Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-25

| Paris has been troubled with burglars
lately. - .F
| The members of the Bar of Pulaski
have been photographed.
There are only three bachelors left in
Jasper; but there are twelve In Sparta.
A few nights since beautiful aurora
borealis was witnessed at 6helbyville.
Martins have appeared at Jasper, and
the Sequatchie Sun says that Jasper is as
bare of locals as a billiard ball is of hair.
An interesting revival of religion has
been in progress for some time at johnson
City, in Washington county.
Steps are being taken in jackson to or
ganize q society of s'Broom Corn Sere-
naders.n
A few days since middle aged negro
woman was killed near Sparta by the &C
| cidental discharge of gun.
The Pulaski Citizen says that Hymen
has no doubt gone on q fishing excursion,
as no marriages have been recorded lately.
There is Luck in odd numbers-that is
to say, Luck the horse and hog-thief oc-
cupies cell No. 3, in the county prison of
Shelby county.
Seventeen new buildings and two stores
are now being erected in jackson, and
quite number of large buildings are
under contract.
The revival which has been in progress
some two or three weeks in Franklin has
closed. Ten or fifteen persons united with
the church during its progress.
A man from the country visited all the
stores in Jasper recently to buy di-
vorce. He was told that they were 'just
out of divorces, but would have full
supply In few days"
Turn which way we may in Tennessee,
West Middle and East, and the question
of building narrow gauge roads, meets
the eye, and the discussion of it greets
the ear.
James Gurganus, living in the western
part of Gibson county, recently COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself. Gen.
eral bad health and low spirits are assign
ed as the causes.
In the upper portion of Obion county
the wheat crop looks rather good, better
than some weeks since, but there is not
more than half or two-thirds of q crop
sown. Corn is worth fifty cents bushel,
hay eighteen to twenty dollars per ton.
The travelling public will be grstifed
to learn that all the trains over the Mem
rhis and Louisville Railroad go and come
on regular schedule time, without any de-
tention, the damage by the late high wa
tiers having been fully repaired.
The county of Wilson was established
by the third General Assembly of Ten
nessee, Oct. 26, 1899. 1t was named
Wilson, in honor of Maj. David Wilson,
a Pennsylvania, who immigrated to
Sumner county, then attached to North
Carolina.
The Greeneville Sentinel says: "The
Methodists are having extensive reVivals
at Johnston City and Rhestown. At the
former place some forty have protested
saving faith and many more are enquir-
ing after salvation"
A citizen of Madison county, who
moved to Texas last fall, has lately IT,
turned, and says that he is now willing
to live and die in ''old Madison" He
says that many who have moved West |
would gladly return if they could.
An infant child of Mr.. Richard Gates,
who lives about three miles from Green |
vile, was burned nearly to death q few |
days since. During the mothers absence |
the pallet on which the child was placed |
took fire, and the infant was severely |
burned all over its body.
Memphis has been given to sensations |
lately. The last one we have noticed is |
story of Mansford's dog 'Cleburne,"
that is said to be chicken hatcher. He |
recently ''stole two eggs" put them in
his bed, and has, after long setting, sue
ceeded in Matching two game chickens.
West Tennessee was purchased from |
the Chickasaw nation of Indians, in the |
year 1918, by Gen. Andrew jackson and |
Isaac Shelby, as commissioners for the /
United States, in a treaty made with the
Chickasaws at Old Town, for the sum of
twenty thousand dollars, to be paid annu-
ally, for fifteen consecutive years.
On the 22d of March, as Capt. Han
mum, of Maryville, was having his bag
gage checked from the Nashville train TO |
the Knoxville train at Chattanooga, he
was robbed of $3.50. The money was
obtained by cutting his pants pocket.
Notice was ct once given to the police,
but the thief could not be found.
The Murfreesboro NeaOs of March "a
says: Late yesterday afternoon we /
learned that difficulty occurred near this
city on the Lebanon pike between two
men named VIM. Hall and Taylor, re-
sulting in the death of Hall. We did not
learn any particulars.
Notwithstanding all that has been said
about the folly of sending greenbacks to
the counterfeit money swindlers in New
York, young man in Giles county was
recently made victim to the tune of one
hundred and twenty seven dollars. For
his money he received lot of old iron,
nicely packed in heap of saw-dust.
The Good Templars of Tennessee have
just decided to hold the next annual con-
vention at Harrison, on the Tennessee
river, twelve miles above Chattanooga.
The event will take place on the secoud |
Tuesday in April, and will be big af- I
fair. A steamboat will be chartered to
take members of the convention from |
Chattanooga to Harrison, where a pro-
gramme very varied has been fixed
upon"
The Pulaski Citizen, of March %,
says: "Jesse Black, negro man in the
employ of ESQ. S. s. Williamson, of this |
county, made an unprovoked assault |
upon that gentleman on Tuesday last,
with an ak, which would no doubt have
proved fatal if little son of the 'Squire's |
had not held the negro at bay with gun.
The negro escaped, but the officers are
after him. ~
The McMinnville NeaO Era says that |
Warren county is just now exercised up |
on the deg question, some favoring tax
and others opposing it. The Era adds:
g. To reconcile the differences it has been |
suggested that our County Court exempt |
from taxation one large dog and one flee
to each family-the dog for farm pur-
poses and the little dog to assist the
ladies to catch their chickens"
The Dover Record says: "One of Ma
lures freaks was exhibited to US last |
week, in the shape of young chicken
with four legs. The little thing Chirped |
and hoped about our Office, but seemed
to have no use for the surplus attach
ments. His chickenship, we suppose,
fearing Barnum and trouble in the future |
on account of so many pedal extremities,
very wisely laid down and died the day |
following its advent among typos" |
0Nho of Mo-al