Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-26
STATE NEWS.

The revival meetings at the Greenlaw
Opera House in Memphis are still in pro-
gress.
Farmers in the vicinity of Memphis
report all sorts of crops in that section as
unprecedently large.
The Jonesboro Herald and Tribune
says that Jonesboro is crowded with
Eastern drummers.
Four new engines have recently been
placed on the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad.
The trial of Sell Howell, for the al
legged murder of Jerry Riordan, is in pro-
gress in the Criminal Court at Memphis.
Since the close of the war Morristown
has grown and improved quite as much as
any other town on the line of the East
Tennessee and Virginia Railroad.
Travel is on the increase on the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad,
and the freight traffic on that road is said
to have been heavier this season than
ever before.
The average daily attendance at all the
departments of the Fisk University at
Nashville, for the past year, was two
hundred and thirty-two.
Mr.. ]. A. Rorex, of Cooke county,
raised the past season one hundred and
one hogs, that averaged in weight three
hundred and seventeen pounds each.
The Memphis appeal says: "The
growing habit among lawyers of traduc-
ing, bullying and browbeating witnesses,
especially policemen and detectives, has
attracted the attention of the public"
AT recent blowing match at Roseber-
~ Greek, in Knox county, the judges re-
ported that the Nspierville pillow, Jones'
pattern, No. 3, did its work decidedly the
best.
The GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leaf says
that the fact that the tobacco trade is
even as prosperous as it is, is not due TO
the government but to the people, who
will use the weed in spite of all draw
backs.
Ga Saturday, Dec. 3, meeting of the
farmers of Montgomery county will be
| held at the Courthouse in GAINESVILLE, to
take steps to regulate the labor system,
and to attend to other matters of general
interest.
The Dyersburg Gazette says: ''The
other day DR.. Graham cut from the head
of Dyer county lady an ugly looking
parasite, nearly the size of hens egg.
The Doctor says that wearing chignOns
was the cause of it. "
The Methodist Episcopal Church South
has organized ''The Home Mission" in
Knoxville, and employed lady of high
reputation to canvass that city, hunt uI
the poor, and attend to their spiritual and
temporal necessities.
Messrs. Munsou & Bailey, real estate
agents at Knoxville, recently put short
advertisement in the New York Weekl3
Tribune. In one week they received
letters from more than fifty persons re-
siding in different parts of the North and
the East making inquiries about Eas
Tennessee.
Some weeks ago Messrs. Pollard &
Co., commission merchants in Memphis
received from some town IN Indiana o.
Illinois consignment of three boxes o.
eggs, and in one of the boxes they fOunC
a fifty dollar greenback. They have re
ceived advices as to the ownership of th'
eggs.
Coroner Moffat recently held an inques
in Memphis on the body of an infant
probably eight or nine months old, founC
in small box floating in Wolf river. Oh
one end of the box were the letters 50
w. T. & Co., Cincinnati, O." The b0dy
had been several days in the water, aut
was probably sent to Memphis by expires
to be disposed of.
The Cleveland Banner records tn
particulars of the suicide of Mr.. Sidne,
Hays, who had been residing about tire
miles east of Cleveland, and who sho
himself in the brain with heavy charge,
musket, producing instant death. 1t i
said that the deed was probably commit
ted in fit of temporary insanity. TIL
deceased was son of Mr.. John F. Hays
and was about fifty five years of age.