Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-25
LATEST STATE NEWS.

] --LATEST STATE n MS.
I'VE cannot to-day give our readers
the usual amount of Geographic, gen
eral and State news, owing to the fact
that during the past week we did not
receive our mails during the early
part.Of the week
The fruit crop in Tennessee is not
by any means destroyed yet.
Gallatin, is cleaning up with the
view of escaping the Cholera this sea-
son.
The Gibson Wells opens the 9Th of
May with O grand barbecue and ball,
Murfreesboro boasts of a sheep
which Melted, when dressed, 1872
pounds.
Attending the public schools in
Murfreesboro: white children 259,
colored children 1873.
The Wheat crop throughout the
state promises an unusually rich
yield.
Col. E. A. James, is spoke of as
candidate for Congress in the Sd dis
trict.
At Nashville 1900 houses were sub
merged during the late flood, and the
Inhabitants forced to take refuge ON
the uplands.
KGeneral William Conner of Ripley
is mentioned in connection with the
Gubernatorial race.
The Trenton News-G Gazette ehroni-
Giles the birth, recently, of -four boys
to the wife of jack Hill, of that coun-
ty.
An approximate estimate shows the
acreage of wheat between the Tennes-
see and Hiwassee to be fully q third
larger than last year.
A correspondent of the Nashville
Banner says the Good Templars will
| hold State Convention at Nashville,
to nominate a candidate for Governor.
The Quarterly Court of Shelby
County has appropriated $4,000 to-
wards the purchase of Site in that
County, for the location of the Insane
Asylum for West Tennessee.
The first Patron of Husbandry to
die in this county was brother George
Chambers, q most worthy and highly
esteemed member of Mount Pisgah
Grange Democrat.
Dresden Democrat: We learn that
negro was killed IN our county a few
nights ago by some unknown parties.
He was in his humble cabin quietly
assisting his wife in preparing some
greens for his meal when the coward
ly assassin erept up to the house and
shot him through a crack.
Methodist churches and communi-
ties are cautioned against receiving or
encouraging q couple OF rowing "evan-
gelists" who call themselves Edward
and Charles Dunbar. 1t is minated
that personally and doetunally they
are frauds"
The Murfreesboro News reports
that Stones river was higher last week
than ever before known. Travel by
rail or dirt roads was entirely suspen-
ded for several days. Considerable
damage to fences and houses is also
reported.
Cumberland river, which has been
on big bender, is rapidly falling
within its banks, and all in the low
lands around Nashville who were
driven from their houses by the flood,
will soon be at ''home again"
The Odd Fellows are rapidly pre-
pairing for tho erection of a new and
elegant Hall, at the corner of Church
and High Streets Nashville. The
corner stone will be laid in a few days,
and the work viii be accomplished
without delay.
VIM. Harvey Sellers. who died at
the age of II in Galveston, Texas, on
the 10th instant, was native of Glib
son county, Tennessee, and was born
in 1927. He was one of the Meirs
prisoners of 1912, long confined in the
Castle of PerOte, Mexico, also a sol
der Of the Mexican and confederate
wars, and at the time Of his death pre-
sided over the Galveston Cotton EX-
change.
4 negro man in Davidson county,
who had been missing corn from his
crib, set a steel trap at the crack where
the corn was supposed to get out of
the crib. Next morning he found 4
bigsbuck of his own color standing by
his crib, and upon inspection, an emp
ty sack at his feet, and one of his
hands in the crack. he took the
steel trap of and let him go.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle speaking
of the rise of the Cumberland river
says: Almost all the bottom land, even
in the highest localities is entirely
submerged along the v hole length of
the river, and very large amount of
wheat sowed last year, which promised
an unusual fine crop, has been ruined.
The water is rising into number of
houses on the river banks AZ Clarks-
vile.
Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.
and all their tributaries are extremely
high. During the past week consider
able damage has been done in Nash
vile, Chattanooga and in nearly all
the valleys of East and Middle Ten
nessee. The floods have been disas-
troUs in West Tennessee, but not so
much as in the other parts of the
State.