Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-03
STATE NEWS.

A Nashville man has silver
American dollar, dated 1895.
The recent snow reached deptl
Of six inches in Knoxville.
More wheat was sown in Tennes
sec this fall than for several year.
past.
There were eighteen deaths II
Memphis for the week ending De
comber 9th.
A fair in the LIST Baptist Churcl
of Nashville las. week nettec
$1,000.
East Tennessee National Bank
ut Knoxville, has increased its CAPT
tai stock from 100000 to S150,00O
A new steamer on the Cumbcc
land river, named for Col. Bolivar
III. Cook, of Nashville, feted thai
gentleman on the Goth December
Montgomery county increased 1T
taxable property for 1873, over
1872, the whole amount Of S776,.
$50.
The sum of 81, 500, 900 is yet due
tho State from the sale of delin.
queut railroads, and S4,000,00C
rom other roads in account with it.
From all accounts, large
amount of meat was lost IN Ten
nessee during the warm weather,
Just before Christmas.
Two houses, the property Of MIR.
Hylman, three miles east Of Mary
vile, Blount county, were destroy
cd by fire, December 18th.
Hon. A. A. Freeman, of Browns
vile, has been appointed by the
president, U. S. Consul at Prague,
IN Bohemia.
- The first meeting Of the Mem
phis Cotton Exchange took place
Saturday, December 9th, and was
well attended.
The Nashville Union and Amer
lean of Sunday says that Senator
James A. Mccall, of Obion county,
is dead. His disease was consump-
ton.
Mr.. Abner Moss, AN old man,
who has been deranged for some
years, and was confined at his
home in Coffee county, died there,
December 18th.
McCulloch, Hagar x McClelland's
drug establishment in Nashville
was destroyed by fire on the Goth
of December. Loss fully covered
by insurance.
Gov. Brown, Comptroller Burch,
and the Governors private secreta-
ry, left for New York last week, to
look after tho financial interests of
tho state.
Ii is estimated that there are
seventy-five thousand bales of cot
ton stored in Memphis, which can
not be moved for want of money.
The sheds are all full, and n great
deal is piled up all over the city.
Memphis voted Thursday for
Mayor, Aldermen, &c. Maj. J. j.
Busby was the "people's" candi-
date, and John League the repub-
lican. We have not heard the re-
suit.
J. A. Thompson, colored, has
been declared elected u justice of
the peace for the 14th district of
Shelby county-thc first colOred
man ever elected to that Office in
Shelby county.
The Paris Intelligencer, Deem
her 25th, says: Mrs. Darnell, wife
of Jesse Darnell, went out on
Tuesday morning to milk the cows,
as usual, and fell dead on the way,
without any known cause.
Charles Stetson, an old and high
ly respected member of the Cleve-
land, Bradley county bar, in cOnse-
quence of pecuniary distress, COM
mitted suicide December 9th, by
shooting in the head with a pistol.
The Trenton News says the steam
flour mill of Mr.. L. Ferris, at
Rutherford Station, together with
its contents, was destroyed by FIRE
on the Goth of December. The
loss is about $4,000. No insurance.
The Avalanche says the Frank
lin Review has entered upon its IF
tieth number of it's fiftieth volume.
That's a mistake. The Review was
first issued about January, 1882,
and cannot be more than forty
one or two years old.
The wife of our old friend Sam.
IL. Jones, late representative from
Shelby county, died at his home,
near White Station, Memphis and
Charleston railroad, December 2S,
of consumption.
Eight convicts, who were en-
ployed in getting out stone, at Hag-
CARDS quarry, near Nashville, and
who were, for convenience, confined
ut night in a block house near the
quarry, made their escape a few
days since.
A lot of negroes got into tight
at Jasper, East Tennessee, Christ
mas, with knives, in which great
deal of stabbing was done. One
negro was stabbed through the
heart, and fell dead at the feet of
his antagonist.
Prof. o. III. 2. Bennett, of Co
lumbia, is at work on what he calls
a buggy to measure distances 1t
is his own invention, and has occu-
pied his mind for years. When
completed, he can get in and ride
out to the county line, and tell ac-
ourately how far he has gone.
The Knoxville Chronicle says /:
At the last meeting of the Medical
Society, DR.. Knaffie ofthe city pre-
scented a uterine speculum, which
supplies want long felt in that
special department of practice, and
leaves nothing to be desired as re-
CARDS that highly important instru-
ment.
The town Of Gardner, over in
Weakly county, was visited by a
destructive fro on the Goth of De.
comber. 1t origin: led in the fami-
ly grocery of j. L. Brooks, which
was consumed. The store of Gard
ner & Sons was also consumed, as
we'll as Pat. Wheeling's saloon.
Gardner & Sons lost about $4,000,
and Wheeling abont $500.
The Nashville Banner Of the