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

The Utah bill has passed by
vote Of $50 to 50.
Richardson has been confirmed
as Judge OF the Court Of claims.
Secretary Richardson has resign
ed at last, and B. +. Bristow, of
Ky has been nominated as his sue
cessOr.
There was an instruction IN the
Missouri penitentiary on Monday
last, but it was quclled without loss
of blood.
The Senate unanimously con-
frmed the nomination of General
Bristow, Of Ky, to be Secretary of
The Treasury.
The machine shops of the ST.
Louis & Southern RAILROAD at
Mount Vernon No., were destroyed
by fire lately. Loss, 500, 600.
1t is reported that 8. 900 900 cubic
yards Of lcvee is required to be
built in Louisiana to save the State
from overflow next year.
Granville Smith, of KY, u man
60 years old, killed his nephew.
William Hughes, and then shot
himself Both were farmers liv-
ing in the vicinity of Danviile.
Chicago had 100000 fire on
Monday. The brick block owned
by NJ. ID. Wells & Co., occupied as a
boot and shoe establishment was
entirely destroyed.
A strong effort will be made, be-
| fore the close of the present session
of Congress, to pass the bill look
ing to the refundIng of the cotton
tax.
An insane woman in New York,
on Tuesday, wounded her hulband
and killed her three children
She said she was going to heaven
and wanted the children to go be-
fore.
A special to the Banner, from
Shelbyvillc, says: Rev. T. A. Hoyt,
of Nashville, was married to Miss
Sallie Cooper, in the Church of
the Redeemer at this place at twi-
light to-day, the marriage ceremo-
ny being after the English custom.
The three County Commissioners
of Barnwell County, S. G. convict
ed of stealing the public money,
have been sentenced respectively
to ten years, nine years, and thir-
teen months Imprisonment.
The stone-cutters of Boston are
still on strike, and some of the
yards are almost deserted. The
men want an advance of wages to
So and So so per day, and the EN-.
ployers think 81 so is all they can
afford to pay.
Courier-J ournal lst: DIR. Hopson
delivered his farewell address at
the Christian church, corner Fourth
and Walnut SITS, yesterday morn
ing, and was listened to with sol
emn interest by very large audi
ence.
The vote of the Tennessee dele
cation on the oath, to suspend the
rules and take up the civil rights
bill, was as follows: In the affirma-
tive-Crutchfeld, Harrison, Lewis
and Maynard. Nays-Atkins, But
Ter, Bright, ThOrnburg, Whit
thorne. Not voting-Nunn.
On Monday a gravel train on
b. and w. road, No, was ditch
ed near Troutmau's station, and
Conductor Lee Roberts, the engi-
neer, Jas. Talbut, and the fireman,
Harry Mittendolph, were killed.
The accident is supposed to have
been caused by a loose track.
The House Committee on Appro-
priatious, Tuesday, agreed 20 IN
sert in the Sundry Civil Appropri-
atom bill the following amounts for
public buildings: Among others,
Memphis $4,000; New Orleans,
Sl9l, 900: st. Louis, 5000; Knox
vile, $4,000.
In New Orleans on the Ist, four
houses were burned on Royal, be-
tween Port and Enghion streets
loss $4,000. Jas. Fink's coffee
house on Royal street was burned,
and Jas. Anderson was burned to
death. Twelve houses were also
burned on Perdido streets-loss
$4,000.
Mrs. Catharine Frieberger, aged
seventy years, committed suicide in
ST. Louis on Monday morning.
The poor woman had been suffer
ing dreadfully from eramp collie,
and on the morning of the day
named, before the rest of the fami-
ly were stirring, went out into the
back yard, carrying a chair with
her, which she placed against the
box placed around the cistern, to
prevent accidents, and mounting
this, threw herself headlong into
the water below.
Mr.. Harding II. Masters, much
respected merchant of Nicholas
vile, KY, went to all the saloon
keepers in that town, and request
cd them not to sell liquor to his
sisters husband. All consented
except j. Fl. Soper, who assaulted |
Masters. w. Fl. Soper interfered,
and friend of Masters then inter-
posed. & melee cnsued, in which
w. II. Soper, IA son of the proprie-
tor of the saloon, shot Harding II. |
Masters in the back, through the /
right lung, killing him almost in
stantly.
On Monday last a painter named |
McCullock, while working on a /
bridge on Three Sisters Island, at |
Niagara Falls, fell from the seat /
fold, and was carried by the cur
rent near the falls, where he caught |
on a rock. After great efforts he /
was rescued by a man named John /
Conway, who made his way to the /
rock where McCulloek had been so
long hanging, and brought him off.
Conway tied rope around his body
and at the peril of his life perform
ed this heroic act.
The trial of Gov. Moses for grand
larceny, did not take place, in con-
sequence of the accused being alb
sent. The Solicitor asked for a
warrant of arrest, but the court
refused it. The counsel for No
ses then moved to strike the
case from the docket, on the
ground that a Governor can
not be indicted and tried for any
crime, except before an impeach-
ment. The court reserved de-
cision and postponed the case till I
the next court, which meets in Oc-