Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-29
STATE NEWS.

Thanksgiving day was generally OBJ
served in Memphis.
jackson has voted in favor of the Wy
koff pavement.
Late Memphis papers report Chancellor
Yerger's nealth as greatly improved.
The present banking facilities of Jack
son are said to fall short of meeting the
necessities of that market.
Jackson papers boast that that city is
destined TO become one of the great in
land cities of the Southwest.
It is said that Tennessee, as well as AL
ALBANIA, can produce the best charcoal pig
iron at twenty dollars per ton.
The city government of Memphis pro-
poses to furnish the poor of that city 25,-
900 bushels of coal.
One hundred and eleven bales of cotton
were purchased in jackson on the 24d of
November, at 192 cents.
A mad dog was killed at Somerville on
Sunday, Nov. 20. He was of the pointer
breed.
Knox county grew more wheat the past
season than during any year since the
settlement of Tennessee.
Knoxville papers inquire what has be-
come of their Board of Trade of that
city.
Though fuel is high in Memphis, pro-
visions are abundant and cheap, and veni-
son, ducks, and bear meat abound.
Mr.. Alexander B. White died recently
at Paris, and not at Shelbyville, as stated
in Sundays paper.
Thanksgiving dinners were so universal
in Knoxville that they became somewhat
common.
B. Newton Hart, formerly a member
of the Memphis bar, lately died at Alton,
Illinois.
A public meeting for the relief of the
poor is to be held in Knoxville on the
first of December.
Pumpkins are said to be as plentiful in
Knoxville as at any place in New Eng
land.
The Shannon Novelty Works, one of
the largest planning mills in the South,
will be sold at Jackson on the Sd of De
cember.
One hundred and fifty Swiss, of five
thousand expected, are on their way,
through Knoxville, to Water Valley,
Mississippi.
An important reduction in the rates of
freight Oh all East Tennessee products
shipped to the cotton States has been OBJ
tanned.
Up to this time, forty car loads of dried
fruit have been forwarded from Knox
vile, amounting in round numbers to
about 72O, 900 pounds.
A train of eleven cars, loaded with cot
ton at Montgomery, Ala, passed through
Knoxville on Thanksgiving Day, en- route
to Norfolk, Va.
The amount collected at Knoxville for
the relief of the French widows and Or
phans, it is thought, will reach about four
hundred dollars.
A masquerade ball comes off at Chat
tanooga tonight, and the proceeds are to
be devoted to the relief of the widows
and orphans of the European war.
Sell Howell has been acquitted by the
Criminal Court at Mempeis, of the charge
of killing Jerry Riordan, at the French
Garden some time since.
There is said to be a coal "riDg"
in Memphis, by which that article of fuel
has been forced up to one dollar and
half per barrel.
A public library is spoken of in Knox
vile as place of resort for young men,
to prevent them from seeking improper
amusements elsewhere.
Mr.. A. B. Mullett Supervising Archi-
tect at Washington, is expected in Knox
vile, to look after the new courthouse
and postoffice building.
Geo. Bast, an escaped prisoner from
the Somerville jail, surrendered himself
to the officers in Memphis day or two
since.
The relative number of children who
have died this year in Memphis, as shown
by the bills of mortality, is greater than
usual.
Alonzo White, of Jackson, lately caught
beaver in one of his traps on the river,
that weighed fifty pounds. Beaver, it
seems, are not yet quite extinct in that
locality.
Choice cuts of veuison are selling in
Memphis at 20 to 25 cents per POUND;
ducks so to rs cents per pair; quail 25
cents apiece; rabbits 40 to so cents each
and bear meat at Is and 20 cents per
pound,