Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-02-21


thirteen years; have travelled over
several mountain counties, and
have baptized over one thousand
persons, and assisted in organizing
several churches, and in all that
time have received but ten dollars,
which was given to me by Greasy
Creek church
Many a child goes astray, not
because there is Il want Of prayer
or virtue at home, but simply be
cause home lacks sunshine. \
child nceds smiles as much a. 4
flower needs sunbeams. If Il thing
pleases they arc apt TO seek it; if it
( displeases they-arc apt to avoid IT.
/ If home is the place where faces
are sour, and words arc harsh and
! fault finding is ever in the ascend
ant, they will spend as many hours
a. possible elsewhere.
General and Southern News.
CARLYLE is described as looking
quite as well as he did ten years
ago, and being as wonderful in con
versation as ever.
Bret Harris, il is said, can com
mand higher price for his works
than any literary man in the me-
tropolis. Scribners Monthly has
paid him as much as 500 a page.
may safely say, and l am proud
10 be able TO say, that | am the
most strongly and the best hated
man in Europc.-Bismarck to Prus-
sian Diet.
A Washington letter calls alten-
ton to the fact that not dollar
has ever been missing from the
department of the Comptroller Of
the Currency, where ladies exclu-
slveIy are employed as clerks.
Mr.. Gouverncur, the only grand
son of Jas. Monroe, is in Washing
ton this winter, and his wife wears
in society the ornaments worn by
Mr.. Monroe when Minister TO
France.
The present population of New
Orleans is estimated at go, $50, an
increase of SO, 567 over the census
of 1870. This makes it the eighth
city in the Union, or next to Bos-
| ton.
Savannah (Ga) News: Jas. Jack
son, Of Banks county, died recent
", aged one hundred and fifteen
He leaves u wife aged one hundred
and ten, and several children. He
never took a dose of medicine in
his life.
According TO Il correspondent OF
the Jewish Messenger, the Jews in
Jerusalem are in a very disorgan-
lied condition. The greater num-
Der of them live entirely upon the
charitable contributions of the Eu-
ropean Jews.
Michigan viii hereafter educate
her convicts, and when they are dis
charged will give each Il suit of
clothes, $40 in cash and such mon
ey as he may have earned by extra
weak. This will be the best guar
anty of future good behavior ever
yot devised.
An english baronet, Sir St. Geo.
Gore, worth half IL half million per
annum, and still unmarried, is wax
ing the echoes of the Tennessee for
ests with his shotgun. Forty or
fifty of the Memphis bellies are said
to be thirsting for Gore. Brook
Ign Argus.
The Attorney General of Illinois
has sued the Chicago and Alton
Railroad Company for violating the
Illinois railroad law by charging
more than fair and reasonable com
pensation. This is tho first prose
cution under the law, aud the re-
suit is looked for with interest
The women in many places in
Ohio and Indiana are making war
to tho knife upon King Alcohol
They go in crowds to the saloons,
ask permission to hold prayer meet
ings, and OH being refused pitch
their tents in front of said 81 looms
and sing and pray until the keeper
closes up and abandons his bar
Mrs. Robertson, of kentucky,
was operated on at the Medical Col,
lege yesterday, for the removal OF
large tumor, of nineteen years
standing, from the right side OF
her face. She was urged to the
necessity of having it removed TO
prevent its interference with her
breathing. The operation was sue
cessfully performed.-Banner.
On the 7th, at West station, near
Canton, Miss, two brothers, names
unknown, were shot and instantly
killed by man named Marshall
The brothers had for some time
previous endeavored to force Mar
shall into a difficulty, which he
managed to avoid until the time a,
bove mentioned, when both were
advancing on him with drawn
knives in 4 threatning manner. He
fired on them twice, both shots ia
king fatal effect.
The Courier journal: We Learn
from the Mclean county, Ky, Pro.
gress that Elder Robert Reynolds
the old Baptist manister who whip
ped his daughter so numerically {
few weeks since, in what proved ;
futile effort to coercc her marriage
has been tried by the proper
Church tribunal, which body, after
hearing proof, and giving his case
mature elaboration, caused his
name to be stricken from their rol
of membership.
OF Col. Withers, the new United
States Senator elect from Va, tn,
Lexington (Va.l Gazette says: III,
was shot in the war, and the lea(
IN him has been cork and not
sinker. He was born in Campbell
doctored in Appomattox, Il Know
Nothing, wounded, had heap o
claims, doesn't drink, poo
, speaker, clever fellow, and plain
family nag-safe and decent
The knights of Pythias, ut III,
recent grand lodge meeting held il
Nashville, elected the following of
ficers: BY direction ofthe suprem,
lodge, at its session nj Richmon,
last year, the following member
were elected p. q. ChancclIors, viz
IL. l.. Claiborne, Nashville; J. S
Stewart, Chattanooga; J. Z. Russell
, Memphis; E. ID. Hancock, Murfres
. bOro' The grand officers for tho