Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-20
GENERAL NEWS.

A Salt Lake City papef asserts tnat III,
I recent gunpOwder explosion caused 1Ot
/ premature births.
I The Supreme Court OF Massachusett.
I has decided in test ease that the ten
hour law OF that state is constitutional.
Moses L. swift, OF Reno, Nevada, ha.
been granted u divorce from his wife OT
! account of her "mental cruelty"
Epg9isl, capitaItsts aro said 10 have los
! about dve hundred millions oftiuliars Ii
I twelve months in Turkish, Egyptian ans
/ Peruvian securities.
4 A great physical change has come ovel
! Brigham Young within the past few
/ weeks, and the doctors think that he can
not live much longer.
1 Newspapers -eazir now be slFeslv sold IN
! Paris. the new Home Minister having
prohibited the police from seizing them
rs public vagabonds on the streets.
Five new marble buildings will be
erected by the trustees of Girard College
on their grounds at Philadelphia, so that
the institution viii accommodate 800 pu-
pills.
a Texas reVivaiist who saw lady
writhing at a camp meeting thought that
Ills AOIuc Ittl all AMANIElclUAa UNI
saw his mistake when lizard was taken
out of her bustle.
a Chicago wife asked for a divorce be-
cause her husband was habittially drunk
He admitted being hab tually drunk, and
pleaded that as an excise for not bring
ing the suit himself.
A Kalamazoo woman being told while
in church that decree of divorce had
sHan 10. -. 81.
top of her voice, my country, tits of
thee, sweet land of liberty
A single ield in Grimes county. Texas,
contains $4,000 acres all under one fence,
without a cross -feuee in it; 70 0o0 hrres
are in cultivation. Nearly tho entire
field belongs to one man, who rents il
out to tenants at s. per acre.
Among the decorations of the Confede-
rate monument at Mobile, Ala, on Me-
mortal Day. WAS pyramid Of flowers
"from the officers of the United States
army, stationed at Mount Vernon bar
racks, in respect TO the fallen brave"
The Rev. DR.. Furness, Geo. ". Biddle,
Esq, Col. John W. Forney, Col. Thos.
Fitzgerald, Henry G. Carey, Esq, and
others, have delivered addresses ia Phil
adelphia recently, in favor OF opening
the Centennial Exposition on Sundays.
In Selma, Alabama, it costs five dollars
to kill or capture any Wild bird except
the blue jag, or TO disturb the nest Of any
wild bird, or 70 sell or give away, or to
offer 10 sell or give. away, any young
mocking bird. a
Shreveport fIsa-) Timess At the muni-
cipal election held IA Plaquemine on the
2d inst, the Democrats elected their en-
tire ticket by over one hundred majority.
TIsI.fe q the
the Democrats have been successful.
The petition sent from Nashville to the
OF war, asking that Gen, Pen
nypacker and his command be retained
there, was over sixteen feet long, and
the names Of the best and most
influential citizens. Gen. Pennypacker
Is highly esteemed throughout Tennes- I
see, and especially 50 by the citizens of
Nashville.
sis it becoming to nleg'' asked she, as |
she paraded in the costume of 100 years |
ago, before the man who is nOt her lord |
aud master, but is her husband. "Yes, /
my dear;" said he, meekly. ''DOn { yOu /
wish could dress this way all the time p
she asked. .'No, my DEAR he answer |
ed, ''but / wish you had lived when that |
was the style"
s'Now,' said the Professor, as he grew 1
animated in the discussion, 'sall matter 1
constantly changes. l have changed |
since taking my scat here. Every single
moment IN my body are tens OF thOus-
ces and forever destroyed" Senior in
the back seats Gin voice expressive of
deep wOnder)-'Gosh"a 20 !
A boy, twelve years of age, has been
lying in Jail at Salt Lake City for a year.
Having recently been brought into court,
it was found that he had stolen 81 to save
himself from starvation. On account of
his having been heavily chained. the
Court sentenced him to six months
in the hospital, that he might
secure needed medical treatment.
jackson CAIiss.) Tribune: At a recent /
ire in Port Gibson, Miss, the United /
states troops there worked like heroes to |
ave the property of the people. This /
conduct was so highly appreciated by the |
citizens that they held public meeting 1
md resolved to give the boys ia blue q 4
irst-rate picnic. Blood is thicker than
water, and a manly act IS always sure of I
'eward.
Some of the honest farmers of Western
have been discovered in
he manufacture of wolf and fox ears
rom colt hides, on which they collected 4
arge bOunties from the local treasury /
The same result has been reached in a /
lifferent way by the honest farmers of /
Central Illinois, who, before the bear /
in bounties, used to purchase 4
wolves and breed them for destruction at l
i've and ten dollars per cub
A queer procession entered DAYTON.
Nevada, the other day. Five Chinamen,
iach carrying big stick of cord wood
IN his shoulder, marched up the princi-
Il -. -.
land, brought up the rear, following the I
nen to the calabOOse. The white man
vas the watcher Of the Dayton wood
)iies, and having caught the Cinnamon
tealing tie choicest sticks, marched
hem before the authorities with the evil
lences Of their guilt in their possession
Ignacio, the chief of the Southern
T ties in Colorado, has ordered all the set
lers TO abandon their farms and leave
he Lower Animas valley. The cause OF
he money of the trouble is that the tribe
las received none of the money guaran-
eed by the Government for the surren-
Ter of the valuable San Juan mining dis
rict. Ignacio, with an air of much
asserts that If the Utes had
Deen bad Indians, like the riOuX, the
would have supplied them
With presents.
The Elorld2 orange crop Tor the pres
Mt season Is %, ,0OO, 900, worth on an ay-
rage at the groves SO per thousand,
making $3.50, 600. II is estimated that
here are now not more than 5000 acres
# young trees from four 10 six years old
rom the bud, some bearing as many as
90 oranges the past fruit season. For
he next five years it is believed the crop
will gradually increase from growth of
rees TO 4jO, ,OOO, 900, yielding a product Of
:, ,25O, 900, or about One-seventh Of the
,roduct of Palerm9s a, Y S5s1 -
Lebanon (Ky.) Kentuekian: We learn
hat John Saunders, who is charged with
-illing his father, Robert Saunders, IN
lincoln county, about two years ago,
nd who broke Jail about four months
&c at Liberty, has been seen in that
ounty and pursued by the officers Of the
lw, but up 10 this time has not been re-
aptured. RumOrs say that the county
udge. sheriff and the minor officers are
n the hunt for him, and that their in-
ention Is TO arrest Bill Wilson also,
Galveston Tex News: An aerolite
seighing ,, 800 pounds, arrived yesterday
rom chihuahua, Mexico, by the sun
ct Route and is now az the railway {
epoU. The specimen will be shipped 10
,ew York by the Mallory line, and from !