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Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-20
TEXAS LETTER.
The Governor VeIOes the Internn-
IiOnal Compromise Bill!
The Constitutional Convention VIII
be held.
4 New Election Of State Officers and
two Sets of Democratic Candidates.

4 New Election Of State Officers ana
two Sets of Democratic Candidates.
Houston, Texas, March s, 1875.
The Governor has vetoed the Inter
national Railroad Compromise bill
and that greatest of the evils in the
political Paudora's box of Texas Is
again upon US. This question of
/ course has two sides to it, and the
people are nearly evenly divided upon
it, small majority, in my opinion,
| tavoring the payment of State Bonds
| to the Railroad company. 1 further
incline to the opinion that whenever
the true merits of the case are under
stood and the exact nature of the
question is cOmprehended that the
people will almost unanimously favor
the payment to the subsidy to the
Company.
The question of a Constitutional
Convention is now looming up. The
bill calling one has passed the House
and will certainly pass the Senate
early this week. The friends of the
International Railroad are working
strenuously for the convention and
| the effort will be made in that cOnven-
| ton for q new deal all around. The
attitude of the West is threatening
| and to quiet matters there as we'll as
to settle this International Subsidy
case, there must be a general cleo
ton in December.
1t will be a family fight and the
questions at issue viii be Governor
Coke's financial policy and his action
against the International Railroad.
( We all believe Governor Coke to be
an honorable and conscientious gen.
| tleman, and believing as he does,
( that the International Railroad Char
/ ter and the Compromise Bill were
both unconstitutional, it was his duty
TO veto the bill.
The people OF Houston do not man
! ifest as much interest in the great In
ternatioual Subsidy question as those
! of the eastern and western portions of
the State, but are lending all their en-
ergias to the advancement of trade Ia
the Bayou city and to devrlope the
! great resources of the Lone Star State,
and no one individual is doing more
| in this direction than our old reliable
citizen, J. E. Foster, who IS distribu-
| ting thousands of pamphlets, maps
| and circulars setting forth the advan-
| tages of Texas all over the United
States, and British Provinces, at his
own expense. On the 18th of May he
distributes over 10000 acres Of choice
lands and improved real estate in this
city, when those wishing to come to
Texas may secure a home here by
/ sending him 81, Those wishing for
/ information about the distribution
must send to Col F. for circulars,
maps, etc The weather here Tor the
past two days has been excessively
cold, and on Saturday quite a snow
storm prevailed in the northern per
tion of the State, something quite IN
usual for Texas. SANCHEs.
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Of MeNairy and Phillips in the 500
acre tract. The location of the tract
was II ade by McLemore, Yaulx and
Car9thsrs. In 1921 he purchased a
keel oOat at Nashville, laded it with
provisions and brought it down the
TCuT herland, Ohio aud Mississippi
] rI7s thsyeSOUth Of the FOrked
wa .dP-.zf stream to jackson,
and .ded i where McCanahans
Lefee presses the river. He brought
the first cotton gin to West Tennessee
in the same year. a man named
Bradea was here when Butler came,
and the next settler after Butler was
Shannon, who became the owner of
all that part of the land row covered
by the city that lies west of Market
street.
The subject of our sketch was a
Justice of the Peace for several years,
and at the solicitation of friends was
a candidate for the Legislature, in
opposition to the celebrated Davy
Crockett, who was elected by one vote.
He purchased from General jackson.
for 1920, one forty-ninth of the Ram
sey North Carolina) grant of 5000
acres on which the city of Memphis
is located. He was the personal
friend of Judge Cairon, Felix Grundy,
janis K. Polk, Andrew Jackson, John
Bell, Gen. VIM. Carroll, Hugh L.
White and others, whose fame will
be coeval with the history of the State.
and part of il, as the fossil Is a part
Of the rock in which it is embedded.
Thus have we given some of the lead
ing incidents in the life of DIR. Butler,
a man who at the ago of IS, retains his
faculties of mind and body in a won
derfut degree, the only social embar-
rassment under which he labors being
a partial deafness. His habits are well
known, and in his daily intercourse
with people touching business matters,
his mind is as clear and distinct as that
Of a man of half his age. He has reap
eo the fruits of a successful pioneer
life. Lands that he bought in the
wilds Of West Tennessee, have appreci-
ated with the growth of a thriving
city, and without an examination of
the records we feel warranted in saying
that the name of William E Butler
occurs in the title deeds to Jackson
property more often than any other.
Dnigent, systematic and cautious in
ONoAhGoog AAE las cuCGGCICu III u
lating and retaining wealth. and will
spend the remainder of his life in the
city which he has known from its be-
ginning.
Like one Of the forest oaks lingering
il our midst, he connects the age of
the Forked Deer cotton boats with that
of the railway train and telegraph;
children and grandchildren have sat
around his hearth, and sought other
homes in distant cities. Generations
have been swept into their graves since
- began the battle of life, and with
- snOR1 Of nearly centGry-O on iis
head, he walks our streets, transacting
business, and illustrating the theory
that active employment, even in the
harshest and stOrmiest vicissitudes of
human affairs, tends to longevity,
and the conservation of the physical
and mental forces of men.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-20

