Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-10
GENERAL NEWS.

4 famine prevails in five districts
of the Russian province Of Samara.
The sinking of the Yirginius, is to
be investigated.
America reported 11Ilawyers and
230 doctors last year.
There was a heavy snow in Texas
on Tuesday.
Lawless bands of Mexican maui
raiders are still prcying upon the
Texas border. 9.
The contingent expense Of the
United States Senate, Is estimated at
81, I40, per session.
The work on the Elizabeth town
and Paducah railroad IS steadily pro-
crossing,
Fighting Greek Church, is the
name of religious editicc, in Knox
county Kentucky.
South Carolina, has repudiatcd
fifty per centum Of her conversion
bonds.
The Cherokee, Chocktaw and Creek
Indians, of the territory, object to the
settlement of wild Indians IN their
midst.
The New Yorl, Bar Association,
notably the ablest in the country,
has protested against the cOntima-
ton Of Williams"
The total number of deaths in New
York, in 1873, is slightly over $4,000,
which Is about 5000 less than the
morality of 1872.
1t Is said that before Congress adj
iourns, an appropriation will be asked
for the fitting ont of another expcdi-
ton to the north pole.
The twelve subjects of Great Bri-
tain among the Virginius survivors,
have been taken charge of by the
British Consul in New York.
The Clarendon street Baptist church,
Boston had a defective hue, and
n $50, 000 fire Yesterday was the con-
sequence.
The debt thus repudiated amounts
to about Sl6,O00,0O provision being
made for the payment Of fifty cents
on the dollar on Sl0,000,000, of said
sum.
The Postmaster General, Saturday,
ordered postmasters to forward all
letters or packages received from
! foreign countries before permitting
any Interference by custom officers.
Galveston, Texas News: "Immi-
grants continue to arrive in large
numbers. In addition TO those from
the older States, Germany contributes
largely to our population by every
| vessel from her shores.
The Bark Polly, from Pensacola,
| for Liverpool, was lost during the
! hurricane of the 9th of December
The second officer, Carpenter, stew
ard, and six men were washed over
board and drowned.
A man named Brown, living at
Forsyth, Mo, shot and killed Joseph
Long, a prominent druggist of the
town, on Thursday last, for advising
n young lady member of his
family, to discard Brown, as a lover.
The Board of Trade of Keokuk,
Iowa, has passed resolutions denounc-
| ing the st. Louis bridge as n serious
obstruction to the navigation of the
river, aud calling on Congress to
| abate the nuisance.
The entire number railroads in de-
fault, says a New York telegram, is
more than one hundred and fifteen,
representing an indebtedness on
their interest account of more than
twenty-seven millions of dollars.
London is going to build a tower,
two hundred feet high, in honor of
$50, 600, half of which was raised in
London and the balance in this
country.
y committee, which has been ex-
aiming the financial affairs of the
Maine Insane Hospital, has 4 mild
way ofputting it. eve find" says
the report, "some irregularities in
/ the accounts, and recommend q
change in the financial officer.
Henry Clews 81 Co., of New
York, resumed their banking bust
ness on Monday, announcing the
fact in. a circular in which they
warmly thank their creditors for
Their forbearance, and declare their
readiness now TO pay all obligations
in full.
For many years there have been
/ projects. more or less, before the pub
lie for uniting Scotland and ireland
by means of a tunnel; and the scheme
has recently been again put forward,
this time however, with some reason
able probability of its being carried
out. A single line tunnel, fifteen
feet wide at the base, twenty-five feet
at the maximum, and twenty-One feet
high.
The Jacksonville, Fla, Republican
SAYS: "The approaching session of
the Legislature will be an important
one. The State finances, nOtwith-
standing the effective revenue bill of
the last session and the funding bill,
for which a special session was called,
and which was to be n panacea for
all our ills-nOl withstandinga all these,
the treasury is IN a condition of bank
ruptcy, and the Sentinel saws the re-
venues will fall $4,000 short of our
expenditures
The LOuisTille Courier-JouruaI, of
the 9TH, has the following: "a Nir-
gilman writes from Georgia to the
Richmond Enquirer: Here labor Is
as cheap as in Virginia-that Is negro
labOr-for much of the white labor
of the South would not be cheap at
any price. The better classes seem
to devote themselves to brandy and
I billiards; while the chief OCCUPATION
of the lower orders seems to be whis-
ky and whistling. In the good old
] of 10
gone TO work, but such, am sorry
to say, is not the case here. The
cotton States people are not POOR
enough vet. This cutlery of capital, Is
b0sh. The Southern people, in ante
bellum times, had more capital than
they knew what do with, and didn't
know how to use it. What they real
" want they are getting, and that Is
poverty. Get them dead-pOor once
and then they'll begin togrow great,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The Adj
ministratiOn has embarked upon 4
new and characteristic piece of ras-
callity. At the election held in
/ Texas month ago, the Republican
State ticket was defeated BY about
fifty thousand majority. The de-
feated candidate, Governor Davis,
who signed the election law under
which this election was held, has
| resolved to set aside the election on
| alegal bubble, and call tohis aid the
! bayonets of the President. In
| this infamous design. Governor
Davis is backed up by the three
/ Radical judges who found their Of
| fetal career menaced by the consti-
tutional amendment adopted at this
election.
WASHINGTON, January 4.-The