Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-08
GENERAL NEWS.

Dougherty vas sentenced 10 he
banged at Lancaster on the
31st. Patrick Lynch, Of Clrclcville,
wanted 10 act a. "a substitute for
DOugherty He submitted his oi-
fer to Gov. Allen, who compromIs-
ed by committing DOugherIy's sen
teDcc To imprisonment tor life.
\ large Newfoundland dog. be
longing to Charles Carson, ct Cape
May, recently observed a large
school Of pOrpOises sporting IA the
surf, ana Immediately rpTang in
among them, barking and ycIping
fu ,iously. He was finally put to
fight with the loss of an ear, and
after having received some severe
bruises caused by the tail lashiRg
which the fish gave him.
The sugar beet plaoters near
Brighton, Sacramento, have 2,40O
turkeys in their fields battling
against the army worms. Each
turkey eats on an average 600
KarIns. par daF, making q total loss
10 the latter Of 1,440,000 daily.
notwithstanding this heavy loss
their numbers seem undiminished.
The query now is, where do they
come from!
DEMOCRATIC TIcKET OF ALABA-
Major GOvernOr-GeOrge S.
Houston, of Limestone; for Lieu
tenant GoveTnor-R. f. Lyon, OF
Macon; for Justices of the Supreme
Court-Thomas J. Judge, of But
Ter; K. G.. BrIckell, Of Madison;
A. II. Manning, o! Mobile; for At
torney- General-Johu w. A. San
ford, of Montgomery; for Secretary
of Slater. X. Boyd, of Marshall;
/ for Treasurer-Danicl Crawford, of
/ Coosa; for Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction-John NJ. Nickel
roy, of Barbour; for congressman
at-large-B. B. Lewis, of Tuscaloo-
sa; W. H. ForDey, Of Calhoun.
A PEsTILENCE THREATENED. Al
lcghany City is threatened with an
other serious danger as the re-
suit OF the food The ravine of
Butchers run is checked up for a
distance of some two miles with the
contents of the destroyed slaughter
houses. Great quantities of meat
and large number of bullocks,
partially dressed, and moro than
one hundred horses, with perhaps
an occasional human being, lie i'm
bedded in the mud. On Wednos-
day the sun came out hot and unob-
structed, and in a few hours there
arose an awful stencil, almost in
siderable to working parties. The
debris will hardly be cleared away
this week, and if the weather con
tinues hot it will bc almost impossi-
bic to prevent the breaking out of
pestilencc, as the Butchers run
! district lies in the heart of donse
population.
MURDER IN MASSACHUSETTS "A
special dispatch from Oak Bluffs TO
! the Advertiser says: For some
weeks there has been good deal
of scandal in connection with a Mr.
| Ysnson, of EdgartOn, and-T. X.
! Elliott, oil Worcester, who have oc-
| cupied cottage in company with
two married women belonging TO
/ Edgarton. These men have been
threatened with n coat of tar aud
feathers; aud Venson, fearing trOub-
le, left the island some weeks ago.
Last night party of men went to
the cottage and called out Elliott.
After a considerable struggle, they
forced him into a wagon in which
was a pot of tar and a bag of feath-
ers. Elliott drew a revolver and
fred twice, the second shot killing
Gale smith, brother of the two
women. The report of the pistol
frightened the horse, which ran
away, and threw the whole party
from the wagon. Elliott escaped,
and surrendered himselfto the au
thorities. Intense excitement pre-
walls in consequence of the affair.
The VALUE OF CONCENTRATION
Bishop Whipple said the other
day, at the commencement of Min
nesota University.
when / visited England, found
that England, with 30,Q00,0 900 souls,
had but four Universities-Oxford,
Cambridge, Durham ard London.
Minnesota, with 100000 souls had
half a score. But, then, it took
England five hundred years to build
an Oxford, and Minnesota has kill
ed five in as many years. | visited
such schools as Rugby aud Elton,
and asked the counsel of men who
had made education lifelong
work. They told me that even to
build a school l must begin with a
score of boys; that a hundred boys
would ruin mo. A school was liv-
ing being; it had organized life. 1t
grew. Its character was made up
of the discipline, scholarship, NOR
ais, and traditions of all who be-
came its pupils. l came home
wiser man, and resolved that if i.
took twenty mon like me TO lay
the foundation We would have one
good English school.
DON'T Fool WITH THE ELEPHANr.
AT the conclusion of the alter
noon performance, while the people
in attendance were looking at the
menagerie, some boys annoyed the
elephant by giving him sticks, tobac-
co, etc., which made him so angry
that he reached out his trunk for
the youths nearest to him, and par
TALLY encircled three of them. Two
managed to get away, but one, aged
-about II years, son of ii. Luhrs; OF
the Sazerac saloon, was caught by
the elephants trunk, turned around
two of three times, and then raised
to the beasts mouth, the animal
seeming to have the intention of
biting him. In fact his head was
raised so high and with such force
that the boys felt hat had hole in
its top by collision with one of the
elephants tusks. \ number of
men sprang forward 10 cause the
animal te release his hold upon the
boy, which he did, throwing him
aside with such violence that his
right forearm was broken. The
animal was much excited for about
ten minutes, and prevented the
boys hat being obtained during that
time. The elephants keeper was
not present at the time, and no pre-
caution had been taken to keep