Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-27

morning the 10th, after a severe
but briel illness.
\ negro named Randolph, was
arrested in Haywood county, Tenn
cssce, last Monday, charged with
the murder of negro boy, by
hanging him to the limb OF a tree.
He has been held for trial.
The Memphis Ledger of Monday
says: The wind storm last Saturday
afternoon unroofed one of the
freight dcpots of the Charleston
railroad, carried off part of the roof
Of the Court street Cumberland
Presbyterian church, and did more
or less damage through Eastern
Memphis.
Mrs. Caverhill, charged with be-
ing an accomplice in the murder Of
her husband, who was murdered at
Rutherford Station j few weeks
since, was TO have been tried be-
| fore q Magistrates Court last Fri
| day-but her counsel waived trial
and she was remandrd to Jail at
/ Trenton.
One VIM. Dix, some time ago
fell on bad pavement in Nash
vile, breaking one leg and injur-
ing his spine. He promptly brot'
SUIT against the city for $4,000
| damages, and on it's coming up for
q hearing Saturday last, compro-
mise was effected, 10y which the
city pays him the handso ne sum Of
sII 900
The Memphis Appeal Of Tuesday
says: Mr.. VIM. Henry, an estima-
BILE young man, was attacked by
negroes at Central Point night be-
fore last and severely beaten, two
Of his ribs being broken. The ne
groes bad no cause for attacking
Mr.. Henry, tho only excuse being
that they wanted him to under
stand that negro was 'as good as
a id white man.
4--.rho I'arTs Intelligence records
the death of centcnarian by the
name of Jehial Brooks, wh1 had
lived in Henry county ~ years.
He was 10Y years of age, and was
active and healthy up to few
weeks of his death. lie was born
in Vermont, and had lived in Can
ada, New York, and Indiana be-
fore removing to Tennessee.
Trenton News-Gazette: Alfred
Flowers was shot and killed at
Rutherford Station Friday MORN
ing, under the following circum.
stances: Flowers had been dcfying
the officers of the law for some
time, who had a number of eapias-
es against him On that morning
Deputy Sheriff Grier attempted to
arrest him with a posse. Flowers
drew a couple of six shooters and
fired on the party several times,
one or two of his shots hitting the
clothing of Deputy Grier, when he
was shot and killed.
A special to the Courier Journal
says that fatal ARRAY occurred
near GAINESVILLE, Tenn, Wednes-
day night, the 18th. A party of
negroes attacked the house of a
man named johnson with stones,
when one of JohnsOn's daughters
fred on the crowd, the ball taking
effect in the abdomen of a neg 70
woman, who died in twenty minutes.
The girl was herself struck on the
head with a rock, producing a
wound from which it is thought
she will not recover.
Saturday night between eight and
nine o'clock, Col. Mart. L. Stock
ard, prominent citizen of Maury
county, twelve miles from Column
bia, was attacked on his lawn by
two unknown would-bc assassins,
and beaten over the head with a
heavy wood-wsgon standard. The
object of the assassins was robbery,
as they took two hundred dollars
from his person. Colonel Stock
ard is in "a critical condition, but
conscious, and says he has no idea
who the robbers were, or whether
white or black.