Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-20
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Interpolation of Memphis is 40, 22G.
Criminal Court is in session al Clarks-
vile
They ale suffering 70. rain in Blount
county.
Taey are preparing for heIvy fall
trade il Memphis.
Il Yourg VI Ms Christisn Association
was orrauized in Memphis last week.
Work IN the lew Courthouse st Man
cheese r proGre= ses rapidly.
There will be a good many hogs 10 fat
ten ia the region OF Culleoka this fail.
Ire real estate sales in Columbia last
NC, K amount to over SAC
willis jones has recently purchased the
!, bIa.ed Laurel Hill Factory.
} he com crops in the lOwlsnds opposite
aad above Memphis are as fine IS they
cou possibly Re.
TIE Gallatin Silver Cornet Band hes
heea engaged - furnish the music 81 the
Lebanon Fair.
Inc protracled meeting closed AT Guile
oks On Thursday last, with ID conversions
end 10 acCessiCns to the church.
Cotton bO,l5 are showing Their white
l.chs in the ntighboThoCd Of Williams
por', Msury county.
Sorghum IS nearly ruined in portions Of
MauTy county, by the rot GA The blade.
Tn crop will be very short.
The Directors Of the Nashville and
Cincinnati Railroad will hold meeting
in Lebanon On the 18th Inst.
Tie city of Memphis is declared to be
Ii,Ib.ed 10 I. E Brown & Co., in the
sun of $49S O0l.l3 for Nicholson pave
meIts.
Rev. L NJ Sanford, pious divine and
higL Iy esteemed citizen, died at his resi-
deuce in Lawrence county, On the 9th
ms
The CON in the vicinity of Calleoks
has suffered very greatly during the
drcuth, a. d IS injured at least Ope-third
of crop
+ son of c. L Douglass, of Sumner
county, had an arm so badly injured in q
Icapjng mschine, last Wednesday, that
amTutsuol was necessary.
Louis C. Waggoner, ii Columbia, was
recently robbed Of 1926 in greenbacks
and 81 600 Bank Of Tennessee bils Tor
bett sue.
TIE series Of meetings which began at
Brl wnsVile several days ago, are still in
prCUress, and have been CTOwn,d with
uu n success.
business in Brownsville has been more
active during tine pas week than at any
anne during tie summer. Prospects are
gOC d for d fire isll trade.
Col 4 S. Colyar made very able and
VI, testing spec ca on Monday last to the
y, 81 ho cuhf1nr
Of immigration.
L colored girl in a fit IF jealousy cut q
fit nth amendment masculine with q
KNIFE very severely in Memphis On The
uigl5 q tbe l6 h inst.
TIE rush a. the hotels on Lookout
Monutg.a is urabated, there being a
gre lei lumb = of visitors present than has
been known for years.
Ms. Martha j. StOvsll who died in
Me- oil s On the 18th inst, formally re-
gdpd III Columbia where she leaves s,
LARGE circle Of friends to mourn their loss
in L death.
Tee m. chsnics of Memphis have start
e. a. independent fire company, and over
$1,000 have betaHspbscFibed 10y citizens
and iasu srce companies toward the pur-
cha OF All engine for the same.
A PEI ion will be gotten up and pre-
senrcd {, tn Rcxt-C ngress, praying thai
the ma from Pikeville to Jasper be
cha ge fl, N q weekly to semi weekly
mai.
lie camp.meeting at Hurricane is be-
GIN jng % occupy the attention of the
Metn0o,s ct Spring Hill and vicinity,
AID prep III i ne are being made 10 have
that p}5ce farly and fully represented
there
A pos flee has recently been estab.
Iish, 6 8 Oakley Springs, 10 White coun
". ,gel WITCH Dir. James Knowles re-
side. IS postmaster. Also new pOstoffice
las been es .ablished at CisrktOwn, in the