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


Lahore and Cashmere.
Postmaster General Jewell is suffering |
severely from the rheumatism
A fight took place at Bakersville, n. c.,
lately, between an editor and sewing |
machine agent. The editor triumphed.
Mrs. Cowart, Of Dawson county, Ga, |
though already the mother OF thirteen
children, gave birth recently to triplets.
Hon. J. W. Renfroe has been elected
treasurer of Georgia. He received POI
votes to l for w. B. Lowe.
John R. Russell, of Tuscumbia, Ala,
has been arrested in Oxford, Miss, for
passing counterfeit nickles.
The MARQUIS Patrick de NacMahon,
son Of the Marshall President Of France,
staying with his uncle, the Duke of Cas-
tries, at the Vile Marie Louise in Nice.
A dispatch from London says that the
irOnmakers employers association will
not resort to a lockout at present, as that
measure would throw out of employment
seventy thousand men.
dispatch from Tucson says advices
from Sonora confirm the report OF revo-
lutiOnary successes. Twelve towns have
pronounced in favor of General Serena,
who has n force of two thousand men.
1t is announced from Madrid that the
government will grant amnesty to many
persons in prison or in exile on the occa-
sion of the anniversary Of Altonso's en-
try into Madrid.
Ex-Cadet Smith was secretary of a
meeting in Columbia, 5. c., few nights
ago, ut which Treasurer CardOzo would
have spoken if a mob of citizens of both
colOrs had not cried him down.
Eight years ago Mrs. Rebecca Bradley
was buried in Gustonia, n. c., and re-
Gently her grave was opened by some
thief, for the purpose, it is thOught, of
stealing n set of false teeth.
jeremiah Black, Of Pennsylvania, and
Thos. c. McCreery, Of Kentucky, is the
Democratic ticket for president and vice
president which the HOpkinsville Demo
crat urges and hopes to vote for in March
next.
Tallahassee FIoridian: A monkey which
escaped from a show lately in this city at
tackled the baby carriage of DR.. BettOn, on
the ''green," last Thursday, and bit his
child severely in the face. 1t required
the utmost exertions of the nurse to drive
the savage thing of.
The statue of Henry Clay, in Rich
mond, has been these many years with
out several fiAgsrs, which were knocked
of by some wretch. bill has been in
troduced in the Virginia Legislature for
the repair Of the damage.
Ex-Treasurer Spinner Handers around
in the bayous of Florida with perfect
safety from the attacks of alligators or
snakes. When one of 'em shows his head
Spinner shows his signature, and they
inst ''git up and git
A Dispatch from Berlin, Saturday, says
that owing to the opposition of some OF
the smaller States, the Government has
for the present limited the scheme fol-
purchasing all the railways to Prussi'
alone.
1t is said in Berlin photographed lately
that the Senate Committee of the Parlia
ment. in reference to the criminal code
has resolved upon direct opposition to tn
Government, and to favor jury trial 70
all press Otienses.
Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain is suffering
from the measles, but 1t is to her credi
that she should be, since she caught then
from her close personal attendance upOl
her three young daughters, who are nov
recovering.
A dispatch from Copenhagen Satur
day, says that the report Of the propose
sale of St. Thomas to Germany is contra
dicted. The idea was mOOted in 1873 0
exchanging st. Thomas for North Sizes
witch but dismissed as impracticable.
A singular death took place the othe
day at Lincoln, in England. A grOCe
named Picker, who keeps fowls, was las
week feeding them, when bantam cecil
spurred him in the left thumb. NORTH
cation set in, and all efforts to save tn
e ipf
A dispatch from Constantinople, Sat
urday says that ''the powers have relin
quished their intention of making a col
lectiVe communication to the Porte OF
the basis Of Count Audrassy's scheme fol
the reform of the disaffected provinces
The ambassadors now cOntine themselVe!
to oral and friendly communications o.
counsel and proposition to which the
Porte is disposed TO listen"
At Bristol, in England, the other day
man was fined Go and costs for kissing
the young wife of a middle-aged trades.
man. Her husband, who had been down
in the cellar, came up stairs just in time
to see his wife struggling to escape from
the defendant, whose arm was round her
neck. The defence was that the kissing
was an act of gallantry to be overlooked,
as it has been done under a sprig of mis-
tletoe.
The Wesleyans are endeavoring to
eyangelize the Island of New Guinea,
Whlch was recently explored. Europeans
cannot llve there on account of the eli
mate, and nine Fejee students volunteer
ca Inc British Council in "eiee advised
Iile h2Ilyes not to go, telling them of the
CahhlDahsuc propensities of the New
Guihe ga savages, the probable lack Of feod.
anu the prevalence OF deadly diseases
my showing all this" the students
SPIy' we choose to proceed on this mis-
&C., "a Se 81 OF spreading the knOwl.
1880 gS OF the Gospel of Christ among the
neaIhen inhabitants of those Islands! ?,
An interesting question of interno+io,,
g. Nv mas been recently decided nv, a.
superior Tribunal of tho PrT,r-io.. gy the
SH province: A young man OF Trn r.1lSa
of go go SuI living on the neutral nortio
Uai1 oi,S a99resnet territory, which ia al
rinr oie gu cohJolntly by Prussia and RAJ
mo-, 51 SSisliiled exemption from tbs g.
man military service on the o-.l' SiIe Ger
6eS,l eusIaI Aorsenet territory does INA.
GLie 70 the German Emnire M So'
both oF iip9u lIa decided that the subiect,
III Ul Belgium and of Prussia -
WINE hVing on the neutral ITorsS1,e+ At ~ .
co,y2 not deemed to live in fere;.-
I'm Y, and remain, therefore. snbiesd
a. ohe civic and military obU-at{y
laws OF their respective Counties
Of J, lT discovery of an immense uuantit
tL nIIla an remains in one of the w,alis
reDo Oln IAN an. Andres Hospital, ia Lima
1Su oy the Opinion National of n
as5o IN IN consequence of repairs heir
n naoe, u became necessary 10 throw dow
oie 81 Inc walls of the Chinese W
which adjoins the denartment M ~ :,
uI Lady of Mercy,' when to tn,
tf Hlp. .l the worlmen employed fou
sAlls Ine wall was hollow and filled NJ
human remains. In one dav alone -
eral hundred skeletons were removed =,
dresses of all being in good con,lj22;'
On the following day ABOUT 1000 ske
tons, It is stated, were discovered Il
hospital was built in 1857. under tba :,
lection OF the Marquis of Canets- 1
Andret HurtadO, and at the Instance :,
advice OF a Spanish priest named Mole
Since then up TO the present time IL
cd Fr.r