Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-13
STATE NEWS.
The population at Knoxville is 5000.

/ Inc population at knoXv1lle IS B., 6O2.
Rev. r. A. Holland, of Baltimore, is {,
lecture at GAINESVILLE on the 22d inst.
The first bale Of new cotton from Gibson
was received at Memphis on the 10th inst
The schools of GAINESVILLE, both male
and female, have opened under the mos
hattering auspices.
Charles Lynn, Esq, has been nominated
as the Democratic candidate to represent
Fayette county in the next Legislature.
The Greeneville National Union, of the
9Th inst, says the corn crop in Greene
county will be abundant for al
and plenty to spare.
On the 10th inst, awagon load of saddle
trees from the mandatory of Thos l. Van
Glider, of Rockville, was shipped to Raj
eigh and Charlotte, N. G.
A special premium Of double-css gold
hunting watch, valued at $500, is to be
awarded for the most skillful horsemanship
at the Montgomery county fair.
Samuel Snapp, Esq, of Greeneville, rails
ed forty-seven and one half pounds of early
Rose potatoes from one pound of seed and
ninety pounds from two pounds of seed.
On the 9th inst, a large number of emil
grants FROM the North and Europe passed
down the road at Knoxville on their way to
Middle Tennessee, where they have con-
tracted for so, 600 acres OF land.
Michael Sullivan attempted to commit
suicide in the workhouse at Knoxville last
Thursday night, by smothering himself
with smoke from fire which he had kin
died for that purpose He was discovered
in time to prevent serious mischief.
The Somerville Falcon has been
shown cotton stalk grown in that region
thirty inches high and containing twenty
three balls. The crop is represented as
being very fine in that vicinity.
A negro girl about twelve or thirteen
years old has been committed to jail in
jackson, charged with an assault with in
tent to kill an infant child of D. o. March
This was her second effort TO perpetrate
this fendish crime. 4
The Knoxville Chronicle states that H. .
G. Chamberlain, who was appointed by
Gov. Senter one Of the delegates to the
Southern Convention at Cincinnati, has
been, on account of private business, COM
PEELED to decline the appointment
Capt W. L. Barnhill ives killed on the
26th ult. at Troy Station, on the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad. He was the gallant
Senior Captain of the 10Th Confederate
Cavalry Regiment. His remains were ta-
ken to his home in McNairy county for in
terment. ' -
The Someryille Falcon of the 9Th inst.
says that the Railroad Convention at that
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tended and great interest manifested in its
proceedings. The prospects of the Jack
son, Somerville and Memphis railroad are
most encouraging.
Many of the planters of Fayette county
were busily engaged in picking cotton
last week. The crop is large and the
yield per acre good and should fair prices
be obtained for the staple this season,
money will be as plentiful in that county
in few weeks as it is now scarce.
The Jackson Wig and Tribune reports
a chapter of singular accidents to Mr.. j. A.
Laney, of Madison county. On the 25th
of December, 1897, he got his right big
toe broke; in 1889 he got his night knee
broke, in scuffie; in 1910 he got his right
hip broke, by falling down stairs; in 1847
a mule threw him and broke two of his
ribs, on the right side; in 1850 pair of
mules ran of with him and dislocated his
right wrist; in 1866 he fell out of a wagon
and broke his right collar-bone, and last,
but not least, in 1870, he, with party of
youngsters, was out serenading, and in
passing the house of citizen, he was fired
upon by said citizen with doubls-b barrel
shot gun, hitting him in the right shoulder
and inficting dreadful wound.