Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-22

City Paper Mil 20, OF Nashville
was destroyed by fire on the morn
ing of the 18th. Loss over s23, 900
l. Owing to the Indifferent crops
the Henry county Agriculture
and Mechanical association will
, hold no fair this fall
The residence Of Thos. 4. Eli.
oft, of Rutherford county, was des-
troyed BY fire few nights ago, TO-
gether with most OF its contents.
TOmmic Jennings, son Of r. W.
: Jennings, of Nashville, accidental
" shot himself throagh the body
Eith derri1ger pistol at Rome,
Ga, last week. The wound will
prove fatal.
The Memphis Ledger says: Ma
ny negroes now proclaim that here
after they will vote with their era
ployers and best friends, tho white
men. They say the carpet-baggers
are played out in Memphis
An exchange innocently relates
that a lady acquaintance has
chicken that is alive and kicking,
which was found Matched in box
containing one hundred dozen eggs
that had been stored in a cellar for
some time. Next
The Winchester Home Journal
reports that tho army worm is ma
king havoc with all green stuff in
the third district of Franklin coun
ty. Whole fields have been liter
ally denuded, as if a eonhagration
Of FIRE had swept over them.
OF the crops in Hardeman coun-
ty the Bulletin says: We are in the
midst of most devastating drOuth,
aud the crops throughout this see
ton are, In many instances, literal
I y destroyed, while those fields
which have escaped SO far are be-
ginning to don a pale and sickly
hue
The Nashville Banner of yoster-
day says: Mr.. VIM. Montgomery, a
Seotehman who has been for nearly
forty years engaged in the manu-
facture of cotton goods in this
State, departed this life at the ad-
vanced age Of seventy-twO years, on
the night of the llth inst, at the
residence OF his son, J. r. Mont
gOmery, in this city.
The Murfreesboro News has been
shown a perfect young chicken
which has four we'll developed legs
and wings, two Of the legs coming
out near the neck and the other
two at the natural places. The
wings are double on the sides of
! its body instead of single, aud fold
TO the front and rear. Il was new
er Matched to life, but was discoy-
cred when the remaining eggs in
the nest were being destroyed.
Bolivar Bulletin:-James Peck a
young man living near this place,
shot himself in attempting to get
over a fence with "a shot gun, the
hammers of which were resting on
the caps. One of the hammers WAS
caught by something and pulled
back which caused one of,the loads
to be discharged. wounding the
young man severely 10 the hand.
Erysipelas set in and the young
man will perhaps be disabled for
life.
Bolivar Bulletin:-A difficulty
occurred at Greenwood church on
Clover Creek, on Tuesday last,
which resulted in the shooting Of a
Mr.. Edwards by Mr.. William Pr
tie. Religious services were 10
progress at the time which were
temporarily suspended on account
of the excitement. We know
nothing of the causes which led 20
the difficulty but they must have
been aggravated Us the gentleman
who did the shooting is known as
peaceable and quiet citizen.
Knoxville Chronicle, Sth: From
the conductor of last nights west.
ern bound train, we learn of terri
bic crime committed in the upper
end Of Washington county. A
young white girl left her home on
last Sunday to visit relative, and
since that time had not been heard
of until yesterday, when her body
was found in the woods, with her
throat cut. A negro man has been
arrested on the charge of commit
ting the crime, and it is said the
evidence against him is clear and
We did not learn
the names of the parties
The Milan Exchange says: rhe
census of 1870 shows the popula-
tion of Milan district 70 be l54S.--
Last Thursday 497 votes we're poll
ed. There are now about $50 va
ters in this district. Estimate the
population at six TO each voter aud
we have $500 inhabitants, an in
crease of 1852 in four years Ia
1870 the town Of Milan had about
500 population. Nearly all the in
crease of the district Is in the town.
Allowing only 800 Of the increase
to Milan, it gives US a population
of 1900 TO day, and many Of our
citizens claim $500.
The rascally grasshOpper has APP
peared in Tennessee, as will be
seen from the following, from the p
Union and Americans: In
formation was given a Union and A
merican reporter, by a gentleman
from Coffee county, that the
grasshoppers had taken the crops
in the south eastern part OF
Rutherford county and the
northwestern part of Coffee, and
were making fearful ravages.-
They were very destructive on the
farms Just north of Beech Grove,
and in that Reighborhood they were
running one of the finest prospects
for corn ever seen there. They are
described as u peculiar species Of
the grasshopper, being very large,
Of a green color, and speckled.
At Clarksville,s Tennessee, last
Monday afternoon, Owen Sullivan,
a saloon-keeper, had bis skull tract
ured and was stabbed several times
with a butcher knife, by John Nc
Knabb. The TWO men met on
Franklin street, opposite Trinity
cemetery, when MeKnabb ran Sui.
livan into his grocery, and com
menced an indiscriminate firing with
a pistol. Sullivan finally procured
a pistol, and meeting MeKnabb,
who was mounted on a horse, fired
several times, but without effect.
McKnabb then jumped off of the