Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-10
STATE NEWS.

4 Inc PiiOo VI CoA Is lalBng In Mem
phis.
A strange disease of the throat has beer
prevalent for some time past in Maryyille.
Chattanooga is TO have o grand fancy
dress carnival ON Christmaa eve.
More houses are said to be needed II
Knoxville.
Knoxville claims to be one of thu
healihiest cities of its size in the country
Work on the Memphis and st. Louii
railroad has been commenced
Hogs generally Throughout East Ten.
nessee are selling fIom to 81 cents gross.
The crop is unusually magnificent.
A German Fair for the benefit of tie
German widows and orphans is to be held
in Knoxville ON the Goth inst.
As compared with last year, the cotton
trade of Memphis shows an increase of
nearly ninety per cent
At the late municipal election J. A.
January was elected Mayor of MuIfree3-
boro.
Mr.. W. Y. Huff, Chairman of the
County Court of Loudon county died re-
Gently after short illness.
The prospect for the early completion
of the Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad
is said to be very coed.
The MurfreesbOro NeIUS states that q
daughter of DIR. Thomas Black was So
verely burned a short time since by the
upsetting of lamp. She is doing well
at present.
The Fayetteville ebserrer states tba.
q savings bsnk has lately been established
there, AID adds that within few days
past it has done business amounting 10
several thousand dollars.
Chancellor Key has appointed James
A. Caldwell Clerk a0d Master for Hamil-
ton county. The Chattanooga Times
says it is one of the best appointments
that could have been made.
Mr.. s. P. Hale, Clerk and Master of
the Monroe Chancery Court, was re-
Gently thrown from hi5 horse, by which
accident one of his ankle bones was
broken.
A citizens meeting was recently held
in Huntingdon, at which the merchants
agreed not to bTing to that town or offer
for sale any article manufactured by any
of the mechanics of Huntingdon.
The cost of living in Memphis shows
no abatement, and the trouble is said to
be with owners of houses who exact high
rents, and retailers Of the necGssaries of
life who sell them at enormous profits.
Memphis was made a FORT of entry by
Congress at its last session, and the frs
invoice of goods under thai law was re-
ceived in Memphis on the Oh inst., being
a lot of carpeting from London, England.
J. Matt Woodland has been unanimous
ly elected Mayor of Lebanon. The old
Board of Aldermen was re elected, with
the exception of w. II. Orr, who de-
clined to be be a candidate.
The prisoners confined in the jail at
Kingston, three in number, recently made
their escape, one of whom, Eaos Hunt,
was a desperate character. The prisoners
escaped by means of false keys, and they
were at large at last accounts.
TheIe is good deal of activity in wheat
and corn along the line of railroad south
of the Tennessee river. One dollar is the
figure for merchantable whest, and fifty
cents per bushel for corn. There is a
large surplus of both in McMinn county.
Compared to Tennessee the other States
of the South fall immeasurably below her
in most of the essentials which constitute
the best country to emigrste to, for the
purpose of making it ''homen, for ones
self and those who are to come after.
DR.. p G. L. Grssty died in Memphis
on the 9th, after q prOtracted illness. He
was q native of North Carolina, and
graduate of jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia. DR.. Grssty was an old
resident of Memphis, and very successful
as a practitioner. He had been in i'll
health for several years.
The Commissioners appointed by the
County Court of Roane county, to pur-
chase a farm for the use of the county
paupers, have recently bought the Black
well farm for 5000. This farm is To-
Gated on the Clinch river, about two miles
will at once proceed to erect suitable
buildings
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle declares that
until the Southern people become enlight-
ened enough to raise what they need to
eat, 10 wash what they wear, and to make
the tools that they work with, they will
continually be the dupes and slaves of
Northern shrewdness, capital and enter
prise-a fate which the Chronicle SAYS
''the South has always deserved and still
endures.n
The City Fathers of Memphis have
adopted a resolution giving the Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph Company the priv
ilege of extending their lines along Main
and other streets TO the Mississippi and
Tennessee Railroad depot. The poles are
being put up along the Mississippi and
Tennessee Railroad, and it is expected
that the lines will reach New Orleans 10 a
few month";