Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-17
STATE NEWS.

The McMinnvile NelO Era wants
Warren county Farmers Club.
Thirty thousand valentines passe,
through the Memphis postofficc.
The Chattanooga skating rink has bee
repaired and is again open to the public
The Appeal says Memphis has NOR
gin mills, as fifty to one, than manufac,
tories.
The entire tobacco crop belonging to
Mrs. Penelope Holman, of Robertson
county, was recently consumed by fire.
| A tornado passed over La Guardo re-
Gently, and great many trees and fence.
were blown down.
About eleven o'clock on the morning OF
the l4th inst, Louis Casey, a shoe maker
In Memphis war crushed to death by a
bale of cotton.
1t is reported that Jay Cooke & Co.,
the well known bankers, contemplate es-
tablishing a. bank in Memphis with a cap-
ltal of several millions of dollars.
Many of our country towns. where it
was advertised to exhibit, were greatly
disappointed at not seeing Grady's circus
according to programme, the Sheriff of
Atlanta having sold the show out at that
place.
A correspondent writing to the Pulaski
Press from Marbut, among other things.
| says: "The dog law is creating some
excitement among the hunters in this vi
entity; all have concluded TO pay the tax
and keep the 'purps' any how"
The Lebanon Herald of the 18th has
the following: ga singular phenomenon
has been noticed by citizens living in the
Western portion of the county. All the
foxes which are captured are totally
blind. Who can explain2"
The Franklin ReUieW has long arti-
Gle about blind boy in williamson.
(name not giVen) who has earned more
money by the labor of his own hands and
the ingenuity of his own brains than any
other boy of the same age in that county.
The Gallatin Examiner of the 10th
says: ''Of late the citizens of our neigh.
bolhoOd have been deeply interested in
and agiiated by religious topics. During
the last two weeks there has been
great deal of preaching and exhOrting,
and great number of persons have con
nected themselves with the various
churches"
The Fayetteville Observer of the 10th
inst says: ga correspondent informs us
that he last week saw a lady, Mrs. Stat
ford, now living in Franklin county, who
has great-gIand children, and they have
great grand children. Seven generations
in direct line low living. Our frierd |
asks what relation exists between the old |
lady and the Youngest children Z"
The folio wing paragraph in regard TO a |
coffin is taken from the Franklin Jour
nal: The other day man purchased
a coffin from one OF our undertakers and |
carried l, to his home, q distance twenty |
miles. He purchased it fyr d son he |
thought dead on leaving home. But on |
his return he found the youughopeful had |
come to life again. He accordingly re-
turned the coffin"
The G4llatin Examiner of the 16 Il
inst. says: ga man from the neighbOr-
hood of Murfreesboro, by the name of
Brown, was in Gallatin last Sunday in |
search of 'm7d stone, " used for the cure
OF bite of mad dog, accompanied by |
his little SOD, about five years of age, !
who had been bitten by supposed mad |
d g. His search was unsuccessful, how /
ever. We trust that his fears are ground |
less
The Franklin ReUielO of the 10th inst |
says. Goa Wednesday, the 9Th inst, Mr.. |
Richard n. Herbert died suddenly He |
was at the house of Mr.. Jesse Cox, on the |
Pike, about six miles from !
here; and besides being in good health, |
had just eaten hearty dinner. Return |
ing from the dinner-rOOm, he seated him |
self in a chair and died instantly. He was
buried the following Thursday. Heart
disease or aPoplexy was probably the
cause"
The following in an additional dog law
which is clipped from the Fay
etteyille Observer: Davidson county
has assessed a tax of 81 per head on dogs.
county has recently presented
8 strong argument IN the same direction.
A farmer who always houses his flock
through the night 10 protect them from
dogs, concluded to ride over his place af-
ter breakfast. Arriving at the pasture,
he found eight dogs staying his sheep.
The damage amounted to $780,
The Pulaski Citizen of the 10th inst
says: ''Sheriff Parsons informs us that
the hard times, neither
he or his deputies have had to make
single levy upon property in this county
under executions from any of the courts.
He had no trouble whatever in collecting
the money in every instance. This evil
dence of our peoples integrity and pros
perity is very gratifying, particularly
when we hear complaints as to the string
elcy of the money market from other To-
caIties."
In an editorial published in the Spring
field Record of the 10th, the following
5 atement is made in reference to Robert
son county: "There are several very i'm
pOrtant things that we are deficient in.
In the first place we have not a real first
class country road in the c9unty-save
the turnpike leading out iu a southeastern
direction from Springfield. If there is a
single bridge in the county we are not
aware of its whereabouts. Our free !
school system Is a farce, and when we
say this we have said the truth-whiCh is
patent to every observer"