Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-01-29
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Reports of spoiled pork continue. Ten
! nessee has suffered very heavily.
A son of Lord Cecil is preaching the
| gospel in Knoxville, Tenn.
Peach trees are blooming in Dyer eoun-
| ty in this State.
Gallatin Examiner: There is, at pres
ent, negro woman in the poOr-hOuse OF
Sumner county, aged los years.
Tennessee has mere extensive beds of
marble of greater variety of color than
any other State in the Union.
Tennessee produces proftably great
er variety of crops than any State in the
Union.
Tennessee has more extensive coal fields
than any State in the Union. Pennsyl-
Vania excepted.
The copper deposits in Tennessee are
more extensive and valuable than those
of any other section in America.
Bradley county is entirely out Of debt,
and has balance in the treasury of a
bout $1,000.
FloHr manufacture is active at Chatta-
nOOga. The large mill there has sold as
rl'arir-as 500 barrels in one day.
TSnness0e has about 200 miles Of wa
ter navigation and about 800 miles OF
railway transportation.
DyersbUrg Progress: We hear it pre-
dicted that large quantities of corn will
be damaged this winter in the fields.
Preparations for the approaching car
nival at Memphis are alleged to be on
more extensive scale than ever before.
Memphis Appeal: Friday night, Char
ley Hughes, who resided near Shelby De-
pot, was killed with an axe by negro.
Memphis Ledger: Efigies Of Barbour
Lewis and John League, the political
dead, were carried through the streets
last evening.
Columbia Journal: Gen. Nj. Wright,
who has been sick for several weeks with
rheumatism, was able tO come down town
Wednesday.
The Knoxville Age says the wheat crop
in Knox county is looking unpreeedent-
edly well, and that the farmers are pas
turing it in order TO avoid the danger of
damage by frOsts in the spring.
Huntingdon Republican: There is said
TO be at the poor house in Carroll county
a negro woman who is now lI5 years old.
She has vivid recollection of the scenes
of tile revolutionary war.
Huntingdon Republican: The cannon
balls with which, in part, Gen. Jackson
won the battle of New Orleans, were
made by Montgomery Bell, in Dickson
county, Tenn.
Dir. d. L. Rivers has sold the Humboldt
journal to Mr.. r. W. Leigh, a Young
grocery merchant of Humboldt, who
takes the editorial charge and business
management of the paper. We wish Mr..
Leigh success in jOurnalic pursuits.
Columbia Herald: The "painful ru-
mor'' that is going the rounds Of the Ten
nessee papers in regard TO Judge NichOl-
son, is not only painful, but as false as it
is painful. Judge Nicholson is at home,
PROSTATE on = bed Of sickness, caused, no
doubt, by excessive labor on the Supreme
Court bench. 1t is shameful to start such
rumOrs about 4 man that has rendered the
State and the people such invaluable and
distinguished services.
Cadiz (Ky.) Democrat: Our energetic
sheriff, Capt. W. Campbell, arrested a
suspected felon Sunday, by the name of
Nathan Z. Bachelor, supposed to be from
Stewart county, Tenn, and the individU-
al who, some months since, murdered a
child five or six years OF age, the on
spring of a woman with whom he was
living at the time in unlawful intimacy.
Bachelor is now in jail awaiting the ac-
i
Gallatin Examiner: During the year
1865, four citizens, all of our town, met
upon the streets, and one remarked:
'eThe man present weightier than 1 am
gets the champagne at my expense"
"Agreed," ," said each man. They all NOV
ed towards a pair of Fairbanks scales,
and the result was: John Shelby Schlu
ter, lO5 pound; F. a SporOr, l05; DR.. W.
r. TOmkims, I05; G. B. Wright, I05.
And Jehn Shelby paid for the cham
payne. And poor John sleeps In the
grave yard; SporOr has left US to teach
music in Texas, and the remaining two
are still here, and, so far as appearances
go. are not as heavy as they we're in 1865,
and with no one left to furnish the cham
pagne.
Memphis Avalanche: A man by the
name Of Fisher while riding along the
old CoVington and Randolph road, dur
| ing a wind storm, last Sunday morning,
was struck by falling limb and instant
! " killed. His horse escaped uninjured.
! Fisher had been working during the past
year OH the farm Of Mr. James Smith,
| near Garland, in Upton county. Beyond
! tbis. little is known of his past history.
/ Al one time he was employed as a clog
/ dancer in one of the Philadelphia va
1 rieties. but came to Garland from Mid
/ die Tennessee.
/ r,.1,-.s+,r, lT,a,ras) News. John Child's,