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

OF building an orphan asylum.
The News says that eight business
houses and thirty-three dwellings were
erected i'll Ripley last year.
The wheat crop in Lauderdale couu-
ty was never more promising than
now, says the News. The acreage
sown is greater than last year.
Fayetteville Observer: "Lineoln
county is rapidly taking its position
again, as one of the best stock-raising
counties Of the State"
Nashville is considering the matter
Of fire-alarm telegraph. The propri-
etors of the American Fire Alarm and
Police Telegraph propose to construct
and put the system in operation for
! 800, 500.
A delegation of Engiishmen, among
whom are several lords, has bought
the Tellico manufacturing property in
Monroe county, and will establish
mammoth works there this summer.
Tobacco Leaf: The Woodlawn
! cheese factory enterprise is progress
ing fayorably. Nearly enough stock
has been subscribed, and the farmers
( in the vicinity are preparing to stock
their farms with fine mich cows. The
movement viii be successful.
/ Mnrfreesboro Monitor: J. n. Puck
EFT -rsrrr5bvts- rr--~-1>sz-e1-
charge Of being the murderer of VIM.
| White, who was shot in his own house
near Eagleville, on the night of the
26th of last month. Pickett is one
] of Whites sOus-in-IaW
Memphis Register of the goth: An
Unmatched pair marched down Main
street yesterday morning, the male
part of the couple was about four feet
high and forty years old; the female
not less than six feet three inches tall,
and-sixteen years old.
Dyersburg Gazette: A painful sibi-
lation prevailing in fashionable socie-
ty now is owing 10 desperate and he
roic attempts to say smoothly and
/ qulckly-''The sea ceaseth and suffi-
ceth u.s." The exercise we especially
commend to tOngue-tied young ladies,
if any such can be found.
Memphis Appeal of Sunday: Mary
Power yesterday jumped into pool
OF water IN the navy-yard, for the
| purpose of committing suicide, be-
cause her lover "John" had proven
inconstant. Her cries of "John :"
John ~ aroused the attention of
officer Wilson, who followed her and
rescued the unfortunate woman from
her perilous position.
Pulaski Citizen: ''A lodge of United
Mechanics is to be organized at Pu-
laski, Tor the purpose of protecting
themselves, improve their social con-
dltion, render trades and tradesmCn
more respectable, encourage ingeHui-
ty, reward genious, teach temperance
and morality, and make better me-
chanics by well directed system of
education"
Paris Intelligence: On last Sun
day morning a furious rabid dog was
running about our streets biting every
thing in his way and pursued by a
number of men who finally killed
him, but not until after he had bitten
several other dogs. On the same day
two dogs were killed in West Paris
which had been bitten by rabid dogs.
few days ago another little dog
made his appearance at the Depot |
supposed to be mad and after about |
thirty shots were fired at him, made |
his escape"
Brownsville States: At the Repub-
hcan Convention held at Lee Hall, /
Saturday last. the nominations were
as follows: For Sheriff, John L. Sher-
man; County Court Clerk, Robert
Medlin; Circuit Court Clerk, Prof.
Countee (cOl.0 Register, Prof. Thomp-
son (col.;) Trustee, S. w. Boyd; Tax
Collector, John Nail. understand |
that Col. John l.. Poston, the present
incumbent, is an independent candi-
date for County Court Clerk, and !
Green Estes (col.) an independent
candidate for Register.
The next meeting of the State
teachers association will be held at |
Knoxville, in June or July. In prep /
aration for it, the executive commit
tee of the State teachers association /
met on Saturday last, at Nashville, |
when S. Y. Caldwell, Il. Kirby Smith |
and Il. S. Bennett were appointed to
act with State Superintendent Flem-
ing in arranging a programme. The /
establishment of a Estate normal /
School, will be discussed at this meet |
ing, and n committee appointed to |
take the matter into consideration, so !
that something practicable and def
Mite can be presented 10 the next |
Legislature
Gallatin Examiner: cat a quarter |
past o'clock Thursday morning, a /
ball of tightening, said to be about as |
large as a mans head by those who |
witnessed it, ran along the telegraph |
wires at Gallatin, exploding in the /
telegraph alice, making a report as
loud as that of a cannon, breaking the |
instruments, smashing the battery to
pieces and melting the wires. The |
operator happened, at,the time, to be |
in the second story of the building |
and was in the act of coming down |
when the explosion occurred. Mr.. |
Barlh, the ticket agent, was within /
eight or ten feet of the instrument"
Union and American: cat 4 o'clock |
yesterday morning, young man was /
picked up at the Capitol in an insen- /
slble condition. He was taken to the /
city workhouse under the supposition |
that he was intoxicated. Later in the |
day it was found that his thigh bone /
was broken, and that he was not a
drinking man. lie was conveyed home /
by his friends about IL o'clock YES /
terday, his case being rendered ex- (
ceedingly dangerous in consequence /
of the treatment he had undergone.
How it was possible for one i'll his
condition to be mistaken for drunk
en- person is q profound mystery. At
a late hour last night he was uncon-
scious. He had evidently been struck
in the face with pair of brass knuck-
les"
The Crockett County Sentinel has
tins TO say OF spelling match at the
Academy III that place recently:-"AH
the class spelled well-a few, remark
ably well-and as each side decreased
IN numbers the enthusiasm increased.
Finally Master Asa RobertSon's side |
was victorious, he, Herman Austin,
Perry Farrow, Jr., and Davy Klyce
remaining with no one on the other
side to spell against. They gained
the victory, but not all the laurels, as
their opponents held out well. Little
Miss Annie Craddock was the last
spelled off the defeated side. After
the spelling j. H. Davis, Esq, made
a decidedly practical and interesting
lmpromptu talk, in which he eulogiz-
ed the children, complimented Prof.
Thompson, and urged the students to
renewed diligence and closer applica-
ton to their books.
$4,000 DAMAGE SUIT. Ralph
Church instituted suit in the Circuit
Court yesterday against the Louis
vile and Nashville and Great South
ern Railroad. The plaintiff AYERS that
he started from Columbia Yesterday
morning en- route for Nashville; ar
rived at Franklin about 3 a. M, and