Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-07
TENNESSEE NEWS.

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| A Farmers Club has been organized il
Robertson county.
Chattanooga is to have new Court
house.
Wake up the people! Death to Kings
Hallelujab! Smash the Ringsl
| NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNTTEI
| STATES"
A plow factory has been established a
Newbern, in Dyer county.
WILMINGTON, Ill, April 2,'1S71.-Pe-
ter Tracy, Esq, President Lecture Com
| mittee:
The people of Robertson county are
moving in the matter of a turnpike from
Cross Plains to Springfield. - ..
The '9ocal" of the Bolivar Bulletin
says that he lately killed 81 partridges al
% shots.
Mr. David A. Chambers, formerly edi-
tor of the Union City Herald, died in
that city on the 26th ult.
Col r. o. Whitehead has retired from
the editorial chair of the Mckenzie Times
and is succeeded by Col. 81. w. Wall.
1t is said that couple of young and
handsome Choctsw Indians have entered
the West Tennessee College at Jackson.
The irrepressible GenrGa E-0nnis T--;-,
who is to lecture in Memphis, recently
sent to that city the following telegram:
A bill was recently filed in the Second
Chancery Court at Memphis, to incorpo-
rate the Memphis and Raleigh Springs
Railroad.
The last number of the Union City
Courier comes to US enlarged and great
ly improved, with an increased amount
of well selected information.
kzThe ex-Sheriff of Robertson county
lately had fox-chase, and it is sail that
the fox was run about six hundred miles
before his brush was taken. How is that
for-long2
The new hall of the Memphis Chamber
of Commerce was dedicated the other
day, with long speeches and other things
considered absolutely necessary.
A meeting was lately held at Lewisburg
to take action in regard to building a rail-
road from Fayetteville to Cornersville.
Committees were appointed to make in
quiries and report at a subsequent meet
ing.
Il is rumored in Memphis that Mansford
has made five thousand dollars by the
publication of the Brinkley College Ghost
Story. Mansford says he wishes Mad
anne Rumor's statement was correct.
Mr.. Evans lately ran in front of a rail-
road train at Chattanooga, and was in
strumental in saving the life of a little
girl who was playing on the tracks un-
mindful of the approach of the train.
Such brave acts are worthy of record.
Memphis has prophet, SO styled, who
believes that he has been called by Provi-
dence to preach on the bluffs every Sun
day. He recently foretold the end Of the
! world with as much accuracy as the most
inspired Millerite cOnld do.
The Athens Post, of April 6, says
s'The name of the unfortunate man
found dead on the highway in this county
last week, was MCGOWAN He was ma,
tive of Ireland, and lived on Big Creek,
| Monroe county, whittier his remains wert
| taken for inteTment.
Judge Emmons is said to have remark
| ed recently that she would have Judges
Withey and Long, of Michigan, and Blanc
Ballard, of Kentucky, holding court II
| Tennessee, if he could not otherwise clesl
the dockets of the large amount of bust
ness which has accumulated thereon"
The Clarksville Tobacco Leaf of Apri
5th SAYS: ''Train No. bound soutl
was off the track by running over COW
at Cumberland City, killing Anbros
Norris, and woundiDg four persons thougl
none seriously. The passenger cars wer
all turned over down the embankment.
| The E. G. Allen, of Augusta, Me.
who is advertising SO extensively in tn
Tennessee papers, is said by those VIII
have been swindled by him, to be one o
the greatest humbugs known. He advel
tises to send fine picture to any one VIII
subscribcs for his paper; sends fine er
craving to his agent to ShO1U, and the
sends the subscribers dG1tb. Look 90
for him and all others of that ilk.
The Clarksville Tobacco Leaf say
sTt would be good thing for our plal
ters who sell loose tobacco, if some {
our warehousemen would appoint ds
for sales of loose tobacco and keep q she
for that purpose, as is done in Hende
son, Ky. AS it is now planters are losir
money just because the loose tobacco bu.
J ers don't get to see their crop, and WOE
buy from sample"