Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-18
sTATR NEWS.
The fruit and corn crops arc both
promising in Franklin county.

for the legislature in Carroll co.
Murfreesboro is going to have a
paper mill.
A revival OF religion is going on
in the Methodist Church At Alamo.
A Camp.meeting will be com
menced near Huntingdon Aug. 26.
Mrs. Thomas Butler, Of Hum.
bOldt, kindled a fire the other day
with coal oil. She has not the re-
motest idea Of doing II again.
A saloon Of z. f. Parker, was
burned down last week at Wildcrs-
vile, Henderson county. Loss
| $1,000.
The Brownsville States favOrs a
postponement of the Humboldt
| Congressional Convention until
September.
Mr.. John Fields, of Dyersbarg,
was thrown from his buggy in that
town last week, and bad his shoul-
der knocked out of place.
IILOn Sunday morning last, little
daughter of Mr.. Henry Atkinson,
near Dresden, was run over by q
frightened horse, Knocked down
and fatally injured.
Mr.. Thomas n. Seaton, of Cedar
Springs, East Tennessee, commit
ted suicide last week by stabbing
himself thirteen times with knife,
twice to the heart. He previously
attempted his brothers life
The crops in Decatur county,
we are reliably informed, are look
ing well, and if . good season is
had from now on tho corn crop Ia
that county will be better than for
zsoao years past,-,
| DeKalb county: On TUesda !,
the 9Th inst, Starke Cotton shot
Cafvrn Cantretf, iufictiuga a serious
and possibly fatal wound on the
right Of the windpipe, at the base
of the neck.
The blacks of Mitchelyille lately
had very lively row at 4 religious
meeting, in which several were
badly bruised and beaten. The
fight commenced in one corner Of
the church and extended all over
the house.
The Crockett County Sentinel re-
ports that tho crops of the county
are generally looking remarkably
well for the scason-the cotton
crop especially-and if we can
have rain in a week we will have
an abundance to eat, and some TO
sell.
Mckenzie Times: Mr.. c. IL. Gray,
residing in this county, near Nc
Lemoresville, exhibited in our Of
hce, last Tuesday, a singular freak
of nature, being two chickens with
their heads grown together and
perfect in all their other parts. In
the same brood there were six
chickens hatched from three eggs.
The Humboldt people have had
their site for the Lunalic Asylum
approved by w. 2. Stokman, 3, Po
cts corner, Westminster, london,
an English Engineer. Browns
Vile, il is understood, will have its
site approved by All Sin, an Emil
nent Engineer of the son OF the
sun, Pekin, China.
Mckenzie Times: DIR. Mattheson,
Of our city, lost q very fac horse
a few days ago. 1t seems that the
horse became frightened while in
the stable, and started to run out,
striking his head agaist the top Of
the door and scattering his brains
all over the stable.
A few days ago little son OF
Mr.. Thos. w. Morgan, living six
miles southwest Of Decaturville,
while playing with a little brother
near a gum spring, fell into It and
was drowned before his parents
could reach him, though within a
few yards of the house. He was
two years old.-Tenn. Transcript
The Crockett County Sentinel
says: Mrs. Susan Bevell, aged forty
years, fell dead at her residence
near town last Sunday while drink
ing coffee at the dinner table. Only
small children were present, who
say that she seemed 10 strangle TO
death. She had been in bad health,
however, for some time.
Tho Dyersburg Progress, of July
the 9th, says: The crops of Dyer
county, had they been planted in
nearly any other county in the
State, would have been given up as
ruined long ago, as we have had
ne rain in some parts Of the county
since about the 25th of April
Even here the corn has commence
ed twisting, and in many parts of
the county rottening. If we get a
rain this week or the first part of
next week we can save some parts
of our crops, if not, We are ruined.
The following, from the Paris In
telligencer of the 9th, is sugges,
tive: On last Monday a white man
by the name of John Nicholson,
who lives q few miles north of Par
is, was in town, and late in the
evening had some words with u
negro man about the meaning Of
the civil rights bill. Nicholson
soon after left town to go home, and
was followed by four negro men
who overlook him a little out of
town, when he was attacked and
severely beaten by them.
Crockett County Sentinel: Last
Saturday night Mrs. Harriet Faulk-
ner departed this life, aud on Sun
day night her husband, William
Faulkner, followed her to the bet
ter land. They were citizens of
his county, living near Bells, both
aged, and had been in bad health
for some time. For a long time
they had been devout members Of
the Christian church, and have
gone together to reap their reward.
The Murireesboro News learns
hat last week a team of horses be-
longing to DR.. L. Russell, Of Ruth
srford county, and which were
hitched to wagon, became fright
sned and ran of a perpendicular
bluff, twenty-eight feet high, on the
bank of the river, falling upon
solid rock, and, further than break
ing the tongue out of the wagon,
DO damage was done. The horses
did not receive any injury, and
shortly after were put to work, and
have so far shown no signs of iu-
ury.
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