Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-06
LATEST STATE NEWS.

The Jail at Lewisburg, Marshall
county, is without a tenant.
There are twenty-three towns and
villages in Gibson county.
Col. Matt. Martin is candidate
for Congress in the Fifth District.
Mckenzie and Milan would also
like to have the Lunatic Asylum.
The lathing factory of Wright &
Co. was burned in Memphis on
Sunday.
The Jonesboro Herald and TrI.
bune has never known such a de-
mand for breadstuffs in Washing
ton county.
The first shipment of new wheat
was received at Memphis last week
from Pamela county, Miss, and re-
shipped to St. Louis.
An effort is being made to call
convention in Davidson county for
the purpose of nominating candi-
dates for county Offices.
A little'beggar girl of Nashville,
named Hattie Phillips, made a IA
tai mistake a few days ago. She
was sick, and took an over dose of
laudanum, which killed her.
Our Memphis exchanges have
the following significant item: The
negroes of the city arc becoming
insolent and aggressive, evidently
seeking a difficulty with the whites.
Do they want another riot?
A woman named Alder Melrose,
an inmate of a house of prostitu-
tion, in Memphis, committed sui
eide on Tuesday last. She was a.
bout 10 years old, and had been
married to a painter named Frank
Pitts.
Union and American: Mrs. Hes
ter Brown, of this city widow of
the late John N. Brow1, who was
killed by boiler explosion on the
Louisville road whilst in the en-
ploy of the railroad company, re-
covered nearly $4,000 from the
co npany, at Russellvillo this week.
Banner: The colored people at
Knoxville went through the Ma
tional Cemetery, near that place,
Saturday, singing, well hang JEFF
Davis on sour apple tree which
was not very appropriate to the Oc-
casion--the decoration of the
graves of the Federal dead.
Banner: Meta Edwards, who re-
sided on North Spruce street, Dcar
the Catholic church, in North Nash
vile, committed suicide yesterday
morning, about 7 o'clock, by shoot
ing himself through the temple
with a Colts repeater, while labor
ing under fit of temporary insan-
ity, caused by severe nervous pros
tratiou.
Gov. Brown, on the recommen-
dation of the Supreme Court, last
week commuted the sentences of
Ed. Beckton and Don Lewis from
hanging to a life time imprIson-
ment. The defendants were in
dicted and convicted by the Crimi-
nal Court at Memphis, for the rob-
berry of man named Mcbride, near
Wolf River, Shelby county last
january.
Troy Signal: We learn that du-
ring an alteration between a man
named Atherton and one by the
name of Jackson, that Atherton
cut Jackson very severely, near
Kimberbn's mill in this county, a
few days ago. Jackson is not OK.
pected to live. Anterior made his
escape and is reported to have
swum the Mississippi at Hickman.
Nashville Union and American,
May 30th: A little son of Mrs. Sal
lie Washington, who lives on North
Vine street, while playing with
some of his young playmates, last
Thursday, fell from a tree and was
transfxed on an iron picket fence,
one ofthe spikes passing through |
the hcshy part of the leg, just be-
low the knee. He tainted from
pain and fright, and was found |
hanging senseless, with his head |
near the ground.
The whites and blacks of Muir
freesboro came very near having a
serious collision on Saturday night
last. The trouble grew out of a
difficulty between a white man
named Sam Rather, aud negro
named John Henry, in which the
latter was shot but not seriously
wounded. The negroes gathered
in a large crowd and threatened to
mob Rather, and the whites as
sembled to prevent them.
The Memphis Ledger of Monday
says: Yesterday Thomas Farrell
was cut with a razor by negro
named Harvey Porter. Porter
and another negro, Henry CLAY,
said something to Farrell about
white women and civil rights, and
in the row which followed Porter
slashed Farrell across the bowels
Immediately above the hip, from
which wound the intestines protru-
ded. The negroes were arrested,
and this morning were rcmanded to
prison without bail by the Record
SAJ bAO SOhuLliUH VI aEISlL DSlDg
most critical, but little hope being
entertained by the physicians as to
his recovery.
The following from the Memphis
Ledger of Monday, is but the be-
ginning Of the end: The robberies
and outrages committed by the {
Pole Bearers on inoffensive people I
at the National Cemetry, on Sat {
urday, and the murder of a white
man in north Memphis by q negro
last evening, all on account of the
civil rights bill, cali for some action
on the part of the white people. If
white people are to be insulted and
murdered by negroes in Memphis, .
owing to the infamous teachings of
Ed Shaw and other leaders, it had
better be understood in due time,
so that the white man can prepare
himself for the death struggle.
A horrible murder was commit I
ed near Tiptonville in Obion {
county, on Friday the 29th of May, {