Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-25
STATE NEWS.
Good rains blessed Weakley
county last week.

cred on the farm Of l.. p. Proctor,
Of Trousdale county.
. Seven prisoners broke Jail at Par
is last week. Five were recap
tured.
Gen. J. B. Palmer is a candidate
for Congress in the Murfreesboro
district.
A colored female OF Memphis,
named y. Fergerson, died in that
city recently of cholera mOrbus,
aged one hundred aud four years.
The Lexington Reporter thinks
that a lead mine has been discov-
cred near that town. IL is on the
farm Of DR.. w. Ill. Warren.
Mr.. J. Ii. Hill, of Williamson
county, had his leg torn of below
the knee by threshing machine a
few days ago.
Sam Warren has been appointed
/ Deputy United States Revenue col
leclor for the district composed of
the counties OF Benton, Henry and
Weakley.
a negro boy named Henry Big
gers entered the residence of A. J.
Harris at Bolivar last week, ani
stole seventy dollars in money
He was arrested.
The Sparta Index of the 9th inst.
contains sharp and pointed cor
respOndence between Col. Thomas
b. Murray and Gen. G. B. DibrelI,
aspirants for Congress in the Sd
District.
All the Democratic candidates
for tho Legislature in Henry eOun-
i " have Withdrawn, except DR..
SmallNa0a and Mr. Cooper. Tkc
4 nesl1t hsvo noninatcd Bill
tlay1te e1iored-
Mr.. p. S. Taylor, OF Dyer coun-
ty, raised this season, of OF 6 acres,
l20 bushels OF measured wheat, af-
ter grazing on It all the spring,
sheep, cows and yearlings. This
is the way they do in Dyer county.
The Nashville Banner Of the 18th
says; Jackson Payne, colorcd, was
committed to jail yesterday by u.
States Commissioner Campbell, on
an Indictment for forging claims for
bounty against the Government.
The Gallatin tExaminer says
Eight murders have been commit
ted in Sumner county this year and
no arrests have been made. We
90 not understand this. This whole
sale murder business must be stop
ped and the guilty parties brought
TO Justice. Let the people take this
matter in hand.
Tho Brownsville States says
Mr.. j. W. Moore died at the resi-
dence of his son-in-law, J. w. Mar
com, five miles east of Brownsville,
on Jbne 9th, 1875, aged ninety
years. Mr.. Moore moved here
from Rutherford county in 1882,
and served in the war OF 1912 un-
der Gen. Jackson.
The Appeal has this concerning the
Congressional Convention which is
TO meet in Bolivar on the Sth Of
September: The place is we'll eho-
sen, aud we think the time happily
determined upon. 1t now only re-
mains for the county committees to
call conventions for the election OF
delegates, who will 20 to the con
vention free and untrammclled, de-
termined upon the nomination Of
the best man that offers.
The Gallatin Examiner in re-
cent issue, says: The taxable prop
erty of Sumner county is $685.
727. Tho county shool tax, at Is
cents, amounts 20 S7,673. There
are 4776 tax payers, and the aver
age tax that will be paid amounts
to the huge sum OF 81 62 each.-
What a prodigious amount this is
surely! and what ground there is
for big growing!
tho Nashville Ranner of Sunday
last says: A terrific hail storm oc-
CURED at ll:45 o'clock Yesterday
morning at Mather's station, three
miles this side of Franklin. The
corn was all laid PROSTATE, and 9th
er crops considerably damaged
The storm, having 4 narrow width,
crossed the station aud passing on,
probably did more damage else
where.
Nashville Banner: Gov. Foote
requests us to state that, whilst he
is now in Tennessee, he is willing
and anxious to meet ex-President
johnson fn courteous discussion,
and to maintain the charges he has
heretofore preferred against him.;
but that he is not at all disposed to
Intermeddlc in the present political
struggle, and shall refrain from
speaking altogether, unless Presi-
dent Johnson is himself perfectly
willing to meet him in discussion
on equal terms.
The Paris InteIligencer, of July
the 10th, says: On Thursday last,
Mr.. A. Il. Milliken, whose father
lives in this county, was shot thro'
the body with a rife ball, by one
Darlington near BOydsville, KY
Milliken lived only about one hour
after having been shot. 1t appears
that on the morning of that day
had a difficulty with a
orother-in-law in which the latter
was shot by Darlington. An Off
GER of the law summoned u party
Of men to arrest Darlington, among
whom was young Milliken. Tho
party found the desperado at the
house of his father-in-law a little
after dark. Having surrounded the
house, Darlington attempted 20
run, when he was halted by Milli-
zen and ordered to surrender, aud
having a rife in his hand, shot Mil
iken and made his escape. Up to
1ur latest advices he was still at
large.
REV. A. l.. 2. GREENE, d. D.
Yesterday afternoon at o'clock
his venerable minister quietly
breathed his last at the residence Of
his son-in-law, Thomas u Fite,
ESQ.,, on Vine street, in this city
He was a Tennesseean, and was
born in SEWER county, June, 1907,
and was, therefore, 81 years old
His carly life was spent in Ala
bama. He wac licensed to preach,
and ioined the Tenn. Conference in
1924, being then only II years old.
He was ordained Deacon IN 1926,
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