Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-24
TENNESSEE NEWS.

ne clover SEED crop is abundLn IN
Anderson county.
A new Courthouse is talked of in Ham
lin county.
The cause of Temperance is in four
ish condition in Union City.
A man by the name If Gauntlet died
in jail in Troy on the 1S.h inst.
NarroW-gauge railroads continue to
agltate the people in West Tennessee.
Union City is improving very Iapldly,
number of substantial buildings going
up.
ssThe Memphis and Ohio Railrosd is be-
ing supplied with new cross ties at Union
City.
The residence of Col. Morton, st IN.
ion City, came near being destroyed by
fire on the 18th inst.
The Chattanooga Times of the 23d
inst. is filed with the Stanton Mckay
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad mud
die.
Judge l. S. Trimble has appointments
to speak next week at Troy, Newburn
and Dyersburg, Tenn, in the interests of
the Mississippi River Railroad.
Burglars went through number of
stores in Union City few nights siuce.
They secured near 5000 from varions es-
adjustments. The rascals escaped with
out detection.
Five fiat cars loaded with cedar tele-
graph poles from Middle Tennessee
passed Union City on Monday on the
Nashville and Northwestern Railroad,
going west.
A paper is being circulated through
Obion county for the purpose of getting
subscriptions to defray the expenses of
having the new county line surveyed.
About 5000 have been subscribed.
Tim Walton is the champion tourpa.
menter of Union City. He can go round
track 30O yards long in five seconds on
his horse, bareback and without bride,
and with lance eight feet long take nine
rings. Who can beat him
Gen. Ewell, owns 8, 900 acres of land
in Msury county, Tenn, 200 of which
are under cultivation. lie has 1900
sheep, S0uthdowns, Cots Wolds, half
bloods; 400 head of cattle. He works a
dairy with fifty COWS, averaging each a
pound of butter per day. His entire but
ter produce is bought by one large hotel.
The Vernon City Courier of the I9sh
inst, has the following: A squad of
eight or ten Federal cavalry, escorted by
two deputy United States Marshals, have
been elcampei in our city for several
days this week. To what we are il
debted for the visit at this writing is I'M
known; perhaps Illicit distilling has some.
thing to do with it.
Arrangements are in progress at Knox
vile to make the moonlight picnic of the
Turn Nerein, on Monday evening next
an occasion of pleasure to all who par
ticjpate. The Knoxville Silver Band will
sppear Tor the first time with their new
instruments, and make parade through
the principal streets. The pic.n will
be given at hsupl's Garden.
The following concerning the wheat
market, is from the JOnesborough FydQ
of the llth insl: The price of wheat has
taken downward tendency during the
past week. We hear of some lots going,
red at $l.30, and white at 81 50, and
some as high as 81 40. The price is
bound to go down, as the large amount
shipped East from the Northwest is hav-
ing its effect on the markets, both North
and South
On Wcdne sday, the 10th inst, the case
of the Safe VS. Il. NJ DarneD, ST., was
called in the Circuit Court OF Lake
county. He was indicted as accessory
before the fact, to the murder of r. B.
Lane, Clinton Lane and G.. P. Edwards
On the 18th of March, 1869. This cause
has consumed-fGur days. The jury re
turned at s o'clock Saturday evening
with verde. of mot guilty" after an
absence Of about four hours from the
courtroom.
The Huntsville Democrat of the 23d
inst. says that the proceedings of a meet
ing of the stockholders of the Southwest
ern Railroad of Tennessee, at Sparta,
Aug. II, which indicate that the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad Company have,
virtually, acquired the franchise of the
proposed Toat from Sparta to the Ken
lucky line, about So miles. This makes
the Memphis and Charleston Compsny
masters of the situation, snG, we think,
secures the early construction of the con-
Meeting link from Gunterville, via Hunts
vile, to the Kentucky lire.