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

originally part OF huIneTIOIu, anu III
Guided the present county of Lincoln
until about The year 1910, when Lincoln
was organized into a separate county.
Bedford was made county in 1908, and
for many years appears TO have had q
peripatetic county seattle courts being
held for year or two at one place, and
then at another until the year 1919,
when the present town of Shelbyville was
chartered. This town has had quite an
experience in
COURT HOUSES.
The first one having been built of logs,
was soon torn down and brick built
upon the site This was destroyed by q
terrible hurricane in 1880, the same one
that demolished the court house at Char
lotte. Another was built which was con-
sumed by fire in 1868, while Gen. Bragg
held the town. The fire was accidental
and many of the records of the county
were DESTROYED. At the present the cOur-
ty is erecting one of the largest
and most conveniently arranged
court houses in the State. The
building is 100 feet long running north
and south and u feet wide. The prin-
cipal room, where the Circuit Court will
hold its sittings, IS above and will
measure 20 By 40 feet The ChanCeTy
Court room, and the different Offices for
the various Clerks, are below and will
have all the modern improvements for
rendering them comfortable and safe.
inches in the walls are left, which will
be lined with tin, for the records; and
every part of the building will be fi-c-
proof, except the floors ia the rooms.
The hall floors will be Of stone. There
are four porticos facing the four cardinal
points supported by four square
columns of blue limestone in asher mas
onry, three feet SOU are, and rising to the
height of the first story. Each column
is surmounted by g coping of white lime
stone somewhat Ornamented, IL is the
design of the building COMMITTEES, Of
whom Col. ThOs H. Coldwel is chair
man, to use round iron columns fer the
upper story of the pOTuCOs. The build
ing will be covered with slate and heated
by steam, and town clock will be put in
the cupola, for the convenience of the
citizens. Its estimated cost is from
$50, 900 to 500, 600, and il is thought it
will be ready for use in Feb, 1872,
Just two years from the laying
of the cornerstone. When the
Courthouse is completed, Slelbyviile will
be oneof the best built towns in the State.
The
PRIVATE RESIDENCES
are exceedingly neat and tasty,
and have the mos. beautiful green
yards we hsYe ever seen. There
is an air of freshness, comfort, beauty
and luxury about them that is perfectly
charming, Bay windows and ornament
cd fences and Gothic roofs lend fasCina-
ton to them, while the shade in the yards
is not so great as to interfere with the
growth of the grass We saw numerous
rare exOtics that indicated high order of
culture and refinement among the people,
and from the number of
CHURCHES,
the people ought 70 be well supplied with
spiritual provender. We visited only one,
the Episcopal, and found the ladies busily
decorating in COmmemOratiOn Of the
RISEN LORD. The church has been fin
ished since the war, and has one of the
most beautifully stained glass windows
we have ever seen. There are thirty
COMMUNICATE intelligent tl0ck-pre-
sided over by MIR. Wagner, gentleman
of rare excellence and virtue. Besides
this church there are two Methodist two
Presbyterian, one Baptist and one CathO-
lie. For population of 5000 persons
this seems to he a very fair supply Of
churches. Shelbyvi.le tOasts of SIX
TURNPIKRs
leading into the town from various di-
rections, and stock has been subscribed
for a seventh The accessibility and
cheapness of limestone rock make the
building of turnpike a comparatively
cheap and easy mater. Nowhere in the
State have we seen f. better building stone
or q greater variety.
FEMALE INSTITUTE.
OF the permanent Institutions 90 SRel
byyille, none hrs n ere TRACTORS To- the
stranger than The Flm2ls Iusiiiue e, uu5cr
The able g. ryisioI AMI control of that
able scholar aud divine, Dr. WardlOw.