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

LATEST STATE NEWS.
The Presbyterians of Rockville
are building a third church.
The tobacco crop does not prom
Use well.
A strong call has been made in
Davidson county, for convention
to. nominate candidates for county
Offices.
A KentuckiaD, by the name of
Steele, was dangerously shot by a
Mr.. Fletcher near Mckenzie, last
week.
On Thursday, June the 3Otb, the
corner stone of a new Odd Fellows
Hall will be laid in Nashville, with
appropriate ceremonies.
Two men named respectively,
Willis and Dunn, beat a fortune
teller to death, at DeKslb county
distillery one day last week
An old man, by the name of
Robin Holmes, was run over and
killed by train near Camden, On
Sunday the 7th.
A youth named Chambers was
accidently killed by another named
McCauley, on Sunday morning,
about I o'clock, near Huntington.
A little son of Mr.. 81. r. Hinkle,
of Savannah, was drowned a few
days ago by falling into a kettle
partly filled with water. He was
not quite two years old.
r. B. Goshorn, late postmaster
of DyersbuFg, has just been convict
ed of embezzling $500, and SEN
fenced TO twelve months impris-
onment in the penitentiary.
Ripley News: We learn that Jno
Braden, q young man who resides
in the neighborhood of Glimpville,
accidentally shot and killed himself
near that village, on Friday enen-
ing last.
Major VIM. J. Sykes, of Mem
phis, was, on the 18th, unanimously
elected president of the Alumni
Society Of the university of Nash
vile, in place of the Hon. John d.
Phelan, who resigned on account
Of i'll health.
The committee appointed to
solicit subscriptions TO the Memphis
and Knoxville narrow-guage rail
read in Memphis, report that en-
couraging progress has been made.
Crockett County Sentinel: A
colored man by the name of Henry
Lindsay was murdered near Bells
late last Wednesday evening, as he
was returning home from a wheat
field. No clue to the perpetrators
exist.
Gen. Bate and Attorney Gener-
al Caldwell, had an unpleasantness
in the Criminal court room at
Nashville on Tuesday. The mat
ter was placed in the hands of mu-
tual friends and viii doubtless be
amicably settled.
The Memphis Ledger states that
near Cuba, in Shelby county, cot
ton is knee high and full of squares
Corn is as high as your head and
many planters are moving grass.
Tho crops never looked better or
more promising in that section of
tho county than at present.
Nashville Banner of Wednesday:
The Governor yesterday issued
proclamations ordering elections to
be held in August, to fill the vacan-
cies in the Seventh and Eighth
Chancery districts; and Eleventh
and Twelfth Circuits.
The Jonesbero Echo states that
bug about tho size of and resem-
bling the FREELY, has appeared in
countless millions in that locality
and threatens great destruction. 1t
attacks garden vegetables, grape
vines and fruit trees, and in few
hours they are completely stripped
/ aud riddled.
The Lexington Reporter has been
shown an old coin which bears the
imprint of Charles the III, and i a
pistareen 1t is said to have been
left with an Indian girl who resid-
ed somewhere in what is now
known as Madison county, and who
afterwards married a white man; it
was handed down from one gener-
alton to another, nor was it ever
out of that family until few years
ago. Capt. ]. ]. Christenberry
came in possession by purchase.
Boliver BuIlitin: Collins, the
youDg man who was tried on a
charge of stealing a gun and watch
at our last term of Curcuit Court,
and who was found guilty and
sentenced to the States prison for
two or three years, and whose case
was appealed TO the Supreme Court
returned to our town last Monday
night on foot from Jackson, he
having been set at liberty by the
court. He came to offer his ser
vices to Hon. James Fentress in
order that he might thus pay him
for his efforts to save him from
prison life, ignOmy and shame.
Lebanon Herald: The heated,
dry and dull days of the long va
cation are upon us. No one, who
will contrast the appearance of
our streets, when Cumberland
University has its many hundred
students among US, with their ap-
pearance when these students are
gone, can fail to realize the vitaliz-
ing influence of our great school.
The absence of three hundred
and 6fty-two college boys tells
fearfully upon our business in
teFests. The suddenly diminished
proportions of the daily bank de-
posts by onr business men attests
this fact.
A deadly conflict took place in
Tazeville on Monday, the Sth inst,
between some parties, which re-
suited in the death of three men.
The Knoxville Chronicle says: at
seems that Thos. Brooks, his son,
and James Russell, had an old
grudge against a man named Dan
lei Little, formerly a resident of
Virginia, and that on the day in
question these parties renewed the
| quarrel under the pretext of taking
part for some candidate for count
ty Office, when 8 desperate fight
ensued. in which Brooks, his son