Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-09

There win be a grand Camp meeting
at va Stone dam camp grounds, Greene
county, on Friday, Sept. 18th.
+ Wool-groWing is eliciting great deal
OF attention in Dyer County, aud the
price of the article Is good in that Sec
ton. .HfFF FT#
A negro BOY on Isasc Reads place,
near Brownsville, while driving up cow
TWO weeks ago, was killed by lightning
and COW also. 's7s.'
The gssometer for the gas works in
Cnauanooga Is nearly completed, and it
VIII only be short time until the city
Will be well supplied with gas. 90
/ The weather for the past week has
been very hot In Chattanooga, and is
creating good deal of sickness in the
way of fevers.
The farmers of Haywood county are
giving the grasses more than ordinary
attention, and are making large quaint
ties OF excellent hay. =. III
a negro named Dick Johnson was shot
and killed outright by white man
named Nat Reeves in the streets of Mem
pms, on the 9th inst. Reeves escaped
and has not been arrested.
Lieutenant T. T. Thornburg, of East
tennessee, now of the regular army and
stationed at San Francisco, has opened a
school on the Island in the harbor used
Tor military offenders, st which they
nave all learned to read and write.
The ceremony of consecrating the bells
OF Bridget'G Roman Catho,e Church was
had in Memphis on Sund, n the 9th inst.
The exercises were very il pressive, and
were witnessed by q large concourse of
persons.
On Wednesday the I'd inst, pair of
mules ran away in Dyersburg, and
young gentleman named McElmurry, was
thrown from the wagon at the head of
Mill street, and so seriously injured on
the chest and spine that his life is des-
paired of.
We clip the following from the Somer-
vile Falcon of July 81: ]. L. Sparks
and family left on yesterday morning for
Ripley, Lauderdale county, Tenn, his
field of future operations, from which
place he will shortly issue a weekly pa
per, to be called the Ripley News.
A petition has been signed by over one
hundred citizens of Gallatin to the Mayor
and Aldermen, asking reduction of the |
tax on auctioneers' sales, in order to en-
courage the proposition of monthly stock |
sales commencing the first Monday in |
September.
Mr.. s. b. Brazelton has finished the |
survey of the Mosey Breek aud Dan
bridge Narrow Gauge Railway, and is now
at the latter place making out the calcu-
lations. The people are anxious to /
commence work as soon as the caIcula-
lions are completed.
The town authorities of Fayetteville |
properly request all citizens who have
outside cellar doors to throw them open
during the day, so that the warm sunshine
may dry the cellar. They advise, also,
that lime be used IS disinfectant, by
being strewn around and in outhouses
and other localities where decayed vegeta-
ton would produce impure air.
ONE day last week bold and daring
robbery was committed on the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, few miles north of
Union City, by three men, who, while
the train was in motion, went into the ex.
press car, and placing a pistol to the
head OF the messenger, distracted $780,
COZ from the safe, then pulled the bell
rope, and as the train slackened its speed.
jumped off and disappeared in the woods
aud made their escape.
The Knoxville Chronicle of the Sth
inst. has the following concerning the
new Customhouse in that city: On yes
terday Mr.. j. c. Rankin, Assistant Su-
perVising Architect of the Government,
arrived in this city to examine the work
done at the Customhouse, and to in
Yestigale the grievances existing in the
management. In the afternoon Mr..
Rankin, accompanied by Messrs. Wilds
and Browning, visited the quarry. To- {
day more minute and searching exami-
ton, by written interro gatories, will be |
held as TO the charges preferred in va |
rious ways and By various persons. Mr. '
Rankin says the character of work thus :
far done is above the average of such
work, and though for the kind of stone I
aud the shape in which it wassdeliyered. c
II has cost pretty high, the work itself t
shows the money well invested. OF g
course he has not expressed himself vet
As to the charges preferred against the T
Speaking of the Turner'S, the Knoxville G
Press and Herald of the 8th inst, L
rays: The annual visitation of the Com r
mittee of Inspection and Instruction, | '
consisting of MIR. Benz. Unger, Instrucs | q
or in Gymnastics, and Mr.. John Ruhm, | [
Lecturer of the Lookout Mountain Dis b
riot, are exp. cted to arrive on the mid Ii
lay train from Nashville. The clm- I
nittee will be received at the cars il
BY Committee of Reception on a
me part of the Society, and escort | 4
hem TO Turner Hall. The inspection in {
5ymnastic exercises, and in music, will il
)e attended TO at the Hall, in the evening | f
he exercises commencing about 7 o'clock, | :,
Music will be furnished by the Brass C
Band, during the exercises in the GYM Ii
Isum, and afterwsrd, a concert both b
Tocal and instrumental will take place. ! q
The day will wind up with the usual soci- a
.ble, which has been postponed until to- a
light. A number of prominent Turner'S s.
rom Nashville are expected to accom- r,
,any the committee Il
The Bolivar Bulletin of August 81. Il
pesking of the Express robbery near G
J mon City, says. Information was re- n
'eived here that the robbers were ap- ri
Bolivar from northwest d. | q
ection. Sunday morning three men an a
weTing their description II every parti- | Il
.ular passed over Hstchie river on the b
Jackson road, and were tracked by a Il
,arty of citizens to point in the woods | Il
bout one mile north of Squire Forts, IL
where, to all appearances they had left | I
he road for the purpose of taking il
est. As soon as possible d thorough b
earch was made, and although closely h
racked and hotly pursued, which pursuit Il
vas kept up until noon last Monday, the Ia
obbsrs eluded every effort to Capture | d
hem. One of the men is a tall, powerful C,
elbow and wears No. or l0boot, which N
makes clear, distinct mark, as If per- IL
ectly new. The other two are small s.
hen, both of whom wear gaiter shoes. Il
me of them is quite deformed in ap- N
earance, being almost devoid of any Il
eek at all, his head resting far down his is
loulders." W
The figures show that in England, du- pt
Dg the four years ending with 1869, 81
le home consumption of cotton goods re
from Ell, $50, 686 to 9S, sol,
90 this last amOuut hainO fha to,,I | II