HUSBANDS AND HOMEMADE SHIRTS.
"A day or two ugo, while crossing
the ice, we overhsard two ladies talk
ing about a new dress, and one of the
ladies remarked that, "When / tried
1t on, | asked Bob if it was a good fit
about the waist, and he replied.
'.Well, 1 should say not. lifts obOut
as well as homemade shirt" There
was a volume in Bob's reply. As a
rule, home made shirts don't hit at all.
They will draw in at the back and
over the shoulder 10 that extent a
fellow don't know whether he is en-
cased in a shoulder brace or a straight
Jacket. The meek band may not 20
twice around aud tuck in behind, but
it usually laps about three inches, or
else it Is cut so low in the neck that a
twenty-fOur inch collar is required to
reach the collar button. In leaning
forward when sitting tie bosom
crushes IN 1T thu sides and projects in
the middle, looki2g more like a badly
demorallZed dustpan than any thing
else. The sleeves are so short that
the large, twenty-five cent pair of
buttons, selected with great care,
either tickle fellows elbows or dan
Gle around his finger nails, never ar
riving at a compromise between the
two. The skirts are generally of an
abbreviated character, making the at
fair resemble an overgrown round
about. Men do not like to find fault,
knowing that their wives meant well
enough, and worked hard in making
the garments, but when away. from
the house 90 not hesitate to say that
the desire Of their hearts is that their
wives should go OFT Of the business.
Troy Times.
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Prince Edwards Island Buried I'm
RHOW.

Prince Edwards Island, according
to Canadian correspondence, is liter
arv one gigantic snow-bank. Its in
habitants have, during the present
winter, suffered unprecedented hard
ships from the unusual severe cold,
and buried in snow as the island has
been for several months past, and still
is, the consequences have become very
serious. The isla, is not very large,
neither is it densely populated. OF
800, 900 inhabitants, only about one
fifteenth reside i'll the larger towns
and villages, the remainder being
scattered over an area of two thousand
square miles, engaged mostly in agri-
cultural pursuits. Though accustom-
ed to cold long winters, and to max
ing ample preparations against them,
none as severe as the present one has
been experienced for many years, and
the full supplies have become exhaus-
ted. Owing to impossible roads and
snow block AIDES, comm municatIOn
among farmers have become interrupt
ed, aud it has been found impossible
to procure fire-wood from the forest,
and, in order to prevent death by
freezing, fences has been burned, and
orchards cut down and used for fuel.
Thaws seldom occur, and no relief can
be expected until the late spring sea-
son becomes more advanced than usu-
al. Therefore, at least two months OF
severe winter must pass before the
SHOWS viii melt and industries can be
resumed, and much suffering is scarce
" avoidable under the circumstances.
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Serious Accidents

What a dreadful place Il school
house must be, and what shocking
things happen there, if the talk of
sc o I children is to be relied upon!
Yesterday uo1n 1 heard a dozen of
them speaking about the various Incl
dents of the day. 1t was impossible
to catch all they said, as three or tour
talked at once, but 1 managed to learn
these stating facts:
Nelly Jones coughe3 fit to split her
sidcSl
Kitty Carson nearly died of laugh
ing.
That Lawrence bay actually boiled
OreT with rage.
The teachers eyes ShO ryire.
Nelly Murray recited loud enough 10
take the roof Of Of the house.
RObby Fitz's eyes gre1c as large as
saUcers.
Tommy Hudson almost ran has feet
Of.
Susie Jennings thought she'd burst.
Ellen Walters broke dO,CH COM
pletely.
And vet it was an ordinary school
day.-Fr0Dl '',Jdck- -iH-the- Pulpit" st.
Nicholas for Mrach.
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Engraved by Chas, Reilly, of Louisville
L

