Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-23

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travel on the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railroad has increased thirty
per cent.
Several Improvements are to be made
on the farm belonging to the sgri-
cultural college of the East Tennessee
University.
Mr.. James L. Sparks has ceased to be
connected with the Somerville Falcon,
and s. e. Sparks has purchased his in
terest.
The break on the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad, caused by the late storm, has
been repaired, and trains run over the
road on time, as usual.
A mass meeting is to be held in Jack
son on the first Monday in August, to
take into consideration the immediate
building OF a narrow gauge railroad from
jackson TO Memphis.
The Columbia Herald says: 'tGen.
Ewell's barley averages only twenty bush
els per acre, this year. Last year he
made forty. The wheat crop throughout
the entire neighborhood is very light.
Banks q. Wells sowed fifty bushels and
reaped forty"
The Brownsville States says that q
negro boy, ten years of age, was recently
killed by lightning in that vicinity. The
same paper says that Jane Powell, negro
girl about sixteen years of age, was also
killed by lightning during the severe
storm.
The Columbia Herald says: sour
young friend, Willie Csperton, now in
the Naval School at Annapolis, has re-
ceived his commission as Cadet Midship-
man. We learn, and can well believe,
that he is looking handsomer than any
of his comrades, in his new marine
Clothes"
The Chattanooga Times of July 20
says: "We learn that engine No. 10 of
the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
was stolen at Tuscaloosa, day before yes
terday, and carried off down to Meridian
by band of twenty five or thirty men.
No one knew who the party was"
The Memphis Ledger says: "There
are seventy-two prisoners confined in the
county Jail Twenty-Five are convicts,
and will be sent to Nashville to serve out,
in the aggregate, one hundred and twenty
years Of imprisonment. One unfortu-
nate goes for life.
In Chattanooga there are at present
erecting and undergoing completion sixty
five dwellings, at an average cost of 81,
900, S65, eighteen stores, all brick,
three story, at an average cost of SIS, 600,
$50, 900; new postofiice building, $40, 900;
new Methodist church, $15, 600; union
depot, $4,000; gas works, 100000;
opera house, $4,000; new hotel, $3.50,
900; total, $500, 900.
The Sparta Tribune says: 'tMr. J. V.
Horton, who has thrashed the wheat for
about twenty of the farmers of tn is. coun-
ty, this summer, informs us that the sv-
erage yield has only been about one-third.
Corn, on newly cultivated, and conse-
quently strong land, looks well, but on
old and thin soil the prospects for good
yields are anything but promising
The following statistics in regard to
Rutherford county are taken from the
Murfreesboro Monitor: Total number
of acres 375,47l; value 5000, $50;
town lots GA; vslue 81, 1859, 337; Other
property S917, 079, aggregate value 49,
or, 272; State tax S4S, 1853. 54; County
tax SIG, 154. 46; School tax $12,515.18;
aggregate tax $77,133.1S, white polls
2,4S6; black polls l, 7O5, total polls 4, 18S.
A correspondent of the Memphis DIP
peal says: '1f l am correctly informed
there are inexhaustible Quarries of gyp-
sum near Bristol, Va, that can be had in
the rock state at three dollars per ton,
and which is vastly needed by the farmers
OF, West Tennessee, who are deferred from
purchasing in consequence of the high
rate of freights charged by the railroad.
The same applies as to the manufactures
of bone dust, guano, etc,
The Columbia Herald says: ga par.
ty of eleven gentlemen, named Wash,
Gordon, Charley Gordon, Willie j. srd
Hammond Webster, George P. Webster,
Jr., Hugh P. Akin, Charley o. Nichol
son, Aleck Titcomb, w. B. Ramon, Jr.,
and Walter Akin, of Maury, and Johnnie
Park, of Williamson, recently went tc
Summer Town, Lawrence county. As
far as heard from, they have killed deel
every day. Not one of this party eVel
took drink of whisky or chew of to.
bacco in all their lives. This speaks
well for the young men of our county,
They are estimable in every other respect,
| Only one or two smoke"
The Knoxville Chronicle has the fol
lowing particulars in regard TO the la,t
Storm: "The storm ranged across the
country, and increased in severity aftel
passing the river into Blount county.
The Doaks and Praters, good farmers Of
that county, were badly damaged. II
the neighborhood of J. Edmondson anC
Johs Moore, the damage was very great
The roads were completely blocked up by
fallen trees 50 that travel was impossible.
Mr.. Moore's apple and peach trees were
all blown down, and his fine orchard en-
tirely destroyed. Our informant Learned
that in deep hollow near Mr.. Moore's il
was as dark as night when the storm clouC
passed over"