Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-16
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The late heavy rains have put Hatchie
| river out of its banks again as high as
| ever.
The editor of the CoYington Record
was lately married to one of Tipton's
| fairest daughters.
Dr. T. T. Young, prominent physi-
clan and leading citizen of Washington
county, died few days since.
1t is said that Jonesboro has improved
more within the past twelve months than
during any previous length of time.
The proprielors of a drug store in
Knoxville lately received horned frog
from Texas, and his frogship is said to be
very lively.
Mr.. W. R. Handy has ceased to be
! connected with the Paris IntelLigencer,
and Mr.. r. N. Dickinson is now the edit
or of that paper.
The Pulaski Press of the 18th &C
knOwledges the receipt of very fine dish
of strawberries. They were grownby Mrs.
G. D. Taylor, of Pulaski.
The Knoxville Republican says that
thinker Dave Bate" and his company
were lately paid $1,000 for services rem
dered as an independent company during
the late war.
James Bright, of Knox county, has
been arrested and held for trial for COM
hitting an outrage upon the person of a
little girl Of ten years, who is niece of
his wife.
The magistrates of the Shelby County
Court recently reduced their per diem,
but have since altered their mind and
changed it back to S. per day as it was
before.
A correspondent of the Knoxville
Wing and Register Gays that with pro-
per efforts the Democrats can carry Sc
vier county-one of the most perversely
Radical in East Tennessee-at the next
election.
John HarVeson, the lad who was re-
Gently arrested for rObbing the mail at
Humboldt, has confessed the crime, and
has been committed to Jail to await his
trial before the United States Circuit
Court, at Memphis.
The Covington Record of the 18th
says: "There has been a most interest
ing prOtracted meeting in progress at the
Presbyterian Church, in this place, for
the past two weeks. There have been
some fifteen or twenty accessions to the
church
The Sparta Tribune says: ''Mr. Green
II. Moss, formerly citizen of this cOuR-
ty, aged 67t years, walked from McMinn-
vile to this city on Monday, distance of
26 miles. Considering the advanced age
of the old gentleman, we think the per-
Torrance OF the feat an item worth men
tioniDg."
The MurfreesborO NeaUs says: "There
is considerable anxiety manifested on the
part of the citizens OF Marshall county
for the construction of a narrow gauge
railroad from MurfreesbOro to Lewisburg,
and if the proper assistance is rendered
by the people of Rutherford, the road
will be speedily built"
The Memphis appeal Of the 14th says
that the grand jury of Shelby county was
discharged on the 18th, and that there are
now fifty convicted prisoners in the Mem
phis jail, about forty of whom will go to
Nashville. The jury say that the Court
house is nuisance and should be sbated
by building or obtaining a new one.
The Memphis appeal, of the 14th,
says: "The assessment on Shelby county,
for county purposes, this year, will go
up to $3.50, 900. The United States will
also take about 5000, 900; then comes the
State with long, bony fingers, in company
with the city-stout pugilists-to make
unceremOnious raids on your purses and
ours"
Dr.. W. G. Cox has placed upon the
table of the Franklin ReUiecy quite q
curiosity in the shape of double egg
laid, few days ago, by one of the hens
upon his place. 1t is two separate, well
formed eggs, nearly of full size, with a
soft shell upon each, such as is very
often seen. One is yellow and consists
entirely Of yelk.
One hundred thousand dollars s per
cent Haywood county bonds, voted by
Haywood county over q year ago TO aid
in the construction of the Holly Springs,
Brownsville and Ohio Railroad, have
been issued and turned over to the COM
pany, and few of them are how offered
for sale at the Brownsville Savings Bank.
These bonds offered to capitalists one of
| the best investments to be found in the
| country.
The Franklin ReUjeU has the follow
| ing account of Franklin in 1900: 'Gu
the year 1900 the site occupied By Frank
| lin al belonged to one man. 1t was
decided to Capt Anthony Sharp, grand
| father Of our fellow citizen Daniel Nc
Phai, for services rendered in the Revo-
lutiOnary war. The deed, which Mr..
NcPhail has been kind enough to show
US, bears date 1875, and conveyed to
Capt. Sharpe 3, 800 acres of land"
The Columbia Herald, Of inc 14th
inst, says: Sheriff Latta received in
formation that an escaped convict, Felix
Ballantine, was in the Williamsport coun-
try, and he went down On Thursday of
last week, and arrested him on Ehjah
Parsons farm, where he was at work.
Ballantine escaped from the peniteniiary
last June. The keeper of the penten.
tiary, John Chumhley, formerly of thi:
cOuny,) was no flied of Bslantine's ar.
rest, and came last Monday, paid cost:
promptly, and took him back TO prison.
Ballanine Was sent sfcm Pulaski to The
pGniteniary for larceny"
The Dover Record of the 14th says
"Mr. James Summers, living near IndiaI
Mound, called on US last Wednesday fo
the purpose Of getting his pension paper
up, under the act of Feb. "A. 1871, grant
ing to the veterans of 1912 pension. Mr.
Summers was ninety-nine years old tht
18th of last February; he fought unde
Jackson, and participated in the battle OF
New Orleans; his memory is very gOOC
and his step elastic yet; he is hale anC
hearty, and is good for several years yet
he travels about on foot or horseback
wherever he wishes to 60, and onl,
stopped ploughing couple Of years age.
The following item in the natural his
tory lire is taken from the Franklin Re
Uieay Recently while Mr.. NJ. 3
Nolen was sIolling in his garden h
CHANGED to capture four young hares
Thinking thai they would be a choic
morsel for his old pet cat, then nursing
litter Of kittens, he carried them to tn
house ard put them among the kitten
expecting to see them Immediately de
voured. But not so. TIE same powe
that closed the lions mouth when DAME
was in the den, awakened a strange sym
patty in the breast of this genus teLin
for the innocent and timid little hares, an
instead Of bouncing upon and tearin
them to pieces, she gently purring, tool
them in with her kittens and for the pas