Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-02-21
General and Southern News.

General ana southern News.
Hon. \. r. Boone is a candidate
for Congress in the 1st Ky. Dist.
A panther killed a child in Lake
county, Miss few days ago.
VIM. Scott Ccol.) is to be hanged
in Locenia, Ark, for poisoning his
wife.
Page Mccarthy, the duelist, was
pardoued Wednesday by Gov. KEN
per of Virginia.
Rt. Rev. W. NJ. Greene, Bishop of
of Mississippi, viii visit Corinth on
the 9th of March, and hold scrvi-
ces in the Episcopal Chapel.
TIE 18th, Shroyc Tuesday, was a
general holiday in New Orleans,
the banks, markets, &C., all being
closed.
The archbishop Of Santiago de-
clarcs that female voices in the
choir arc dangerous to true piety
aad devotion.
John Dog pclitioncd the Massachu-
sets legislature to change his name,
and they made it John Kerr, and he
was happy.
Justice Haiucs of Chicago has
decided that editors are profession
al men, and that their scissors, paste
pot, &c, cannot be seized for debt.
Samuel Lcaneus, who elopcd from
Webster, Mass, with 4 widow, tenn
pered his guilt. He left a deed
conveying all his property to his
wife.
4 Disguised Western Ky. editor
! believes that if it was not for the
hope of an everlasting home in the
bluegrass Region" after this life,
this would be an unhappy world in
deed.
4 Wostorn paper thinks that, in
view OF the fact that Eng and
/ Chang's surname was Bunker, they
should be buried on Bunker Hill,
especially rs there is a monument
already provided.
Two men named Coylo were kill
cd at West station, Miss, on the
9TH inst, by Tom Kelly, Marshal
OF the town. On Wednesday last
at tho same place, an old man nam
ed Wallace was killed by John
Morris.
OF the three hundred and sixty
members Of the Senate and House
of Representatives only fifteen are
of foreign birth. This fact will
console persons who live in con-
slant dread Of the undue influence
in legislation of the bloody furrin-
ers.'
SINGULAR LEGIsLATIoN-Thc Ways
and Meanes Committee of the
House will report a bill for the re-
moyal of q comma from an act of
Congress of 1872, by which $4,000,
900 have been illegally collected
upon imported fruit. This shows
the importance of correct punctua-
ton.
The most original phase Of socio-
ty life in Washington is the card
announcement of births. One of
these tiny cards is an infnitesimal
drab-colored affair, with a small
rabbits head and cars on the flap
of the envelOp, and a correspond
ing one inside, at the top of bit of
a sheet, making the annOdncemcnt.
1t reads: Compliments of Mr.. and
Mrs. Blank and son, Jan. 80, 5P. NJ
The North Carolina Legislature
seems to have lost much of its an
cient dignity. 4 correspondent
who lately visited the Lower House
says that the door was opened to
him by a colored man with q shirt
that seemed to have been born on
him, and there was a general prev
alcnce of seedy clothing and I'M
kempt heads of hair. The negro
members hold aloof from the main
body.
The Methodists have their Van
derbilt University, and the Prcsby-
terians arc about to establish theirs
somewhere in the Tennessee Val
ley, and now we learn that the Bap
lists of Middle Tennessee are max
ing an effort to revive Union Uni
vcrsity at MurfrecsEoro. They favor
the unifcation of the Baptists of the
Southwest in respect to the estab-
iishment of a grand central Univer-
sity, as proposed by the General
/ Association of Middle Tennessee
and North Alabama, and approved
by the West Tennessee Baptist
! Convention.
Efforts are being made at Rich
mond, Va. to invoke Executive
clcmcncy in behalf of Page McCar-
ty, who was sentenced to six months
in Jail and pay a fine of five hun
bred dollars for killing John b.
Mordecai in a duel. The petition
for pardon has been signed By a
number of the jury who tried Nc
Carly, and by q majority of the
members of both branches of the
State Legislature including the
Speaker ofthe House of Delegates.
The Governor has not yet inlimated
what his decision will be. Under
the State Constitution, McCarty is
rendered Ineligible either 10 vote or
hold office.
Canton CMiss) Mail: 1T is only
necessary 10 20 to Jackson aud
hang around the lobby, street corn
ers, hotels, and, if one has the
patience to do So, spend an honr or
two in the Senate Chamber or
Representatives. Hall, to be conv.c.
cd that the contest for political
supremacy and power and cmolu-
mcnts Of Office has been whitfield
down TO the color line. Black
against white. This is the issue
now. The colored man is for his
coler, and the link hcretoforc bind
ing together the party in this State
regardless OF the color of its mem
bcrs is, if not broken, very badly
strained, and must certainty part
ere long.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Emperor Francis Joseph OF
Austria is on visit to tho Car.
4 dispatch from Rome states that
/ the Pope viii hold a ConsistO>y in
June and appoint eight Cardinals.
The Cuban Insurgents seem to be
stronger and more determined than