Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-04
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Union City has Temperance Society,"
Mr. McPheiridge is having public well
dug in Union City.
The mast this year is unusual large and
a surplus of hog flesh viii be on hand.
Jack Frost has recently visited many
counties in Tennessee.
Eight negroes escaped from the Memphis
jail last week.
Geo. Il. Harris, sheriff of Montgomery
county has resigned.
The Methodist Church of Chattanooca
has new $3.50 organ.
Mrs. Joseph Wallace was badly gored bv
COW few days ago in Sumner county.
Dan Smith (col.) was convicted of muir
I der in the first degree in the Criminal
Court at Memphis last week.
For vaccinating children ia 1869, DIR. Ius-
Xxi has recovered by law 800 from the CITY
of Memphis.
A few night ago Mr.. Henry Reams was
mOrtally stabbed by a man named Carter.
in Williamson county.
Mr.. White, of jackson, has found a
eOunterfeiting nickie machine in the river
bottom near that town.
The GAINESVILLE Branch of the Nashville
Equitable Fire Insurance Company has
been organized
The Hartsyille and Carthage turnpike is
to be sold by decree of the Chancery
Court. sg
Judge Trigg has appointed Major Jas NJ.
johnson of Chattanooga, United States
Commissioner.
Horace Maynard has returned from
Washington where he has been several
days ku-KluxinS.
-Four negroes have been arrested and
placed i'll the Someryille Jail for killing an
other negro week before last.
There will be a pigeon shooting match
for 500 gun at the Haywood county
Fair.
Messrs. Wells & Bro living near Mary
Vile have discovered Indications of oil on
their farm.
An ''ex-Rebel" named Sharp, was attacked
by Union Ku-Klux at Bethel Springs. Nc
Marry county, on the 18th of September.
The Nashville Presbytery of the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church meets in
GAINESVILLE the 4th Sunday in March 1872.
A young man, while climbing for '.par-
simmons" near Memphis, fell out of the
tree and broke his leg Wednesday, Sept. n.
\ large number of Memphis citizens have
signed the Liquor Dealers Association petit
ton to the Legislature for the reduction of
tax upon that business.
A fountain well that spontaneously
sprung up in the old navy ward at
Memphis last week has created much excite
ment there.
The survey for the new county of
Crockett, of which Union city was TO be
the county seat, shows there is not enough
territory. -z-.a
\ salt stream half as large as the Hol-
stOn river, has been discovered near Bulls
Gap IN Greene county-sO says the Rogers
vile Reporter. =. -. ..... -
Young Mr.. Brewer has been acquitted
for killing Callahan Goodman near Sneeds-
vile, Hancock county, the 18th of Septem-
Der.
W. NJ. Walker of Haywood county. has
sent specimen bales Of his cotton crop to
the 81. Louis Fair and the Cincinnati Ex
position.
VIM Wolfe alias Yacke an escaped negro
murderer from the COvington iail has been
captured in Paducah, Ky, and remanded to
jail.
j. II. Rankin, former Superintendent of
the bridge construction on the Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroad, left CHATTANOOGA on
Saturday, Sept. 80, with 200 hands for the
Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad.
A train ON the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad ran into a mule team
Friday, Sept. %, killing one seri-
ously injuing the other and broke the dri-
yer's thigh.
At the annual meeting Of the Malwy
County Farmers club on the 23d ult., Capt
K. {. Gordon was elected President, and
Col. L. D. Myers was appointed to address
the people on Home Manufactures the first
Monday in November.