Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-18
STATE NEWS.


Cunning is all the rage In the vicinity
of Lebanon just now.
A regular stage line is to be established
between Lebanon and Carthage.
Nearly every boy in Memphis is said to
have goat to drag him around the streets.
According to the recent census. Ten.
nessee ranks as the tenth State in point of
population.
A new daily paper, Republican in pol
itics, will probably be issued soon at Chat
tanooga.
The members. of the police force in
Memphis are to have new winter uni
forms. ~, II
Chattanooga is said to be on the eve of
great sensation in the shape of divorce
case.
There was slight fall of. snow on
Lookout Mountain on Wednesday morn
ing the 10th inst.
The envelope system of collections has
recently been adopted in the Methodist
Church in Lebanon.
The amount paid monthly to teachers
of white and colored schools in Memphis
is 81, 1866.
The Memphis San says that huntsmen
report Arkansas to be alive with the best
and latest of all kinds of game.
Forty-two persons have made profes-
sion of religion during the present revival
at Wesley Chapel, in Memphis.
The great through line from the South
west and South to the East is again in full
operation, all the trains running on regu-
lar time
Hon. d. c. Trewhitt has applied for a
bill in chancery, enjoining the removal of
the county seat of Hamilton from Harri-
son to Chattanooga.
There is probability of the speedy
conclusion of the Lebanon and GAINESVILLE
turnpike-distance fourteen and three
fourth miles.
The Lebanon Herald says that one of
the candidates for the Legislature at the
late election states that the entire canvass
only cost him seven dollars.
The managers of the Western and At
lantic Railroad have recently received
from the New Haven, Conn, works three
magnificent new passenger cars.
Peter.B. Staub, Consul of the Swiss
government, recently left Knoxville to
look after the interests of the colony of
his fellOw-country men who have settled
IN Grundy county.
Robert McWade is playing Grip Van
WInkle' at the Memphis Theater, but
his creation, we understand, is vastly diff
ferent from the Grip Van Wrinkle" of
Jefferson.
Col. John McGuirk, of Holly Springs,
died recently at that place. lie had Just
bought fine residence in the suburbs of
Memphis, which he had intended to make
his future home.
News items are reported scarce in Men,
phis, and one of the dailies says, Gas for
newspapers they want an excitement, no
matter at whose cost" referring more
particularly to the numerous candidates
Tor city offices.
Over twelve thousand dollars in gold
were collected at the CustomhOuse in
Memphis during the month of October,
the greater portion being for duty rail-
road iron consigned to the Little Rock
Railroad
Prominent farmers in the vicinity of
Memphis concur in saying that cotton
will hereafter constitute the surplus, and
not the main agricultural product, of that
region. Next year bread and bacon viii
be produced as never before.
Mr.. s. s. Williams, of Wilson county,
has raised fine crop of corn the past
season. From fourteen acres of land,
three miles northeast of Lebanon, he has
gathered an average of sixty-six bushels
of corn to the acre.
The immigration to the West has been
enormous this year, and East Tennessee
has sent large share of her emigrants to
Arkansas, but Northern men are, in many
sections of this State, filling up the va
cancies thus made.
A suit involving the possession of the
McMinnville and Manchester railroad, be-
tween the stockholders and directors, VS..
Higgins and Price, lessees under Daven-
port comes off for trial before Judge
Key, at Winchester, on the 1eth instant.
The Chattanooga Times of the 18th
inst. says: "Ah Wing, chief interpreter
of the Chinese on the Alabama and Chat
tanooga Railroad, accompanied by half a
dozen others, were in the city yesterday.
The amendments gazed at them in won
derment."
A large number of indictments have
been found in the United States District
Court of West Tennessee against some
forty or fifty civil officers, for alleged
violation of the fourteenth amendment,
including Tax Collectors, Constables,
Judges, Sheriffs and Justices of the
Peace.
Eight labor agencies have been estab.
lished in Memphis, to supply the demand
for reliable white labor, to build railroads
in Tennessee and other Southern States,
etc. Steady work and good pay are of
| fered, but the supply is not equal to the
| demand. White female house servants
are offered $l5 per month and board,
while male farm hands are freely paid
$40 per month, with board.
The question of the legality of the in
termarriage of blacks and whites is soor
to be tested in the courts in Memphis.
John f. Thomas, a white man, and sale
to have been Confederate soldier, mar.
ried black woman named Christy. Ht
was lately arrested by the city authorities
on the charge of violating the laws OF
Tennessee, and has sued the city of Mem.
phis for $4,000 damages, bringing his
suit before the United States Circuit
| Court.
The Knoxville Wing and Register,
under the heading of "Cupid's prank:
with HymeD," records the particulars OF
q romantic marriage which recently took
place in that vicinity. A ''yOuth to for.
tune and to fame unknown" loved 6
charming maid who reciprocated his af-
fections. A rich and aged sutton besoughi
the maiden's hand, and was favored by
her father. The wedding rousseau has
been received, ard it is expected that
aged sutton is to be the happy bridegroom.
But love laughs at bolts and bars, and
while all are expecting . wedding, the
maiden descends a rope ladder, meets
young lover, the twain proceed TO the
house of a friendly minister, are united
in the holy bands of matrimony, and
take the first railway train for the east,
leaving aged sutton and cruel parent II
despair.
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