Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-23
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

The debt of Kew Yorh city was
increased 100000 in April.
Gen. \. B. Dyer Of the [. S.
Army, died al Washington on the /
Goth.
Mrs. Clara Waechter, of Mem !
phis, committed suicide on Wei-
nesday.
A tenement house in Cincinnati, (
tumbled down on Wednesday AID
killed several persons
VIM. E. Eaton, Democrat, sue
ceeds VIM. Buckingham, Republi-
can, In the United States Senate.
President Graut approves of dec
Grating the, graves Of Union and
Confederate dead alike
Miss Nellie Grant, aged Is, mar
ried Sartoris, al Washington on
Thursday.
Wintermute, the murderer Of
len. McCookc, Is Oh trial in Da-
kota
General Sherman advocates the
transfer of the ar ny headquarters
from Washington 10 st. Louis.
Forty-threc women crusaders
were arrested IL Cincinnati SGtur
day for obstructing the street as a
praying band.
The Mayor of New Orleans says
that many thousands Of people in
La. must perish, unless further as
sistance is rendered,
Major-General George l.. Hart
sutf, United States Army, died
Saturday afternoon at the Sturte-
want House, in New York city, Of
pneumonia.
A mill dam broke loose at Hay
densville, Mass, on Saturday last,
destroying property to the amount
of s., 600, 900, and causing the death
of over 100 persons.
The Constitutional Convention
of Ohio, adjourned on the 10TH
Among other changes a Jury of six
can try all cases in which not more
than 500 is in controversy.
Gov. Moses, of South Carolina,
thought he would resist arrest, but
finally concluded to yield. This
Gubernatorial fraud is now on bail.
Business is paralysed and Column
bia is filed with military.
Admiral Franklin Buchanan, late
of the Confederate navy, and for
many years a distinguished officer
of the United States Navy, died at
Baltimore last week, aged seventy
four years.
Suit has been begun by the Uni
ted States against the official bond
of ex-POstmaster Jones, of New
York, to recover 100000, said to
have been embezzled by subordi-
mates in the office.
Capt. Tom Berry, formerly IN the
Memphis and Little Rock trade,
but for several years engaged in
planting at Walnut Bend, Ark,
was murdered Friday the 18th
The difficulty grew oat OF law
suit.
The Catholic pilgrims sailed from
New York on Saturday last, after
the celebration of mass by Arch
bishop McCloskey. The Pope sent
his blessing by telegraph, and ap-
pointed Bishop Dwenger spiritual
adviser of the pilgrims.
II. Clay Golf, Supervisor of Mis-
sissippi county, Ark, was assassin
ated near Frenchman's bayou,
some so miles above Memphis, last
Saturday evening, while returning
to his home. No clue TO the as
sassin, who fred upon his victim
from the brush on the road side.
Tom Bowling won the thrJe mile
race at Lexington, Ky, on Saiur-
day last, in five minutes and thirty
six and one quarter seconds. In
this race Bowling was excluded
from the pools, the betting being
confined solely to the other entries.
Last week two young men Of
Cairo, ILL.,, named Henry Runner
and Fred Hencamp, both well
known in the place, quarrcled and
fought about girl of 'easy virtue. ,
They met at the girls house, and
both being under the influence of
liquor, a fight ensued, in which
Heneamp was killed.
Regular trains commenced run
ming again on the Little Rock and
Fort Smith Railroad Friday the Is.
The trains on the Cairo and Full
ton Railroad have been and now
a,e running, through, nnmolested
by the political disturbances, under
assurances of protection from both
forces.
The wife of John Bargland, of
Scott county Minnesota, aged fif-
teen, and married but six weeks,
died suddenly at her fathers house
in Glencoe, last week, it is suppos-
ed from the effect of poison taken
to produce abortion. She would
have become a mother in three
months. The husband has been
arrested as accessory to the alleged
poisoning.
NASHVILLE RACEs.-The sweep
stake for three year old5, at Nash
vile on Tuesday, was won by Jno.
Aleock & Cos. Orphan Girl, in
1.4S -, 1.49 1-2. The second race
was dash of one mile and half,
and won by William and Owing's
Somerset, in 2.41 IL. The third
race, also a mile and a half dash,
was won by J. f. B. Jackson's en-
try, IN 2.42.
I'd day, LIST race, p 1 miles-G.
II. Rice's Wanderer, 1906; I'd race,
mile heats, X. X. Alcok's Chatter
box, 1.4712, 1912, 1471-4; 81
race, mile dash, A. B. Schully's
Moll, 1-49 II.
a fatal affray occurred at Cherry
Greek, PontOtoc county, Miss,
last Thursday, The parties engag-
ed were VIM. Garner, Sim Mccoy,
Sam Reeder, Mccoy, ST., Miriam
and Geo. Mccoy. Fire arms were
freely used and VIM. Garner was
killed and Miriam was shot three
times, each would, however, prov
ing to be slight. VIM. EcCoy, ST.,
had his arm broken, and Sim Mccoy
was slightly bruised. All the
combatants had, before this terri.
bic affair, been friendly toward
each other, ard in fact we're all re-
lated. No other cause is assigned
for the unfortunate aud deadly
collision than that the parties were
drunk at the time.