Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-01-29
TELEGRAPHIC.
Bismarck is still very i'll.

Whittle and Bliss are ut st. Louis, and |
doing well.
Central Pacific and Northern railway !
trains are still snOw-bOund.
Senator sherman was chosen chairman ,
Of the Republican caucus Saturday.
Turkish rulers are exercising great
cruelty to christians i'll that cline.
The Prussian government will grant
aid to the Philadelphia Centennial.
Pacific railway trains are stuck in the
SNOW.
\ passenger train stuck in the snow
between Bryan and Green river, Wyo-
ming, Friday.
Five buildings were destroyed by fire
in Nashville last week, entailinG a loss
of seventy-five thousand dollars.
The Minnesota legislature, it is thought,
will not appropriate anything toward
the Philadelphia Centennial.
The Carlists and Alfonists near Rem
tena, the latter making a general move
ment-
Half a million dollars will be required
to put the Panama railroad in good run
ming condition.
There is commercial crisis at Riga.
Two big firms failed Wednesday, and the
panic may reach st. Petersburg.
La Ibina and other opposition papers in
Spain reiterate the allegations of official
pressure and abuses in elections.
The national liberal party will give
Bismarck full support relative to the Ar
MIN clauses of the new penal code.
The interest of absconded United States
Revenue Collector Wilkinson in the st.
Joseph Herald is advertised for sale.
In the Grower crooked whisky case
the defendant was acquitted recently by
a jury in the Federal court ut Indian
apulis.
The cremation of the corpse of the
late RosSi was conducted publicly ut
monumental cemetery at Ailan Sunday.
The State Grange Of Arkansas met at
Little Rock Monday. Fifty counties
were represented.
". c. Perry, an old man, and a plaster
cr by trade cut his throat, with razor
in Jacksonville, Indiana, Friday. Men
tai alteration.
The Southwestern car company, of
Jacksonville, Indiana, has gone into
bankruptcy, with the claim that its
assets will more than cover its liabili-
ties.
Morse, one of the escaped gang of L. ).
conyicts, was recaptured and returned to
the penitentiary ut Little Rock recent
Iy.
The European governments are rcserv-
ing replies to the American note on the
Cuban question until they can exchange
views.
The articles destined for our Ccntcnni-
al were formerly exhibited in the crystal
palace, Amsterdam, by King William, re-
Gently.
Advices from the city of Mexico, Jan
uary 18th, say that four hundred soldiers
have been sent to reinforce the Mexican
troops on the Rio Grande.
OF the 4OG deputies elected 10 the Span
ish congress, 3Gf are ministerialists, 10
are clericals, ! cOntonalist, and l lSeuor
Castelar, a moderate Republican.
Augustan, negro, is the man who as
sassinated Ex-senator Offut, of st, LIun
dry parish, Louisiana. The murderer was
pursued into a swamp, and will probably
be captured.
The Supreme Court Of Illinois decides
to the effect that whatever may be the
rules of the Chicago board Of trade, the
what is known as option deals.
Between four O'Clock January 4rb and
nine O'Clock next morning, there were
Abanca was entirely destroyed. Loss OF
life unknown.
Ministerial journals estimate that the
Spanish cOrtes will embrace about 81
Sagastists, lG Madridates and three Re
publicans; the remainder will be supper
tiers of the government.
The Illinois Central & Great Jackson
route have made excursion rates from
Chicago to New Orleans and return 30
dollars round trip, tickets good till April
lst, covering the period of the fair and
carnival.
\ bill was presented i'm the Ohio legiS-
lature recently to deduct usuriOus inter
est already paid from the principal of q
debt, and requiring security for costs to
be filed in all cases instituted i'm the
courts.
Ex-Governor Francis Thomas, of Ma
rylaud, late Minister to Peru, while
walking on the track of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, near his home, at
Frdnkville, Garrett county, Saturday
evening, was struck by an engine and in
stantly killed.
The House Judiciary Committee had
special meeting Saturday TO hear arSu-
ments in behalf of the various interests
claiming the right to be admitted to
share III the Geneva award. The total Of
these claims was stated as about 81 POO
600.
CINCINNATI, January 2i.-J. NJ. Tighe.
recently brought here from Memphis.
charged with obtaining goods on false
pretenses from firms in this city, was
found not guilty in the Court of Common
Pleas to-day and released. The jury was
out only five minutes.
A BOnapartist Association. STYLED the
Conservative National Convention. has
manifesto announcing that they will
support MacMahOn until the expiration
or his term, in 1883. They will then de-
mand that an appeal to the people be
made for determining the future form of
government for France
The Supreme Court OF Illinois. recent
ly, could not agree, but was equally snlit
on the citizens association mandamuS
case to compel the city council of CHICAGO
to order the election OF a mayer of that
city Under this state of facts the pres
ent mayor holds over until 1877.
Sioux Indians, under Sitting Bull, at
tackled white party near Fort Pease. on
Yellowstone river, January 2d, killed
one man and wounded five, besides cut
ting of another party of nine men. The
Indians are several hundred strong, and
II was feared the entire garrison would
De mastered unless speedily assisted.
In the United States Circuit Court at
were taken up. Louis, Samuel, Elias and
Max RindskOpf, and Christian Salentine,
rectifiers, John c. Fitzgerald, gauger,
and Louis Bemis, stOrekeeper, pleaded
guilty on an indictment for conspiracy to
defraud. 4 ROlle prOSeqHi was entered in
the case of W. IL. Raddis, who had turn
ed States evidence.
James Ayres, the abettor of Jno. Webb,
hanged at Knoxville Tenn. last August
Indictment for the murder of Miss Bell,
and Henry Avery, Il notorious murderer
and swinding claim agent, escaped from
ured and large force is in pursuit of the
others.
The wife of Sir Hugh Mckenzie, of
Montreal. and Friedrich H Bridges. son
of the General Superintendent of the