Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-20
GENERAL NEWS.

ed Tor August 9th.
At the recent wedding at the
White House, correspondent Of
the New York Herald blackched
his face and attended as a waiter,
thus getting an opportunity to take
notes wherewith to write a ci cum
stantial account of the affair.
A sad accident occurred at Fort
WAYNE, in which Mrs. Ann Van
denberg was mortally burned in
the presence of her father, mother
and husband, all of whom were bad
ly burned in tearing the burning
clothes from her body. She used
coal oil in kindling a fire. She was
seventeen years old, and married
only last Thursday.
Miss Sallie Rice of Granville, n.
York, taught school in Kentucky
for several years after the war, saw
ing some 81 200 out OF her, at best,
small salary. At her death, re-
Gently, she willed that this sum
should be used for the benefit of
the poor orphans in the asylum at
Lexington.
The Rev. DIR. Bellows, of All
Souls Church, on the. last of the
present month will join his fortunes
with the daughter of the Rev. DR..
Peabody. A singular coincidence
about the latter event is told 1t
is said that the bride was born a.
bout the time that her father
preached the ordination sermon Of
the bridegroom. thirty-fve years
go.-New York Tribune.
Pope Plus TX, completed the
cighty-seeond year of his age on
the 18th of May. His Holiness re-
ceived 10000 letters Of congratu
lation-12, 900 of them from Italians
during the one day, and huge
baskets, filed with other epistles
of the same sort, were being car
ried to his chambers in the Vatican
after he had retired.
Last Sunday evening; says a
Washington dispatch to tho Spring
field Republican, Senator Morrell
of Maine was out for a walk. Pas
sing church of colored Metho-
dists, he was so pleased with the
singing that he went in. He had
been seated a few moments when a
dignified colored brother came up
to him and said that the church
was for colored people, and that
they preferred to be left alone and
undisturbed by white people dur
ing their services. 1t suddenly oc-
Cured to the solemn Morrill, that
he had sat up ali night about a
week before voting for the civil
rights bill, but he did not mention
it. He silently withdrew.-St.'
Louis Republican.
The Memphis Appeal publishe:
letter from Republican and ex
Federal soldier, who writes from
Colliervillo, Tenn. The writer
was a Wing before the war, wa:
opposed to secession, was an artil
lery officer in the U. S. army, anC
since the war has acted with the Re
publican party. Ofthe Civil Righti
bill he says: 1 have not seen ;
whito Republican who will support
this bill, nor vote for those whC
favor it. The end of the Republi
can party is near, and if this bill
becomes a law the division II
madc at once between the whit
and colored races, aud tho intention
of the bill will miss its object anC
only caused u repeal of the free
school law, then those who are abb,
can school their children. l am jus
ike Senator Brownlow on thi:
subject.
Memphis has received 4l6,504
bales of cotton against 392,642 70,
the corresponding time last season
AN increase of a little over 6 pei
cent; Nashville received during
the two periods 6l,5l7 and 94,72:
bales-an increase of. nearly fifty
four per cont. Both towns arr
Dragging over the sealon's business
tut Atlanta can produce still better
figures of an increasing trade. Hel
receipts in 1873 to the correspon
ding current date were 29,2lC
bales, and this season she has re
ceived 54,9S9-an increase of near
| lv ninety per cent. All of which
goes to prove that the losses of the
black belt of Alabama, as shown by
the reduced receipts at Selma
Montgomery and Mobile, are more
than made up by the gains of tbs
white counties, as shown by the
increased receipts of Memphis
/ Nashville ana Atlanta. North
ward the tide of the cotton empire
takes its way.-Mobilc Register.
Speaking of the county canvas:
| in Davidson, tho Banner has the
following, which is precisely suited
TO tho condition of things in thi:
county: The question of a convcn
ton has been sprung among them
and would probably afford some re
lief to their troubled minds, bal
then they are divided upon the
efficacy of that arrangement. 1t is
about half and hall, pro and con
and if left to the candidates the
chances are that there will be nc
convention. Then whatl 1t i:
easy enough to elect the right men
if the proper course is taken il
time, and this is going to be one o
| the times that voters will have
their eyes open. 1t is easy enough
to predict a full tlo6ged black
panel in the jury box, in case o
division among whites IN the com
ing elections. The negroes hav,
already singled out their men fol
the various offices, and the whites
might learn a profitable lesson by
following suit
Thursday night gentleman nam
ed Carl Schmida was drowned il
the Mississippi river as the steame
City of Chester was landing a