Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-08
LATEST STATE NEWS.

LATEST STATE NEWS.
\ wild bear was seen in Hcnder-
son county few days ago.
The lack of stock water is very
seriously felt in Obion county.
A young man named Webb shot
and killed a Mr.. Ramsey, in Hen
dersOn county, few days ago.
1t is reported in turf circles, last
evening that Mr.. A. G.. Ewing, of
this city, had sold his Nashville
Girl, the mare that made such a
brilliant record at Cleveland last
week, for S20,000.-Nash. Banner.
The Cleveland Banner learns
that Cal. Vest, deputy sheriff for
Polk county, shot a man by the
name of Ledford, at Ducktown, a
few days ago. Vest had him IN
der arrest at the time, and did the
shooting to prevent Ledford from
cutting him with a knife.
Crockett county Sentinel: We
learns that young man named Joe
Mansfield was killed at Parker's
mill, near Chestnut Bluff, last We'd
nesday, by a slab that was thrown
with considerable force, by some
means, from the saw.
There is a pear tree upon the
farm OF Mr.. John Adhesion, who
lives nine miles cast of Columbia,
Maury county, which has been
bearing fruit since 1921, and in
1872 it produced ten bushels of
pears of the best quality. The tree
is of unusual height for one of it's
species, and the trunk is about two
and a half feet in diameter.
Bolivar Bulletin, 3lst;s Crop re.
ports from all parts of the county
are discouraging Both corn and
cotton are greatly damaged by the
droutb. There have been showers
within the last few days in some
parts of the county, and here and
there the crops are good, but the
general prospect is very gloomy.
The forward corn is past reclama-
ton, and that which was planted
late is now suffering from the dry
weather. The cotton crop presents
a poor prospect.
w. w. Miles, 5. Is. Junior and
Medlin Junior, have been confined
in the Jail at Lexington on the
charge of breaking into and rob-
bling the. house Of John Kennedy,
of Henderson county.
Mrs. Ann Ward, against whom
the crusaders have been operating
for many months, was arraigned
last week on seven indictments for
selling liquor outside of the reguIa-
ton hours. Three indictments
were sustained and she was fined
$50 in each. The case goes up,
The Dyersburg Progress says:
"A negro barber, living in Newoern,
Dyer county, sent word by a negro
girl to a young white lady of that
place, last week, that be was going
to send her card TO accompany
her to church, and that no wanted
to call on her. The citizens heard
of it, and a committee waited on the
impudent scoundrcl and informed
him that it would not be healthy
for him to remain long in that place.
He took their advice and skipped
out to parts unknown. His name
is Cas-. kimbro.
The Memphis Ledger says: At
the courthouse door sits day after
day, venerable old colored man
named Moses. He was pressman
in a printing office at Knoxville in
1910, and served many years in
the same position at Nashville. He
is doubtless the oldest pressman in
the world, being cighly-fve years
old. He soils fruit from a little
stand for a living, and appears to
take in about thirty cents a day.
Nobody supposed he owned dol
lar IN the world, but the failure of
the Freedmen's Bank revealed the
fact that he had s145 in that in
stituuon, the frugal savings of
many years. 1t is all gone and he
is penniless.-NashviIie Union and
American of the 4th.
The stores of W. o Gordon and
- Harris, at Duck river station,
on the Decatur road, near Column
bia, were entered by burglars Tues
day night. From Go: don's house
they logged away large quantity
of dry goods, and about SO in
money, all that had been left in
the drawer. They also carried
off the trunk, clothing. watch and
pistol of the clerk. they robbed
Harris store of dry goods and a
bout S1l in money. The robbers
were tracked for about Il mile away
from the station, when all trace of
them were lost. On the trail a
good many pieces of goods, which
they had dropped in Inc hurry to
escape, were picked NJ and return
cd to the shelves of the respective
stores to which they BE- onged.
For knife splitting, skull smash |
ing, bullet piercing,fgh;s, commend