Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-01
TENNESSEE NEWS.

There is contest between two Memphis
Citizens as to who is the Recorders clerk.
The Shelbyyille Commercial will be is
sued each day of the Bedford County Fair,
wife whippers" and oysters are the lat
est Memphis sensations.
The Memphis Grand Jury ignored the
charges OfembeZzlement against j. ID. Mic
kle the insurance agent.
DR.. Laski, of Memphis, sues the CITY for
$500 as medical fees for vaccinating children
in 1869.
The Adams street Male and Female Col
lege has been purchased for $4,000 by the
Christian Brothers Society of st. Louis, for
high school and male college.
Ed. Hilton has been arrested and placed
in the ShelbyVille Jail for the killing Of Will
lis Burks in that town on the Oath Dscem-
Der, 1860.
There is some talk in Memphis of the home
insurance companies organizing a Board
OF Underwriters to fix equal tariff rates for
land and marine insurance, advisory rates
Of local fire insurance, etc.
Gen. VIM. III. Smith died at his residence
in MurtreesbOro on the night of Sept 20.
He was an old and well-knOwn citizen. and
lived to the mature age of 20 years. At the
time of his death he was one of the Direc-
tors of the Nashville and Chattanooga Rail-
road, and had for long time been one Of
the leading citizens of the country.
The Board of Levee Commissioners of
Mississippi met Wednesday at the Peabody
Hotel, Memphis, and let out 100000 cubic
yards OF work at IS cents per cubic yard,
and 100000 cubic yards at YazOo Pass for
% cents, all payable in levee bonds. This
contract, with previous ones, embraces all
the line from Horn Lake to South COahOma
county, except some crevasses in Funcia
county.
On Saturday evening, Sept. %, man by
the name OF Cook was killed at a house of
bad repute in Bedford county by E. A. Gov
mgton. 1t appears that the two men and
woman were together, and the report of a
gun or pistol was heard in the room Occu-
pied by them. Cook ran out through the
hall saying that he was shot. He fell in the
yard and very soon expired. COvington
has been tried before a magistrate for muir
der, and is now under bond of $1,000 for
his appearance in court.
The Shelbyville Rescue, of Sept. 20, says:
I'VE understand that on Tuesday night last
a negro man called at house in this place
and knocked at the door. On its being
opened he inquired if the gentleman of the
house was at home. Being answered in the
negative by the young lady, who was all
alone at the time, he asked her if he could
get a drink of water. As the young lady
turned to get the water he made grab at
her. She screamed so loud that the neigh
bOrs came to see what was the matter, when
the scoundrel fed
Sunday night, Sept. "a, Samuel Scott, of
White county left honaa i'm cou,nanv vi TN
VIM. Martin, James Green and Crockett
TettletOn to capture Mont Weaver, an
escaped negro murderer. His horse having
returned that night, excited suspicion in his
family, who, with neighbors, went next
morning in search, and Scott was found
terribly beaten, about a mile from home,
and so delirOUs that he has been able to
give rational account of the cause of his
severe injuries. Foul play on the part of
those he was in company with is suspected
by his friends.