Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-10
TENNESSEE NEWS.

A new Jail for Knox county is wanted
Knoxville is pestiferously infested will
loose hogs in the streets.
Knoxville boasts of beet weighing
10 pounds.
Improvements are going on at a lively
rate in Chattanooga.
There are quite number of visitors al
Rhes Springs in Rutherford caunty.
Memphis housewives are oVerrun with
I'd ants.
Slight attacks of sunstroke are again
becoming prevalent in Memphis.
TImbers for the new bridge over First
Greek In Northest Knoxville, are being
put up.
A poor crippled boy on crutches was
robbed of $3.50 at Knoxville on the 8.h
instant.
An interesting installation of officers
took place at ODD Fellows' Hall in Chat
tanooga on the night of the 4th inst.
X Z. Tucker, Clerk of the County
Court OF BlOunt county, died at Mary
vile on Sunday night, the 9Th inst.
They have been favored with abundant
rains in McMinn county and in the vlcin-
ity of Athens.
A boy named Tommy Wright had an
eye knocked out while stealing figs from
tree in M.mphis on the 9Th inst.
Female matchmaking rageth in Mem
phis, and the Intervention of the police
is called for to suppress the growing evil.
A good rain at Knoxville and for five
miles Northwest of that place on the Sth
inst. GA the same day good rains at
CaseyVille and Cleveland.
A large cave in the Cumberland noun
tains, full of beautiful stalaciites and
stalagmites has recently been explored
near Jacksboro.
The Memphis Ledger says that heavy
rains fell on the evening of Aug. 9th,
at Lake Horn and throughout Northern
Mississippi.
Nat Reeves, who shot policeman
Richard Johnson in Memphis few days
ago, has fed to Mississippi, and has not
yet been arrested.
The cash premium list offered by the
Agricultural and Mechanical Association
Fair at memphis, to be held Oct. II,
number 48l and amount to $4,000.
Gen. Canton left Chattanooga on the
night of the S.h inst. for Montgomery,
upon business connected with the early
running of the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad. Prospects are hopeful.
The movement in Memphis in favor of
organising a society for the prevention of
cruelty to animals is progressing. The
motto of the society will be, "The friend
OF man is the friend of the brute"
The Knoxville Press and Herald
says that the Customhouse investigation
is progressing. The only thing ELECTED
yet is, that the cost of the structure is
larger than it ought to have been.
The decision of the Judge of the Cir
cult Court in Chattanooga was to have
been given yesterday, as to whether bail
would be given in the Hugh Tally case.
Arguments of counsels were concluded on
the Sth inst.
The Knoxville Press and Herald of
the 9th inst. has the following: There
was expended on the Government build |
iRgs, now being erected in this city, dur
ing the month of June, $40, 545,7j. The
whole amount expended up to June 80, !
was $38, S08.77. This is additional to |
the cost of the lot, which ia $1O,25O.
The prisoners at the county Jail at |
Knoxville, becoming tired of remaining
in their cells, forced the doors open last
Sunday morning, and occupied the halls
until they were compelled to return to
their quarters, by posse of police. Ad.
ditional fastenings to the cell doors are
being made.
The Knoxville Chronicle of the 9th
inst says. ''The members of the Turn
Verein rallied in force at their hall last
evening, notwithstanding the non arrival
Of Messrs. Ruhm and Unger, from Nash
vile. The Turner'S went through the
usual gymnastic exercises, after which
The band discoursed the sweetest music,
and the ladies being present in large num-
Ders, the floor was soon filled with dan
GERS, who tripped the light fantastic
Until Terpsichore herself would have
been satisfied. The gentlemen from
Nashville were expected on the train at
A. M, and committee was appointed
o escort them to the hall. j."