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

! FREIGHT TRAIN DITCHED.-On Thurs
dg afternoon it was rumored in the city
tint a passenger train or the Mississippi
| Central Railroad had been thrown from the
tnck and that 80 persons had been killed
outright. There was no foundation for the
rmor beyond the fact that freight train
hd been ditched near Grand junction, by
which the passenger train had been delayed
arew hours.
| SCHOOL FUND-Thc third distribution
oithe Public School Fund has just been
mlde by the Trustees District No. 1, 1923
| A.: District No. ., S2lj "A; District No. 3,
Sos Il; District No. 4, 1893 G6; District
No. >, SI9J O.; District 80. g, SEQ IS;
district No. 7, 500 Il; District No. S. S263
3 District No. ., Sl42 o.; District No. 10,
| s.i3 Of; District No. II, $20G 60; District
10. y, S35l a.; District 80. e, SIG %;
District No. II, SIgi 30; District 30. -,
| slOSS 70; District No. 10, s 1876 s.; District
No. Il, s27l 7O-total. S5OGl 50.
CONsIDEEATE-NE VERA gentleman all
the way from Providence, Rhode Island,
called at one Of our hotels on Wednesday,
and wanted 10 obtain board and lodging
for few days. He acknowledged that he
was out Of funds, but said he was perfectly
good, anil that certain hotel keeper in
the city, with whom lie had been staying,
wOull yOuch for his soIycncy. Consider.
ate landlord No. >, answered that be was
great friend Of landlord No. !, and that he
could not think Of taking perfectly good
and solvent" bO1rdcrs from him, rs that
would not be strictly professional. The
Providence man departed under the i'm
preston that he had made out entirely too
strong case.
\ BREATHING PLACE.-ln yicw Of tie
probable future OF our city, we cannot L. |
more the ultimate neccs- lty Of u public |
pleasure ground. Some ore has called the |
parks the lungs Of a city, and while our |
facilities for respiration are ample, yet |
what we need now, Notwithstanding our |
scmi-Tural surroundings, is place Of in
nOcent popular resort anC recreation. In
situation and OrnamCutati)n our city is a
handsome one, Dut we rave no neural |
ground where every one may feel at liberty |
10 go and saunter away vacant hour in
.hc midst OF green leaves and grass and
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great cities are privileged to do. Compar-
ltiyely small rs Jackson Is, still many per-
sons, confined during business hours to the
walls and pa gcmcnts Of the streets, become
weary Of them and feel the necessity Of Oc-
.asionally coming into sympathy with ma
ure by walking out and getting glimpse
If the fields aud woods. We have in our
midst many men who through the whole
year toll amid the uproar OF changing ham
ners and the smoke Of furnaces, and for
hose and for all such VIC ask our people
md our city authorities 90 do something in
he direction indicated. We understand
perfectly that Jackson is in debt, and we
10 not ask for a heavy expenditure or for
things. We DO not dream Of
places like the Bots Boulogne in Paris, or
ike Hyde and Regent parks in London; or
# that 500 acre paradise in New York
who're the most exquisite Of American
pleasure grounds is set like picture in the
'ough frame work of the Babylon that sur
ounds it; or even of the beautiful squares
4 New Orleans where the choicest trees
md flowers are presented 20 crafty the eye, |
nd to fill the air with the breath Of orange
blossoms. We aspire to nothing like met
opOlitan breadth and scope IN the matter !
1 park-making. We cannot take much .
took in this business, but at the same time |
TER need of pleasure grounds IS obvious, ,
ffering from other cities in degree only.
Without further generaIsing we come 10
ur special suggestion in this connection. ,
n one Of our strolls on a delightful Sab. .
ath afternoon lately, we assembled the hill | .
pom which sits our literary AcTopolis, the ! |
,Jlcgc Of West Tennessee. The view from ;
be porticO is very fine. The grounds i'm I
near the building have a grove /
f forest trees, and looking over them the i
lea occurred to us that by proper con- 7
srt Of action between the city and the Coz /
,gc authorities, these grounds, at no great 7
utlay, might gradually be made the chief 1
rnament of our city. Next to religion the !
Iorld instinctiyely respects institutions OF q
earning, and there is no reason TO appre- 4
end that an ample pleasure ground could {
ct be thus secured that would become "a
hing Of beauty and a joy forever to our t
eople. Cemeteries have in the smaller :
tiles, TO great extent, been made 10 serve 3
nc purposes OF parks, hut they are not the S
lost agreeable places Of diversion. They
lould be kept neat and secure and be I
as the SORROWS and fancjcs of !
be mOurncrs suggest, but while they :
hOuld DC open to all who observe the pro- p
rietics, at the same time they are not the
laces for mere pleasure seekers. \ Gene i
cry has its peculiar fascination, rs the .
aim face of the dead has its IlaVucfiSU for .
5, as well as the look and language Of the I
wing, but the cemetery is not like a park
or can it ever be. I,