Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-04
LATEST STATE NEWS.
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Jackson, Tenn. July 4th, 1874.

LATEST STATE NEWS.
Henry county will hold a Fair this
fall. 4
The crop prospect IN Fayotte cOun-
tv is very promising
There hasn't been a rain Of any con- /
sequence in Paris since April 16.
The Citizen reports fine prospects |
for crops in Wayne county.
They had a good rain in William
son county last Saturday.
The Obion county News publishes /
the delinquent tax list of Obion coun- /
ty, which fills twenty-five columns.
Ben. W. Moore is a candidate for
the legislature in Carroll county, sub
ject to a convention of the Democrat
ic and Conservative party.
Judge Samuel P. Walker, of the
Second Chancery Court of Memphis,
has rendered his resignation, to take
effect Sept. l.
A Nashville carpenter by the name
of J. p. Hill, fell on Monday last
from a derrick, Al feet to the ground,
and died III a few moments.
There have been fine rains in por-
tions of Haywood county lately, and
the growing crops look unusually
promising.
The colored Republicans of Henry
county, in convention assembled, en-
dorsed the Civil Rights Bill, aud re-
solved to run a candidate for the leg
islature.
The Democrats of Henderson coun-
" will hold a convention at Licking
ton on the 1st Monday in July and
nominate candidates for county offices
to be filed at the August election.
The residence of John Hibbett, at
Castalian Springs. Sumner county,
was destroyed by fire Sunday, June
28th, in consequence of a defective
hue. Loss So, 0O0-no insurance.
An Engineer is employed to decide
whether the Lunatic Asylum shall be
located at Brownsville or not. A
good supply of water has something
to do with it.
The dwelling-house of W. B. Cush-
ion, Weakly county, was destroyed by
fire one day last week. OF the fur
niture, &C., but two beds were saved.
The fire came from n box of ashes.
The Democrats aud Conservatives
of Henry county meet in convention
on Monday next, to appoint delegates
to the Nashville and Jackson conVen-
tions, and to nominate candidates for
the legislature.
The Nashville u. & A. of June the
9th says: Gen. W. H. Jackson, of
this county, and President of the Ma
tional Agricultural Congress, will adj
dress a large meeting of farmers at
Manchester, Coffee county, on the
Fourth of July.
Gallatin Examiner, 9th: Corn is
small and exceedingly backward. and
the dry weather setting in immediate
~ after the heavy spring rains, ran
the ground together to such All ex-
tent that many have not planted the
| amount they intended to.
The Nashville Union and American
says: Mrs. Annie Terrass, a lady who
! has lived in Nashville since 1914, and
who has seen five generations OF her
| children and children's children grow
up around her, died Monday, in the
S7th year of her age.
A man, name unkno Tn, who was
/ stealing a ride on a south-bOund
! freight train on the Mobile and Ohio
| railroad, was discovered by the train
men, near Union City, recently, and,
| fearing arrest, jumped from the train,
which run over his leg. He was ia
ken to Union City and his leg ampu-
tated.
On last Thursday two men who are
half brothers, Ruben Upchurch and
10 Snider, quarrelled about some lit
| tie transaction between themselves.
Snider picked up a fence rail and
/ struck Upchurch a fearful blow over
! the head, which resulted in a severe
conclusion of the brain, which for q
time seriously involved his life.-Par-
is Intelligencer.
a Hickman county letter of the
1 9th, to the Nashville Banner, says:
Yesterday evening we had q very Sc
riOus U4ificdlty between DR.. McE.
Wilson and young Mr.. James Ward, in
which the latter was shot in the hip,
the ball ranging toward and lodging
in the cavity. The trouble grew out
of a misunderstanding between Will
son and DR.. Ward, the father of
young Ward.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle of the
9th says: "The drought continues
with 'unabated fury Everything in
the way of vegetation is parched and
: dying. Crops of all kinds, except
wheat, are suffering-even water for
drinking is getting to be a scarce COM
modify. We have not had a seasonal
BILE rain since about the latter part
of April. A famine is predicted by
some.
Nashville Union and American
Mr.. James Walker, well-known in this
city, died at the residence of his SON.
in-law, Mr.. Allan Richardson, in Lou
isyille. last Sunday. The deceased
was a Scotchman by birth, and came
to Nashville about the year 1880. He
was the father of Gen. VIM. Walker,
the ''grey-eyed man of destiny, !"
/ whose exploits in Nicaragua are mat
tiers of history, and who lost his life
in descent upon Honduras.
Jas. McNutt, suicided at Edgefeld
/ Junction on Saturday last, by stab
bling himself through the heart. He
was prominent citizen of William
son county, was about 81 years old,
/ and leaves a wife and four children
| The rash act is supposed to be the re-
suit of suffering from depression of
! spirits in consequence of his having
I become possessed of the idea that he
was about to lose his property.
! The Mckenzie Times says: ''The
/ pupils of the colored school Of Hunt
| ingdon gave picnic at that place on
| the 18th inst. Quite number of the
/ pupils made speeches, acquitting
/ themselves with credit. Rev. Char
/ ley Moore (cOlored), one of the great
/ lights of the race in this section, made
a speech, taking strong ground against
/ the civil rights bill; he said he did
/ not want mixed schools, but would
! prefer that each race have its own
/ teachers and schools"
This snake story appears in the
Knoxville Chronicle: I'VE learned
yesterday that one of the men working
with McCabe Brothers, on the Cincin-
natl Southern railroad, near Wart-
burg, Morgan county, killed a large
double-headed blsck-snake-Of the
species known as chicken snake-the
other day. Our informant says the
heads were fully developed, each head
having two eyes, and, when the snake
was discovered II was prOtruding the
tongue from each head. IL is certain
" a natural curiosity, and should have
been preserved"
a case OF wholesale poisoning has
recently occurred in Sewer county.
The facts in the case are related by q
correspondent of the Knoxville Chron-