Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-28
STATE NEWS.

A. The corn crop of Dyer county is
splendid. ~AH~ =
/ I The Dyer County Fair commences
Oct rs. h n
The work on the new Episcopal Church
at Bolivar is rapidly approaching COM
| plet,on. ~ = . . ''-' - %
| The editor Of the Dyersburg Gazette
has been shown cotton stalk bearing 450
squares and bolls. e
l The first circuit court ever held for the
county of London convepea on Monday,
the 26th inst. m-
The Union City Agricultural Fair COM
menced at Union City on the Attn day of
L October. o
I EFsyette county has contributed through
her various lodges the, sum of So, 800 to-
ward the Masonic Orphans Home.
Greeneyille, according to the National
Union, of the .22d inst, has had new
corn meal in the market of excellent
quality. rr--s
The second annual Fair of the Gibson
County Agricultural and Mechanical As
ISOLATION commences on the 18th of Oc-
tober.
The Bristol Courier says that large
numbers of beef cattle are being shipped
to market from upper East Tennessee
this fall -- -E-s-.
Little Minnie Sturms, who was so Sc
veTely burned by coal oil lamp recently,
died of her injuries in Knoxville on the
22d inst. So az
Mr.. Robert G. Thomas, a prominent
citizen of Gibson county, died at his resi-
dence near Dyer Station recently in the
62d year of his age.
The Convention Of Hamilton county to
nominate candidates for the Legislature
and Floater, will assemble at Harrison on
Monday, Oct. 8. + q y ~
A rousing meeting of the Irish citizens
of Memphis was held at Memphis on the
evening of the 22d to express their sym
pathies for France.
The dedication of the fair grounds of
the East Tennessee Agricultural Society
was had at Knoxville on the oath inst.
amid greAd and imposing ceremonies.
The town of Trenton is rapidly i'm
proving. The Gazette says that large
and elegant residences and business houses
are going upall over the place and in the
suburbs.
E The carriage house of DR.. T. Z. Moore
was destroyed by fire at Bolivar, on the
evening of the 29d inst. By the prompt
aid of the citizens the residence and out
houses were saved.
Til of
County Agricultural and Mechanical As
ISOLATION will be held at Greeneville on
Thursday and Friday, the 18th and 14th
James Lominax ard Ben and James |
Nicely were bound over 10 appear at the |
next term of the court at Chattanooga,
on last Saturday, for completely in the re- |
cent rolling mill difficulty at that place.
The house of Lewis Martin, an honest,
industrious negro man living at Locust |
Mount in Washington county, was con-
sumed by fire on Monday the 18th inst,
including near all of his clothing and |
furniture.
The ladies and gentlemen of Paris, as
sisted by Mr.. A. G. Morrow and a num-
Der of the Confederate Orphans, gave a
concert on the evening of the 23d inst,
which was fine success and realized
handsomely.
The concert given at the thester in
Memphis on the evening of the 2Sd inst,
for the Stonewal Jackson monument, was
a brilliant success. The building was
filed to overlooking, and the perform
ance was fine.
C. H. Walden, of Christian county,
KY, received the premium of $3.50 at
the GAINESVILLE Fair, awarded to the plan
ter selling the highest number of hogs
heads of tobacco of his own raising at
that market
The Milan Times of the oath inst.
says: We have to record the pleasing
fact that Etheridge county is nov estab-
lished. The votes cast in the Henderson,
Madison and Weakly fractions were almost
q unit for the county. -a
The Memphis AUaldnche of the 2Sd
inst, learns that the managers of the
Shelby County Agricultural and Mecban-
cal Society, have made arrangements
with the Hon. Horace Greeley to deliver
IN address at their grounds come day
Turing the fair week.
At the convention of the people of Nc
Marry county, held at Purdy, on the 18th
net, Robert S. Houston was nominated
Is candidate for the Legislature by ac-
;lamation. Mr.. Houston will make a
faithful and efficient Legislator in whose
hands the interests of McNsiry county
nav be safely confided.
Speaking of the amount of tobacco
sales for 1S69-70 the GAINESVILLE Tobacco
Leaf says we learn from Mr.. Bos-
well, Deputy Collector of Internal Reve-
1ue, for this district, that the amount of
sales of tobacco 1T six warehouses of this
place, from Sept. /, 1869, to Aug. 81,
1870, was 81, 57O,779
We learn from the Paris I,atelIigencer
hat east of Paris there is bed of excel
ent clay for making crockery ware.
superior articles were made of it forty
yearS ago, and as the supply is exhaustless
t may become q source of profit and in
lustry. Fourteen miles east of the town
here is quarry of cOnglOmerate marble
which is susceptible of good polish, and
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