There are men whose lives are inter
esting, because they are cotemporane-
GUS with the earliest history of cities
and States. Such men were Boone
and Kenton of Kentucky, and Hous-
ton of Texas, to say nothing of others,
identified with the pioneer days of
Que American civilization, as il has
moved like Il dawn from the Atlantic
seaboard to the Pacific slope. The
perils of savage warfare were encOun-
tered by some, the hardships of the
wilderness were borne by others, and
thus with the rifle, the axe and the
plow, has the bold, aggressive Anglo
American ''set up a stronger race, and
titled the wastes, cleared the dark
places, let in the law, and cleansed
the land" Jackson is not yet old
enough to have outlived one OF the
first two men who identified them
selves with this part of West Tennes-
see, when the site of our city was a
wilderness plantation. One of these
men is DR.. WILLIAM EDWARD But
LER, of whom we present brief bio
graphical sketch to our readers, be
cause of the historical interest at
tachiBg to alife that has been actively
identified with the county seat of
Madison county for more than half a
century. He was born at the military
post at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Janua-
ry %, 1870. His father was Colonel
Thomas Butler of the United States
Army, who participated with two
brothers, Richard aud Edward, in the
bloody and disastrous battle known
as st. Clair's defeat, fought in the
Ohio wilderness between 400 white
troops and about the same number of
Indians, when the victorious savages
slaughtered $40 whites aud wounded
26O, showing the bravery of the assail-
ants and the stubbornness of the de-
fehce, that have made St. Clair's de-
feat a tale of horror in the annals of
frontier warfare in the Northwest. In
this battle Richard Butler was killed,
and as he leaned mortally wounded
against tree, Edward attempted to
assist him from the field, when the
dying man saying that he was beyond
help, called attention to his brother
Thomas, whose leg was broken,
when the other brother, dismounting
a fugitive who was riding an artillery
horse, placed DR.. Buffers father upon
the animal and succeeded in getting
him away. DR.. Butler attended
school at Piltsburg, Pennsylvania, in
1898. From Pennsylvania he went to
Nashville, and thence to Knoxville.
He came to Madison county, and in
1921 made a crop on the land now
covered by the city of Jackson. On
the 10th day of May, 1911, he was
united in marriage with Miss Patsey
Thompson Hays, daughter of Col.
Robert Hays. of Haysboro, near
Nashville. He donated thirty acres
and thirteen poles as a site for the
toEn of Jackson, which waa named
at his request, in honor of Audrey
jackson, whose wife was an aunt If
Mrs. Butler. DR.. Butler, in behalf Of
McNairy, Butler and Phillips, ZEN
tered" the tract of land in 1920 on
which Jackson is located. He after
wards bought from Rutledge, who
had purchased from them the interests
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For the Mhic md Trlhune
JACKSON, Tenn, Mar. 5, IO,P.M.

JACKSON, Tenn, Mar. ;, 10, T. ".
The night was lovely. Luna had not
yet made her sppearace above the ho-
rizon, and the stars were shedding their
soft, silvery light over the darkened
earth, while here and there, in pleasing
and striking contrast with the muddy
ground, were spots of beautiful snow"
1t was just such a night as the novel;
lists describe as eminently appropriate
to love and poetry. As 1 sat intently
pOring over
"A quaint and curious volumn OF forgotten
lore"
some unusual sound broke upon the
Stiffness of the night. As I listened l
discovered that the sound l had heard
as'prOduced by a harmonious combi-
nation of sweet female veices, which,
floating out upon
-''the balmy air of night"
penetrated to the recesses of my cham
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Prominent Hebrews Of New YORK.

New York Cor. OF the Rochester Democrat.
It has been computed that there are
so, 600 Jews in this city. I think this
number too large an estimate; but
there are probably $4,000. As a peo-
pie they are strongly attached to their
ancient service A few have wandered
into in idelity, the chief of these being
August Belmont, the noted banker.
The Jews are, to a large degree, of
Germans; hence they prefer this ele-
ment In their religion. The chief syn
agOgue IN this city is that of the Tenn
pie Emmanuel, corner of Forty-third
street and Fifth avenue. II Is a new
structure, of great beauty, and cost
$500, 900. In doctrine it is of the Re
formed or Rationalistic order, and its
rabbi is Samuel Adler, by birth 4 Ger
man, and now in his sixtv-fifth year.
Rabbi Adler breaches IN German; but
his assistant, Gustave Gottheil, is a
good English scholar, and officiates in
that tongue. Each of these men re-
ceives s., 900 4 year, and this double
salary speaks well for the hberality
as we'll as for the wealth of the Socie-
ty. Another rabbi of foreign birth Is
David Einhorn, of Bavaria, who came
to this country in 1864, and has charge
of a synagogue IN the Seventh avenue.
Samuel Isaacs, rabbi Of the Grand
street Synagogue, in Forty-fifth street,
is q native Of Holland. and has labor
ed in this city since 1888. The ark in
this institution cost so, 600 Services
are held in Hebrew and German.
Rabbi Hucsch, a native of Hungary,
who came hither in 1874, has charge of
the Lexington avenue Synagogue. The
ediiice and its appointments of wor-
ship cost 5000, 900.
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LIFE's COST.

