Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-04
LATEST STATE NEWS.

There are eleven hundred Gran
gers in Sumner county.
The Memphians have won $780,
900, by the Louisville Lottery.
DR.. D. B. Clife is to succeed D.
W. Peabody, as L. S. Collector for
the Nashville district.
Meals Gazette: The Changers
are going to establish u Grange
Store At Dyersburg, with 4 capital
stock Of $4,000.
Edgefel1 is to have a street rail
road. Six thousand out Of the ten
thousand dollars of stock required
has been subscribed.
a party of Canadians are pros
pecung in McMinn county, with
the view of selecting lands for the
establishment of colony.
SyIvanus Stokes, son of General
W. 3. Stokes; United States Gaug-
er in the Third District, died in
Alexandria, DeKaIb County, en- the
26th instant
Mckenzie Times: The young
men of Mckenzie propose giving a
grand Masque Ball at the McKen-
zie House, on the 10th of April.
Memphis Chamber of Commerce
has petitiOncd Congress to appro-
pirate $4,000 towards improving
the navigation of the Forlled Deer
river.
w. J. McNcely, post master at
Huntsville, is under arrest, charged
with enlightenment. He is said to
be short in his money- order &c
count, 81 600 or $4,000.
Nash. Banner, March 10Th: a
check for $4,000 was given for l.
goo bales of the staple yesterday.
1t was one Of the largest cotton
transactions that has taken place
here for some time past.
General Forrest has resigned the
Presidency of the Selma railroad,
Tor the reason, as he states, that
the County Court is Withholding
the third installment on personal
grounds to him.
A committee of ladies have been
appointed by an Ohio temperance
union, to visit Memphis and lay
seigc to the saloons of that city
The committee arrived on Monday,
and are organizing for work.
Steps are being taken 10 reorgan-
ize the Tennessee Historical Socie-
ty. A meeting of the old members,
and such other gentlemen as may
take an interest in the matter, is
called at Nashville on the first
Tuesday in APril-that is Tuesday
next.
GalIatin Examiner: A man nam
ed VIM. Barhum, alas Wm. Ash
ley, was arrested last week, at Will
sons works, on the G. & o. 4. r.,
by detectives from Nashville, on
the charge of murder, committed in
Illinois, four years ago.
Memphis Avalanche, March 2Sth:
In the Criminal Court yesterday
Mrs. Della Gilmore was convicted
of assault and battery. She was in
dicted for assault with intent to
kill. Mrs. Gilmore is the woman
who split her husbands head open
with an axe while he was lying
asleep on his bed.
Nashville Banner: The fl ty- fifth
anniversary Of the Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows, which occurs on
the Goth inst, will be celebrated at
Jackson, West Tennessee, Monday,
the 27th-the Goth coming on Sun
day. General w. B. Bate, of Nash
vile, has been requested to be the
orator of the day. The anniversary
will be celebrated at Lexington, at
Cookeville, Putnam County, and at
Cleveland, East Tennessee, on the
18th.
Trenton News-Gazotte: We I'M
dcrstand that all oHr family grocors
are going to quit keeping whisky;
most of them have done 50. The
Womans' Formulating Prayer
meeting did not scare them out,
for we have not got so low as to
have such a thing yet. The groce-
ry men quit from q sense of duty
and profit, for there is more whis-
ky drank as sample than they can
SELL The latter half of the last
sentence is the English of the
thing.
McMinnvillc New Era: On We'd
nesday night of last week whilo at
a party at the house of A. g. Boil
din, three miles east of McMinn-
vile, VIM. Argo and Jno. NJ. Nc
Gregor, got into an alteration,
which resulted in the free use of
the knife. During the encounter
Mr.. McGregOr received some six
teen or eighteen severe cuts on dir
ferent parts of the body, from the
knife of ArgO; and the wounds are
of such 4 nature as may prove fatal.
Argo is at large, although the Off
GERS have been in search of him
We also understand that Argo re-
ceived one or two cuts during the
fight.
Memphis Register: The fifth an
nual spring meeting of the Chicka-
saw Jockey Club commences on
Monday, April 81, and continues
five days. Excellent sport is cx-
Pected, as such purses are offered
as will attract good horses from all
sections. The time of the meeting
is well chosen, as it is after the
New Orleans races, and before the
great events of the eastern turf, and
we may reasonably expect not on
ly n good show of blooded racers,
but also q largo number of people
to see them. Mr.. John Donovan,
President, and c. Stone, secretary,
as we'll as the other members of the
Chickasaw club, deserve to have 4
successful meeting for their enter
prise and liberality, and VIC have
no doubt will have it.
The New York Catholic Review
says: "Thc SemaIno Religieuse in
forms Us that the Catholic priest
who behaved so gallantly on the
Inflated Vile du Havre' was IA
Their Simon, of Nashville He was
born at Summercourt, France, and
lelt his country for America while
quite q young man. His untimcly
death, terrible as it was, was a most
noble one, and a Protestant lady