STATE NEWS.
Corn is selling in Chattanooga at
so cts. per bushcl shclled.
Alamo, Crockett county, wants
4 base ball club.
Crockett county farmers talk of !
planting cotton next week.
The cause Of temperance is -four
ishing in Crockett county.
Carroll, Lauderdale and Hay
wood counties are to have new jails.
a couple of steers were sold in
Murfreesboro recently, says the
News, that weighed 1870 pounds.
The Circuit Court of Hardeman
county was in session in Bolivar
last week, Judge Flippin presiding.
Freights on cotton East from
Memphis, have been reduced 10 per
cent on the 100 pounds.
The County Council of the Pa
irons Of Husbandry will meet in
Alamo the 4th Saturday in April.
The ladies of Chattanooga are
holding temperance prayer meet
ings.
The Progress claims that Dycrs-
burg is improving With Gnprcce-
dented rapidity.
Mrs. Susan Cannon, aged so
years and Q months, died in Muir
frcesboro on the 18th.
A Rev. Wood is leading the wo-
men Of TulIahoma against the sa-
looms Of that village.
The fine residence OF Mr.. Hawkins
Herndon, in SomervilIe, was destroy
cd by fire on tho night of the goth.
The old French Garden. a well
known summer resort in Memphis,
was destroyed by fire Sunday night
last.
The case of General Vaughn, at
Knoxville, concerned in the Ten
nessee pension frauds, was settled
by the payment of fine of 81 900.
Prof. Johnson, a blind Snowman,
WAS shot and killed in Fayetteville
last week, by a young man named
Nick Gilbert. PrOvication, whisky.
Memphis appeal: The Fire Dc
partmcnt refused to turn out Sun
day in the colored procession got
ten up to celebrate the death of
Charles Sumner.
Dyersburg Progress: The girls
grange at Prof. Wcissinger's school
has dissolved by mutual consent,
and the members are keeping the
secrets-going.
The Dyersburg Gazette advises
the farmers of Dyer to plant more
corn and less cotton; and, as usual,
the farmers will do the very re-
verse.
The Bulletin says that the COun-
ty Court Clerk of Hardeman has
issued rs marriage licenses during
the present year. \ good begin
ming, certainly.
A religious revival in the Bap-
fist church, of three weeks dura-
ton closed in Chattanooga last
week. The Commercial says it
was the most successful protracted
meeting ever held in that city.
A woman by the uamo of Dick
son, says the Bulletin, was burned
to death in Hardeman county last
week. She was engaged in pIling
corn stalks and brush, and burning
them, her clothes taking fire from
thu burning rubbish.
1t has Just been asccrtained that
masked balls are contrary to the or
dinanccs of Memphis, and it is I'M
derstood that in future the Mayor
will order all balls of this kind sup
pressed by the police.
Crockett Sentinel: A new school |
house, for Johnson's Grove, is in
contemplation. Our monied men
no doubt will contribute largely
This will be an institution of which |
our people will be proud.
The notorious Robt. p. Bates, !
who killed Il young man at 4 dance
near Nashville, was arrested near
Memphis on the Goth, and convey
cd to Nashville, where he arrived |
on the 21st. He confessed the |
murder freely, and regrets not kill
ing another man.
The great temperance leaders,
Samuel ID. Hastings, r W. g. T.
of the world, and Col. J. J. Hick-
erman, P. r. w. G. c., were in
Nashville on Monday night. They
addressed large and enthusiastic
crowds, and demanded the suppress.
sion of the whisky traffic by pro-
hibitory legislation.
A fire broke out in Brownsville,
on Wednesday evening last. totally
destroying the following business
houses: w. B. Malone, dry goods;
A. l.. Glenn, confectioner; Arm
strong & Garden, hardware; w. J.
Montgomery, dry goods; c. G, Jones
& Bro, groceries; w. NJ. Scott &
Co., drug store; J. a Bishop, dry
goods. The losses arc said to be
about one hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars. The hou7e of Bond
Bros, & Harbert, barely escaped.
The damage to the building and
stock is not known. We were I'M
able to learn whether there was any
insurance or not.