Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-27
LOCAL NEWS In BRIEF.

The first drove of mules passed through
the city yesterday, southwark bound
The Warren County (Ky.) Fair com-
mences on Tuesday next at Bowling Green.
There viii be large number of persons
go from this city to the camp meeting at
Cedar Hill
The newspaper Office at Union City was
fred by an incendriary several nights since
and burned.
The Nashville and Decatur railroad case
still monopolizes the time of the Chancery
Court.
The jail is quite full of INN ates at the
present time. Luckily the Criminal Court
is near at hand.
At match game of base ball, played
yesterday evening, the Star Of the West
club scored "a, and West Nashville Is.
The City Marshal of Edgefeld is arrest
ing all persons driving carts, merchandiz-
ing or peddling in Edgefeld, without the
necessary license.
Humphrey Marshall is said to be the
heaviest taxpayer in the city of Louisville.
| Our fellow-citizen, Samuel Riddleberper,
is certainly the heaviest taxpayer in this
city.
There has been a considerable changs in
the atmosphere during the last forty-eight
hours. 1t was ten degrees cooler yester-
| day by the Thermometer than it was the
day before.
1t. was inadvertently stated yesterday
that the public schools wo Id open on the
first Monday in September. They will
open on next Monday, the 29th inst.
The extensive building, corner of Church
and Summer streets, is well nigh compile
| ted, and presents a beautiful front, and
will have elegant and deliberately finished
cornices.
1t is asserted that dogs are plentiful
| enough Ill Memphis to run several sausage
factories That amt circumstance. They
are 80 abundant in these parts that the
taDneries ia the suburbs are run with their
| bark.
Mr. Keel will, we learn, soon open
| first class restaurant and refreshment es-
adjustment on South Cherry street, near
Broad Such an institution will 10 a great
convenience to Broad street merchants and
business men turing the coming season.
Col {. W. Cole, President of the Nash
vile and Chattanooga railroad, was in At~
lsDta on Wednesday last Maj A l.
Lands, Genera Agent Of the Nashville and
Northwes EN- road, was in st. Louis on the
same day.
A lot Of knives, watches, pocket books,
etc, were discovered yesterday by the
police. hid auay in the old Banner build
&c .
tioles we're identified as those having been
stolen from the house of Treppard d Co.
some nights ago
The family of WEa. Stone, residing in
| North Nashville, we're made quite sick last
Thursday by buttermilk drank while at
dinner The milk had been purchased of
a negro woman in the morning, and inves
tlgatlon subsequently made showed that it
contained some poisonous quality. The
children of Mr.. Stone were better yester-
day morning
On Thursday night last, about lf-past
nine O'Clock, half mile south of Decatur,
Ala a man was run over by train on the
Memphis and Charleston railroad, and hor
ribly mangled. His arm was severed from
his body, and could not be found. It was
surmised that he had been killed, and then
placed on the track. He was stranger
about the place, and be had not been iden.
tilted at last accounts.
Nashville Com andery returned yester.
day morning from Columbia, and the mem
bers speak in glowing terms of the trip,
and the kind treatment received at the
hands of their brethren. Upon their arri-
val on Thursday evening, they we're met at
the depot by the Commsndery at thatplace,
and marched to the Masonic Hall. At
night there was magnificent banquet at
the Atheneum. Speeches we're made by
Dr. Blackie, Capt. Dashisll and others, and
the utmost good cheer prevailed.