Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
STATE NEWS.
Lebanon has somnambulist.

GAINESVILLE is improving rapidly.
McMinnyille is to have a new tirst-class
hotel. -5 rr.'.
A man was recently killed i'll Polk
county for fifty dollars in money.
There is said to be only two or three
weeks supply of coal in Memphis.
James NJ. Ward, the Irish comedian,
is plsying at the Chattanooga theater.
Tri-weekly stages have commenced to
run from Lebanon to Carthage.
A man was killed in Memphis on Mon
day evening, owing TO careless driving.
Five hundred bales of cotton were
grown in Wilson county the past season.
They have new postmaster at Nc
Minnville- Richard Kennedy, rice G. w.
Martin. .-
The annual examination of pupils at
Burritt College commences on Monday,
the Jh inst.
Mai. p. II. Coffee has been appointed
Clerk and Master of the Warren county
| Chancery Court.
A growing interest is manifested in the
Sabbath Schools in Springfield, Robe ri
son county.
The McMinnyillc Nctg Fra has in its
Office turnip crown by w. L. Christian,
weighing five and half pounds. ..
Though there are said 10 be few French
men in Knoxville, the number of French
sympathizers is large.
The Morrisuown Gazette urges upon its
readers the claims of that town as place
wei calculated for manufactures.
The regular annual anniversary OF The
| Knoxville Bible Society is to be held on
the first Sabbath evening of January.
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Comuapv have introduced the ''tire cx-
tluCuisher" Oh all the trains on that road.
Rev. Richard Beard, DID,, of Lebanon,
was recently elected 4 member OF the
American Pathological Association.
Alien Cato, negro, killed another nc
pro named Mack Owen, the other day al
Cleveland. Whisky had a good deal &c
do with the matter.
Six hundred persons were present al
the recent masquerade ball in Chats
nooga. The proceeds go to the relief OF
the widows and orphans in Europe.
Thanksgiving Day in Springfield was
celebrated, says the Record, as all Other
DAYS are celebrated, ''by every one trying
TO see who could do the most business. ,
The revival OF religion that has fol
some time past been in progress III thu
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, il
Knoxville, still continues with unabateo
interest.
One hundred and fifty negro recruits
we've sent from this city to Texas ON Sat
urday, end about fifteen more are now IL
the barracks, as the business of recruit
ing IL constantly progressing.
AZ four hotels in the city there are al
present about six hundred persons in
Guiding transient and day boarders, dis
tributed IA follows; Maxwell, 200; Com,
mercial. 40; City, loo, and Stacey House,
1OO-totsI, $50.
On last Tuesday, between 10 A. NJ. and
Or. NJ, there wcrc five corp5es within the
Corporstc limits Of Lebanon. 4 similar
occurrence has not been noticed there
since the visitation of the cholera in 1854.
DENNY Sheriff Reed, Of GAINESVILLE,
has received $500, the amount of the re-
ward offered by the Governor of Ken
tuckv for the arrest of Charles Warthing,
ton. charged with the murder of Thomas
Floyd.
snA rr;rilicd raj has been discovered a
Lebanon at the bottom of a box of bacon
in a smokehouse, where it became fast
cned in so as 10 prevent ito escape. 1t Is
Thought that the raft Of the bacon hac
some agency in the Pclritication.
Mr.. Muletl, the Supervising Architect.
from Washington, is now examining The
auarrics in the vicinity OF Knoxville, tt
ascertain W here the best quality of ston'
can he procured for building the new
Knoxville Customhouse.
On Tuesday, Nov. %, the venerable
Mrs. Sarah FINLEY, probably the oIdes
inhabitant of Knoxville, died III that city
at the advanced ace of sevcniy-four years
Mrs FINLEY was we'll known by the citi
zens of Knoxville, and was worthy
member of the Presbyterian Church.
The Springfield Record gays: SO!
Monday last, nero woman in the su
burls Of our town, gave birth 10 a Twin.
child at full time, the child being well
FORMED and perfect except &n entire alb
sencc of the Uranium and brain. II livcC
only few moments. I"
There il said to be an old gentleman
living IN Wilson county, who has no
: been in Lebanon since nc went there II
So 20 procure his marriage license. HI
says he hasn't had any business ther
sjnCc. The Lebanon Herald is on
, authority for the statement.
The GAINESVILLE IO5dccO-LeGf init
mats that members of the Board o
Trade of that city, who fail to attend tn,
, regular meetings ar fined fifty cents each
4 little of the same penalty would b.
found beneficial in other cities, when
/ full meeting is desired.
A committee appointed al a meeting 0
; the Farmers Club of Montgomery county
held at White Chapel on the 18th ultimo
las issued an address, calling ameeting a
GAINESVILLE on the first Saturday in De
cember, TO consider The labor question il
relation to agriculture.
The Springfield Record has a sort 0
imaginary Grip Van Wrinkle" CORE
: spondent, who is writing letters dated No
! vember, lS90-twenty years in the fu
ture. He makes the present printer
r 'deviT" the master of Masonic lodg