Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-06
sTATE NEWS.

The CIarksville Chronicle of the 4th
says:
BANK OF TENNESSEE. This building
was sold on the Oath ult., for the sum of
S5,l25. Il was bought by : F. Beaumont
of this city.
-T The very cold snap we have had for
some DAYS has enabled all who desired II to
secure bountiful supply Of ice. We hope
the large quantity put up will put the price
down when the time for using it arrives.
A committee of citizens have called
meeting Of the people Of the county for
tomorrow Monday, to take steps to aid
the suffering poor of the South. They
make a most touchingly eloquent appeal to
the charitably disposed in this behalf We
trust that the large hearts Of the Montgom-
cry county people may swell to the utmost
under this appeal.
The Lebanon Herald aqd RegiSter, Of yes
terday, says:-On Monday afternoon last,
between three and four o'clock, three men,
whose names we could not learn, entered
the grocery store of Mr.. Geo. Treiber, on
North street, and by force and threats COM
mitted many excuses, besides firing on
Mrs. Treiber, the wife of the owner Of the
establishment. 1t seems they first entered
the house at the front door, which leads
into the room in which the groceries are
kept, and going into the adjoining room
where whisky is Sold drank and took as
much of that as they wanted, and then re-
turning to the front room and fastening all
the doors, commenced helping themselves
to such articles as they desired. The wife
of the proprietor seeing their operations
through a window in the partition began
to scream, when one of them fired at her.
| Fortunately the bullet missed her and
| buried in the fire place Of the room.
-W We learn from the records in the Of
fee Of the County Court Clerk, that five
hundred and thirty-seyen marriages were
| solemnized in our county during the past
year
The Franklin Rsrieir, Of yesterday, says
On Sunday night, December 23d, all the
prisoners confined in the jail at this place
about twelve in number, escaped by saving
| through the iron barred windows. They
left the instrument behind with which they
| effected their escape, which was a regular
| burglars saw, and which must have been
furnished them by some person from with
out A negro who escaped has since came
in and given himself mp. The others have
not yet been retaken.
The Murfreesboro Monitor, of the 18th
says
- II was currently reported among the
negroes in this county during the Christ
mas holidays, that if they made contracts
before the first Of January, they would be
subjected to a heavy fine by the bureau
What was The origin of this rumor, OF
whether it had foundation in fact, we &c
not know, but We do know that the negroes
refused on this ground to make contracts
| for the present year
George Ryan, well, if not fayorably
| known to many Of our readers, was shot
and killed in fuss during the Christmas at
Trune, by a Young man named Walton
| From all that we could hear about it,
Walton acted solely in selEdefenqe, and
would be justified BY the courts in pursuing
the course he did.
Christmas morning, Toney, anegro man
in the employ Of Messrs. Barley & Todd
accidentally shot and killed another Negro
man. There was no grudge or i'll will be
tween them, and was simply a matter O
carelessness.