Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-11
STATE NEWS.

| A Skating Rink has been opened in
Shelbyville.
| The Times says Chattanooga is i'm
proving very rapidly. hs
4 A skating rink was opened in Columbis
on Friday, the 9th inst. -
There are twenty seven hundred licensed
dogs in Memphis. ..f- +.
| Fifty-two persons died in Memphis last
week, and sixty-two the week before.
| The most successful fair ever held in
Manry county is looked for this fall.
| Several families will emigrate from
Maury county to Texas this fall.
| The concert in Pulaski on the night Of
the 9th inst, realized Sill for the Lau-
derdale miss. Orphans.
| One of the finest Catholic Churches in
the South is in process of erection at
Greeneville. E
The internal revenue receipts in the
eighth congressional district for year end
ing June 80, were $427, 900.
A young man named Joseph L. King,
was, on the 9th ult, killed by lightning,
near Fall Branch, in Sullivan county.
The First National Bank of Pulaski
| will go into operation in a few days.
The Richland Savings Bank is to be
merged into it.
Rev. R. A. Holland, of Baltimore, will
lecture in Murfreesboro on Thursday eve
ming, Oct 20. Subject "Sea of Cali
lee"
There are upward of thirty-five fruit
distilleries registered in second collection
district for use, and as many more that
are not now at work.
Robert L. Landless, ESQ.,, has been
elected Chairman, and Messrs. r. II.
Stein and Daniel Stevens members Of the
Quorum Court of Bedford county.
The stores of ]. NJ. Elliott, C. A. War
ren and - Brown, in Shelbyville, were
robbed of different sums of money,
amounting in all to $s3, on Friday night,
the I'd inst.
Three men, named John Hill, William
Davis, and - Gouldsby, have been ar
rested and lodged in jail at Memphis, sus-
pected of the Dickens murder on Big
Creek some time since.
Marshall county holds Convention on
the 18th at Lewisburg, to Sc ect caBdi-
date to the Legislature. A Representative
for the county proper and Senator for
Bedford and Marshall are to be chosen
There was an error in our report of the
total population of Rutherford county, as
published last week, several districts be-
ing left out. The total population is 33,-
1872; number of whites, I6, 075 number
of colored, 17,057.
A difficulty occurred near Pleasant
Plains, in Lincoln county, on the I'd inst,
between Mr.. John Williams and a man by
the name of Garrett, in which the latter
was instantly killed. 1t was the result of
an old feud. r.H
The Pulaski Citizen reports that great
interest is being manifested byth citizens
of Giles in regard to the next semi-annusl
exhibition of the Blood Horse Associa-
ton, which commences at Pulaski on the
18th of October There will be great
competition and fine exhibition of stock,
together with agricultural and mechanical
products.
Capt. A. r. Sheafe, who was elected
to the forty-first Congress by the qualified
voters of the fourth district, but was de-
MED the certificate by Brownlow, made
a speech in Shelbyville on the Sd inst. He
touched on general politics at some length,
and spoke earnestly in vindicstion of him
self from some charges which have been
made concerning him.
A meeting was held in Lewisburg on
Monday, Sept. 8, for the purpose of tax
ing steps towards raising stock to have
the Shelbyyille and Wartrace Branch road
extended to Lewisburg via Richmond.
Great interest was manifested, and strong
hopes are entertained that the movement
now on foot will result in final triumph
of their sanguine anticipations. We hope
they may succeed. The people need o
road through that section badly.
The Columbia Herald of the 9th inst.
says: A very sad case of suicide by hang
ing occurred on last Saturday night near
Culleoka. Martha Cheatham was the
victim. Her husband, Fletcher Chea'ham,
did not miss bis wife until about midnight,
when On hunting her she was found in
the stable suspended by rope, and dead.
She. had gotten up on plank where she
could jump off. 1t is thought that she
committed suicide during a temporary
period of insanity, caused by illness Mr.
Cheatham knew nothing of her being out
of mind. She leaves five children. /
The stockholders of the East Tennes-
see, Virginia aud Georgia railroad met at
Knoxville on Wednesday, the 7th inst,
and elected the following Board of Di- |
rectors: R Anderson, Sullivan; Jno
White, Washington; james Earnest,
Greene; VIM Galbraith, Jefferson; P.l
Dickinson, Knoxville; G NJ Branner,
Knoxville; c Fl MCGEE, Knoxville; r c
Jackson, Knoxville; Jos Jaques, Virginia;
S Reynolds, Loudon; Jas Galloway,
Cleveland; r T Wilson, New York; r
Sneed, Monroe; E w Cole, Nashville;
Barrett, Augusta. Subsequently the Di-
rsctors elected r T Wilson President, Jos
Jaques, Vice-President; r G Jackson,
Superintendent, and J G Mitchell, Secre-
tary and Treasurer
The Columbia Herald of the 9th inst
says: Zion Church, in the Frierson set
tlement near Ashwood, was entered by
robbers on last Sunday or Monday night.
The thieves forced open one of the doors,
and obtained entrance. The carpets, in
both aisles, about seventy-fve yards,
were cut off near the pulpit, seemingly |
with a pocket knife. A number of the
carpets in the pews, the domestic cover of |
the pulpit, the clock, fine table cover,
and the drapery around the organ loft,
were taken away. The thieves were gen
erous enough to cut off about yard of |
the domestic and spread it over the Bible |
on the pulpit. The splendid silver COM
muniOn service, which was in a box on
the pulpit platform, was not molested. |