Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-11-26

The jackson, Tenn, Wing gives an ac-
count of the outrages of gang Of highway
men, operating in Madison county for the
past two weeks, whose deeds rival those of
Murrell and his gang" many years ago.
They first entered the house OF colored
man, with cooked pistols, and took every
thing of value they could find. A night or
two afterwards they made raid on another
colored mans house with like results. A
few nights afterwards they took the road,
and few miles from Jackson, intercepted
farmer who was returning home after
selling his cotton, and robbed him of all
proceeds-abont 5000 cash. The same
night they visited the residence of Mr..
Glass, leading merchant of Jackson, about
three and a half miles from town, and
having secured Mr.. Glass and another gen.
tleman who was at the house, pillaged the
premises of everything that was valuable
and portable. They next visited some
negro houses a short distance OF, and
plundered them. These acts have intense
ly excited the community. As to the per-
petrators, the Wing says:
"While operating at the cabins the OUT
laws seemed to have thrown off their dis.
guise, and the negroes thought they de-
tected in the appearance of the robbers
their visitors of the day before, namely,
four men dressed in military, who said they
belonged to the troops stationed at Jack
son. Their suspicious were changed
to convictions when they heard
the robbers ask the same questions,
and several of them, that had been pro-
pounded by their military visitors. We
iaarr 4l,f HILL a
militia in this place, proposes to assist the
civil authorities in their efforts to discover
the robbers, aud that he has expressed the
opinion that he will be able to find them
out"
The courthouse in the town of Ripley,
Lauderdale county, was destroyed by fire
one day last week. The loss to the county
is considerable, as several thousand dollars
had been expended since the war, in re-
pairs. Fortunately, all the valuable pub
lie documents, legal records, ETC., were
saved. The fire originated from a de-
fectiVe stoVe-pipe.
A highwayman named Frank Jones was
arrested and hung, near Wythe Depot in
Shelby county, on Sunday of last week.
The Somerville Falcon says; 'On that day
he came to some gentlemen at Union Depot,
and stated 10 them that he had been robbed
in the woods. Among the gentlemen to
whom he was telling his story was Mr..
Battle, the same who had been shot at and
wounded from the roadside. 1t happened
that Mr.. B. had observed that a couple of
fingers were missing from the hand of the
william who had shot at and pursued him,
and noticing that the same was the case
with the strange individual who was telling
his story, closer look satisfied him that he
was the same man, and in a moment he was
prisoner. He confessed that he was the
man who had shot at Mr.. B., also that it
was he who had caused Mr.. G. to strip, and
sent the threatening letter. A short time
thereafter he disappeared from the station,
and when next seen his lifeless body was
dangling from tree in the swamps"
- The Falcon gives the following sim
gular facts as to the application of the Law
making rebellion good ground for chaI-
longing juror. The case was against
Clark for the murder of Jones The ac-
cused was a Confederate soldier, and the
deceased Union man, and the ease had
excited general interest. The Falcon says:
In making up the jury the counsel on
both sides took advantage of the recent
act making the fact of party not being a
registered voter ground for rejection. 1t
is understood that neither side objected to
a non-voting juror, az such, but only took
advantage of the law in order to rid them
selves of parties otherwise Objectionable to
them, the State taking the initiative in the
matter. The jury as constituted, however,
is not composed of registered voters, only
two of them, we understand, belonging to
that favored class"
The Fayetteville NelDs says there never
was half as much stealing as is now going
on IN Lincoln county. We hear daily on
all sides, of stealing horses, mules, hogs,
bacon, corn and many other things Of less
importance.
The Tullahoma Appalachian says that
town is finished. 1t doesn't need any i'm
proVement 1t 10 in state of bliss. That
paper gives the following as list of i'm
ports and exports for the first eleven months
of 1867: ETports-4 bushels chestnuts; sc
cross-ties: 9 gallons huckleberries 3
quarts hazle-nuts; homemade brooms
l barrel whisky; sets country made
chairs. ImpOrts-2 pecks of COOLERS and 4
dozen peaches. Tullahoma is happy.
The McMinnville Enterprise says: GAS
the corn crop is being gathered in by our
farmers, we learn it is turning out much
better than was expected. One of our
merchants has filled contract for 1000
bushels at fifty cents per bushel and we
understand a decline in price is antici-
pated.