Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-13
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The indications are that the wheat crop
| in Greene county will be light.
The cut-worm is doing considerable
damage to the corn in the eastern end of
Wilson county.
The aggregate for State and county
purposes IN ROane county amounts to
S23, ,295.
Knoxville gradually expands into full
grown cityhcOd. She now boasts ''dol-
lar store"
There is boy living near Trune,
Williamson county, eleven years old and
weighs $50 pounds.
The mountains in East Tennessee
bordering on the North Carolina line,
were white with snow Saturday and Sun
day, May and Z.
The wheat in some psrts of Washington
county looks well, but in other parts it is
very poor. The crop will not be an
average one.
The prospects for good cropsin Morgan
are said to be very fattering. The fruit,
/ however, is reported to have been nearly
all destroyed by the late frosts.
A party of fishermen caught three hun
dred and sixteen mountain trout in two
days, in the Rocky Fork of Indian Creek,
in Washington county last week.
David Carr, Esq, of BOons Creek,
Washington county, has field of oats of
Brunswick variety already out in head.
The oats sre tall and apparently well
filed.
/ A new colony is about being started by
Brown, Christie & Franklin, of New
Jersey, near Wartburg, in Morgan county.
Upwards of one hundred families are
preparing to locate at this point.
The United States propose to sue
Dromgoole & Co., Of Memphis, for ST.
800 damages for not stamping some bot.
ties, containing various sorts of bitters,
with the United States stamps.
The Pulaski Citizen says the frost of
Sunday morning, May 7, did but littl e
damage in Giles county, although the
farmers had very serious apprehensions.
The wheat, corn and cotton crops are not
injured.
Freezing Sutton and John Yancy had
an alteration in a drinking saloon in
Jackson on the 9th inst, which ended in
a collision. and the latter was stabbed in
the left breast three times by the former.
/ The wounds are of 8 serious character,
and but little hope is entertained by the
attending physicians of the recovery of
the unfortunate young man. Sutton was
arrested and held to bail in 81, 600.
The Lebanon Herald learns that on
Saturday, May 6, Trousdale and Macon
counties both voted the tax for the Cum
berland and Ohio Railroad. The major
ity in favor of the tax was four or five
to one, in both counties. The subscrip-
ton by these counties is 5000, 900 each,
making, with 100000 subscribed by in
/ dtyiduals, $500, 900 towards building the
/ thirty eight miles from Lebanon to the
/ Kentucky line.
/ An alteration occurred at Lees Mill,
/ in Wilson county, on the 9th inst, be-
| tween a white man named James Bryant
and negro named Tom jackson. The
latter went home with the svOwed inten-
ton of procuring his gun and shooting
Bryant. He returned to the mill the next
morning with his gun, and on approach
/ ing Bryant, who was also armed with a
gun, was shot by him, and it was thought
mortany wounded. The Lebanon Herald
says: bryant has good reputation in
his neighborhood, as peaceable, indus
/ trious man. Jackson was an insolent,
unmanageable negro, and no one who
knew him is surprised that he has met q
violent death"
The Pulaski Citizen of the 18th inst.
says: "We have received information
from an authentic source that an old lady
living within one mile of Testers Station
recently died from starvation. The hes.
/ pitable citizens of that locality would
have supplied her with food had they
known to what desperate straits she had
been reduced, but they were unware of
her destitute condition. We are informed
that this aged victim of poverty in its
most terrible stage has sons living who
/ knew of her condition and were perfectly
able 70 assist her but failed to do so. Fol
the sake of humanity we hope this is a
| mistake"