Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-04
STATE NEWS.

| There is said not to be drop of wbisk
in Lewis county for sale.
Martin Dill has been appointed Post
master at Huntington, vice E T McGill
resigned.
Meat stealing, says the Columbia Her
; aid, is the rage in the region around Mt
Pleasant
The Greeneville National Union ha
changed hands and politics. 1t is to b,
Radical paper hereafter.
A negro man, Hess Hunt, was shot a
Loudon on the 1st inst, during the circui
performance st that place.
The Jonesboro Herald and Tribuy,
reports a large amount of $40 counter
felt bills in circulation in that section.
A gentleman who has recently Travelled
extensively in Henderson county report.
the corn crop as unusually fine, while the
cotton is less promising.
Elijah Ashton, who killed John Cook
near Columbia about two weeks since,
had his trial on the 26th ult, and was ac-
quilted.
The house AMI furniture of James
Sowell, of Maury county, valued at 50, 900
were entirely destroyed by fire on last
Sunday morning. --
William F. Moore, living on Rutber-
ford Creek, in Maury county, had his
kitchen burned up last Tuesday night at
II o'clock.
We learn from the Knoxville Chronicle
of the I'd inst, that Charlie Harris, the
little boy who was run over at the depot
on Wednesday, died on the 1st inst.
Mr.. Samuel W. Simmerly, of Elizabeth
town had one of his hands so badly in
jured by circular saw on the 2Sth inst.
as to render amputation necessary.
The census retU ms of Carroll county
show the following population: White
males 7,183, white females 7,431, colored
males 2,327, colOred females 2, ,4S6; total
whites IA, GA, total cOlored 4,813; total
population 10, 427.
The Knoxville Chronicle of the Cd
inst. is informed that few days since a
man was found at the depot at Jonesboro,
near what is known as the Salt House,
with his forehead crushed in by some
heavy instrument.
On the afternoon of the 1st inst. the
boiler of locomotive No. 9, of the lumber
train on the Georgia, East Tennessee and
Virginia Railroad, exploded at Sweet
water, causing the instant death of the
engineer, Mr.. Hugh Barger, and badly
'Ack" Minton, the fireman.
The receipts of cotton during the COM
mercial year closing on the 3ist of Au-
gust, by the Memphis and Louisville rail-
road were 43,084 bales, against 45,575
last year, and 33,805 the year before.
The increase over 1869 was 1914 bales.
and over 1868, 10,284 bales. The ex-
ports during last year were SO, 265 bales,
against go, 156 bales last year, and 43,-
i12 the year before.
The Columbia Herald of the ID inst,
says that an old man named Joseph Deem
was killed recently near Rally Hill. He
was blowing out' awell with powder, for
Ring, and while ramming waddiDg in on
the powder it exploded, blowing him up
on the bank and knocking out one of his
eyes, aud several rocks entering his breast.
He died in about four hours. =, He was
about seventy years old, and served three
years in the Confederate army.
Mr.. Fulwiller, the express agent at Co
lumbia, who was almost assassinated on
the 26th inst, is fast recovering from his
wound. There is one very mysterious
fact connected with the matter. There
are two distinct wounds, one inflicted
with knife or other sharp instrument,
and the other made by some dull, heavy
creating a hard knot. Both
wounds must have been inflicted simultaue-
ously, and how this was accomplished is
hard to conjecture.