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been acquitted.
The Memphis Appeal is for Tiiden
and hard money.
Next Monday will be observed as
memorial day in jackson.
DR. J. d. Lindsey is engaged in
writing a manual of Tennessee history
down to the 4th of July, 1876.
Schooley, the Nashville Express
robber, has been caught in Canada
and taken back to Nashville. He
confessed.
The time for holding the Paris Dis
trict Conference at Lexington, Tenn,
has been changed from May 1914 to
June 1926.
The failure of the Globe Insurance
Company, of Chicago, which had a
good MANY policy holders in this State,
is announced.
DIR D. S. johnson, of Memphis, in
dicted for causing the death of Kate
Mccormick in trying to commit abor-
ton, has been committed.
jackson Sun: Judge Howell Z.
Jackson, of this city, will deliver the
annual address before the Lebanon
Law School on the 9th of June.
The Grand Commandery of Ten
nessee Knights Templar meets in
Murfreesboro to-day. Elaborate pre-
parations have been made for their
reception.
The Paris Intelligencer and Clarks-
vile Tobacco Leaf favor the abroga-
Of the clause in our State Constitution
which exempts a $1,000 worth Of
property from taxation.
DIR G. d. Elliott, formerly Princi>
pal of the Nashville Female Academy,
has become connected with President
A. NJ. Burney In the management OF
the Cumberland Female College, at
McMinnville.
From the proceedings of the Cen
tennial Commissioners at Philadelphia,
at their last meeting, we learn that
Prof. j. NJ. Stafford, of this State, is to
be appointed to the first vacancy that
occurs among the judges.
The Brownsville and Friendship
railroad is said to be progressing rap
idly. y depot between South Forked
Deer river and Pond creek has been
located, to be called Maury City. in
honor of the Ate Commodore Maury.
Dresden Democrat: Mrs. Wainscott,
the wife of Andrew WainscOtt, of the
eighth district of this county, commit
ed suicide by hanging on Friday after
noon last, about | o'clock, as is suppos-
cd. No cause is known for the rash act
American: More than a dozen COWS
have died from eating the white clover
which is so abundant in the commons
of.Edgefeld. Upon being poisoned,
the animals swell to great proportions
and die after few hours, in great ag-
ony.
The Pulaski Cllizen says; "Twenty-
seven years ago last Monday MAY 1
a killing frost fell upon this country,
and thirty-seven years ago next Fri>
day (12) the same calamity befell veg
etatlon. So shy the oldest inhabitants
and wise acres predict another for
about this time"
Paris InteIligencer: The last phase
of the cat question, is akitten with two
heads and one body, a native of our
city, and a grown up cat, at Mr. Lark
fords, which got its tongue caught in Il
steel trap, and WAS pulled out by the
roots. Tie tonguelesS cat is getting on
very well without the unruly member.
Jackson Wing and Tribune Rev.
DIR +. c. Slater, cf this city, has in
his possession, a lock of George Wash
mgton's hair. That it is genuine is
beyond dispute-Mr Perry, a white
barber of Philadelphia, gave it to Mr.
Carroll of that city, who presented it
to DR. Slater. The hair is slightly
tinged with gray, and Is as fine as silk.
This is a Centennial curiosity which
is worthy # MENTION
Lexington Reporter: We regret to
learn that Mr. John Westmoreland,
living about six miles from town on
the Crucifer road, had his house de-
stroyed by fire on Wednesday night,
10Th of April last. Everything, We
learn, was consumed in the flames ex-
cept three featherbels. His smoke
house and all its contents, bacon, &c,
also suffered the same fate. The ORR
gin of the FIRE is not known.
Jackson Sun: On Saturday last, in
Paducah, Ky, the suit Of Bagnell &
keyser VS. the Southern Railroad As
ISOLATION, was decided by Judge Bal
lard, of the United States District
Court, in favor of the plaintiffs. The
Judgment Of the court awarded to
Bagnell q Keyser the sum $4,000
for work done in the laying OF the
track of the N. G. Railroad Extension
through the State of Kentucky. We
learn that an appeal was taken to the
Supreme Court of the United States.