Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-12
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Bristol oodson is to have new bank.
The Madison County Court has refused
to tax dogs.
Loudon county is to have new court
house.
The jackson Telegraph has changed
its name to the Democrat.
Confidence sharpers are said to be rap
idly increasing in Memphis.
Two mad dogs were lately killed in
Brownsville.
Mr.. E. Fowler has retired from the
Bristol NeaOS.
There is said to be good prospect for
an abundance of fruit in Madison county.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle says that the
Montgomery County Court has tabled the
dog tax.
Forrest Powell and Barney Whelan,
two notorious criminals, lately escaped
from the county Jail at Memphis.
A revival of religion has for some time
past been in progress at the Second Pres
byterian Church in Knoxville.
1t is proposed in Greene county to build
a narrow-gusge railroad from Greeneville,
via the Iron Works, to the French Broad.
1t is proposed to hold an East Tennes-
see Sunday school Convention in Knox
vile on the Goth and 2lst of April.
George Francis Tram has been lecturing
extensively to the people of Memphis,
and the Ledger says he has had perfect
ovation.
Mr.. o. B. Bunce, editor of Appleton's
Journal, and Mr.. Harry Fem, artist of
the same journal, are in East Tennessee,
making sketches of the scenery.
The engineers who have been making
a survey of the route for the proposed
extension of the Mississippi Central Rail
road from Jackson noIthward have
reached Mckenzie.
At recent meeting of the Board of
Aldermen of Memphis resolution call
ing on the Mayor to look after and re-
port upon the late interest of the city in
the Little Rock and the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroads was passed by the
Board.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle, of the sth
inst, says: 'tMr. Ambrose Norris was
killed and several passengers injured by
train No. being thrown from the track,
near Cumberland city, Monday morning
at o'clock. The accident was caused
by COW being on the track
Mr.. A. T. Wilson, of Union, Tenn,
has shown the editor of the Bristol NeOS
volume containing speeches made in the
Congress of 1904. The volume con-
tains the acrimonious debates on the
National Bank and the course of Presi-
dent Tyler.
The Bristol NeoO8 records a painful
accident which recently happened to Mr..
John Dickerson, as he was going from
Bristol to his home in Kingsport. The
mule attached to the wagon fell suddenly
and fractured both bones of Mr.. Dicker-
son'sleg.
The Mckenzie Times of the Sth inst.
says: "a shocking and trsgical affair
occurred in this place on Wednesday night
of this week, resulting in the death of
MIR. F. II. Pate, at the hands of Mr..
jackson, both citizens of the town. We
have heard somewhat conflicting accounts
of the affair, and shall not now attempt
to give the particular facts in the case.
1t seems that the parties, who had preVi-
0usly been on entirely friendly terms, had
misunderstanding about some trivial
matter on the night of the occurrence,
and high words were used, when Jack
son shot Pate with pistol, the ball TAX
ing effect in his breast, producing almost
instantaneous death. The terrible affair
is deeply regretted by the friends of both
parties"