Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-10
NEWS.

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4Ol ,702.
/ Cherry trees are in bloom in Ala
! media county, California.
The orange crop of Florida prom
ises to be large
Evansville, Ind. has a new $500
600 hotel.
The public debt has increased s.
45S,272 during the past month.
New England has had steady sleigh
ing, for seven weeks.
Four more communists have been
condemned to death in France.
St. Louis received last year, (187S)
81, ,9SS bales of cotton, against 29, 436,
/ for the year 1872.
a thousand workingmen have
been discharged from the Navy
Yard, at Brooklyn.
The strikes on Western railroads,
have caused heavy freight Dlockades
in Eastern as well as Western cities.
An innocent little girl in Michi-
gan, recently blOwed up her fathers
grocery, by dropping a lighted
match into a can of powder.
The Memphis Avalanche cruelty
points out to Mr.. Blaine, that Hem
ry Clay was Speaker twelve years,
but never President.
Gen. B. j. Sweet, Deputy Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, died
in Washington City on the 1st, aged
IL years.
Another week without copious
rain, and terrible famine in Ben
gal, India, is inevitable. Prayers for
Divine aid have been ordered by
the Bishop in Calcutta.
1t is said that there is one man in
Congress who hasn't "a plan for the
resumption of specie payment" but
he docs not want to be known.
The increase ofthc public debt since
June, 1873, is eleven million four
hundred and ninety-six thousand
six hundred and twelve dollars.
An appropriation by congress of
nearly two million dollars in gold
will be required for the claims al
lowed by the late United States and
OAAAlon SOlLALlAooAOhs
n. NJ. Britton, United States Mar
shall for the Western district of Ar
kansas, is charged with the collec-
ton of large fees for services never
rendered. His case looks ugly.
Thomas Cook. aged 2S. killed his
wife, aged Is, and his mother-in-law,
and then killed himself, in Louis
lilo 4hn DnA IL oil 10
his wife was unfaithful to him.
The Glenn House, Appeal news
paper office and several stores and
shops in Paris, Monroe county, Mo-,
were burned Wednesday morning.
The loss is heavy but the amount is
not reported.
Sumptuary legislation is no new
thing in Pennsylvania. Many wears
ago the Legislature passed IA law
come to the house barefoot, or eat
his bread or cheese on the steps"
The New Orleans Times says:
f'The State of Louisiana has been
plundcred till nothing more can be
obtained; her people have been
taxed till an increase of taxation has
become impossible. Relief must
come or utter ruin is before u.s."
General Albert Pike, General
James F. Pagan, and Rev. w. c.
Hearn, haYe been elected delegates
to represent Arkansas in the Ma
tional Convention of Mexican War
Veterans to be held in Washington,
d. c., on the 18th inst.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The Presi-
dent and his wife held the usual
New Years reception to-day, aided
by the Cabinet officers and their
wives. And after the reception of
foreign Representatives and home
officials in the usual order, the vete-
rams of 1912 were received, and at
=. NJ, the doors We're thrown
open to the general public.
The government, it is announced,
intends to commence proceedings
against all persons who have been
engaged in making this country the
basis of operations against Spain in
Cuba. 1t is asserted here that the
proceedings will include the Cuban
iunta, soldiers like Jourdan and
Henningsen, who have commanded
or fitted out expeditions, and all
others who can be shown TO have
committed such acts as would
amount to the invasion or disturb
ing the peace of a friendly nation.