Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-21
STATE NEWS.

The Pulaski Citizen gives an account of
the robbery on Wednesday night of Heber-
" & Mason, McGrew & Co, and Man
nings silversmith's shop. The robbery
amounted to nearly Thousand dollars, and
the perpetrators, it is supposed, used
chloroform TO stupefy the sleeping inmates
Of the several houses they entered. No
clue to the robbers had been gained
The Citizen also states that one of the
most prominent Radicals and Loyal
Leaguers of Giles county, an ex-FederaI
Colonel and man of family, had been
charged with miscegenation by a negro
woman, who failing to prevail upon him
to support the offspring, took the child to
his house and threw it upon his bed in the
presence of his family, telling him it was
his and he must support it. This so en-
ragged the loyal father that he beat her I'M
mercifully, and forced her to carry it away.
The fond mother now proposes to go to
law about it. The Citizen adds: This
and one other are the only two cases of a
similar character that have been brought
to light in this county, and strange to say,
the gay .Lotharios in both cases were the
ring-leaders of the Loyal League in their
respective localities.p
The Shelbyville Union of yesterday says
all the prisoners, eleven in number. con-
fined in the new jail at that place, escaped
on Wednesday night The locks we're
broken and the doors opened by woman
who was allowed the liberty Of the hail in
the building.
The same paper says business has ma
terially improved in that place within the
last month.
The meA5 ;1s4gsi lie kea0 Era says:
Tinker A-sLe men in Fentress county,
Tenn, have been fighting among them
selves. A letter from that county, dated
the 9Th inst, says they have had two pitched
battles in the two weeks previous, and that
one man was killed and two wounded in the
last fight There are about twenty on each
side, fully armed and equipped, and a
desperate fight is anticipated"
The Morristown Gazette has the follow
ing:
"On Monday last we discovered what
was intended by nature TO be a gohite man,
but in which, according to oar opinion,
the mark was widely missed, except "a to
color, perambulating our streets with his
arm Jug handled on 20 big buck negro
Ri. Braekin, Of Smyrna, Tenn, sends
the Murfreesboro Monit0r, the following :
Weight of seven head of Brackin's i'm
proved Tennessee hogs, dropped Janucry
Sd and 18th, and slaughtered December 9th,
1867, aged eleven months: 1868, 800, 3I9,
3Ol, 800, 9Gs and Sl8 pounds, Average
1892 pounds.
The Monitor records the occurrence Of
three robberies in Murfreesboro on one
night this week as
Alta Negro Ward Nominating Conven-
ton at Memphis on Wednesday night, an
outside negro named Carter, attempted to
take a part. Another asked him what he
was doing there, and asked the audience to
"put him out" Thereupon commenced
row. which ;he Audldncle describes az fol-
lows:
The man who had made the inquiries Of
Carter. and first requested the audience to
"put him on" was knocked - west and
crooked in the twinkling of a slapjack, and
was Kicked up sadly in want of reconstruc-
lion. But his friends were not idle, for
An a; once within that cOlcred church.
There rose a yell 50 wild and fearful.
As II all the hends that fell from heaven
Had pealed the banner cry ofhell,'
and had squared themselves for free fight
Eyes we're knocked out and knocked in
again. and give aud take was the order of
the hour. Peck, the favorite Of Carter,
was The recipient Of sou-western clont,
which knocked him under the table. la
the body Of the hall by this time over a
hundred Infatuated blacks were punching,
gouging, butting and swearing at each other.
The furniture Of the church was broken up
and used as instruments of offense and de-
Tense, the stove was overturned, the, lamps
broken and the floor flooded with coal oil,
which, being poured upon live Goals from
the stove, igniied, and soon the church was
in flames. This efectually put an end to
the fighting, as each made for the door to
| save himself from ssse ere. Peck had BY