Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-27
Is STATE NEWS.
Game is abundant in Memphis.

Business is improving in Athens.
Brownsville has patent soap factory
Memphis is said to be full of thieves
Memphis is reported very healthy al
present.
Paris has population of about fifteen
hundred souls.
Fresh pork is selling in Dover, Stewart
county, at nine cents q pound.
Sixteen converts lately joined the Meth.
odist Church in Murfreesboro.
Theatricals are said to flourish in Knox.
vile and Memphis. :
Three or four good shoemakers are
wanted at Athens. .
The new Baptist Cnurch at Murfrees-
boro is soon to be dedicated. kgs
The matrimonial market in Murfrees-
boro is reported to be quite lively. /
Thanksgiving day was generally OBJ
served by the citizens of Shelbyyille.
Memphis viii soon issue corporation
bonds, bearing six per cent interest in
gold. .-.
There is talk of lighting the streets of
Brownsville, temporarily, with portable
gas.
The Memphis Appeal says that hot
buttermilk is late prescription for chills
and fevers.
The people around Culleoka, Maury
county, have nearly all finished sowing
wheat.
Rev. Mr.. Keith, of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, has been appointed to the
Sweetwater Circuit.
Large shipments of stock are daily
made southwark from Chattanooga, prin-
cipally of hogs.
The new house of worship for the Cum
berland Presbyterians in jackson is near
ly completed.
For the past week or two, hog slaugh-
tering has been going on briskly in Shell
byville and its vicinity.
The Federal Court holds its next regu-
lar session at Memphis, commencing on
Monday, the 26sh inst.
The hog crop of East Tennessee will
be larger this season than it has been
before since the war.
1t is said that Tennessee win send three
hundred thousand bushels of peanuts to
market this season.
At Morristown, the price of hogs was
lately quoted at six cents gross, and seven
to seven and half cents net
The citizens of Shelbyyille are begin
ming to find out that it is great deal
cheaper TO burn coal than wood.
The Central railroad authorities are
having repaired, In Jackson, the long
resllework over Market street.
Business men in Knoxville continue to
receive letters from confidence men in
New York, offering to sell ''the queer"
About fifty fat cars are being fitted up
by the Nashville and Chattanooga Rail-
road for the Tennessee Coal Company.
Cotton is coming into Paris plentifully.
Buyers are giving three and a half cents
per pound for clean cotton in the seed.
About one car load of wheat per day
has been shipped from Talbott's station,
in Jefferson county, for the past two
weeks.
Mr.. Patrick R. Mckinney recently
dropped dead at the porkhouse in Shelby
vile, where he was employed In cutting
up hogs.
Kingston is becoming remarkably sober
and serene, as her papers state by way
of apology for the scarcity of local
news.
Only three counties in West Tennessee
have decreased in population since the
last census, namely, McNairy, Benton and
Henderson.
Twenty dollars per month is stopped
from the pay of the police force in Mem
phis, to pay the expense of their new
uniforms.
Several new buildings have lately been
erected in GAINESVILLE, and shade trees are
being planted in various portions of the
city.
The Paris LntelLigencer says that the
Milan Times has been sold to a joint
stock company, and will hereafter be pub
lished at Mckenzie.
The Philomathesian Society of Kings
College will hold public debate in the
Presbyterian Church at Bristol on the
21st of December.
The Pulaski Citizen, of the 25th inst,
says: Our vicinity was visited on Monday
night and Tuesday with a pretty heavy
snow storm.
AT the skating rink in GAINESVILLE, the
silver pitcher prize for the most graceful
skating was lately awarded to Miss Huldah
Warfeld, of that city.
On Thanksgiving day a number of
hunting parties were made up in Kuox-
vile for sport i'll the adjacent woods and
hills in the vicinity.
Several Knoxville capitalists contem-
plate erecting, at an early day, a smelt-
ing furnace, some six or eight miles north
of Kingston.
A grand wedding came off on the 18th
inst. at Dover, Mr.. Charles Coppedge, of
Dover Furnace, and Miss Fannie King, of
Dover, being the happy parties.
Quite number of strangers have Wis
tied Athens during the last two weeks,
some in pursuit of business localities and
Others seeking healthful residences.
While sweet potatoes are selling in
Franklin at thirty-five cents per bushel,
farmers in the vicinity of Shelbyville are
asking seventy-f cents and dollar.
Jackson papers complain of some of
their business men patronizing drummers
of printing houses in other places, to the
detriment of printing Offices in Jackson.
The Columbia Herald says that Mauy
county's fort, as ARENAS Ward would
say, is not cotton planting, but grain
growing and stock raising.
Several gentlemen of capital have lately
been prospecting in East Tennessee, with
the view of purchasing land, and have
made considerable investment in Fentress
county.
The Chattanooga Times says that
James Robinson is now in New York,
trying to get up company to make the
tour of the South this winter with his
circus.
The Board of Directors of the Lebanon
and GAINESVILLE Pike have decided to con-
struct that pike with a grading twenty
feet in width, and with two coats OF
rock.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle says: 'fFrom
all the information we can gather, we in.
cline to the opinion that eight cents will
be the ruling figure for pork in this To-
cality." .. .-er- .E
The GreeLeville National Union of the
Path inst. says: Hogs have been selling
quite freely in this county during the past
week at six and six and half cents,
gross.
Esquire ''Gus" Bloom, of the 18th civi
district of McMinn county, lately killed 8
large sized bear. At the time he met biz
dtath, bruin was prowling about the hos
lot, trying to cultivate.
The dry goods store of Mr.. w. II.
Tillford, in Milton, Rutherford county
was lately destroyed by fire. The stool
was valued at 81 800, upon which there
was an insurance of 81, 800.