Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-02
LATEST STATE NEWS.


Brownsville has q chemical fire
engine.
There were an even dozen bri-
dial parties in Memphis on Monday.
G. J. Adams, Esq, is a candidate
for the legislature in Carroll county.
The County Court of Hardeman
county has rescinded the tax of so
cents on dogs.
A complaint in the country is
that corn already planted is rOtting
in the ground.
A negro man split his wifs's
head open with an axe in Memphis
on Saturday last.
R. W. Cook carved up Blink Wa
tiers, in Henry county, on Monday
last. Waters wounds are serious.
Cook escaped.
DR.. Geo. Wood, formerly a eiti-
zen of Hardeman county, died re-
Gently in st. Francis county, Ark,
aged 65 years.
The Cleveland Banner gives a
diseouraging report as to the effects
of the rains upon the wheat in
Bradley county.
The NJ. E. Church South, and
the NJ. L. Church North, ut Hunt
ingdon, propose building a Union
Church at that place, costing not
less than three thousand dollars
The grand jury of Rutherford
county has found a true bill against
Jas. N. Pickett, charged with the
murder of his father-in-law, VIM.
White, some two months since.
Mr.. w. F. Johnston, the railroad
agent at Brownsville, who was shot
a short while ago by Sam Oldham,
is improving daily, and will re-
cover.
Deputy Collector Ernest Haw-
kins and Special Deputy Marshal
David Bryant, with a posse of men,
destroyed an illicit distillery uear
Farmville, Henderson county, on
Saturday last.
Ben Box, of Clarksburg, in Car,
roll county, shot at a rab bit and
filled one young Stanford with shot
from his knees to his neck. Stan.
ford is not MORALLY hurt. Shoot
lower, Ben.
Ham James shot Bob Bowen on
Sunday the 18th, in Friendship,
Dyer county, hitting him twice,
once in the arm and then through
the right lung. Bowen will re-
cover.
Hon. w. B. A. Ramsey, of Nash
vile, died In that city on the 9th,
aged IS years. He was Secretary
of State under Neal S. Brown
twenty years ago, and edited the
Knoxville Register in 1884.
The village of Carksburg, Car,
roll county, has a Grange number
ing one hundred members, a TEN,
perance society numbering one
hundred and fifty, but not a single
school in operation.
Douglass johnson, who lives near
the Blue Spring, Maury county
owns a calf which has one leg and
foot exactly like a mule. The
foot is not cloven, and seems to
have been made for a mule. =
The officers and Executive Com
mittee of the State Teachers Asso
citation met in Nashville on the 25th
and arranged the programme fol
the next meeting of the Associa
ton, In Knoxville, on the 10th
18th. 18th and 10Th of January.
Bishop Feehan left Nashville or
the 22d for Knoxville, where be
will administer the rite of confrma
ton next Sunday. He will be il
Nashville on the Sd of May, anC
in this city on the 10th.-MemphiI
Register.
Union and American: A State
convention of druggists will b.
hold in this city, commencing or
the 10Th of May. At this meeting
a memorial will be prepared asking
the legislature to enact a bill tt
regulate the drug business in Ten,
ressce.
Among the Edge6eld items in the
Union and American of the Goth
we find the following: The horse
attached to Rev. ]. B. McFerrin'i
buggy took fright at a smoke stack
the other day and ran into a ditch
DR.. McFerrin barely saved himself
from being carried over into the
ditch by springing out of the buggy,
The Bolivar Bulletin is response
bic for the following: A lady o.
African descent who resides in thi:
place was recently Informed of the
death of q near relation in an ad
| joining State, and was led to be
lieve that by repairing to the late
residence of the deceased she would
be able to secure her part of the
ostate.' She accordingly did sc
and received as her portion one
half barrel of soap.
Banner 18th: The laying of III,
cornerstone of Vanderbilt Univer
sity was successfully accomplished
yesterday in the face of the mos
unauspicious surroundings. Colo
aud rain did not prevent a large
| crowd from witnessing the ceremO
Nies, which were peculiarly inter
- ;r,nrassira rs the