Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
TENNESSEE NEWS.

TullahOma now has 200 inhabitants.
A. r. johnson is candidate for Sher-
if of Giles county.
| The town of Loudon, IN E at Tennes.
see, is rapidly improving.
The real estate sales in Pulaski for the
last week amounted 10 Sc, 581 80.
-Four marriage licenses in Pulaski last
week.
| They mad fine rains in Franklin last
week. ~
| The 10th inst. was the hottest day of
the season at Knoxville. -f .
The Marshall County Fair commences
Sept IL, and continued five days.
The Gilbert sisters have been playing
successfully at B3ersheba.
| A bill to extend the corporate limits of
Paris will be filed in the next court.
Robert Y. Scoby, of Wilson, has ex-
hibited fully opened boil of cotton.
| They are to have new turnpike in
Bedford county, leading from Shelbyyille
t. Tullahoma.
The Agricultural Fair in Bedford coun-
ty commences October 10, and continues
Eve days
| Johnny McGregor fell from fence at
Lewisburg, one day last week, and broke
his collar bone.
| The Apollonian Society of Union Uni
yersity will give concert and tableaux
a. Murfreesboro on the night of the 91st
| inst. .
| DR.. Fite's new houae at Lebanon was
struck by lightning during the storm on
the 18th inst, but was not seriously dam
aged.
| William W. Prics, of Wilson county,
died on the 18th inst, from effects of
brain fever, produced by exposure to the
sun.
During the rain storm at Lebanon on
the III inst, a son of Maj. J. G. Davis
came near being drowned in the creek,
but fortunately made his escape.
! MIR. JACK Hicks, who lives near Fish
| ing Fork on Duck river, hiss pig with
only three legs. The pig is four months
| Old and is healthy and IN good condition.
The Wilcox Mining Company, near
Kingston, is represented as being in
fiOurishing condition with latteriag pros
poets ahead
Msj. David Gilbert, of Gilbertsborougb,
Ala, who was well known in the SOUTH
eTn portion of the Stste, died at HIS home
on the night of the 18TH inst.
Large and enthusiastic meetings are he.
ing held 81 Columbia, locking to the estab.
lishment of Narrow Gauge Road from
Columbia via Lewisburg ami Fayetteville,
east.
A man named ) + Abbot, on the
morning of the lG.h, attempted to burn
the railroad bridge at L1udOn. He was
subsequently arrested. The man is sup
posed 20 be insane.
A man named Prescott, is in iai at |
Lewisburg, accused of wholesale barn
burning. Re has already served fifteen |
years in the Penitentiary, and will be |
very apt TO pay it another prOuacted |
visit.
On the 10Th inst. 8 man by the name of |
Cicero Overcast wss fatally stabbed by
man whose name is Taylor, both of Hen
~ county. Whisky the prime cause.
Taylor was promptly arrested by officer
Ward, and is now in the county jail.
Ga the night of the 1ltn lust. diff. |
Guilty occurred in saloon in Lebanon be-
tween a Dir. Newsom and Mr.. D. G..
Jackson, in which the former was shot |
IN the left leg with pistol. The bail was
extracted and the ~ und was MT serious.
The fourth quarterly meeting of the
Methodist church at Pulaski commenced
on Friday night, the 11,h inst, and has
been proIac.ed up to this time. Rev J.
W. hnoTt, of Memphis, and other dig
tinguished divines have been present.
There have been more rattle snakes
killed iG the hills near Brentwood this
season than have been since the first set
t.emenL Last week the hands cutting
wood foT Mr.. Llzenburry killed zine. A
Tsttlosnske bit 3 dog at Mr.. Abode, kill
ing him instantly. The suakeNezcap.d.
The people If Hawkins are aroused
on the subject of a County Fair, and
with that view a meeting was held at
the Courthouse in II )GeIsVille, on Satur-
day, the 12lh inst, when the following
officers were elected: Dr.. 3. F. Ketch.
I'm, President; W. II. Watersoq, Secre-
tary, and +. III. Falkersou, Treasurer.
Mr.. Charles Collins, from the vicinity
of Rober sville, Anderson county. re-
ports the season extremely dry, there hav-
lag been no rain OF consequence since the
wheat harvest. He thinks corn will not
exceed one-third of q crop. The bugs
have eaten the sweet potato vines, ani
that esculent will be short.
The Eastern Division Fair, under the
presidency of Jas. 5. Boyd, and with c.
McCJrkle as Secretary, is announced by
the directors to hold its annual fsir in
October next, beginning on the 10th and
continuing four or five days. They cor
daily invite the co operation OF the pee
pie throughout East Tennessee.
the ShelbyVille Commercial of the |
is h inst Gays: From the COtsW0,d sheep !
sold by Mr.. Jacob F. Thompson, some
time ago, there is lamb which weighed
ninety-sIX pounds when three months {
old. MIR. J. A. Wilson has shown us some |
Of the longest wool We have ever seen
from year old. It is eighteen inches
long. I
We clip the following item from tie I
Times of the 18th inst. ]
We visited the gas works yesterday and .
fouod work going on rapidly. The gas
holder is nearly finished, and the purify
ing apparatus can be Completed in two ]
weeks, if the remainder of the machinery
arrives on lime. We shall probably have .
gas by the middle of September. {
The JOnesb1ro Herald and Tribune
Of the 17.h inst says: A few evenings
.iucc, Master Alfred Neil, of the family ;
Of Capt. James Sewer, broke his collsr
bone in getting off the cars. The tram
was leaving the depot at quite q rapid
rate, and in, jumping he was whirled
around and fell on his shoulder. The :
bone was set by DIS. w. r Sewer and {
John Boyd, and Alfred Is doing well and :
able to be out. I
Mr.. Chas. Leatherman, an old and
highly esteemed citizen of Pulaski, died /
at the residence of his son in-law, Vim.
E. BaileRtine, Esq LAST Thursday. His I
death leaves vacant place that few men /
Of the present generation can I'll. During 5
his long and useful life, he constantly ex. /
arcised thOas Yirtnea that sdnrn hnHnan J q