The interior journal., 1876-05-26

A FRASKraS county, Tennessee
man, recently swappcd his wife Oft for
%, a quart Of whisky, and two pounds
Of leaf tobacco.
Mr.. MASroS MARBLE, the able
editor Of the New York World, has
sold his interest in that paper TO VIM.
Henry Hurlbut.
An eleven year old boy in Georgia,
in addition to attending school this
Spring, has plowed, planted, and
chopped out one acre Of cotton.
Miss JEANNE PATTERSON, the well
we'll known dramatic reader, was mar
ried in st. Louis, on the 10Th inst. ,
to DR.. Walsh, Of Washington City.
The bones Of a Mastodon has been
discovered in Texas. II shows that
the animal was, when alive, twenty
feet high, and twenty-eight feet long,
with tusk's is feet long.
THr Northern Methodist General
Conference, has appointed commit
tee for the purpose Of adjusting the
difficulties between that church and
the Methodist church, South.
ONE Of the Jurors in the Mckee
crooked whisky case, has brought sui
against the Globe Democrat, St. Louis
for $4,000 for various articles o.
slander published in that paper, against
him.
HAIL STONES rs large as q hem
egg fell at Morristown, N. j., and a
Lancaster, Pa, on Sunday last, shat
tering windows and greenhouses, ruin
ing the gardens and destroying th'
fruit.
The Union League Club Of New
York, met the other day, and refused
to admit Secretary Bristow as mem
Der of their body. A prominent Re
publican in Kentucky, met with {
similar fate.
THE Frontier Telegraph line il
TEXAS, running from Denison Il
Brownsville, a distance of ,0S0 miles
was completed May 18th. 1t wa
constructed in eighteen months, b,
Government troops.
A MERCHANT in Waynesboro, Ga.
who had a bill against a customer fol
1854 lost the whole Of it becouse h,
failed to test his weights, according Il
law, as the man took advantage of thi
omission, to swindle him.
A GEORGIA mother slapped her II
year old daughter the other day, and
the young lady became so incenset
that she attempted to commit suicide
twice, by hanging, but was cut down
each time before she accomplished hel
design.
JUDGE EMMoSs, Of the U. $. Cir
cult Court, has ordered the sale OF tn,
11S miles Of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, within T,unessee, with roll
ing stock, &c, to satisfy the bond
holders who hold the lien Of the Stat,
on the road.
Hon. Tnos. l.. JONES, of Kentuc
ky, has introduced bill in the Houss
to charter a railroad from Charleston
s. G., to Chicago-passing through
the middle of Kentucky. The bill
will not come up for passage until tn
next session of Congress.
THERE is a negro woman livin!
near Fort Valley, Georgia, who
1913 years old. She plowed corn du
ring the Revolutionary war; cooke'
for Gen. jackson during the Frencl
and Indian wars, and is able to do al
most any kind Of work now.
THE large, fine steamer, Pat Gle
burne, burst her boilers on the Missis
sippi, last week, and burned. Their
was a total wreck of both steamer anC
cargo, and many lives were lost, in
Guiding the Captain. She and he
freight were valued at 500, 900.
GEN. FTz LEE has declined tn
command of the Southern Battalion
Centennial Legion, which is to parad
in Philadelphia on the 4th of July, il
consequence of other engagements. HI
has also declined to address the Liter
ary Societies of Washington and lie
University, for the same reason.