Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-28
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

| TEL SU URINARY.
The Temperance crusade is gr ad-
ually moving Westward.
The Philadelphia wcavcrs are
still on strike.
The Governor of California has
signed the local option law.
Senator BrownIow is at his res
idcnce in Knoxville.
1t is proposed to impcach United
States Judge, VIM. Storey, Of Ar
kansas.
The Bald Mountain excitement
IN North Carolina continues, and
thousands of people visit tho local
it, every day.
The United States Senate has
passed the Army Appropriation bill
and tho Fertilization Aappropria-
ton bill with amendments.
Intelligence has reached n. York
City that Ex-President Davis is
quite i'll in London with his old
malady, dropsy of the heart.
Judge Dent, brother of Mrs.
Grant, died in Washington City, Of
tumor in the stomach, on Sunday
last.
The largest fire that ever occur
red in Indianapolis, Indiana, broke
out in that city on Saturday night
last. The loss is estimated az be-
tween 100000 and 100000.
The walls of the Boston prison,
destroyed by the late fire, are be-
ing torn down. The Tuckerman
Manufacturing Company lose a
bout 100000.
Jesse James, an old and promi-
ncnt citizen of Saline county, Ar
kansas was accidentally shot and
killed on Saturday last while out
hunting.
The receipts from internal reve-
nue. have decreased within the past
two weeks, especially in Indiana
and Ohio, which is attributed to the
women's crusade now in progress.
The Pacific Car Shops, in st.
Louis were burned last Friday
Loss over 100000. The Railroad
company usually employs three or
four hundred men, and this calam-
ity will throw one half of the num-
Der out of employment for time.
On last Saturday in most of the
churches of Cleveland, OHIO, the
Ministers preached upon the sub
ject of temperance, and almost uni.
versaIIy favored the continuance
Of the crusade. The congregations
were unusually large.
The TOwboat, Crescent City, with
4 fleet of barges, was destroyed by
fire below Helena, ARK, on Mon
day morning last. Ten of the
crew were killed, and the loss was
in the noighborhood of 100000.
1900 tons of sugar and molasscs
were burned
The strike of the Erie laborers
at Jersey City continues, and the
movement of freight is nearly stop
ped. Over a thousand men on the
new tunnel ut Bergen hill have also
struck. The road is hiring Ger
mans and Italians, as far as posi-
BILE.
The Erie railway company are
supplying the places of the recent
strikers with Italians, which came
near resulting in . riot in n. York,
Saturday. A large number of stri-
kers gathered around the work,
when the Italians scattered in all
directions. 4 detachment of po-
lice was obtained, and soon after a
number of Germans were put on
the work.
On going 10 press there Is no
thing known rs to the result of the /
contest for Senator in Massachu- /
sets. At the last accounts Dawes [
seemed TO be the strongest candi- /
date, but it is impossible to tell /
what combinations will finally be I
made, Dawes, Hoar, Adams, Wen /
dell Phillips and Ben. Butler, were /
voted for by the Republicans, while /
Judge Curtis receives the full Dem /
ocratic vote.
A desperate conflict took place |
near Appleton City, Missouri, on
Saturday last, between two desper- |
ADDE'S named Jas. and John Yon- /
ger, who for years past have been 1
the terror of the country in which
they lived, aud 4 force that mad
gone out to crush them. In the
fight John Younger was killed, but
James escaped, being badly woun-
ded, as it is supposed. OF the po-
lice, Daniels of St. Louis, was kill
ed instantly, and man named Al
len was wounded.