Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-05
LATEST STATE NEWS.

LATEST STATE NEWS.
The Gibson county Convention .
meets in Trenton on Monday next.
Colored women about Nashville
seem to have q mania for infanti-
eide.
W B. Stokes, the Bald eagle OF
the mountains, proposes to run on
his own hook, tor Congress in the
Chattanooga district.
The Obion County News says
the negroes around Fayetteville arc
still making ugly threats, and many
white families are moving away.
The quarterly protr1cted meet
ing at Chapel Hill, commenced last
Saturday and closed Wednesday
evening, with five professions and
ten accessions TO the church. 1t
was conducted by Rev. Blake Da-
Wis, OF the NJ. Z. Church.-McKeD-
zie Times
Nash. Banner: There are now ID
Tennessee over t 900 white schools
and over 500 coIored schools, and
about 5000 teachers; of the num-
Der Of teachers fully 1000 are col
ored, the colored teachers being
employed wholly in colored schools.
We have heard that ex-President
johnson endorses the Democratic
platform fully, and expects to
stump the State in behalf of it and
the nominee. This is good news,
and insures the election of Porter
by an overwhelming majority
Columbia Herald and Mail.
A correspondent writes that a
gloomier prospect than the present
has never been witnessed by the
people of Hardin county. The corn
crop is nearly total failure. Cot
ton Is materially damaged, but an
early rain will improve the yield
some.
J. W. Mccullough & Cos. plan
ing mill, and the residence Of Nc
Cullough, with Dillon & Hester's
Turning Mill at Nashville, were to-
tally destroyed by fire on Sunday
last. Loss S20,000-no insurance.
Ex-President Davis, Landon c.
Haynes, Duncan McRae, and a
number of the most prominent citi-
zeus of Memphis, took an active
part in the meeting held in that
city on Friday night in reletion TO
the Gibson county troubles.
Trenton News-Gazette: Amid the
sorrows overshadowing our town,
everybody yesterday was rcjoiced
to see Judge Black out once more.
He is now able to be driven about
short distances in a buggy, and
bids fair to recover.
The Shelbyville Commercial states
that during the present term of the
Circuit Court of Bedford county,
Frankey Moulton, Ann Blackwell
and her mother, Sarah Blackwell
were sentenced to the penitentiary
for three years for assault and bat
terry, with intent to kill, upon the
person of Alice Coleman. Simon
Ogilvie (colored) was also sentenc-
ed for twenty years for rape on his
own daughter.
Throughout the greater portion
of West Tennessee the crops have
suffered fearfully from the drought
and in many sections the question
of how to obtain bread and meal
during the Rext year is a seriou:
problem. Even in Lauderdale
! Dyer, and Upton counties, where
the land is comparatively new and
fresh, half crop will not be real
lied, and the people are beginning
to feel decidedly blue.
The Third Congressional Dis
trict Convention of the Conserva.
tive Democratic party, met at Nc
MinnvilIe last Thursday, and after
several ballots nominated Gen. g
q. DibreH, of Sparta. Gen. Dib-
rell was an old line Wing. Was {
volunteer in the Confederate States
service after the State seceeded
and attained the rank of Brigadiel
! General.
A Nashville paper gives this
genealogical puzzle:' There is &
family in this county composed OF
four ladies, which contains 2 wild.
ows, 4 orphans, 2 step-mothers,
step-daughters, ! grand step-moth-
er, l grand setp-daughter, l hall
step aunt, halt step niece, 2 hall
sisters, ! mother, 2 aunts, 3 nieces
and t cousins.
Banner: Assistant Postmaster
Dillin was Yesterday notified in
writing by Postmaster Hassloek,
that necessity compelled the reduc-
ton of the formers salary from
50, 400 to 81 800 per annum. The
Assistant Postmaster notified his
superior officer that necessity
would compel his resignation OF
the office of Assistant Postmaster
also the withdrawal of his name
from the official bond of the Post
master, of which he had taken steps
to notify the Department at Wash
ington.
Last Sunday, Deputy United
States Marshal Davis was fired upon
by man named Hampton, living
near Estell Springs, Oh the Nash
Vile, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Railroad, forty-twO shot passing
through the MarsbaPs coat, which
was slung over his shoulder, and one
shot grazing his cheek. Davis then
/ fired at Hampton with a Spencer
rife, shooting him full in the breast,
and infiicting a wound from which
| be died in q few moments.-UniOn
and American.
To day Esquire Winters commit
ted to Jail negro named Henry
DAVIS, to appear this afternoon and
answer to a charge of assault and
| battery with intent to outrage the
person of two white girls, Lizzie
Dalton and Mary J. St. Clair. The
negro was employed at the Peabody,
and last night entered the room
occupied by the girls, who were
also attaches of the hotel He
made an attack upon them, but their
screams brought assistance and the
william was arrested. 1t Is to be
hoped that he will receive all the
| punishment which the power OF
the law can possibly infict.-Mem-
phis Ledger, Saturday.
NEGRO SHOT BY NEGRoEs.-A
few weeks since the ne groes were