Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-11
LATEST STATE NEWS.

county pIOuuCeu considerable land
slide near Franklin.
Judge L. L. Hawkins is announced
in the Huntingdon Republican of the
3rd as candidate for Circuit Judge
in the 18th Judicial Circuit.
MurfreesbOro News: We are in
formed that Rev. John B. West, ID. D.,
has purchased the interest of Rev. D.
ID. Moore, in Soule Female College,
and viii take charge at the beginning
of the fall session.
Examiner: The liquor dealers in
Gallatin seem down III the mouth"
about their business prospects. There
is not oRe-half the amount of liquor
sold in Gallatin now that there was
two years ago.
The recent hard rains damaged the
Paducah q Memphis, Northwestern,
and the Elizabt t town Il Fa1uc5h rsil-
roads considerably. They have all
been repaired, however, and the cars
are running regularly.
The Greenville Union declares that
the ladies of many sections Of the
country surrounding Greenville are
in a rage because Of their reputed en-
couraoement to the whisky war in
that town. From what it can learn
they are almost solidiy opposed to
the crusade. "One thing the crusade
has done-it has arrayed the country
against the town, and is fast cutting
off the business of the town.
Col. Fleming, State Superintendent,
has sent out during the past week the
sum of S1l, 800, to be distributed
among the various Peabody schools.
This amount is to cover the first III
stalment due schools that have COM
pleted the first five months and repOr-
ted. There are other schools yet to
report.-NashriHe Union and AReri-
can.
Nashville Banner: j. w. C. Bryant,
Gauger, Fourth District, recently
seized and destroyed the distillery OF
William Pryor and Alexander Saun-
ders, with ffty-One tubs of mash and
beer, in Lincoln county, and Collec-
tor ID. w. Peabody seized here-fOur
barrels of whisky, the property of j.
w. C.. Neal & Co., of Marshall county.
The Payne-Farrow case in Crockett
county, which has been III the courts
for the last ten years, was lately de
cided. The Alamo Sentinel SAYS that
the cotton in controversy passed thro'
town last Monday, after having lain
under shelter for near ten years. 1t
was Mississippi cotton and originally
very fine article, and even now
would sell for middling.
Dyersburg Gazette: The new steam
er, ALT Stevens, made her first ap-
pearance at our wharf last Tuesday
morning and was visited by large
number of our citizens. The ALI
Stevens was built for the Dyersburg,
Memphis and st. Louis trade; is 40
feet long, will carry 'lOts" of freight
and is especially suited to the FOrked
Deer river.
Memphis Register: Since we said
something, very innOcently, about a
pretty woman at upstairs window
on Main street, there has not been a
fair face seen against a window pane
anywhere along this fashionable thor
oughfare. The pretty dry goods
clerks are greatly distressed about it,
and the fair sewing girls may consid-
er all we said retracted.
The Union and American says:
''Three fine short horn heifers, by the
Sth Duke of ThOrndale, bred by b. F.
and NJ. S. Cockrill, were sold yester-
day to G. G. Parks, President of Glen
flora Breeding Association, of Wau-
keegan, ILL.,, and shipped last evening
to that point. This sale is encoura-
ging to the breeders of fine stock IN
this State.
Ripley News: Tennessee is supposed
to have ten Representatives in Con-
gress, but i'll casting our eye over the
list of ayes and nays on the currency
bill we discover only three voting.
The other seven we presume were off
assisting in the woman's war against
saloon keepers, by drinking up the
stock on hand so as to induce them to
close up and quit the hurtful bust
ness.
Knoxville Chronicle: Mr. Isaac
Hutchinson of the 18th civil district
of this county, died yesterday morn
ing from drinking bed-bug poison.
The facts as gwen us are as follows:
On last Thursday night one week ago,
Mr.. Hutchinson was suffering severely
from cramp collie. He got up in the
dark to take some medicine, but by
mistake took bottle containing bed
bug poison. lie was taken very sick
and suffered a great deal for a week.
He died yesterday morning.
Huntingdon Republican: In a coun-
ty not hundred miles distant, we
understand that the Hon. Alexander
Campbell will certainly be foremost
in the Gubernatorial canvass, the lead
ing bourbon boldly announcing him
self for the distinguished Jacksonian,
because, as he says, she has hearn
him preach in Old Firginy forty years
ago, and knows there is no wicked
ness in his SOUL"
Brownsville Bee: We dropped in at
the factory the other day, and spent n
few very agreeable and profitable mo-
ments in strolling around through the
different departments, under the con-
ductOrship of Superintendent ]. F.
Berry. He showed us some speci-
mems of the first cloth made by this
factory. We compared them with
specimens from New Albany, Indiana;
Graniteville, North Carolina; Laurel
we were gratitied to find the Browns
vile specimens far superior to all of
the others.
In the Second Circuit Court Of
Memphis, Judge Halsey has decided
i'll favor of the plaintiff, in the case of
James Hall, Justice of the Peace VS..
the County of Shelby. This was a
test case on behalf of the Justices of
the county for the extra IS per day,
which they formerly voted themselves
as members of the County Court, and
for which they are now under indict-
ment by the Grand Jury. An appeal
will be taken to the Supreme Court.
Special Judge Henry Craft has de-
cided the cases of Il. J. Morgan,
Chancellor First Chancery Court; S.
z. Walker, Chancellor Second Chan
Gerry Court; G. w. Heiskell, Judge
First Circuit Court; Irving Halsey,
Judge Second Circuit Court: J. II.
Flippin, Judge Criminal Court, and
j. E. Il. Ray, Judge Probate Court,
against the county of Shelby, in IA
vOr of the Judges. The suit was
brought to recover the extra $1,000
per annum salary recently locked
from them by the county. Judge
Craft decided in favor of the plain
tiffs. The case will so to the Su-
preme Court.
News: ''Our Ripley merchants.
Judging from the quantity of seed thev
have sold, estimate that the oat and
grass crop of this county will be fully
four times rs great as it has been any
previous season for ten years. Vey
many of our farmers are putting in
good crops of clover, and some are ex-
perimentiug with millet. The guam