Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-26
TENNESSEE NEWS.

III 1AptOu COuutJ TIC WACdS 10 6C1AOus-
ly affected by the rust.
The Mckenzie Agricultural Association
is making great efforts to have success
full fair this Spring.
The State Convention of the Sons of
Temperance, which recently convened at
Mckenzie, has adjourned, after harmo-
NOUS session.
Poppies are everywhere abundant in
East Tennessee, and it is therefore sug-
gested that opium culture will be profita.
BILE in that portion of the State. .r
1t is reported that the grain crop at
Hardemau county will be considerably in
viii be cut short at least onefourth.
The Memphis avalanche says; ''The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
instructed Collector Patterson to institute
legal proceedings to obtain possession of
the lands claimed by the United States
acquired under the direct tax law. This
will embrace large proportion of Fort
Pickering"
The crops along the line of the Ten
nessee and Pacific railroad present very
promising look. Oats and wheat are
growing finely, while the thrifty maize
climbing 80 rapidly sunwsrd, gives token
of plentiful supply of early roasting
ears. The showers of the last few days
came at an opportune time, and will
prove of great advantage to all manner of
growing crops.
The East Tennessee Sunday School
Convention met in Knoxville on the Goth
instant, large number of delegates be.
ing present. The convention having
been organized, the delegates proceeded
to discuss the question, "Whst can Sun
day schools and Sunday school workers
do to extend their influence in East Ten
nesseei" Other subjects were discussed
during the evening session.
A negro man was shot and killed near
Kingston, on the 17th inst, by Esquire
Crowder. Mr. Crowder believed him to
be horse thief, trying to escape, and
shot him after he had jumped into Clinch
river. An investigation has shown that
the unfortunate man was of unsOund
Lind, and not connected with the party
for whom Esquire Crowder and his
friends were looking.
The Memphis Ledger says: "a well
informed Memphis physician states that
among ladies the use of morphine, opium
and chloroform is becoming alsrmipgly
frequent. The opiate in the first instance
is used 10 alleviate temporary pain, but it
becomes habit and is resorted to when
ever there is mental depression. The
Doctor states that hundreds of ladies
keep one or other OF these drugs con-
stantly on hand, and use them daily
The Columbia Herald of the 21st inst
says: ga company OF Gipsies camped
at Lewis Cheaiham's near Culleoka, last
Monday evening. Several of the young
men of the town, Tom Leneeve, Dave
Leneeve, Judge Graves, Andy Dillahay,
and q number of others, went out to the
camp to swap horses with them. The
Gipsies are great horse traders, but re-
ceiving 80 many banters to trade all at
once, they hitched up and left, saying
that they were going to Columbia
The Memphis Ledger gets off the fol-
lowing: ga Memphis girl just from
school corrected companion who made
use of the old saying, ga bird in the
hand is worth two in the bush, " and in
formed her that the proper and polite
method of expressing that vulgar idea
was as follows: ga natural production
of the feathered tribe properly secured is
more than equivalent TO a greater number
in a comparative state of freedom"
The Jackson Wing and Tribune of
April % says: ga couple of darkies,
man and woman, were caught by the
Mississippi Central train, Saturday last,
on the Ion, curved trestle next to the city.
The man was paralyzed with flight, but
the woman had the presence of mind to
jump from the trestle, pulling the man
with her. Barring good ducking, which
they both doubtless needed, neither was
hurt"
The wheat crop in Giles county is re-
ported to be looking finely; but in many
sections of the State the fly and rust
have caused considerable damage. Be-
sides, in many places the land was in bad
order last year on account of frequent
rains, and the price obtained was not as
good as usual From these causes it is
probable that the wheat crop in this Stste
will fall off at least one-third from the
average. The hay crop will be increased,
as the people of the State are turning
their attention more to hay and stock
than over hafore