Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-14
STATE NEWS.

Columbus new skating rink is now in
full blast
They are testing fire. exinguishers in
Chattanooga.
The dray and hack business is reported
lively in Memphis.
The Mayor of Humboldt recommends
the election of a City Attorney.
Hogs are quoted in Bristol Ct about
six cents gross and seven cents nett.
A well-posted Lebanon cotton buyer ee-
Inmates the cotton crop of Wilson at five
hundred bales.
Chas. P. Moore has been re-appOinted
Clerk and Master of the Stewart County
Chancery Court. .
Travel over the East Tennessee, Viz
ginia and Georgia Railroad Is very light
at tuis time.
Several hoTsJ sare reported to have died
in Loudon county of a disease resembling
blind sggeEs.
There are eighteen prisoners in the
Maury countysail two of whom, Riddle
and Griffin, are charged with murder.
The past week, in the circles Of finance
and trade in Knoxville, has been one Of
almost unparalleled dizziness.
Col. Duncan r. McRae is expected to
ldress the Confederate Historical and
Relief Society of Memphis on the 2Sd inst.
The Knoxville papers are fighting the
Chattanooga papers; and the bone Of con-
tention is which city is the more enter
Il prising and progressive.
= Some Of the Iustics IF West Tennessee
arc said 10 be foOlishly spending their
money in buying gold" snd silver
Lot cry tickets.
Capt. HaIman Hanneiing, a contractor
on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
for many years, died in Bristol a week
ago last Friday.
A vigorous old gentleman in McKen-
zie, 70 years cid, was last week made the
happy father of bouacing girl weighing
thirteen pounds.
A man named Andrews was arrested in
Greeneville on the 9TH inst, charged with
robbiDg the mail Of aregistered letter con-
tanning $l20.
Another Bachelors Society has been
organized-thi5 time it is in Williams
port. 'It is formed for the protection Of
bachelors against the women" SO ssys
the Columbia Herald.
The prisoners confined in the jail at
Columbia recently endeayored to escape,
but their attempt was frustrated by the
vigilance OF the iailoT The prisoners
have made several previous attempts to
escape, but failed.
A man named Ray saws he has killed
five hundred deer in Lawrence county in
one wear. and two Indians. He killed a
deer that weighed 200 pounds net, with
one inch and 4 half OF tallOw. on the
back.
Clement Reyn- lds, has been committed
20 iail in Greeneville, charged with the
murder of solomon Collins, near Garter
Station, in Greene county, on The night
Of the 9th ult
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle of the 10Th
instant says: "a SpsniaTd, whose name
we did not lears- was arrested on yester-
dsv morning by the Sheriff. on suspicion
of horse stealing, aud committed TO jail
Under the bws of the State it Is Che
duty of the Collectors d report - She
January term q the first Circuit Court the
real estate on which taxes have not been
rsid-,he same is condemned and ordered
10 be sold.
The Tennessee and Holston are still
low, and but one or two light draft boats
are running, and they below LOudoD.
Farmers on these rivers are suffering be,
bause they cannot get their produce to
market
William Fletcher, while bearing OF
lumber from saw mill, five miles north
of Huntingdon, was caught in the ma
chineIy, some time since, and SO fright,
fully pSngled that he died in te"
hours.
The Irish Literary Association oil Mem
nhis is said to be the only association of a
purely literary character in that city that
IS In a flourishing condition. Financially
and numerically it iSP success.
The Memphis Appeal takes IRON al
exchange the following notice: Lost O.
s,rsde from tie scriber shePe all over
white-one leg was black and hat his
body-all persons shall receive hve dollsrs
to bring him. He wss she cote.
The Dover Record says: I'VE un
derstand that Mr.. John Bailey, couple
of weeks ago caught white coon, near
E. ]. Boyd's; this is indeed a curiosity
seldom seen, and is quite freak OF ma
ture.n
Mr.. Charles w. Green, the agricultural
editor of the Jackson telegraph, unfor,
tn1atelv planglei one of his fingers the