Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-11-20
TENNESSEE NEWS.

MIR. VIM. Coulter, and old and respect
eel citizen, died In Humboldt Wednesday
night of last week.
All over the State our eotemporaries
want to know about ''that wood" due for
subscription.
Ger. II. II. Bell, of Dyer county. leaves
for California soon, where he will take
up his abode.
The grVsshOppers are devastating the
young wheat fields of Wilson cOuEtT A
great many farmers will have TO SOW the
second time.
Belleville Enterprise: Mr.. David Mum,
the father of ID. A. Num-, died at Browns
vile, on Monday night. Dir. Num- was
an old and good citizen, well-knOTn in
this vicinity.
Clarksville Chronicle: A negro nam
ed Jack Elliott, who lived in District No.
o, shot himself in the abdomen last Sat
urday, inflicting wound from which he
died about II O'Clock that night.
There are so many sportEmen around
ReslfOOt Lake that a regular skirmish fire
is kept M all day, and yet the ducks do
not seemed TO be thinned out. TrOat are
biting finely.
Huntingdon Republican: A large acre
=.
in this county. This is all right; we have
seen the good of such precautiOn. We
are obliged to have wheat, and it is better
to raise it at home.
CIarksvillS Chronicle: A negro named
Wash Suggs, got his jaw broken while
trying TO hold negro woman who was
shouting last Thursday. DIR. :. took out
a portion of his jaw, and he is in a very
critical condition, as he cannot eat any
thing.
Knoxville Press & Herald: In a pri-
vate letter from State Treasurer Morrow,
he says: "Since August, 1879, to date,
our receipts at Knoxville have bseR Just
81, O40 in currency, while in West Ten
nessee, and at Nashville, it has not been
much more, while our current expenses
amount TO 500, 600"
Last Saturday a little girl, about eight
years old, poured coal oil on the floor and
touched a match TO il to see it burn, and
now Richard Green, her father, has no
home, and she has gone TO meet her grand
mother ''on the other shore" West
Tennessee Clarion.
Murfreesboro News: Thirty negro en-
iErants left here on last Monday night
for Mississippi, which we understand is
only the beginning ola wholesale exodus
Of that race from our county, As soon az
they can raise money enough 10 pay for
transportation. Among those who left
may be classed the good, bad and indih-
eTcnt.
Brownsville States: A Deputy United
States Marshal served q writ against the
corporation of Brownsville for s., 400,
and the case will 90 directly to the Fed
eral Court unless otherwise settled. The
complainant is X. ID. Baker, of Kentucky,
who holds twenty bonds of the cOrpora-
ton, and now sues for the interest on the
same for the past three years, amounting
to g., 400.
Examiner: \ negro woman by the
n.me OF Kate Newsom, living in the low
edge Of town near the graveyard, Vas
l;Irned TO death last Saturday. She was
alone in her house at the time, and had
dropped of to sleep while sitting in a
chair near the fire. Her clothes took fire,
a.:d before assistance could be rendered.
sine had received fatal injuries. She died
the following day. Her husband was in
jail at the time to answer a charg, of
horse stealing, and was acquitted Of the
same by the Circuit Court, then in ses-
sion, on the same day IfAt his wife was
hIrned.