Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-22

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was found dead near Fayetteville,
/ last week. He was seen in apparently
| good health only a short time before
and is supposed to have died of sun
stroke.
From the Nashville Union and
American we get the following official
vote of this chancery district: In the
| Tenth chancery district, H J. Living
stOn was elected Chancellor, receiving
II. 32S against 9,1S1 for b. p. Boyd.
LivingstOn's majority 5,147.
On Saturday last, at Kingston
! Springs, Robert Banks, a cOlored mu-
sician, was shot and killed by a drum
| ken white man, named VIM Kellam.
It was a cowardly and uuprovOked
assassination. The Governor has Of
fered a reward of $500 for his appre-
hensiOn.
The Alamo Sentinel states that cat
| lie and hogs are suffering for water in
Crockett county, more than the crops,
and the crops need rain badly. Ali
the branches are dry, and in the norGh-
ern and western portions of the coun-
| ty there is no stock water at all out
| side of the wells.
The Alamo Sentinel says: The va
| rious works of Improvement going OH
in our midst have brought TO our town
many worthy men and good citizens,
but 1t also brings its necessary CON
comitants-many stragglers of very
| doubtful character. Several attempts
have already been made at stealing,
hOuse-breaking, etc.
OF the crops in Hardeman county
the Bulletin saws: We are in the
midst of most devastating drouth,
and the crops throughout this section
are, IN many instances, literally de-
| stroyed, while those fields which have
escaped so for are beginning to don a
''pale and sickly hue"
A distressing accident, occurred ut
| Memphis on Friday night the 18th, by
which an estimablc lady, well known
in Nashville, lost her life. In attempt
ing 60 turn down a lamp, Mrs. Rosser.
the wife of Capt Isaac Rosser, was so
severely:burned by the lamp exploding
that she died Saturday.
Crockett County Sentinel: Mr..
Jimmie Fuel and Miss Mary Burke
were married on the road between
Quincy and the residence of Esquire
John Cook last Sunday morning.
They started TO the 'Squire's house
to get him to marry them, but met
him on the road and had the knot
tied then and there.
Humboldt Journal: Mr.. w. b.
Rivers, living five miles east of town,
has two fine blooded game chickens I
on his farm with well developed and |
healthy looking spurs on each side |
the head like horns. When viewed /
from distance of ten or twelve steps |
they look very much like horns. |
Strange to say they have no other |
spurs, their legs are perfectly smooth |
with scarcely sign of spur.
The Knoxville Press and Herald /
says of the notorious Laudermilk:-l
''This famous individual was tried at /
Kingston, on Tuesday last, and SEN !
fenced to the penitentiary for twenty 4
one years for stealing the horse of 1
Frank Welcker, of ROane county, last /
winter. Laudermilk was the last one /
of the Mynatt gang, whose exploits /
in Knox county, last spring. and pur- /
suit and capture by Love will recGr /
to our readers.
We see from the Florence Times that /
LegrO attempted to 20 to church !
with a young lady by the name of ,
Hughes, living in Wayne county. /
The "cOlored cuss" said he intended /
to go to church with her whether she /
liked it or not whereupon the young 1
lady stepped in the house took down .
a double-barrelled shot gun, and sent /
fourteen buckshot through his car
cass. He got his civil rights.
The Nashville Union and American
Of the 18th says: Early yesterday
morning the dead body of an infant
was found in an alley Just beyond Il.
II. Wilson's drug store on Cedar
street. Its legs and head had been
eaten entirely of by some kind of an
animal, and the skull was found about
one hundred yards from where the
body lay. The coroners Jury return
ed a verdict that the infant came to
its death from some violent cause, IN
known to them.
The Union and American of the
18th says: Robert Saunders, Clerk
and Master of Grundy county, who
had been spending a few days at Beer
sheba, disappeared in a very mysteri-
GUS manner about midnight last Thurs
day night. The next day a search
was instituted, and on Sunday morn
ing his mangled remains were found
at the foot of the precipice at ''Stone
Door''-a few miles from the Springs
where he had fallen, or thrown
himself, distance of 800.
Wharf Master Ed Shaw, colored.
of Memphis, stated in speech in that .
city last week, that negroes had been
murdered in the big creek district of
Shelby county, by lawless bands of
whites. The statement was news to
the press and people of Memphis, and
a searching investigation was the re-
suit. As we expected, and as every !
body else expected, who knew the ne
gro Shaw, his statement, to draw it
mild. was a second-class lie. Nobody, S
either white or black, had been muir
deredin the big creek country, and
perfect peace reigns In that slandered I
locality.
Savannah Transcript: Mr. Joseph / I
Crotts, living q few miles from this }
place, was terribly mangled by fall
ing into an unfinished well on his
place, one day last week. The well :
had been dug to a depth of forty S
feet when it became necessary TO '
blast the rock at the bottom before c
they could proceed. a heavy blast I
had Just been discharged, and Mr.. :
CrOtts in his anxiety TO see the effect. :
vent down in the we'll hefOra tba / q