Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-28

binu ION le expected III ClSrksVlile
on the 10th of April.
1t is said that there are in Knoxville
about two thousand mechanics.
/ An Agricultural Association, is being
organized at Bristol.
Beautiful white and black marble has
been discovered in large quantities near
BriAol.
A new church organ has been pro-
cured for the Methodist Church at Browns
vile.
1t is proposed to organize a Farmers
Club and Horticultural society in Knox
county.
Selling mich cows on the public streets
is becoming regular business in Mem
phis.
The late storm in Hardeman county
destroyed considerable properly, and
swept away g good many bridges.
The citizens. of Knoxville are to be en-
tertained with circus, a menagerie and
grand balloon ascension, in April.
Several new and substantial dwellings
are going up in Bristol. johnson City,
twelve miles from Bristol, is also improV-
ing rapidly.
The decomposed remains of an infant
were found under Masonic Hall, in Bris-
toll, last week; evidences were strong
pointing TO infanticide.
The Germans of Knoxville are to have
torch. light procession and jubilee on
the 10th of April as sort of peace cele
bration.
The late floods have done incalculable
damage to the trade of Jackson. Import
ant bridges have been taken away, and it
will take some time to repair them.
OF late, Memphis has been troubled
with 'tghosts." and many good people
in the rural districts wonder that it is not
troubled with the ''devil."
A number of gentlemen have taken the
necessary steps, says the Jackson Wing
and Tribune, to procure charter for
the Jackson and Tennessee river Rail-
| road.
| The Brownsville Bee says that the far
| mers complain of a disease among hogs
very much like ''blind staggers" in horses.
Coal oil applied along the spine give in
| slant relief.
A stranger by the name of Mckenzie
died at the house of James Smith, in
Kenton, Tenn, in December, 1870, and
Mr.. Smith is ready to answer any inqui-
ries of friends.
The Bolivar Bulletin has a column
| headed ''BoliYarieties, and under that
head it speaks of certain State newspa-
pers that throw their refulgent beams of
supernatural bigotry around"
The Memphis Ledger says: can eff
| fort is making to induce Memphis mer-
chants to send cotton to Europe via Nor
| folk and the Allan line of steamers. The
movement gives promise of success"
DR.. D. A. Davidson, of Columbia, has I
been appointed Collector of Internal Rev.
enue, for the 9th district, in place of Col.
Geo. W. Blackburn, who refused to &C
eept the position. DIR. Davidson says he
will accept.
Some thief in Bristol celebrated St.
Patrick's day, or rather night, by break
Ing into the meat house of John King,
and taking six hundred pounds of ba-
con. One hundred dollars is the reward
offered for his arrest.
The jackson Wing and Tribune of
March %, says: ''A man jumped off of
high trestle on the Mobile and Ohio
railroad, Saturday, on the approach of an
engine, saving his life by taking a cold
bath and ducking. Sensible"
1t is said that of six of Constantine
Perkins negroes, in Arkansas, one is
| constable, two are magistrates and three
are lawyers. Mr.. Perkins lived near Col
umbia, and his estimable widow now re-
sides at his late residence near that city.
An accident happened to freight train
on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Gaorr;o Dool ON M0p,la1x arap;nrx
20, some seven miles below Bristol. Three
box cars jumped the track, two of which
were badly wrecked and the freight scat
tered.
The Bolivar Bulletin says: "Many of
our planters are going 1t blind again, and
are giving up almost all of their cleared
land 10 cotton. Irish potatoes are selling
here for $3.50 per bushel, and cotton
goes begging at Is cents. Which is
trumpsl
the Union City Herald of March "a
says: MIR. John Grayham was found
on last Monday morning cut to pieces on
the railroad not far from Clinton Station. |
Our informant states that he has ever
been a sober man, but for some time he |
has been supposed to be III his dotage."
The Knoxville Chronicle of March |
% says: 'tMr. James Smith, a machinist |
in the railroad shops, was stricken with |
paralysis in the throat last Sunday night, |
we are informed, since which time he has
been unable to partake of any food, |
though he can talk. His situation is crit
ical."
Col. D. F. Wade, of Ashwood, Msury |
county, recently sold 106 head of cattle
to gentleman from Kentucky, who has
taken them to Kentucky, and will put |
them on his blue grass farm, give them
corn about a month, and then give them |
grass, before sending them to the New |
York market.
On the 18th of March, man whose |
name is unknown threw himself on the |
track of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, a |
few miles south of Humboldt, and was
30 badly injured by the engine that he |
died in few hours. He was about thir-
ty five years of age.
The last Bolivar Bulletin has the fol |
lowing exhibition of the Kings English: |
SHUTTER is as scarce in Bolivar as fiddlers |
in the realms of bliss. 1t is utterly i'm |
possible to get enough to slick the ''slick- |
eryn side of fritter, or serve the inside |
of an Irish lemon"
On Friday, the 18th inst journeyman
blacksmith named Terrell, citizen of |
Memphis, but engaged at Mason, laid |
down by the railroad track near Gallo |
ways, with his head upon the rail and |
probably dropped asleep. a passing |
train struck him and injured him to such |
an extent that he died the next day.
Some nine or ten miles of grading has
been done on the Holly Springs, Browns
vile and Ohio Railroad, between Browns
vile and Friendship. Most of it in river
and creek bottoms. None of it was dam
aged by the late high water, which has |
not been nearer than three feet of top of |
the embankment. The work is progress
sing rapidly.
The Bolivar Bulletin says: "Harde-
man is the squarest county in the State.
She is not only square in politics, finance, |
morality and intelligence, but her dimen-
sions, since the new county of Bell took |
a slice from the southern side, are square, /
or nearly 80. She now covers ad area of |
% miles and 270 poles by % miles, and |
and contains 502 % 100 square miles"
The Trenton Gazette of March %, |