Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-01-18
STATE NEWS.

Pocket picking is complained of in
| Manchester.
o. s. Fowler, the phrenologist, is in
| Memphis. 49,
GAINESVILLE tobacco commands the high
est price in the Memphis market.
Six fashionable saloons in Memphis
have ''caVed in" during the last month.
A lad of fourteen summers, living at
Crockett Station, in Obion county, lately
killed buck that wore antlers with five
prongs.
1t is said that certain parties in Mem
| phis are selling an inferior Irish potato
under the name of the early rose, and
that the fraud is quite extensive.
Near Centerville, the other day, the
gun of one of party of young men out
deer hunting was accidentally discharged,
killing q companion named VIM. Easles
dead on the spot. -. =.
The force in Internal Revenue Collec-
tor Cooper's office, at Knoxville, has been
reduced as the business fell of, until now
there are only two assistants besides the
clerk in the Office.
The Spirit of the Age is the name of
new paper published at Collierville by
w. D. Somers and R. B. Seat, of which
we have received the first number. The
Spirit contains variety of well selected
articles, presents fair mechanical ap-
pearance, and espouses the cause of De-
mOcracy.
Giles Smith, negro route agent, was
lately arrested in Memphis on the charge
of robbing the United States mail on the
Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad. He
was brought before United States Com
missioner Pierce, who bound him over to
the United States Court in the sum of
fifteen hundred dollars.
The jackson Wing and Tribune, of
the 14th., says: ''The motion to dissolve
the injunction in the case of E. B. Mason
VS.. the county Of Crockett, was Overruled
by Judge Fentress, and an order of survey
was made, and Gen. VIM. Conner, of
Lauderdale county, was appointed special
surveyor, and directed to report at the
next term of the Chancery Court at Jack
son, which will be held on the fourth
Monday in April next"
We take the following from the Mem
phis Appeol' Gin select fashionable en-
tertainments distilled Mocha and Java
coffee is now substituted for wine and
brandy. The objection to the reform, as
we are advised, consists in the fact that
some few gentlemen, anticipating coffee,
take too many strengthening draughts be-
fore they begin the process of heart
smashing. The performances begin, in
stead of end, with charming degree of
exhilsration."
In regard to the new railroad with
which Gen. Forrest is connected, the
Memphis appeal says: Gen. Forrest,
as soon as the county confirms the sub
scription to his road, may obtain from
the penitentiary at Nashville, four or five
hundred labOrers if he needs them, and
maintain them at q cost of fifty cents
each per diem. The subscription of
this county will build the road to the
State line, and it viii be the cheapest and
one of the most profitable railways ever
constructed. If it never passed beyond
Holly Springs, where it intersects the
Mississippi Central, it would be one of
the best paying investments in which this
people ever employed their wealth.
A foul murder was committed a few
days since in vile den in Memphis. A
white man named Mike Kelly went to
building occupied partly by white and
partly by black people, and his dead body
was discovered in the morning. When
Kelly went there he had upon his person
about twenty-five dollars. A coroner's
jury was summoned and after hearing
volume of conflicting testimony, the jury
retired, and after some consultation,
rendered verdict to the effect that the
deceased came to his death by violence at
the hands of Jim Galloway and Bill Car
ter. The accused were sent to jail hand
cuffed, and Kennedy required to give
bonds in the sum of one thousand dollars
for els appearance.
The Memphis Sun says: ''The most
striking and instructive fact connected
with the history of railroads in Tennes
see, and, indeed, in all other States, is
the even and steady increase of the value
of real estate in the city and county
along lines where they have been con-
structed, and in territories of country
where their influence is felt. In the city
of Memphis our real estate assessment
has increased since the beginning of our
railroad era from $3.50, 900 to $26, 000,-
600, while our population has made
stride even greater-from 10, 900 to 3d.
900 in city and suburbs. The property
assessment of the whole State, in the
same period, has increased about $780,
900, 900 to 1925, 900, 900, beng about
| $40, 900, 900, increase, notwithstanding
the State has lost 1920, 900, 900 by the
cancellation of slave property"