Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-27

newspaper man and publisher Of tht
CosnlopOiite.
| An,excbange says If cotton factor
enables the State of Texas to keep he
convicts proftably employed, VIII
wouldn't cotton factory in the State O
Tennessee answer the same purpose9
The Lebanon Herald, of the 24th
says that on the preceding Monday nigh
the barn of Col. Jasper r. Ashworth wa
destroyed by fre-loss from 81 500 il
$500. The fire is said tc be the worl
of an incendiary. m3m Xt 'iai
In Warren county there is now residins
MIR Jacob Herndon, in his eighty first year
| who is the rather OF twenty five children.
The old gentleman is said to be in excel
lent health, and is now living with biz
second wife.
The Bethabera Church, situated in Mar
shall county, about four mites north b
Lewisburg, has just been blessed with g
revival, Some thirty persons professed
conversion and many of them have mi
ted with the church.
Col. r. K. Byrd, of Kingston, is said
to have purchased the wreck of the
steamer Mary Byrd, which was sunk
come time ago below Chattanooga. The
Colonel proposes to raise and repair the
wreck.
The number of students matriculated q
the Memphis Medical College is about
thirty, while one hundred and fifty are IN
attendance at the Medical Department Of
the University of Nashville.
A party of Maury county gentlemen
went 20 Lawrence county on tho llth Of
November, on a deer hunt and remained
nine days. They killed nine deer, and
crippled eight that they did not get.
Mr.. John t. Stephens, of SheIbyville.
recently received quite a large shipment
of thorough bred Shorlhorn Durham cat
tie, from the blue grass region of Ken
lucky. Mr.. Stephens now has twenty
six head of thoroughbred cattle on his
farm. u
A portion of the first civil district. in
Williamson county, is said to be called
Pennsylvania, T" from the fact that quite
large number of citizens came to that
vicinity from the State of Pennsylvania.
They are said to be exceedingly thrifty
and industrious, mixing but little with the
world.
The case Cf the directors of the Man
chester and McMinnville Railroad against
the lessees of said road came up on the
10th inst before Judge Key at Winches-
ter. Able legal talent was arrayed on
both sides, but no decision, as far as we
are informed, has yet been rendered.
The last issue of the Pulaski Citizen
says: We have heard of three or four
horses being stolen from this neighbor-
hood within the last few days, and be-
lieve that there is band regularly or
gained in the county for that purpose.
1t is said that there is a secret society
existing among the fair bellies of Mem
phis, the members of which have taken
a solemn vow never to engage themselves
in marriage to man unless he can afford
to give them a diamond ring.
Rev. DIR. Petway, late presiding elder
of the Water Valley Miss District, is
to be stationed at Shelbyyille fer the en-
suing year, as pastor of the Methodist
Church at that place. He is said to be
an able and eloquent minister.
The school commissioners and teachers
of Montgomery county, by order of the
Executive Board, are requested to assem-
bic at the courthouse in GAINESVILLE, on
the 10th day of December, to consider
matters of importance pertaining to the
public schools.
After harmonious and most interest
ing session of seven days, the annual Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, adjourned at Brownsville
on the 22d, to meet at Trenton next year.
Rev. Guilford Jones remains az Browns
vile as the preacher for the ensuing
year.
A negro named Andy Orr, about a week
ago, stole horse from Mr.. George Buch-
anan in Pulaski and then struck out for
his home. Mr.. Buchanan procured q
horse and started in pursuit of the thief,
followed the niger to his house, and on
his attempting to run, fired at the darkey
and wounded him fatally.
1t was rumored in WlIliamsport during
the past week that Jim Wooten, noted
fighter of Hickman county, was shot on
the night of the 18th instant, at some
point in Hickman county, and was not
expected to recover. 1t was not posi-
lively known who shot him, but several
persons we're accused.
Reverend David E. Burns, pastor of
the First Baptist Church in Memphis,
recently died in that city, of coogestive
fever, after brief illness. He was very
popular, and was one of the most elegant
and earnest preachers in Memphis. De-
ceased was forty eight years of age, and
left widow and three children.
The Shelbyville Rescue, speaking of
the hardness of the returning officers in
sending the election returns TO the capital,
says: 'We are in favor of the Legisla-
ture, when it meets again, passing law,
making it fine of not less than fifty dol
lars where the officer fails to send in his
returns within ten days after the cleo
ton.
The Dover Record of the 25th inst.
says: Son last Sunday evening terrible
sffrsy occurred at Beaf Spring between
two Irishmen named John Morrisey and
Andrew Leary, which resulted in the death
Of the former from several stabs inflicted
by Lesry." MoIrisey lived only about
twenty minutes. Leary was arrested, but
after trial was acquitted.
The jackson Telegraph of the 25th
says: ''Presideut McCombs and Gen.
Nicely, of the Mississippi Central Rail
road, are here, doing the headwork pre-
limlnary 10 extending their road beyond
this place. We understand they have
decided to continue their line to Milan,
where they tap the Louisville and Mem
phis Road"
A few days since, the Sheriff of Mont
gomery county, and his deputies, arrested
and lodged in jail at GAINESVILLE, man
named Charles Worthington, who, on the
10Th of July, 1859, murdered, in Ken
lucky, Thomas Floyd. The Governor of
Kentucky offered reward of three hun
dred dollars for the apprehension of the
murderer.
The Athens Post of the 25th says: ga
report reached us day or two ago that a
man named Nelson Clayton was waylaid,
shot and killed in Polk county on Tues
day night of last week We have no par
ticulars, other than these, that the parties
who killed him were in ambush, and
that, in the language of the woods, he
'was shot all to pieces. ,"
The Columbia Herald says: SIN few
years there will remain in our midst but
few reminders of the waste of war.
Every bridge across Duck River, in
Maury county was Destroyed during the
war, (mostly by SCOTS cavalry but in q
few more months they will all have been
rebuilt, save one, the New Bride" just
below the Chumbley Ford.