Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-21
GENERAL NEWS.


The Georgia Constitutionalist
thinks the best thing Grant ever
did was 80 cram that nauscou, dose
down BOston's throat
4 band of Ohio women gathered
IN front of lawyers Office by mis-
take and prayed and sang half an
hour before they lcarncd that they
had been throwing away time. Il
is calculated that their prayers
wouldn't have had any effect under
eighteen months.
The Women movement against
the saloons in Chicago has been vir-
tually abandoned, even before it
had fairly commenced. The press
and the pulpit both refuse to give
it encouragement, and the McthO-
dists have formally resolved to not
encourage it.
1t is understood that General Joe
Johnston's book on the war will be
issued the present week. 1t is said
that the volume reveals good deal
that has been hitherto mysterious
in regard TO Confederate military
operations. The Gen. goes largely
into tho controversy between him
self and cx-Prcsident Davis.
1t it whispered loud enough that
all the birds can hear it that our
great Protestant apostle of celibacy
is to be-married! The priest who
has written beautiful books, prov
ing how much better il is to be
single for the Kingdom of Heavens
sake than to take to himself Il wife,
and that, too, Presbyterian girl,
not 20 years old What wonder
that in Episcopal circles within
sight Of Trinity church the squibs
are flying thick and fast!-[Iudc-
pendent. Which Is Rev. Morgan
Dix, that is guilty of this threatened
backSliding.
The younger Forney, the Wash
ington one, owns that the centcnni-
al jig is up, so far as any Congress
sional appropriation is concerned,
and advises General Hawlev and
his associates to accept the situa-
ton, organize syndicates, employ
lady agents at five per cent. com
miss ion, shinglo the country with
posters, and issue ornamental ten
dollar stock certificates.
There is no printing that the
Government now does that cannot
be done ut onc-tcnth tho cost by
having the work performed rs any
individual would manage his PR
vatc business. But the present eff
fort is to force the Printing Oficc
into 4 mammoth department so ex-
pcnsivc and burdensome that it
cannot be dispensed with, aud then
it is supposed the Public Printer
will claim TO be member Of the
Cabinet.-Washington Chronicle.
The Galcsburg widow met her
swain at temperance meeting, and
gave him $4,000 to meet some notes
coming due; the Philadelphia wild
ow gave her lover $4,000 to furnish
the house they were TO live in; the
Newark widow gave her San Fran
cisco beau, whom she met at a
church sociablo, Il house valued at
$1,000 TO dispose of. The lovers
all pockotcd the money and dc
campcd. The poor women deserve |
pity for their confidence, if Eothing !
more. y widow choking with alice
ton for hearts idol can not rca- !
souabiy be expected to telegraph all /
round the country 10 inquire from !
what pcnitontiary her adoredhas e
merged. However, it would be |
cheaper in the long run to do so.
-LChieago Tribune.
A y. Orleans merchant, moved by |
the pitilul tale of = woman who said !
her husband lay dead at home, aud /
that she hadn't the means of bury
ing him, charitably gave her SIl 10
get the poor man under ground.
Before giving the money, however, /
he went To take look III the dead
man. Sure enough, it was q swol-
len, discolorcd corpse, that should
have been buried days ago, and in
his hurry to leave the noisomc tcne-
ment, be forgot his umbrella. So
he reluctantly returned TO claim it.
He hurried quickly but softly up
stairs, tintoed to the door, lifted
the latch, and saw-tho corpse sit
ting up in the coffin counting his
Sl4 over very deliberately.
The passage by the Legislatures
Of California aud Iowa, Of rcsoIu-
tons asking that the National Con
stitution be 50 changed as to have
United States Senators elected by 4
direct vote Of the people, has start
ed a discussion on that subject by
the press. Among . few advocates
Of the change is the Toledo Blade,
which says: TO remove the choice
Of Senators from the Legislatures
to the people would greatly help
the legislation of every State. Leg
islators would be chosen more with
to their fitness for the
work they ought to do, than with
reference to their relation to indi-
yidual aspirants or TO national poll
tics. Thus we should get rid Of
great deal Of trickery and mancu-
Sering that ought to receive q time
y check J.;