Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-19
STATE NEWS.
Turkeys are scarce in Memphis.

its utmost capacity.
Knoxville has improved greatly during
the past six months.
The subject of building union depot
in Memphis is again being revived.
Quite colony is said to be forming in
Memphis for immigration to Colorado.
About three hundred pupils are in at
tendance upon the schools in Jonesboro.
The Memphis School Board has deter
mined to establish night schools in that
city.
Protracted meetings are going on in
most of the Protestant Churches in
Memphis.
The heavy docket of the First Cham
Gerry Court in Memphis contains 1875
cases ready Cor trial.
One hundred and fifty emigrant wagons
recently passed through Midway en- route
for Florence, Ala.
The revival is still progressing at the
Methodist Church in Murfeeesboro, with
the most favorable results.
Mr.. VIM. II. Glass, of Williamson
county, raised an Irish potato last season
which weighed just five pounds.
The revival at the Presbyterian Church
in Kingston is still progressing, and thir-
ty or forty converts have united with the
church.
The Columbia Herald says that q re-
yival has been going on for the past four
weeks among the colored Baptists of
Burns Spring.
The Columbia Herald says that with
the possible exception of the Mt Pleasant
pike, there is not a frst-cless road in
Msury county.
A party of gentlemen from the Guile
Okla district in Maury county, expect to
go to the Barrens, In few days, for the
purpose of hunting deer aud turkey.
The cotton sales in Memphis for the
10th and 10th of November, footed up
$500 bales, being the heaviest sales of
any two successive days during the sea-
son.
The Winchester Home Journal of the
18th says: On Tuesday night, Bishop
Quintard delivered an address at the
Carrick Academy, eulogistic of the life
and character of Gen. Lee.
A large number of the papers published
in this State urge upon farmers the i'm
pOrtsnce of raising less cotton, and of
gradually adopting a more diversified
system of agriculture.
Two new contractors have entered
4 hn tool, Of
Memphis and st. Louis Road, who agree
to finish twelve miles per month.
A reward of 800 in gold is offered for
the conviction of the parties who placed
distractions on the Alabama and Chatta-
nooga Railroad.
A man named John Nesbitt was re-
Gently arrested in Franklin by one of the
county constables, on a charge of larceny.
Last Monday night Nesbitt made his es-
cape, and, at latest accounts, was still at
large.
The Memphis avalanche says that the
supply of Generals, Colonies, Majors and
Captains is as plentiful as were the leaves
in the ''Vale of Vallambrosa, and that
the title of plain 'Mr. " is much more de-
sirable and complimentary.
Mr.. Patton, author of biographical
sketches of self-made men, in Frank Les
lies Chimney Corner, was in Knoxville
on the 10th, and the Chronicle says he
"will probably give sketch Of some of
our self-made men,"
In the csse of Keep vs. CannovaD,
which came upon the 18Th inst, in the
first Chancery Court in Memphis, and
which is a famous case that has been
progressing for several years, every mo-
ton and rule of pleading known to Chan
Gerry practice is said to appear.
| The contract for carrying the mail on
the Tennessee river, between Loudon and
Chattanooga, was reported to have been
awarded to Capt. James Johnston at
81, 500; but the Kington East TeRnes-
Seeon says that Capt. Johnston not only
repudiates the contract, ut states that
he never put in bid.
The Memphis Avalanche states that
J. S. Bailey, q deputy sheriff, who had
charge of the polls in the thirteenth civil
district in Shelby county at the recent
election, has been arrested upon a war
rant issued by the United States Marshal.
He is charged with interfering with ne
gro voters.
The Memphis appeal says that one Of
the most successful preachers who has
appeared in Memphis for many day is
DR.. Earle, who is now drawing crowds to
the Central Baptist Church on Second
street. He does not make any attempts
- ov. He is simple, unaffected in
~, r.on,a- al adopts a conversational
style of preaching.
The Kingston East TeHnesSeecs.. IT.
cords the suicide of Adam Hassler, eighty
years of age. The family had all gone
to church, and during their absence some
bows went into q mill near by, for the
purpose of being weighed, and discovered
| Hassler suspended by the neck from the
rafters of the building. No cause Is as
signed for 30 rash an act.
The Murfreesboro NeUs say that an
| old gentleman and his descendants, num-
bering fifty.three, recently passed through
that city en- route to Arkansas. They
hailed from Coffee county, and one of
their wagons was drawn by pair of
rabbit sized jennets and another ~by a
bull.
Prof. Adolph Shaad, late of Switzer-
land. recently arrived in Knoxville in
company with a number of Swiss imml-
grants. The Professor is said to be high
" pleased with Knoxville, and proposes
TO cast his lot with the people of that city.
| 1t is also said that Prof. Shaad will prob
ably be rendered the Chair of Modern
Languages in the University o. East Ten
| uessee.