Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-04
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
South Carolina is the paradise
# thieves and ignorant negroes.
The crops in Texas, as rule,
PROMISE a rich yield.
In portions of Louisiana there
ire serious complaints about the .
iroulh.
The court house at Lagrange, !
KY was burned to the ground last
week.
There has been no rain in the
EicInity Of Hopkiusville, Ky, since
the first OF May.
Iowa has an independent State
ticket IN the field. The conven-
ton sharply arraigned the national
The leven works.
The Radicals OF the Mobile dis
trict have nominated a negro for
Congress, and tie chances are that
he will be elected.
a Springfield, Mass, dispatch
states that Henry l.. Dawes, the
father of the House. has written a
letter declining a denomination 10
Congress.
DIR. J. Il. 0'Mahoney, a Licking
ton, KY, editor, and u Mr.. Jerome
Frazier, exchanged several shots
last week without injury to either
party.
Col. Alfred Johnson, we'll
known citizen Of Western Ken
lucky, and a gallant soldier in the
late war, died at his residence 10
Marshall county few days since.
The Democratic convention of
Vermont, in session last week, nom
mated for Governor, Hon. w. H.
H. Bingham; for Lieut. Governor,
Henry Chase; for Treasurer, Otis
Chamberlin.,
A shooting afiray occurred at
Helena, Ark, on the 20 of June,
between w. r. Burke, editor of the
World, and q. A. Otley, editor of
tho Independent, in which some
half a dozen shots were fred, but
nobody hurt
Opelousas (La.) Journal 26th:
I'VE overheard a planter passing
our office, last Monday, remark that
corn here next fall would not sell
for more than forty cents per bush
el. This remark tersely expressed
his opinion as to what would be the
amount of that CROP
The oldest Catholic Priest in
North America is now stationed at
St. Johns Church, Frederick, Nd
the Rev. John McElroy, S. ]. He
was ordained by Archbishop Car
roll sixty years ago, and has conse-
quently spent half a century in the
ministry. He is now SO years old.
The Vicksburg Herald of the
9th says: Mr.. Higgins, a large
planter near Big Black, in this
county, reports that the millers, a
sure fore-runner of the cotton
worm, are beginning to make their
appearance in large numbers, and
fears are entertained that they will
play havoc with the great staple.
A special correspondent of the
Memphis Appeal, writing on the
18th, says that the 'crops along the
Mobile and Ohio railroad from
Corinth south TO OkolOna, are ex.
cellent; from Okolona to Craw-
louisville, bad; from Charlottesville
TO Meridian, best made since the
war; about Corinth best made for
many years.
The St. Louis Democrat Monday
published a double loaded editori
al taking strong ground in favor Of
the genuine Peoples Movement, Il
defeat what it calls Bourbon De.
mocracy in Missouri at the guber.
material election next fall, and calls
on the Republican State Central
Committee, which meets next
month, to recommend such move
ment, instead of nominating z
straight Republican State ticket.
The grand-iury of the United
/ States circuit court have found al
indictment against A. Z. Buell., fol
defamation of character, in that a;
correspondent of the Detroit Free
Press he procured % be printed !
/ few months ago in that journal &
statement that Senator Chandler Of
Michigan had been helped from the
floor of the Senate in open session
/ in state of intoxication. tits IN
derstooj that Buell. will be brought
at once for trial.
Important changes have takeI
place in the Indian Territory. AL
/ the agents Of the civilized Indianl
have been relieved, excepting ]. B
Jones, agent of the Cherokees, anC
a central agency has been estab
lished at Fort Gibson. The Chock
taws, Creeks, Seminoles, Chero
KEGS, Chickasaws and other civil.
/ lied Indians will all be under agent
Jones. This is regarded as an ex
pertinent on a small scale to famili
I arizing the Indians with self gov
eminent under a future territorial
organization.
( y correspondent OF the Chariot,
/ IN. c. Observer says of the crop:
in Rutherford and Cleveland coun
ties iu that State: Since the re
cent rains corn and cotton have
been in 4 fourishing condition
The farmers have used this yea
four times the quantity of guam,
over last year, while the acreage il
cotton is two-fold. Hence, larg,
crops are anticipated in Cleveland
county. Wheat has been harvested
the crop is very good.
Natehez Courier, oath: We re
feTred yesterday to the very muct
improved and encouraging rospectI
for both corn and cotton, on thi:
side of the river, hereabouts, since
the recent rains have been almos
general. In the parish of Coneor
dia, opposite u, and the neighbor
ing parishes, so far as We can learn,
the prospect is now very good
The land is about all out of water
and planting has gone on very
rapidly since the decline of the
food began. As usual after al
overflow. the seed sprung up quick
" and grows very rapidly, while
grass gives very little trouble. Or
the whole, We regard the agrieul
tural situation as encouraging
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