Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-02
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
The international Council Com
mune) has been dissolved.
The strikers on the Louisville
Short Line have resumed work.
There was one woman at the LIST
meeting of the Cremation society in
New York.
Another convert to the Cum
minis movement in New York
Rev. w. T. Sabine, of the Church
of the Atonement.
Free Banking and convertible
bonds are suggested as a cOmpro-
mise between the friends of con-
traction and expansion.
a boy fifteen years old was ar
rested in Dorchester, Mass, lately,
charged with numbering a child
aged four years.
Hon. Ed. c. Marshall of Wood
ford county, KY, one of the most
brilliant men of the State, is report
ed to be in a dying condition.
Arrangements are making for
grand display and celebration on
the occasion of the laying of the
cornerstone of the new Chicago
Custom-house on the 24th of June.
St. Johns Guild has reelected
Rev. Mr.. Wisewell its master, not
withstanding his removal by the
vestry of Trinity parish from the
charge of st. Johns chapel in New
York.
The Supreme Lodge of the
World Of the Knights of Pythias
closed its session in Pittsburgh Sat
urday. The next annual session
will be held in Baltimore.
In the Louisville City Court of
last week, n. B. Harper, a negro
lawyer, volunteered to prosecute
the negroes engaged in the riot on
Monday 18th. Seven of the often
ders were fined and placed under
heavy bonds.
a resolution of a public meeting,
on the 25th, held in West Baton
Rouge, states that 800 families
in that parish have been rendered
homeless by the inundation from
the Teohe country, and report the
crevasse water still rising. Indica-
tions are that Morgan's Texas rail-
road will be partly OVERLOOKED.
Three men were drowned Mon
day at Pearl river crossing of the
Mobile and New Orleans railroad.
Superintendent Scranton of this
road says it will take thirty days to
repair the damage by the recent
food and get the road in thorough
order.
At Boughton, on the Cairo and
Fulton railroad, one hundred miles
below Little Rock, fifteen citizens
followed a gang of horse-thieves on
Sunday last, got into a fight with
them, killed three and lost one of
their own men by being killed and
had another wounded.
The old man arrested at Salt Lake,
and supposed to be Bender, has
been brought to st. Louis by the
chief of police of Salt Lake City,
and has been viewed by hundreds
of curious people. There is no
doubt but that this is the true Ben
der. He is being held until per
sons from the scene Of the butch
cries come on to identify him.
J. Keen was shot dead by J.
Halves, on Saturday, in Kentucky,
near Cairo. Both were about Is
years of age, and had lived neigh
bors for some years. The tragedy
had its origin in triaing matter
Halves having tried to capture a
seemingly empty skiff in the Ohio
river, in which Keen was lying, and
the latter having laughed at non
! plusing Halves.
At Yazoo City, Miss, the river
is declining slowly. Reports from
all points above show the Yazoo
Tallahatchie and and Yallabushs
to be falling. Greenwood, on the
Tallahatchie, is entirely submerg
ed, the water there being higher
than in 1867. No serious damage
has yet resulted from the Hush
puckana crevasse, and .fears of q
! general overflow are subsiding.
GONE TO WAsHINGToN.-Att
neys representing both parties in
the Arkansas dispute for the Gov.
ernorship, have called on the At
torney General, and will submit
written arguments in support Of
their respective claims. The decision
of the President will be made after
a thorough consideration of the ar.
| guments thus presented. Attorney
/ General Williams will prepare the
opinion for the Executive.
An old man named Howell, oil
Bourbon county, Ky, recently
committed suicide by shooting him,
self through the brain. He was
seventy years of age, was worth
! 100000, and was the founder of a
large and influential family. 1t is
thought that he committed the act
through fear of permanent insanity
His faculties were failing, and he
doubtless mistook the infirmity Of
age, for the approaches of lunaey.
The Courier-J Ournal's special tel
egraphic correspondence from
Washington Saturday night says
that the debate in tho House Satur,
day was very lively. Attorney
General Williams landaulet was
very sharply overhauled by the
Democrats. Mr.. Beck renewed his
charges that Controller Knox had