Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-24
NUMBER 10
NEWS

New York State has $4,000 Of its
citizens under sentence for felonies.
| Theodore Tilton is talking about a
fourth term for Grant.
The health of Vice-President VIII
son Is much improved.
The culture Of cotton in Southern
Kansas is attracting considerable at
teDtioD.
The Ways aud Means Committee arc
said to favor a moderate increase Of
taxation.
4 strike is reported IN the Anlllra-
cite coal regions of Pennsylvania. Al
work Is suspended.
The strike among the plantation
hands in Terrc BOnnc Parish, La, is
general. Al plantation work Is sus-
pended.
The creditors Of Jay Cooke Il Co,
haven taken the assets of the firm ont
of bankruptcy, and appointed trus-
tees to settle mp the matter.
There are only about a dozen Leg
islatures IN full blast, TO say nothing
of the minstrel troupe in Washing
ton.
Fifteen hundred cars containing
J0,OOO,00O pounds of wool, passed
through Omaha last year, from Cali
fornia.
4 motion TO discontinue mail ser
vices on routes where the receipts. do
no. amount TO at least one half of the
expenditures, has been made IN the
Senate by Mr.. Morrill,, of Maine.
The MennOnites Of Russia and
Prussia, religious sect, want to pur-
chase of Our Government, in one COM
pact body, land enough to afford them
homes. They number about 90, 600
souls.
The cheap transportation conven-
tion while in session at Washington,
urged the speedy construction of a
great national freight railroad, be-
tween New York and Chicago. An
other huge job no doubt
The Woman's Right Convention in
session last week, In Washington, a.
dopted a petition to Congress ''praying |
that law be passed exempting women |
from taxation for national purposes so /
long as they are unrepresented in the |
National Council.
All the proprietors of places of }
amusement in New York have been no |
titled by the police that, hereafter, no |
sacred concerts will be permitted Sun |
day evenings. The order creates CON
siderable excitement among the Ger
mans.
The Hartford COuraut thinks the |
platform of the New Hampshire Re |
publicans too wide 10 be deep; fur
thermore that the Democrats have
''seen" the Republican resolutions
and ''gone them one better"-so to
speak.
The st. Louis Republicans Wash
ington correspondent says: "The pol
icy of placing the Indian bureau un-
der the direction of the war depart-
ment is being seriously resisted by
that class of Christian philanthropists
who have the handling of the Indian
funds under the present regime.
The House judiciary Committee
has resolved to report the civil rights
bill minus the feature providing for
mixed schools. The bin viii proba-
bly, pass the House in this shape. 1t
will provide for negro equality in all
public conveyances, cemeteries, churh-
es and hotels.
The extension Of the Cairo and Full
ton railroad Is completed to Texarka-
ma, at which point connection is made
with Tom SCOTS Texas and Pacific
,.naI oVR1 Aha -g
roads in Texas. The opening of this
road shortens the distance from St.
Louis to Northern Texas $50 miles,
and gives Texas a line to the East, via
Cairo, ILL.,, 240 miles shorter than by
any other route.
The Mexican Veterans Convention,
in session last week in Washington
Cityf adopted a memorial TO Congress
asking pensions for those engaged in
the Mexican war or their surviving
widows and children. Also a resolu-
tion was adopted asking Congress to
remove the disabilities of the Mexican
veterans who may have served in the
confederate army. The Committe was
received by the President on Satur-
day, and the reception was cordial
and pleasant.
A Little Rock dispatch of the 10th
says: ''The stage which left Malvern
at IL o'clock yesterday, the point at
which travellers for Hot Springs leave
the Cairo and Fulton railroad, forty
miles south of this city, when within
about five miles Hot Springs last even
ing about 3 o'clock, was attacked by
band of five highwaymen, masked,
who took possession of the mail bags
and the yaluables of the passengers
and one of the stage horses, and then
rode away. There were fourteen pas
sengers on the stage. The robbers
obtained about s., 900.