Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-02
TENNESSEE NEWS

The new college building at Loudon,
nearly completed.
The demand for East Tennessee baco
in the South is steadily increasing.
l An agricultural fair will be held a
/ Humboldt on the Goth of Nav.
: The wheat in Washington county I;
| said to look rather unpromising.
The thief and murderer, Bob Haines
was captured in Memphis Saturday last,
A protraeted meeting has been going OF
for some time past in the Baptist Church
at Bristol.
a lot of fine cattle raised near Loudor
by Mr.. Henry were recently sold to gen.
tleman from Georgia.
1t is said that Haywood is the third
county in the ate in point of wealth and
commercial importance.
1t is said that new conservative week.
ly newspaper is soon to be started in
| J0nesboro.
Miss Jessie Brown, eight years old, of
Hartsvllle, fell from horse last week and
broke her arm.
A rattlesnske was recently killed near
Rogersville, which measured three feet
and seven inches in length, and had nine
rattles.
A party of fifty negroes, with six wag-
OBS, ETC., passed through Huntsville the
other day en- route for Missouri. They
were from Smith county.
The Ministerial Association of the
Jonesboro District, Holston Conference,
met recently In Elizabe;hton, Tenn, and
a large number of addresses were deliver.
ed.
The Somerville Falcon says the PROS
poets are in favor of an abundant crop of
all kinds of fruit in that portion of the
country.
The Maryville Republican says quiet
a number of strangers are looking about
in that vicinity in search of lands to buy,
indicating immigration.
A school rebellion occurred in Knox
vile few days ago, but ended by certain
scholars being expelled for rsbelling
against the authority of the teacher.
Decoration Day at Knoxville is on the
10th inst. All the committees are ap-
pointed and elaborate preparations are
being made 10 honor the memory of the
| fallen heros.
The Greeneville Sentinel complains that
the town blackguards in that place are
becoming intolerable, and loudly calls
upon the officers and citizens to put them
| down.
Mckenzie is to have a new hotel-a
| cOmmOdious brick affair. Also a fine
church-building has been commenced by
the Cumberland Presbyterians. 1t is to be
rs by SO feet, ard is to cost $4,000.
Some party in Knoxville is advertising
for two live Kangaroos, for which he
offers an enormous reward" He
wants them for that Knoxville industrial
Epose.
Some of the young ladies of Jackson,
connected with the Presbyterian Church
there, made the wife of their pastor (Mrs.
McNair) present of fine sewing ma
chine. Commendable.
The citizens of Somerville, and vicinity,
have fixed on the 9th inst, as Decoration
Day, when floral tribute will be paid to
| the memory of the Confederate dead bur-
led in the cemetery at that place.
East Tennessee papers have various &C.
counts of the effects of the recent cold
snap. In some localities, fruit trees, es-
pecially peaches, were seriously injured.
So far as reported, but little damage was
done to the wheat crop.
The Jackson Wing and Tribune
states on the authority of 'treliable citi-
Gen." that an old SOW near Spring Creek,
ate up one night last week, IL lambs, 7
kids, shoats and had mule colt year
cd, down, and going for him reverently,
when she was discovered
At the conclusion of the late Baptist
Fair at Jackson-which was a remarkable
success throughout pJ ramid cake was
sold to Messrs. Hammerly & Davis for
$3.50, and was afterwsrd, by vote, awaT-
ded to Miss Laura O'Connor, as the most
amiable young lady connected with the
| Fair.
Two young men, both Tennesseeans,
both clerks on steamers, and both twins,
recently met in New Orleans. They were
separated during the war by reason of po-
litical opinion, and each had supposed the
other dead. Thus, after ten years of sep
sration, they met in strange city, among
strangers, and far from home.