Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-02
TENNESSEE NEWS.

organized the first Monday in Aprll.s
Cheering accounts are given of the
growing wheat crop in Bedford county.
David Carr, of Washington county has
field of rye that was out in full head
| last week.
The Franklin ReUiea0 says that mad
dog lately made his appearance near
Cayce's Springs, and was killed.
A young man was lately sent to the
Penitentiary, from Memphis, for three
years, for carrying pistol. .,s.G..
The negroes of Pulaski and vicinity are
making an effort to establish branch of
the .tNstional Freedmen's Saving Bank. "
There is an area Of twelve square
miles east of Pulaski within which there
is not single physician.
Some of the farmers of Bedford
county have lately been purchasing some
fine Durham cattle in Kentucky
Old Williamson is Dragging of a tur-
key hen which laid between eighty and
ninety eggs in 1870.
A Giles county greenhorn has just been
done out of $40, &C. o. d." by the
counterfeit swindlers. Served him right
Since the LIST of January, 759 bales of
cotton and 81 hhds. of tobacco have been
shipped from Paris, Tenn.
The Methodists are having extensive
reviVals at johnson City and Rheatown,
East Tennessee.
The Giles Press, of March 80, saye:
'tMr. Lewis Amos caught one hundred
and forty pounds of fish at Vale Mills last
week in one day.
a mammoth Union depot ia soon to be
erected in Chattanooga near the depot of
the Atlanta and Chattanooga Railroad;
also large operahouse, to cost 5000, 900.
Robert Rueker has been arrested in
Bedford county, at the instance of the
sheriff of Lincoln county, for killing q
man IL the latter county during the war.
Col. BeVier says that the work on the
Greensboro Railroad will be under con-
tract by the middle of the summer, and
that the road will be finished to Spring
field by January, 1873.
A negro recently escaped from the jail
at Clinton, by knocking down the jailor
when he came to give him his supper. An
unsuccessful search was made for the
abscondIng prisoner.
The County Court of DeKalb county
is soon to decide whether or not 5000, 900
will be subscribed in stock for the pull
pose of building the Lebanon and Sparta
Narrow-gauge Railroad.
1t is proposed to build narrow gauge
railroad from Sparta, to interstct with the
Tennessee and Pacific railroad at Lebs-
non 1t is supposed that it can be com
menced during the present year.
The residence of ESQ. D. w. Frazier,
near Paris, was recently destroyed by fire.
Nothing in the house was saved. The
fire Is thought to have been the work of
an incendiary.
DR.. Pinkston, who lives nine miles
east of Franklin, has lately imported
some fine Berkshire hogs from Canada,
and expects TO pay special attention to
raising fine hogs in future.
The Murfreesboro Monitor says: "We
learn that farmers in various sections of
the county will not plant more than one
half crop of cotton this year, and some
who heretofore cultivated it extensively,
will not SOW seed"
The Franklin ReUieW says that some
amateurs performers from Nashville will
visit Franklin in April and give series
of performances for the benefit of the
new Methodist Church. The ReUieD
says they possess undoub;ed histrionic
talent
II is said that the cadets of the UniVer-
sity of Knoxville are put TO manual labor.
Some of the professors show that they
can skilfully WELD pick as well as teach
Greek, Latin and mathematics. The ca
diets receive compensation according to
the number of hours they work, as is the
case in some agricultural colleges.
Elijah Price, about seventeen years of
age, was lately killed st Conklin's steam
sawmill, five miles from Whites Bluff,
in Dickson county. The end of a piece
of scantling was caught in the huge fly
wheel, while revolving with great rapid
ity and force, and struck him on the
head and breast, hurting BIN about forty
feet. He was literally torn to pieces,
and lived only moment or so.
An interesting protracted meeting closed
at the Methodist Church at Gallatin last
Friday night. 1t had been in progress
nearly five weeks, during which time about
sixty persons profeased religion. Quite a
number of ministers were in attendance,
prominent among whom was Rev. Mr..
Mayhem and the faithful and beloved
pastor, Rev. Mr.. Green. Great interest
was manifested IN the meeting by the
of The church and the communi-
ty at large.
Knoxville boasts man that almost ri
walls DR.. Winship in feats of strength.
His name is Louis Ruckert, and it is said
that bis muscular power is remarka-
BILE. One of his feats is TO lie flat on his
back, On the floor, and stretch his arms
above his head, with the palms of his
hands upward. A heavy man then places
a foot in each OF Ruckert's extended
hands, when Ruckert raises him with
ease, and gets on his feet He is said, in
this manner, to have lifted men weighing
nearly two hundred pounds.
TIE following account of the capture
Of horse thief, shows one of the adVan-
tages of judicious advertising. Some
time since s. S. Hawkins of Green
county had fine horse stolen, and inser-
ted an advertisement in his local paper,
offering reward for the apprehension of
the thief and the recovery of the horse.
suspicious character in Russell county,
having in his posse ssion horse
ike the one described in The advertise
ment, was arrested. 1t was afterwards
lscertained that the horse was the one