Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-24
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The Cleveland Banner of March %
says: 1.-THE present spring is some two
| or three weeks earlier, in this section,
| than has been known for twenty years.
To see hickory buds opening in the mid
die OF March, is sight seldom seen by
| our people. I"
The Lebanon Herald says: "Wilson
county cedar lasts well. We are inform
ed that q gentleman who lives in the 18th
district OF this county, concluding recent.
~ that his house needed a new roof, pro
ceeded to remove the old one, which was
composed of cedar shingles. Notwith-
standing the fact that the roof was put on
in the year 1916, nine out of ten of the
shingles were found to be as perfectly
sound as if they had been subjected to
TIE weather for only ifty-fye days, in
stead of as many years.n
Charley Marshall, formerly of Lebanon
but who is now a resident of China,
where he is known IS Sier Whoa, is said
to be very diligent and faithful in study.
he has married Chinese lady named
Miss Yen, and is very active in the mis-
sionary work.
The Memphis Appeal of the 22d inst
says: There was talk of foul play
about town, yesterday, in connection
with the abandonment of white infant
IN South Memphis, which was found out
side door wrapped in blanket Monday
morning, and which, it was said, died
short time afterward. The times being
very much out of moral joint, every little
circumstance that can possibly be tortur-
ed to ones disadvantage is seized upon
with eager avidity by the public"
Mad dogs have appeared in some parts
of Memphis.
The Memphis Ledger of March 81
says: ga new species of pet appeared
on Main street this forenoon. A lady eie-
gantly dressed, passed up street followed
BY young goat, which preserved its dig
nifty and was the admiration end envy of
all the blsck-and-tan canine quadrupeds
on the corners. The animal was gaily
decorated with blue ribbon-some for
eign order, probably"
The DIVER Record says that on the 9Th
inst the remains of De Witt johnson,
aged thirteen years, were inferred at
Mount Zion. johnson was drowned in the
back water, while crossing a stream near
Buffalo, in Galloway county, Ky.
The Lebanon Herald of March %
says: ''Hon. A. B. Martin, of this city,
received last week as a present half
bushel Of Irish potatoes of this years
growth. The average size was about that
OF hen egg. They were grown by Dan
lei Seay, Esq, one of the most enterprise
ing farmers in Middle Tennessee. Mr..
Seay's residence is in Smith county, but
part of his farm, including the ground
on which the potatoes were raised, lies in
Wilson, which accounts for their early
production. Can anybody beat this for
early potatoes ?"
The jackson Telegraph of March 81
says: I'VE are informed that another
human being having become weary of
life, placed himself across the railroad
track, on trestle on the Mobile and Ohio
road some where north of Jackson, and
was quickly transplanted from his earth
ly troubles to the dread unknown
The Jackson Telegraph of March 10
says: Yesterday, Capt. 81. G. Nc
Cutchen and Harry Mayo, started for
Little Rock, armed with a requisition of
Governor Senter on the Governor of Ar
kansas, for the person of that reckless
and suddenly notorious individual, L. W.
alias j. L. Hsrdwick, and we may expect
10 see him in jackson in q few DAYS,
where he will be requiredt to answer at the
bar of justice for the irreparable ruin he
has wrought"
One of the inmates of the Coffee coun-
ty poorhouse, who was subject to sudden
paroxysms of catalepsy, recently fell into
the fire while in fit and was burned
10 death.
A good many fish, principally black |
gerch and suckers, have lately been
caught in Coffee county.
The prospects for fine fruit crop in |
Lincoln county are said to be very fiat
.ering.
Hog cholera is raging with great fatal
y in Henry county.
On the 22d inst, George Horton, ne
yro and an escaped convict from the
lackson, Ala, prison, has captured in
chattanooga. The authorities at Hunts
lille were notified of the arrest, but the
anne night Horton broke Jail, and cleared
)ut.
MIR. James Haynie, of Lincoln county, \
las invented new steam engine that
economies all the steam, and has no pis-
on and no cut off.
James Simmons, recently sentenced to
ne Penitentiary for ten years, is said to
'e the only horse thief convicted in Lin
oln county since the war.
Chattanoogians were pleased with the
Berger Family exhibition.
One of our State exchanges has a new
anne for dog law argument and calls it
ny translated, means, an argument for
aiming the dogs, as verdant policeman
nee translated the remarks of prisoner, |
sic transit gloria nlundi" to mean,
He says, your Honor, that he has been
lex ever since Monday"