Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-20
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Archbishop McClusky of New York
has been made a Cardinal.
Mr.. Ferry, (Rep.,) of Connecticut,
has made a temperate a"d thoughtful
speech against Pinchbact rs Senator
from Louisiana
II Is said that all TIE railroads
from New York to the West are
now cutting under each other TO Sc
cure freight.
The Supreme Court of New York.
I in general terms to day, dismissed
I the writ of habeas corpus III the
case Of -Senetor VIM. II. Tweed.
/ 4 bill has been introduced in The
/ Delaware Legislature to offset the eff
feet of thcciyil-rights law in that
State.
The standing committee Of the Do
: cese of South Carolina has consented
I to the conservation Of the Rev. Dr.
/ jaeger. but refused To consent 10 that
/ of DIR. DehDyeg-
; Two freigh, trains on the Illinois
{ Central raj road collided near Dongo-
+ Ia Saturday, demOlishing the en-
gines killing Fireman John Wisher
aud injuring Henry McMullen, an
/ engineer.
The Courier-JourGaTs special dis
patch from Lexington reports that
General John Z Breckenridge was out
walking on the streets Saturday for
tie first time IN several months
/ Brigham Young is in Jail. lie fail
I ed to pay the slightest attention 20
the order Of the Judge Of the Court,
I who allowed alIInOny to Ann Ella,
and The Sher # marched BIN off to
prison.
The Steamer, W. J. Lewis, took fire
and was burned sixty miles below
ST. Louis OF Wednesday last. Seven
lives we're lost. The boat was valued
at $50, 900 and was insured for S3S, 600.
The reception OF ex-Speaker Blaine
at Philadelphia indicates that the Re
Publicans Of that city, are preparing
TO marshal the Republican forces in
Pennsylvania in favor of Blaine as
the candidate for President in 1916.
The Secretary Of the Treasury las
decided to return to the old method
of redeeming mutilated currency, uu-
der which a deduction was made pro-
portioned to the portion Of notes
missing. The change viii take effect
on The LIST prOximo.
The master painters Of New York
have resolved to Increase their hour S
of labor, and wdges-their workmen
from eight hours and three dollars a
day to ten hours aud three dollars and
half day. TIE Workmen went on
strike Monday.
A dispatch to the COurier-JOur
from Shelbyyilr, KY, trumps the
mysterious Jackson hand with skull
found ia the ruins of burnt house.
How the skull got into the place where
it was found, is what puzzles the Gu
riOus in Shelbyville.
The same dispatch gives the partic-
ulars of an assault upon jailer Thomp-
son by four negro prisoners, who
made their escape. The jailor was
= knocked down and stunned, and the
pris OuerS fed into the darkness. with
parting salvo of pistol shots, fired
after them without eff :ct By tn mp
son and his son.
The negroes at Montgomery, Ala.
swOre out q new warrant for Cal.
Wagner, proprietor of the minstrel
troupe, and his ticket agent. The
former was discharged, and the latter
gave a bond OF $500 to appear ut the
I next term of court. This cast has
caused several theatrical companies
, TO cancel their engagements for that
city.
An effort has been made to obtain a
respite for jesse Franks, sentenced to
be hanged on the 10Th instant, at
Richmond Va, for the murder of the
Herndon family, consisting of a man
aud wife aud a cplOred boy, in Prince
William County. on the 9Th of last
December. Franks says he does not
want the day of hanging postponed,
and has ordered that his body be Civ
: en- to a physician who requested it,
: saying it wonld be taken up by some
doctor any how.
A man who had been observed
walking along the railroad track at
Aurora, Ills FRIDAY night, suddenly
laid his head upon the rail as the
train approached, and it was cut from
the body by the wheels. He was
well dressed, but there was nothing
on his person to indicate his name,
| except an. envelope, on which We're
!. printed tae words, ~. ID. FOS, Pen
sion Agent, Aurora"
Z. G. Chilson, a Methodist preacher
from Waterville, Kansas, arrived at
Helena, Montana, March 18th, and was
dOmiciled az the international IlO-
, tel. While the guests were at d nner,
fire vas discovered in his room. Sew
eral men in attempting 10 enter the
room were knocked down and serious
~ injured by Chilson, who was dis
covered TO be insane. He had set the
bedding on fire. The ire was eItiu-
guished with but slight loss. Chilson
was overpowered and conveyed to the
asylum.
The full vote of New Hampshire is
now in and foots up as follows: For
governor, Cheney 1925; Roberts
80, 1853; White 754 Total vote Is, POP.
Cheney over Roberts 122. Congress
men: First Whitehouse (Re-
publican), Is, GIG; Jones Dem.), A.
OO4; scattering 326; Jones, plurality
1856. Second diatrict-Pike rep. J,
II, 937; Bell. Dem L, BOSS; scattering
POP; Bells plurality 147. Third dis
trIct-Blair. (Rep.) 12,3SS; Kent,
Dem 12,17l; scattering 1853; Blair's
plurality 2)7.
The regular Vicksburg and Dun
cansby packet, B. H. Hart, which left
Vicksburg Friday afternoon, is re-
ported sunk thirty miles above that
city at the foot of Island One Hun
bred and Two. The accident was
caused by running against drift wood.
Hardy Hendren, the clerk, jumped
overheard and was drownded Ten
or fifteon negro deck passengers it is
supposed are lost The boat and car
90 are probably a total loss.
About ten o'clock Sunday morning,
during a thunder storm, q ten thou
sand barrel tank of oil, at the River
side oil-retinery, on the bank of Allie
gheny river, near Pittsburg, Psnnsyl-
vania, owned by Evans & Flack, was
struck by1ightning, and the oil burnt,
together with two cars on the Ale
gheny Valley railroad, containing five
hundred barrels of benzine. Total
loss about fifteen thousand dollars,
nearly covered by insurance in
Wheeling, Pittsburg and eastern
companies.
On the 23d September last, while
several boys were playing on the street
near the corner of Christy avenue and
Seventeenth street, st. Louis, a little
son of Robt NJ Boatright was killed
/ by a brick supposed to have been
thrown by a boy named Charles
Woodson. Monday last, while Wood
son was on trial in the &riminal Court
and while counsel were arguing a le-
gal point, another son of Mr.. Boat
right, about sixteen years old, stepped
up TO Woodson and said, You killed
nv brother; l win kill you," anl
plunged a butcher knife into his alb
domen up to the handle. WOodson
fell to the floor, his bowels prOtruding
in o terrible manner. The wound is
mortal. Young BOatright was imme-
diately seized by the deputy marshal
and placed in Jail.
On Feb. IS, John Dolan was sen