Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-17
NEWS.

Every member OF Congress from
Minnesota was raised in Maine.
Creswel's savings bank scheme was
defeated in committee of the. Senate.
Caleb Cushing. the new Chief JUS
tice, and the 18th century are the
same age.
The Captain General of Cuba has
been clothed with extraordinary pow
ers by the Serrano Government OF
Spain.
The Democratic State Convention
of New Hampshire, met in Concord
on the Sth, aud nominated James A.
Weston for Governor.
The New York Chamber Commerce
opposes the repeal of the bankrupt
law, but recommends that it be
amended.
Anderson county, 5. C., reports
that in that section the cotton crop
turns out better than it promised in
September.
I a Scott county, KY, farmer recent
( ly sold Berkshire SOW, and nine pigs
eight months old, that weighed 5000
/ pounds.
The Galveston News says thus far
J the present autumn has been one of
4 the warmest ever known on the coast
of Texas.
Ex-President Baez, of San Domin-
! go, has fled that country, aud hence
Grants great job viii be heard Of no
more.
More than a dozen women are can
didates for office in the Iowa Legisla-
I ture.. Six were employed in the last
Legislature.
The city of Helena, Montana, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire ON
the 9th. Loss estimated at $3.50, 900,
with light insurance.
4 party of English capitalists have
paid Sl25, 900 for 4 900 acres of land
near Bells Landing, on the Tennessee
river, thirty-five miles from Chatta-
nooga. The land is rich in iron.
Attorney General Williams, at his
own request, was withdrawn from be-
fore the Senate for confirmation as
Chief Justice. He continues to hold
the Office Of Attorney General.
The Fleetwood Trotting Park sta
bles, New York, % in number, were
burned Thursday night. All the car
riages and sulkies stored IN the sta
bles were destroyed. Loss, 10000;
insured.
Mary Marshall, a young woman
who ran away from Green Co., East
Tennessee, with a colored man, was
taken up IN Cincinnati recently IN
very destitute circumstances, and sent
to the "IIome OF the Friendless.'
There were -, ,776 deaths in PhiIa-
delphia during the year ending Dec.
p, 1873, being decrease of 3,76S as
compared with the previous year.
{, 6,I9l were under > years, and there
were 573 more males than females.
The largest farm in England is 5000
acres in extent, and in its cultivation
the ''four course system is adopted,
$50 acres being devoted to wheat, $50
to barley and oats, $50 to seeds, beans
and peas and $50 to roots.
A Yreka journal reports that the
Modoc country in the vicinity of the
Lava Beds, is beginning to look pros
perous, and that many settlers have
taken up their quarters there since the
war was concluded.
As Two San Francisco school boys
were playing together one afternoon
| last week, one struck the other blow
on the back with his fist, when the
latter immediately became paralyzed
in his lower limbs.
The National Grange Of Patrons of
Husbandry will meet at St. Louis on
the first Wednesday III February,
1874; the Wisconsin State Grange at
| Fond du Lac. on January 20; and the
Michigan State Grange on January
81.
George W. Smith, ex-deputy cOllec-
! tor of internal revenue for the north
ern district of Mississippi, indicted
money, Is under arrest IN New York,
and viii be sent in day or two to
Mississippi.
The Missouri Legislature, strongly
democratic, passed a resolution on
the 9Th, condemning in severe terms
! the President and every member of
the 42nd Congress, who voted for or
received back pay
There are a large number Of saw
mills building in various sections of
/ North Carolina. As lumber becomes
scarce at the North, the attention of
lumbermen IS being turned to the
/ great pine regions Of that State,
Gen. S. B. Maxey, Major General in
/ the Southern army, and John II.
/ Reagan, who was the POstmasteT-Gsa-
eral of the Southern Confederacy. are
/ candidates for the United States SEN
/ ate from Texas.