Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-10
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Memphis is said to be very lively at
present. Ea4
Knox county has farmers club in
full blast.
The Union City Courier says that the
body of an unknown man was found
floating in the lake few days ago.
Christine Nilsson and her troupe and
Lydia Thompson and her troupe have
left Memphis and gone to st. Louis.
Mr.. s. A. Cunningham, of the Shelby
vile Commercial, lately drew as prize
sixty dollar sewing machine.
Some twenty members have recently
been added to the Christian Church at
GAINESVILLE. A meeting of interest is also
in progress at the Cumberland Church.
BY paying two hundred dollars for the
lease of marble quarry at Knoxville,
the United States gets all the marble re-
quired to build the Customhouse.
Dan. Smith, negro, charged with
numbering NJ. j. Merriweather on the
evening of April 20, 1871, five miles
from Memphis, was arrested in that city
On the 7th inst.
On the 9th inst. the graves of the Con-
federate dead, at Elmwood Cemetery,
near Memphis, were strewn with flowers,
and Large number of ladies and gentle
men visited the cemetery.
The Shelbyville Commercial says
''The Rev. E. A. Wagner, late of South
Carolina, has accepted call from the
Church of the Redeemer, episcopal in
this place, and is now permanently located
here as rector of this parish"
The Columbia Herald says: ga
young lady in our county sent one of our
young men word, short time since, that
she had sheared twenty sheep and cooked
dinner besides, all in one day. A valua-
BILE wife for somebody"
The Covington Record says: ''The
fruit crop is, we are gratiied to state, in
a splendid condition in this part of the
world. 1t has been several years since
we had a real good fruit crop, and we
hail with delight the time when milk and
peaches will come around.n
The Rev. DR.. Ford, pastor of the
Central Baptist Church in Memphis, de-
liVered his farewell sermon to his congre-
gaton in that city on the 7th inst. He
will leave Memphis in June and go to
st. Louis, where he will take the edito-
rial chair of the great Baptist paper of
the West.
The United States Attorney for the
Eastern District of Tennessee has been
directed by the Assistant Treasurer at
Washington, to bring suit against Col. ].
I. Alternately, former Internal Revenue
Collector of the Knoxville Congressional
District and his securities, for the sum
of $33, 0lS67, which he has failed TO
account for.
The Brownsville Bee of May 9th says /:
"The whole country is covered with cat
erpillers. We learn that between Union
City and Hickman, trains are delayed for
hours on the road in consequence of their
accommodating on the track. There are a
good many about Brownsville, but they
are not troublesome. Orchards may suf-
fer some by them"
The Mckenzie Times, of May 6, says
"a negro man, named Henry Webster,
was arrested in this place one day last
week by parties from Henry county, on
the charge of Ku-Kluxing some other
negroes living at Caledonia He was
ldhen DeIOTe Esq InOmaSOQ Oh LnaI
county for hearing of the case, when in
default of a bond he was committed to
Jail to await his trial at the Circuit
Court"
Deputy United States Marshal John
Burke, who was injured some time since
in an encounter with the Simmerells, near
Sparta, as to be able to walk about. The
Sparta Tribune has the following in re-
ference to Armstrong, who was engaged
in the same difficulty: Son Monday, the
1st inst, at the residence of Mr.. Thomas
Crowder, DR.. w. j. Sneed, of Nashville,
assisted by Drs. Page, of Nashville, and
w. B. Cummings, of Sparta, cut down
upon wound on Mr.. Armstrong; head
and removed nine pieces of cranial bone
depressing upon the brain, the largest
piece, triangular in shape, measuring one
and quarter inches in length and nearly
cne-half inch in width, thereby relieving
him from that dread and fatal disease,
epilepsy, which was threatening him every
moment"