Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-23

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The debt of Tennessee is $685.
100000, or Sl25 for every voter in
the State, the voting population
being estimated at about 100000.
A little boy named Walpole,
years old, accidentally shot and
killed his sister, aged 9 years, near
Lebanon recently.
The Memphis Ledger says: The
amount of taxes due in Memphis
would, if paid, clear the city of
debt.
Memphis has donated ground
valued at 100000 for the erection
Of United States Custom House.
The ground lies at the foot of Mad
son street, on the bluff.
A young man named Anvil Cul-
lin was drowned in pond near
Mansfield Gap, East Tennessee, one
day last week. He was attempting
to swim his horse across the pond
Columbia Herald: The advance
in the price of cotton has induced
our farmers to pitch a larger crop
Of the staple than they otherwise
would have done.
Memphis Ledger: J. A. Hagger-
" has sued the Paducah railroad
in the First Circuit Court for 49,
600 damages on account of losing
two fingers Of the right hand in
recent accident on that road.
Nashville Banner: An aged wo-
man named Mrs. Susan Powell.
aged l04 years and 9 months, who
resides on Rolling Mill Hill, joined
the church at the early age of six
teen years, and has been connected
with it ever sineo-a period of eigh-
ty-eight years.
The great educational convention
to be held at Knoxville, in June,
promises to be decided success
Arrangements are being perfected
for reduced rates on the railroads
and at the hotels, and the pro-
gramme of exercises is approach
ing completion and will soon be
Hade public.
Bolivar Bulletin: Notwithstand-
ing the hard times, Bolivar presents
evidences of substantial improve
ment Oh nearly all her Streets
Our carpenters seem to have fully
as much to do as they can attend to,
and the sound of the hammer and
plane is heard on almost every
hand.
The Paris Intelligencer has this:
A young man in the 1lth district
of this county was married on Tues
day night, went to an Unfair dinner
next day, and as soon as dinner
was over took hts bride home and
went to the field ard plowed until
night Let the world know the
name of this model benedict
Union and American: Steve Boyd,
a colored man about As years of
age, and Lizzie Boyd, white wo-
man 80 years old, were arrested
yesterday and locked up in Jail on
the charge of living together as
man and wife.
The Nashville Banner says that
Kinney, the pickpocket who was
pardoned out Of the Tennessee
peniicntiary not long since, on ac-
count of good behavior during the
cholera at that institution last
summer, has turned up in the JOLT
ct, Illinois, penitentiary, for roliov-
ing pockes Of valuables,
Ripley News: There seems to be
no end to the improvements in and
around Ripley New houses con
tinue TO go up and old ones to be
repaired, just the same as if the
Presidents veto of the imitation
bill had never occurred. Eight or
nine new houses are now under
Roadway, aud our mechanics seem
to have Just as much work as they
can get along with.
Somervillc Falcon: The fowls of
Fayetto county are becoming quite
progressive A hen belonging to
Mr.. w T Thomas recently laid two
eggs in one day. \ hen belonging
to DR.. \. j PEBBLES lately Matched
two chickens from one egg. The
other day hen belonging to Mr..
J. Nicely Matched two ducks from
enc egg. The gentlemen above
mentioned vouch for the truth of |
these statements.
Paris Intelligencer: Mr.. Peter
Wall, formerly Il citizen of this |
county, and who lived near Searcy, |
Ark, was returning to visit friends
in this county, and was accompa-
MED by his wife, who was very fee
BILE from consumption. They we're
on the Memphis train on Friday
last, bound for Paris, when Mrs.
Wall, already very feeble, suddenly
died She leaves four little chill
dren to mourn with the bereaved
father the irreparable loss.
Paris Inteligencer: Jas. Bomar,
Esq, brought to our Office few
bones of some human beings, who
lived and died long since, taken
from the banks of Tennessee river,
opposith Danville-Some OF these
bones have been buried centuries,
others not exceeding one hundred
years, and are evidently of some
Indian tribe. A large quaint
ty of these bones are supposed to
be deposited in the bank of the riv-
er at that point, and are now being
exhumed by the action of the high !
water on the caving banks.
Knoxville Chronicle: Two suits
Of q novel and startling character
against the East Tennessee, Virgin
ia and Georgia Railroad Company
are now pending in the Circuit
Court at Morristown. They were
brought by P A. Shearer. He
sues under u statute of 1866, which
provides that the conductors of
trains in this State shall
,all out at each station in a loud
voice it's name and the length of
line the train is to stop. The !
plaintiff alleges that tor each fail /
ire the road must pay penalty of
,ne hundred dollars, one-half of
which goes to the common school .
und of the State and one half to !
he informer. Mr.. Shearor feels
greatly aggrieved by this failure to
all out the stations for his benefit
nd convenience, and it has been t