/ could not at the first be born
But By another's bitter |ailIng pain;
Another's loss must be my sweetest gain;
And Love, only TO win thai I might be.
Must wet her couch foriorn
with tears OF blood and sweet Of agony
Since then | cannot live a week
But some fair thing must leave the daisied
Dels,
The joy Of pastures, bubbling springs and
wells,
And grassy murmurs Of peaceful days,
To bleed in pain, and reck,
And die, for me to tread LIES pleasant ways.
cannot sure be warmed or lit
But men must crouch and toll 10 toTtuous
caYes,
Bowed on themselves, while day and night
in waves
OF bIackness wash away their sunless ltv0si
Or blaste and yore hit,
Dark life to darker death the miner drives.
Naked, I capnot clothed be
Buc worms must patient weave their satin
shrsud;
The sheep must shiyer to the April cloud,
Yielding his one vi hite coat to keep me
warm;
In shop and factory,
For me must weary toiling milli@ns swarm.
With gems deck not brow or hand
But through the roaring dark Of cruel seas
Some wretch with shivering breath and
trembling knees
Goes beadlong, while the sca-sh2rks dodge
bis quest;
Then at my door be stands,
Naked. With bleeding ears and heaying
che |.
fall not on my knees and pray.
But God must come from heaven 10 fetch
that sigh,
And pierced hands must take it back on
high;
And through HIS broken heart and cloVen
lde
l. makes an open way
/ For whoeould notliye but that lie died.
o fuI sweetest life Il mine,
/ That q od and man both serve in blood and
/ tcarsi
! . prayers breathe not but through other
pruyer,l
/ 0 breath Of life compact OF others sighs!
/ With this dread glfl divine
/ All, whittier gcl-what worthily deyisti
! ron myself dare 10 spend
I This dreadful thing, in pleasure laPPcd and
reared,
/ What am but a hideous idol smeared
/ With human blood, that with its csrrion
smile
| Alike to foe and friend
ME..!.le,s the wrstch who per3>h the
! y while!
/ viii away aud find my God,
| And what da e not keep a,k Ilim to take,
| And taking loves sweet sacrifice TO make;
! Then. like wave the sorrow and the pain
| High heaven with glory flood
| For Ia. m for me, tor all, sp,tndid sSin
JANE ELLICE HOPKINS
! MarrniU m, Magazine
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Apropos of the Tyndall-Darwin

Apropos of the TyndalI-Darwin
theories comes in one of General
Schenck's latest stories that he told
to the wife of q British Cabinet officer,
who assured him that England made
America all that she IS" Pardon,
madam" said the General; "you re-
mind me Of an answer of the Ohio lad
in his teens, who, attending Sunday
school for the first time, was asked by
his teacher, Who made YOu?' Made
me- Yes Why, God made me
about so long (hOlding his hands
about ten inches apart, but l growed
the rest.
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MEDON ACADEMY,
+. II. WILLIAMS, Principal.
MRS. l.. ". CRALLE, Assistant.

II HANING secured a lease for a period OF
II hve years on the lower rooms OF the
Masonic building, propose, on the 18th Of
February next, 10 open school at this
place, trusting that shall have the hearty
cooperation ard patronage Of my friends
and the citizens OF the community gener-
ally, in my undertaking.
The house rrtt ned to has recently under
gone eNtenSl We and substantial repairs, and
will be made perfectly comfortable and
ready for the reception OfpupilS be ore the
time specified. ! shall bend all my energies
to the work before me and strive constant
ly to discharge faithfully and well my du-
ties arising from my relations as teacher, to
both patrons and pupils, and shall endeuv-
or 10 govern the school with rTmucSs and
moderation,
shall have the assistance of my sister,
MRS. l. ". CEkITE, who has had long
eN, erieuCe, both IN preparatory ana cole
giaiC institutions and whose ability j am
tClllECTs couIuUulty- A, .-lirE 80 t'F-'Ns al
as tIltt'-ia--sE t-,.-~iule amy furtECr outlay on
the part OF parents ANA EuIrufFtr- iit rr-l.-lld
To text books, / shall tTN- uS far as She ac-
quiremCutS Ot the scholars and interests Of
the schuo, will permit, tu continue those
heretofore used.
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4 young married man at Rocklaud
Ne, becoming jealous of his wife at a
recent entel taiumeut, told her, on
reaching home, that he intended TO
commit suicide, and was told to 60
ahead. He accordingly procured q
rope, and, making due pl eparation,
swung himself Of, calculating, how
ever, tkat he would lie cut down in
time TO ave his life. An alarm was
given, and the EeighLors fastened 20
tie rescue, Lut before knife could
be found to cut him down he was black
in the face and nearly dead. lie is
recovering, and thinks it doesn't pay
to run so much risk for the pleasure
OF frightening his better half.