Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-02-05
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Tennessee stands eighth as 4 tobacco
growing State.


said to be a magnificent structure, and |
will cost S22, 54S O8.
An injunction has been filed in chan
Gerry at Memphis for the purpose Of wind !
ing up the affairs of the Southern Life |
Insurance Company, on the alleged |
grounds of insolvency.
At McEwen station, Tenn, Saturday, |
an old man named jackson was murdered
by a solOon- keeper named a. J. Penn
berton, who, it is thought, may be lynch
ed.
Parson Brownlow is nearly seventy,
and he ascribes his long life 10 the fact
that he never voted the Democratic tick
ct. The old ghoul evidently believes in
the truth of WoodwOrth's assertion: "The
good die young"
Lexington Reporter: Mr. Lacy, of
Decatur county, sent us a few days since
an Indian pipe which had been unearthed
some where near the Tennessee river.
1t is an artificial curiosity in the shape
of a hand carved out of some kind of soft
stone.
Winchester Home journal: "An ARRAY
occurred at Flyntville, Lincoln county,
near the edge of this county, last Thurs
day night. 1t seems that John Young
and another man attempted to murder Mr..
Reynolds, of this county, but Mr.. R.,
with billet Of wood, came near killing
both"
Fayetteville Express: deputy. Unit
ed States Marshal James n. Davis was
arrested in this place yesterday morning
by Constable Nevils, on 4 warrant sworn
out by a Miss Andrewton, who lives with
Mr.. Felix Smith, on COldwater, in this
county, charging him with accomplish
lug rape upon the person of her sister,
one day last week.
Ripley News: Mr.. John Emerson who
moved from North Carolina to this cOun-
ty some four or five years ago, is the IA
ther OF eighteen children, and can count
one hundred and siXty-eight grand and
great grandchildren. The old gentleman,
who is now eighty-two years old, is
still hale and hearty, attends church
regularly and can frequently be seen
on our streets transacting business.
Dyersburg Progress: A note from ". J.
Crow informs us that Seth F. Thorn
ton committed suicide recently, at HoOs-
Ter Town, seven miles south of Dyers-
burg. Domestic difficulties are supposed
to have prompted the rash act, while in a
fit of temporary insanity. Mr.. Thorn.
ton had been separated from his wife for
some time.
Dresden (Tenn.,) Democrat: Our read
ers will remember the notice we publish
ed two or three weeks since of the killing
of little child of Mr.. 7. p. Trentham by
a falling tree. At the funeral of the
! child whose death we recorded, the old
est son of Mr.. Trentham, boy seventeen
or eighteen years of age, contracted a Sc
we're cold, resulting in pneumonia and
terminating in his death few days since.
! At his funeral, the father, Mr.. Trentham,
| also contracted the disease and died on
Monday last.
| Huntingdon Republican: A little boy
OF A. j. Butler, about two years old, Oh
| the 18th inst. He and his two little
brothers. four and six years of age, were
in the lot, and the older ones ran ahead
/ to look at the horses, and returned by
way of little pond about foot and a.
half deep, they found their little brother
! had fallen down the bank into the water,
and was drowned. They raised the
| alarm and he was taken out, but was
| lifeless, and it was supposed he had been
| in the pond some twenty-five or thirty
minutes. All efforts possible we're made
! to restore life, but without effect. The
bereaved parents have our sympathies in
| their loss.
Chattanooga Commercial: A colOred
man by the name of James Dobbs passed
| through here yesterday, in charge of an
officer, on his way to Nashville. He was
/ sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
| years for house breaking in Henderson
| county. He appealed to the Supreme
| court and while waiting for trial there,
was sent to the Cincinnati Southern rail-
road where he has worked for the past
| year. The Supreme court reserved the
| decision last week and ordered him sent
/ back TO Henderson county for a new trial.
/ DObbs says he is the wrong man and
! hopes to be cleared. If he is he ought to
! be paid for his years work and furnished
/ n CF1if of ri Oth hos in Cf
on uniform.
| Lexington Reporter; A young man
| by the name of Grogan was arrested in
! town one day last week for stealing mon
| ey from two of our saloons by reaching
| over the counters and extracting from
/ the change drawers while the gentlemen
/ were busy in another room. After he
was arrested he boosted that stealing was
an easy way to live, and that was the
way he expected to live, or something to
| that effect in substance. His parents live
| in this county, and are reported to be
! good citizens. The sad fate of their son
| is much to be regretted on their part, as
| he is now in Jail. The money was taken
| from the saloons of Cap. Reed and Gal
| loway IS Ellison.
Ripley News: We learn that Mr.. Rob
| eTt Rice, living four miles from this
| place, had the misfortune to have his
| little daughter, aged six years, burnt to
| death. Mrs. Rice had been washing I'M
| der Il shed in the yard and had gone OFF
/ to attend to some of her domestic duties,
/ leaving her little daughter standing by
/ the fire, when her clothing came in con-
/ tact with the blaze and soon enyeloped
/ her in n solid sheet of flame. The unfOr-
/ tunate little one ran frantically in search
! of her mother, but soon fell exhausted,
! and when discovered was literally baked
]
| several hours, in eXtreem agony, when
| death came to her relief, lOOsed the silver
! cord, and transported her TO that better
! land where sorrow, pain and death are
! felt and feared no more.
Lewisburg Free Press: "Col. Upshaw
returned from Wayne county last week.
! He says that the late action of the chair
man of the County Court TO refuse to
sign the bonds, does not affect in the
| least the progress of the work on the rail-
road. 1t is only a delay in the issuance
| of the bonds. Meanwhile, the work goes
ahead with renewed energy on our part of
| the line.-ThOmaS Fleming, 4 young
man who came from Maury cOuny, short
/ time ago and settled in the Seventh Dis
| trict. killed himself last Saturday, it is
! supposed accidentally. He had left home
/ to 90 hunting, and about O'Clock in the
! afternoon some of his neighbors heard a
/
running home, alarmed his wife, who
went out several hundred yards in the
| direction from which the horse came, and
| called him. She then informed some Of
| the neighbOrs, who made a search that
| evening and night, but without success.
| On sunday morning the search was re-
| newed, and about nine O'Clock his body
was found, mangled with two loads of
| buck and squirrel shot, most of his cloth
| ing burned, and his body burned in
/ frightful manner. From the position of
| his body, tbs supposed that he was stand
ing on a log, and let his gun drop, the
| hammers striking the log and discharging
! both barrels into his abdomen"
american: One of the most horrible
/ murders that has ever occurred in Ten
! neSsee was committed on Lost creek, in
| White county, last Sunday. The crime
/ was all the more shocking because the
/ red hand of the slayer was directed a
/ gaiust one who had been through life
/ his bosom friend.
Henry Green, having met his friend
Robert Austin, invited him to 60 home
with him and be his guest for the night.
Austin readily assented. Both mounted