The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-12-22
STATE NEWS.

About six car loads of hogs are sent from
Lebanon eTsV day.
1t is said that Edwin Forrest, the great
tragedian, will visit Knoxville sOon.i
"Necktie parties have dawned In the
rural districts.
The Of Memphis are p%rtitioning
for the abolition Of the board Of council.
men.
The citizens Of the new county Of Trous.
dale have selected Hartsville W their
county seat, by a vote of 1873 to zoe for
Gray's, 1856 for. Miller's and I8 for
Ayeritt's.
Mrs. Pauline Egmsn, the wife Of Barth.
olomew Egman, lately diedin Robertson
county. She was born in December 1876.
Counterfeit twsnties on the National
Shoe and Leather Bank, of New York
city, are in circulation in Knoxville.
This is a new issue Of an old countet'sit.
BY directions Of the NJ. W. StatesPres.
dent, the third annual session of the Grand
Camp Of the Order of the Pale Faces will
be held in Nashville, Jan. IL, 1871.
The trial of Myra Day for killing
young Banks last Summer, 10 going on in
Memphis. At the same time evidence is
being hunted up as to the murder OF Ada
Jones.
They are talking of forming a vigilance
Committee in Memphis. Won't do. Too
much odds against them.
A enc armed Dldier shot and killed M
0thcr' one armed Ioldior at the Soldiers
Home, SIX aileS kOn Memphis, tho other
day. Y
.srow ia three hches deep III Memphis.
Will MansfOrd, news dealer in Mem.
phis, has a dog that goes a. cross'the street
regularly for his glass of lager,
Three hundred aud City thousand dol.
lars are due to the city of Memphis tor
taxes.
Rev. W. N. Peudleton lately delivered
a discourse at Grace Church, in Memphis,
on the late Gen, Robert Il. Loo.
The wOrknen are busily engaged laying
the foundation OF Evans Foundry ut Chat
tanoOga and when completed it will be the
largest in tho State.
The South side of McMinn county was
visited by a destructive gale last Saturday
night, which uprooted trees, unroofed
barns, prossgated fences, etc. Nc serious
casualties reported.
The Lebanon Herald . "a great
number Of hogs were brought to town
last Tuesday. We understand about
$4,000 worth were sold to buyershere at
six cents for those weighing 300 pounds
and upwards, aud Eve ard a ihalf'cents for
smaller ones"
Dr.. j. II. Van Demanlhrsdeen request
cd by the citizens of the I'd ward of the
city Of Chattanooga to resign his position
as Alderman of that ward, as the petition
er52laim that the Doctor does not re.
present them. Van Deman has returned
the petition to its authors.
The Chattanooga Times states that a
patent corn-huSker has lately been tried
at the establishment of Bubble Il Co. and
The huskcr is said TO be a success. 1t will
shuck corn at the rg:o, it is said, of three
or four hundred bushels per day.
We are informed that only seven hun.
dred applications have been made to fill
q little positions on the Tennessee and
Pacific Railroad during the past two
months. 'ln this case, "nany vert called,
but few cLosen.'
The Frarklih BE view says; IA negro
man named GeoUo ~Youngman, was killed
about five miles from this place on last
Thursday, on the premises of Mr.. Il, IL.
Reams. He was At work in a cotton gin,
his own carelessness allowed HIM
self to be drawn into the machinery, and
his head being cepght between the large
sog wheels, he was literally crushed 20
The Memphis Appeal says: Memphis
a slow place, after all our boosted pro-
gressivenass. We have been fifteen years
building 500 miles of railroad. Five
years ago there WIS not a mile of railroad
in Kansas. Now there are 1900, and
three lines are crossing the State toward
Pacifc-the Missouri Pacific, the
Kansas Pacific and the Topeka and Santa
Fe roads.