Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-04
SUMMARY.
Admiral Porter is quite i'll.

killed q prisoner last week.
The Congregational Council in
New York has been dissolved, moth
ing having been accomplished
Pat Hazleton, laborcr, killed his
wife with a poker in q drunken
quarrel at Cincinnati Sunday night.
The committee Of the South Car
DINA tax payers were not treated
cOurteously by President Grant
Eucy's Theatre in Louisville
was burned on Sunday last, and
most Of the actors lost their cos
tunes. Loss $1,000 No insurance.
Daniel b. Cliffe was confirmed
by the Senate as Collector Of Inter
nal Revenue for the Fifth District
of Tennessee on Monday.
John Franklin, coIored waiter in
the Worsham House, was fatally
stabbed on Saturday, by Sam Fin
lay, the Steward, in a difficulty
Finlay has not yet been arrested
Hon. Harvey Myers, of Coving-
ton, KY, was shot and killed re-
Gently by Col. Terrill. Myers was
prominent lawyer, and Tcrrill
was newspaper man.
Miss Mary Louisa Shaw has be-
queathed $4,000 to charitable in
situations in Boston, remembering
the Catholics and Protestants a.
like.
The currency question IS not yet
settled. Sherman's bill, q synopsis
Of which appears elsewhere, has al
ready been changed in several par
ticulars.
A fire occurred on the night of
the 1st INST, at Mlllerstow WI, Pa
1t originated in the Central Hotel,
and seven of the inmates were burn
cd TO death in the flames. 63 hou-
ses were burned.
a Delaware man wilIed his thir-
ty relatives five cents apiece, and
his funeral procession was brief,
although he left 100000 to a col
legc.
RevivaiigJ Hammond aud a lot Of
praying women passed thro' Little
Iios:ll, day or two ago, for Texas
to storm the hearts and rum shops
of the Lone Star State.
The House Committee on Com
merce heard, Saturday q delegation
from the Upper Mississippi valley,
in advocacy of appropriations for
improvement of the falls of St. An
thony. The committee has the sub
ject under consideration.
The Columbus, Ohio, ladies' are
beginning to wear out in body
Their zeal is still intense, however,
despite the fact that u number of
saloons previously open 10 them,
now positively refuse TO admit
them.
Thos. Carr, worthy old gentle
man, was killed yesterday in the
Catholic cemetery in Dorchester,
Mass, by head stone falling upon
him. He had recently buried three
children and was removing the
head stone preparatory to erecting
a monument over them.
The Missouri Legislature has re-
pealed the social evil regulating
clause of the st. Louis charter, and
passed an act which retains the
present hospital and reformatory,
and prevents the raiding of bawdy-
houses, which was adopted by a
largo majority.
A Vicksburg lawyer, named
Spiers, recently rode up to the door
of another member Of the proies-
sion, named Miller, and calling him
out to the carriage IN which he was
sitting, shot five bullets into him,
wounding him fatally as is sup
posed.
To-day the carpet-weavers of
Kensington and Paramount Phila-
delphia,) who arc OF = strike for a
new scale Of prices, held meetings
and reaffirmed their resolutions to
, remain out until their employers
acccdo to their demands. In the
Kensington district alone, 1l2
shops are reported on strike.
Gen. Beauregard has written a
letter to the Washington Republi-
can, in answer to Gen. Hebert's let
ter on the Louisiana question, ac-
companied by two communications
signed by prominent citizens, show
ing that when Gen. Beauregard
was candidate the Office sought
him-not Beauregard the office.
The different Trades Unions of
New York city have united in an
appeal TO the labor organizations
throughout the country to insist
upon eight hours constituting
days labor, and TO hold mass meet
ings on the llth o. May to express
opposition to the contract system
on government buildings.
\ Dispatch from St. Louis, dated
the LIST says:
''The startling announcement has
lust been made to us that one of the
immense mid-river piers of our noble
bridge is sunk beneath the waters to
at least one-third of its height. Hun
dreds will gaze upon it this morning,
and turn away with sorrowing hearts.
A tug-bOat passing ut late hour last
night made the discovery The shore
ends still stand firmly and sustain the
arches springing from their Sides
The trains on the Erie railroad
have been under military guard for
some time past. The paymaster
has been paying strikers all day,
and will finish tomorrow. Divis-
ion Superintendent Thomas and
Gardner have returned to their de-
partments. Vice-Presidents Clark
and Wright are still at Sasq uehan-
M depot. 1t is probable that the
strikers will not further interfere
with trains, but mag make serious
trouble in the shop.
4 young woman named Mrs. Sa-
rah f. Watson, murdered her I'M
Gle, Hiram Aldridge, on the morn
ing of the goth, at Ozark Mills, Is
miles south of Ironton, by driving
an axe into his skull, burying the
blade in his brain up to the handle.
Mrs. Watson conlesses having COM
mitted the deed, and justifies her
act on the ground that he attempt
cd 70 outrage her person. Aid