Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-12
TENNESSEE NEWS.
,mervilIe is to have 8 new Jail.

Somerville is to have new jail.
The largest amount of cotton received
at Brownsville per day is about two hun
dr5d bales.
The survey of the propos ed Jackson
and Tennessee River Railroad has been
completed to Lexington.
The City Council of Jackson has or
de1ed the city officers to kill all dogs run
ming a. large after nine o'clock at
night.
It is said that the crops in McNairy
county were greatly damaged by the late
rains.
The members of the County Court eff
Shelby county have resolved to pay them
selves five dollars day.
The Supreme Court at Jackson, during
the term Just closed, decided over four
hundred cases.
an opinion was lately delivered by the
Supreme Court at Jackson in the celebra-
ted Graves Poston case, appealed from
Memphis. For error in charges, without
expressing an opinion as 20 the testimony,
the case was reversed and remanded.
Il is said that the Shelby county poor
house costs shout nine thousand dollars q
year.
It's proposed to remove Bethel College
from McL.emoresville to brownsville.
4 sewing machine company in Knox
Vile sold over sixty machines in two
weeks.
The Knoxville Press and Herald
saws: "It is believed by many Of our citi-
zsns that gang of horse thieves is tray
cling through some portions of East Ten
nessee st this time
Col. w. D. Pickett has written let
ter, which is published in the Brownsville
Bee. urging the construction of mar
row g1Iage railroad, to be called the Den
mark, Brownsville and Durhsmville
Railroad. He thinks the average cost
per mile will be about SIS, 600, including
the necessary expenses for rolling stock,
etc.
A Presbyterian Church has lately been
organized in Tullaboma, with fourteen
members. The Episcopalians Of the
same place are moving in tie matter OF
erecting q church building.
Il is said that but'ermilk is fast becom-
ing the fashionable drink in Memphis.
The Common Council of Memphis has
passed on it's final reading, the ordinance
referring to vote of the people the sub
sidy of 5000, 900 by the city to the Mig
sissippi River Railway
The Office of the Mckenzie Times has
been presented with 3 curiosity in tue
shape of a double egg, consisting of an
outer shell, containing the usual proper
ton of yolk and white, and having in the
center a smaller one, about the size of a
partridge egg, with a shell of ordinary
thickness.
The Supreme Court, during its session
at Jackson, delivered en opinion in the
case Of J. Harvey Ma'hes and Others vs..
| w. IL CarreI, an exc usiYe liquor mer-
chant of Memphis, in which the court
declares dealers in liquors, ETC., in guam
titles not less thsn a quart, merchants,
within the meaning of the revenue act OF
1870. md therefore not subject to special
! privilege tax.
r. S. Thomas, Esq, chairman of the
| County Court of Haywood county, has
turned over to President J. ID. Smith and
! J. A. Wilder, Treasurer of Holly Springs,
Brownsville and Ohio Railrosd, the one
hundred thousand dollars eight per cent.
twenty year bonds of the county, and
took heir receipt; which action was ap-
proved 10y The court, and receipt spread
I upon the minutes.
The Board of Aldermen meet in regu-
lar session ct o clock this afternoon.