Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-01
STATE NEWS.
Memphis is reported healthy.
The Mayor of Memphis is sick.

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The Mayor of Memphis is sick.
Dyersburg has silver cornet band.
Horace Maynard has returned to Knox
vile.
| Memphis complains Of hard times and
empty cisterns.
A Scandinavian labor agency has been
established In Memphis.
A Masonic fair will be held in Mem
phis during Christmas week.
The Agricultural Association of Knox
county is in prosperous condition.
Chancellor Yerger, of Memphis, who
has been quite unwell, is convalescent.
Aline La Favre, formerly well known
in Memphis, is Can't Gaming in Cincinnati.
Over Z, O01 bales of cotton were recent
ly received in Memphis during two days.
A revival has been in progress in Jack
son, and the Baptist Church has received
several accessions.
The first sermon by a Presbyterian
minister in Memphis was delivered in
that city in 1924, by Rev. Murdoch Nc
MILAN, of North Carolina.
The Dyersburg Gazette states that at
the recent term of the Chancery Court of
Dyer county, applications for divorce were
granted in three cases.
On Saturday, No. 26, merchant in
Memphis received an order for fourteen
hundred pounds sterling worth of cotton,
from manufacturer in Germany.
A cheap railroad from jackson to some
point In Henderson county, is talked Of
Such road would afford an outlet for
cotton from a large section of country.
They are testing in Knoxville a 'Uni-
versal Fire Extinguisher, which is said
to speedily put out the flames of burning
coal oil and other flaming combustibles.
On Monday last white man named
Martin Devine, living in Memphis, was
struck on the head with stone thrown
by negro, and it Is though that Devine
will die.
Work on the customhouse in Knoxville
has commenced, and Supervising Arch
itect Mullet has arrived in that city from
Washington, bringing with him plans and
specifications.
A woman in destitute circumstances,
recently visited all the drug stores in
jackson, in search of laudanum, for the
purpose of destroying her life. Medical
aid restored her.
The Bolivar Bulletin states that of the
cotton shipped from that place ninety out
of every hundred bales go to New Or
leans In former years Memphis received
nearly all the cotton from that section.
The Jackson Telegraph after saying
''Our Nashville contemporaries are arousing
the people on the subject of popular edu-
cation" remarks that Middle Tennessee
is alive to the necessity of improvement
in this matter.
Surveyors are now engaged in running
off the new county of Crockett, and can
didates are closely following them, can
wasting for political offices. Friendship
is said to be the embryo metropolis of the
new county.
Memphis and Knoxville, as well as
Nashville, are having night schools, and
no doubt they could be proftably estsb-
lished in other places, and would afford
many an opportunity of repairing a neg
lected education.
Knoxville papers state that consider
able tide of emigration from the North
and East is now being turned into East
Tennessee, and hundreds of letters making
inquiries are said to be received in that
city every week.
A. shooting ARRAY occurred a short time
since at Chestnut Bluff, in Dyer county,
between William Stallcuss and John
Kelly. The former was dangerously
wounded-the latter slightly. Both par
ties ale represented as usually being quiet
| citizens.
The Railroad Committee of the Mem
phis Chamber of Commerce, have pre-
sented Q lengthy report to that body on
| the railroad connections of Memphis,
urging the importance of completing the
different roads E1nning in and out of that
| city.
| Benevolent parties and corporations in
various parts of the State are making
| preparations to aid the poor during the
coming winter. II, as weather prognosti-
Gators say, the next winter is to be an I'M
usually hard one, the poor will need all
the assistance that may be rendered.
The Tennessee aud Kentucky Agricul-
tuIal Society met at Humboldt week
ago last Saturday, and elected officers for
the ensuing year, and also delegates to
| the Agricultural Congress which is ex-
| pected to be held at Humboldt the third
Thursday in February.
The Bolivar Bulletin states that a
Northern company possessing considerable
capital has purchased the place known as
Davis Mills, situated about seven miles
south of Grand Junction, where they in
tend to establish manufactures, of what
particular description is not stated.
G. II. Price, Esq, of Carroll county,
was arrested few days since by United
States officers, and bound over to appear
at the Federal Court in Memphis, to an
swer the charge of holding office in viO-
lation of the fourteenth amendment.
| An advertisement in a Memphis paper
says that man can make more money
in Colorado killing buffalo, antelope, elk,
deer, bear, mountain sheep and '1ions, :"
than he can in this country raising cot
ton. But nothing is said about the prob
ability of the " lions" killing him.
The types made US say, in speaking
recently of the new order of Heptasophs,
that they were the seven wise men of
Grace. Those acquainted with the ety.
mology of the word, and the men to
whom it indirectly refers, will readily
understand that we meant the seven wise
men of Greece.
A Committee Of the Memphis Chamber
of Commerce have addressed a communi.
cation to Hon. G. S. Boutwell,, Secretary
of the Treasury at Washington, request
ing him to take immediate steps to carry
out the provisions of law of Congress,
passed at the last session, making Mem
| phis q port of entry.