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

DOIIltENlllC Il dICbll Nv NEtAtti VI -
Court, at its January session, reduced
the salary of County Superintendent of
Public instruction from $500 to $50 per
annum.'
Unicoi has elected its officers, and the
new county machinery is in running
order. The new county Is strongly Re
publican 1t leaves Washington Demo
cratic county.
An Avalanche special from Coyington,
Tenn, says \. j. Yarbro, eX-taN collec-
tor of Upton county, was arrested there
on the charge OF being Il defaulter to the
amount of $1,000.
American A young newspaper man of
this city has written novel, entitled
s'The Story of Life for the manu-
script of which a Cincinnati publishing
firm has paid him $3.50. The scene of the
story is laid in Nashville.
9Iemphis Avalanche. Jan. u: "Ship-
pers of cotton and freight agents held
iovefeast yesterday, in the committee
rooms of the Cotton Exchange. 1t was
to settle the point whether railroads
should dictate to shippers at which
presses their cotton should he compress
cd"
4 large share of the West Tennessee
cotton crop of last year still remain un-
picked in the fields, and the recent heavy
rains have had an M unYaTgorRidRrle " ne%
crop is close ut hand, the indications arc
that good deal will be lost.
GAINESVILLE Chronicle: '.The failures
in Tennessee, for the past year, arc one
hundred and thirty-siX, with liabilities
amounting TO 81 ,l2l $50. The failures
in the United States, during the same
period, amount to $2Ol, OGO, 353. Still
the cry of the money rings and
mOnOpOiics is contraction and hard mon
ey!'
Grecnville Intelligencer: "Thc young
ladies Of these parts are writing leap
year letters to the bOys.-Our next
Legislature must give us a road law.
We are bound to have it.--Game is We
~ plentiful this thin the
past month more homicidcs have been
committed in East Tennessee than ever
before known
Lebanon Herald: owe see, from the
Congressional Record, that Hon. II. y.
Biddle has been appointed a member of
the special committee charged with the
Investigation of the management of Freed
mems Banks. His colleagues are Messrs.
Douglas. of Virginia, chairman; Brad
ford, of Alabama, Stengrr of Pennsylva-
mia, Hooker, of Mississippi, Bliss, of New
York, Farwell, of IIlinc.-, Frost, of Mas
sachusetts, and Ramay, The coIored
statesman from South Carolina"
Swectwater Enterprise: .'The views of
Mai. Kirby, editor of the Chattanooga
Times, as expressed from Washington,
are certainly in direct anta%onism to
~ nile # tho ff'nnnng-pn Democracy
and unless he can explain away the gros-
sest character OF Inconsistency, there are
scores of people who will believe him,
not only paid correspondent but an
Understriker in the interest of the mon
led power of the East-a spy in the Ten
nessee Democratic camp. We say there
are people who will believe this
The Ripley News states that the COun-
ty Court of Lauderdale county has taken
measures to resist the payment of the sub
Scriptiou voted the Paducah and Mem
phis road by the county, and the Dyers-
burg Progress says: 'Ihis Is just and
proper under the circumstances, and we
hope the county will succeed in getting
rid of the debt. The pOstpOnement Of
the completion of this road IS justly term
ed a scheme to Swindle, and it would
matter but little if the payment of the
sums voted to the road in Lauderdale and
Dyer counties could be avoided"
Monday morning, a man by the name
of Davis, who was in the employ of Will
liam VIM, at Benton switch, fifty miles
below GAINESVILLE, on the Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railroad,
while returning from Danville, was run
s.'-a' l,rr la..f Il ti.. - - 1911
passenger trains. Davis was u steady.
Woodworking man, and it is supposed.
was murdered and placed upon the track,
He hada sum of money with him when he
left Danvillc. and when found his pockets
were rifled.
Chattanooga Times: "AU persons de-
sirOus of having samples of ores and coal
at the Centennial exhibition, or interest
in East Tennessee being properly repre-
scented there, with respect TO her mineral
resources, are notified that they must
place whatever they want trans ported, at
some point on the river or railroad.
From such point trans pOrtation will be
free to Philadelphia. Geu'l j. T.. Wild
er, of the Centennial Commission. who
has charge of the transportation of mate
rails for East Tennessee, will see that
everything is taken to Philadelphia,
iii is only brought TO accessible points"
Dresden Democrat: CDR. Z. b, Stub
bleheld, a prominent citizen of Gardner
Station, and candidate for the State Sen
ate from this district at the last election,
was stricken by paralysis on Friday
last; but we are gratitied to learn that
his physicians now declare him out of
danger.-The next Legislature can
make an arrangement with the bond
holders by which they viii agree to ac-
cept 90 per cent. Interest, in lieu of 6
per cent. She can satisfy them of her
ability to pay that amount, and of her
Willingness to do so. Our plan, then,
is to refund in 60 bonds This interest
will keep the bonds from advancing a
great deal beyond their present value.
After while, when we get able, we will
create sinking fund, and every wear
/ buy up our securities. BY this means
we can eXtinguish our debt without op-
pressing the people,
Columbia Herald and Mail: RedfeId
is in favor Of the Tennessee Legislature
making the carrying Of concealed weap-
Ons penitentiary Ofiense. We endorse
the suggestion. There is too much of the
pistol carrying and shooting. The old
days of rocks and sticks is preferable.
Let the boys fight it out with their fists
and they will develop their physical
manhood.-Black and Moore have
shipped to Howard & Carpenter 3I5
mulcs-l2O to Macon, Miss, and the bal
ance to Selma, Ala, All these mules
were bred in Maury. They averaged about
$50 apiece. Mr.. Moore says there are -
100 more in Maury for sale, but there is no
Market. Black Il Moore shipped six car
loads that were raised i'm Indiana. Mr..
Moore says 800 mules raised in Maurv
have been shipped and sold since the
market opened last fall-Gcn. NJ !
Wright, who has been sick for several
weeks with rheumatism, was able To come
down town Wednesday.
Dunlap correspondent of the .Jasner
Valley Herald: AT the January term of
our County Court, it was ordered bv tbe
court that where satisfactory proof under
oath was made before any Justice of the
Peace, Clerk of the County Court. or the
County Court while in session. that
where any dog or bitch had died or been
killed since the same was assessed for
the year 1873, the Tax Collector shouId he
allowed credits for the same on produ-
cling the athdaVitS to that effect an his
hnal settlement or the dog tax. L sub
mitted the action of the court To Comm
trollOr Gaines, ut Nashville. nv letter
and he replies that it is all o. X. This
is as it should be, for the death of the
dog, no matter how it comes about, should
certainly pay the tax. So all that have
lost dogs in either of the ways above
named would do well to get up their afli-
davits TO that effect as soon as convenient.
L see Bledsoe county has done exactly as
ours has done"
Pinch and Eustis.
Yesterday at O'Clock quite a little
crowd was assembled at the Mobile Rail-
road Depot to witness the denart1Ire of