Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-22
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The residence of DR.. Brown, at Tree
want, was destroyed by fire few nights
! since.
Finus Bryant and family, john Reeves
and family and brother, left Maury county
recently for Texas.
John Wright was killed Friday, the 18th
inst, at POtter's Mill in Knox county, by
| Samuel and Thomas Gilbreath.
| The New Masonic Temple fund al Column
bia is almost complete. Twenty-four
| thousand dollars have been subscribed.
The WOrkngmen's Building and Loan
Association is talked about as one Of the
| best organizations ever started in Memphis.
The Knoxville Chronicle says there is no
| territory of the same dimensions in the
world containing as much marble as East
| Tennessee.
The residence of J. NJ. Parker, of Jack
son, was destroyed by fire last Wednesday,
owing to defective fiue. Loss $500; in
| suranee 700.
The Columbia Herald says: Since the
lst of September $50 bales of cotton have
been shipped north from Columbia depot,
and 6tS south, making 2,204 altogether.
Large quantities Of wheat, barley, and
rye have been sOwn in Maury county this
year. 1t is making its appearance beauti-
fully.
There are now only seven prisoners IN
the Knoxville jail and only one of these halls
from Knox county, smaller number than
at any time since the establishment of the
Criminal Court at that place.
The city council Of Jackson at its last
meeting decided to erect fifty lamp-pOsts all
ready for burning gas. The distribution Of
these lamps is general, not local. The city
viii be lighted by the LIST Of December.
G.. G. Williams, who peddles tinware for
Martin x Bro, of Knoxville, was robbed Of
$40 by a white man and negro, last Friday
evening, on the Clinton pike, two miles dis
bant from Knoxville.
= A happy event took place at Memphis
Thursday, Nov. IS, being the marriage Of
Judge Irving Halsey, of the Second Circuit
Court of that city, and Miss Annie Collins,
second daughter of Mrs. ScanlOn, of Scan
Ions Landing, Ark.
John Butler, of Bear Greek, Maury cOun-
Is, whose death took place few days since,
would have been ninety-three years old on
the 18th Of next December, and had been a
member of the Methodist Church for nearly
sixty years.
The Chattanooga Times of Sunday says:
eve learned yesterday that the State In
surance Company, Nashville, had adjusted
the loss of Mrs. German by the late fire,
and paid over the cash. We are pleased to
note this promptnesS on the part of the
company. 1t is evidence that insurance
with it means something
At a meeting in Memphis last Saturday
of the Memphis and Shreveport Railroad
Committee, Mlessrs. Isham G.. Harris,
Thomas II. Allen, J. 7. StrattOn, NJ. Mage
veny and w. L. Duff were appointed to take
such steps as will lead to the adoption by
the County Court of an order for an cleo
ton by the people upon the question Of ap-
propriating 100000 to the Memphis and
Shreveport and Jackson Railroad
The Board of Directors of the Memphis
and Kansas City Railroad Company ap-
pointed W. G. Ford, John Oyerton, Jr.,and
II. F. Patterson a committee to make appli-
cation to the Quarterly Court Of Shelby
county, and to the city of Memphis for SUI
scriptions for the road which they represent.
The application will be made as soon as
possible.
The Boliver Bulletin Of the 18th says:
$50 far as heard from, the subscription to
the Memphis and Knoxville Airline Rail-
road, in Fayette and Hardeman counties,
amounts to one hundred and eighty thOus-
and dollars, OF which sum y. q. Jones,
ESQ, subscribes eleven thousand. Push Oh
the good work. and let us build the road as
soon as possible