Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-18
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Advices from Northern Texas
say. the crops are very fine IN that
section.
A Pennsylvania sold his wife
recently for one days work, IA razor
strop and a razor. The wife and
her purchaser then poisoned the
husband.
A fire at Salem, Ohio, Friday
night, destroyed the barn of the
Tollerton House, the dwellings OF
George Weilly and William Meut-
ger, the barns of Osborn & Merrick
and John Clark, and blacksmith's
shop. Loss, $40, 600; partly insured.
The health of the Hon. Alexan-
der II. Stephens is so poor that he
has declined to become a candidate
for reelection to Congress, and it is
not improbable that he will resign
his seat in that body.
Reports from the famine districts
of India state that the crops are In
excellent condition. The number
employed at the relief works has
decreased to 25O,0G0, and only 400,-
600 are being fed by tho govern
ment.
A blazing ball from a Roman can
die entered an open window of a
house on DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn,
N. Y, on Saturday night, upset a
camphene lamp, setting fire to the
house; which was burned together
with a child of the occupant.
The Tammany General Commit
tee, and the Council of Political
Reform, composed of Democrats
and Republicans, by representa-
tives, are preparing for legal action
against Mayor Havemeyer and the
convicted Police Commissioners who
were re-appointod by the Mayor.
The Governor will DO asked TO re-
move Havemeyer on specific char
ges, and suspend him during trial.
Dispatches received at the Indi-
an Bureau contain information of IA
prospective Indian war. The dan
ger comes this time from the Che
venues, Kiowas and ComaGches,
south of the Kansas Pacific rail
road. So far only 100 Indians have
been soen on the war-path; but it is
estimated that they can run out
three thousand warriors. The
United States Indian agent in the
vicinity of the outbreak, who hap
pens to be a Quaker, is for employ
ing carnal Weapons, and has called
Justify for the Indians to &c struck
by tho military arm. He says it's
30 time for cancellations.
The Washington correspondent
of the Louisville Courier-Journal,
says: A negro who had been gull
ty of three successive attempts at
rape upon a poor but entire respec-
table white woman, was apprchen-
dod and brought before u judicial
luminary of the district, who sub
iected him to the nominal punish
ment of three months imprison-
ment. This mild treatment has al
ready had it's effect here upon 9TH
er negroes. A young lady of much
personal beauty, connected with
the best families of Maryland and
the District, was seized the other
day by negro ruffian near the city
and barely escaped being outraged
by the timely arrival of other per-
sons.
A young man, apparently in a
perfectly sober condition, paid his
ticket at tho Covington end of the
Cincinnati suspension bridge, the
other day, and as he did so he re-
marked to the collector at that end
that he would never pay another
ticket on that bridge. The collect
or, divining his meaning, watched
him, and when he got tO-the middle
of the bridge he took off his hat,
handed it to a bystander, climbed
on tho outside of the railing, and
prepared to Jump, but before doing
so he took possession of his hat
again, then jumped into the surglug
waters below. He soon rose, and
1t was plain to be seen that he had
enough of that kind of work, aud
madc vigorous strokes for shore,
which he reached in safety.
Cincinnati Commercial: About j
O'Clock yesterday afternoon a boy
named John Leasser, eighteen or
nineteen years old, a worker in a
machine shop on West Front st.
Jumped from the Cincinnati and
, Covington suspension bridge on a
wager of $40, and the performance
was carefully prepared for skiffs
having been provided and manned
TO save the foolish youth from
drowning. There were only few
, spectators, as the performance was
private, but Leasser climbed ono OF
the rails, six feet above the floor OF
the bridge, buttoned his coat and
Jumped. He struck the water with
, his feet, disappeared for few sec,
, onds and came to the surface all
right. He was picked up by one
of the skiffs and conveyed to tho
steamer Pat Rogers The distance
: from the rail to the surface of the
d, water, perpendicularly, is one hun
c dred and three feet. The wonder
: is that death did not ensue from
o the conclusion or shock to the sys
0 tenn produced by the sudden con
Q tact with the water from such
J vast height.
A Washington paper says: We
have the best of reasons to believe
: that the Capital has become
Y greater favorite than ever with the
: fair sex since its change of dress
: Last Sunday a richlY-att!fed young