Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-04-08
TENNESSEE NEWS.


| terday appointed Ex-Governor John G..
/ Brown to deliver the Centennial address,
/ on the part of Tennessee, at Philadelphia.
Memphis Ledger: Memphis contains a
stock of cotton amounting to $1,000 balOS
at present. At $40 per bale the value of
the stock on hand would be s., ,S0O,0O
Columbia journal: The number of con-
victs now Registered" at the Tennessee
State penitentiary, is one thousand and
eighty.
Jackson Dispatch: We firmly believe
that three-fourths of tlte people of Ten
nessee would vote for repudiating the
State debt.
Humboldt Herald last week our fell
low-townsman, w. ii. simmons, had the
misfortune TO lose his fine horse, Flying
Cloud. He felt iRt0a well ata livery sta
BILE at jackson. lie was valued az one
thousand dollars.
ShelbyviIle Commercial: MIR. Rebin-
son, who resides some three miles north
west of Shclbyville, has calf two weeks
old that is without eyes and tailless.-
Otherwise the calf Is perfectly natural
and as lively as any other calf Of its age.
MurfreesbOro News: Murfressboro is
assuming position of considerable i'm
portance in commercial circles as a lum-
hundreds of carloads of cedar, walnut
and other timber annually 70 81. Louis
and other markets.
At the recent term of the Circuit Court
in DeKalb county, Tennessee, Monroe
Blythe was convicted for kukluXing, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years
There are other parties in that county
charged with the same Offense and now
under bonds.
Winchester Journal: There lives a man
in Franklin county who has been mar
ried twenty-fOur years, and who has sew
enteen children, all Of whom never took
as much as five dollars worth OF niedi-
cine since their birth,
Nashville American: The Supreme
Court of Tennessee sentenced J.. \. Gill
bert to be hanged at Fayetteville, May
29th, for the murder of VIM. johnson, a
bliud magic lantern Snowman. The pris-
oner received his sentence with laughter.
Lebanon Herald: A little child of Dud-
ley Thompson of this county was chOked
to death, last week, by the lodging of a
grain of homminy in the windpipe. The
child was taken TO Nashville to be opera
ted on, but it was found impossible to
save its life.
Wayne County Citizen: \ barrel of
Clifton cement rock has been prepared to
be sent to the Centennial. 1t was shipp-
ed yesterday, or Steamer Rapidau, TO J.
b. killebrew, Commissioner of Agricul-
ture, Mines, etc, at Nashville. a collec-
ton of our superior iron ore should be
sent by all means, as well as specimens of
our colored marble.
Memphis Appeal: The bale of cotton .
which took the One-thOusand-tlOIlaF pre-
MUM for the centennial, in this city last I
Monday, is the product from single
81, 81
from Galveston, Texas, a few years ago,
into Lee county, by Mr.. J. +. FOwlkes, 4
from whom Mr.. Taylor procured the Z
seeds that have immortalIzed him as as =
cottOn-handler.
Sentinel: Mr.. Biley Swanner of the /.
Crockett Mills neighbOrhOod, fell dead
near Mr.. WIllet's residence, in Bells, last
Wednesday, while prizing his wagon out I
of Il mud hole. He was a very hale and {
hearty old gentleman, and had walked 4
from Cairo 10 Bells that morning without
complaining. DR.. J. G. MCGOWAN exam I
ined the corpse, and pronounced the death I
to have been caused by an epileptic fit.
American: Mitchell weakIey, coIored, /
was arrested Monday by Constable Wal /
ker, colored, on the charge of murder /
committed in Rutherford county, several T.
years ago. lie acknowledged to Justice .
Cassety, before whom he was arraigned, /
that he committed the crime, and that he 4
thought he was justified in doing so.
Weakly was sent to Jail TO await further
investigation.
American: While raft, having on
board five men, was coming down the
river Saturday night at midnight, land
ing was attempted near Miller's mill
The raft, however, swung loose and the
men were thrown into the water. Aid
H. I'll lT,1
and all escaped except an old man named
Joseph Haers, the owner of the raft, who
was drowned.
Gallatin Examiner: We have indicated .
that the beginning point in considering
chow" to pay our debts is to brace our
selves up and declare that we intend 10 be
honest, and then set about finding the
means to carry that out. But we must .
start honest, first, and not spoil the whole .
matter by declaring, with ninety fre cents .
worth of means in our hands, we are too .
poor TO pay a debt OF less than fre per
cent of our taxable property. In anOth-
er article we will consider the means of
the state.
Nashville American: The Secretary of .
the Nashville Blood Horse Association
has just published the programme for the
spring races, which begins at the Nash
vile course on the ID of May next. The
programme is neatly gotten up in a pam
phlet of eight pages, giving the names,
ages and pedigree of the horses, and Is
suggestive of the Secret3Ty's good taste.
At present there are fOrty-eight horses 1t ]
the track, in cOurfe Of training, and thir-
ty-five or forty more are expected before .
the races begin. This will be the largest .
collection OF horses that has been at this .
place since the war, and well-pOsted turf
men are anticipating a very lively meet
ing.
Dresden Democrat: The folly OF at
tempting TO pay any such sum, or even Of