Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-21
TENNESSEE NEWS.


Maryville is still progressing.
1t is said that about every other man in
Bel county is candidate for office.
Jasper is rapidly building up thriving
town by means of her manufactures.
The grass and clover crops in Haywood
county are looking finely.
The population of Haywood county is
reported 10 be 20, OILS, and the number of
farms 652.
The Brownsville Bee has an article
protesting against carrying dogs to
church.
A late Knoxville paper has the follow
ing prophesy: ''The house cleaning fidget
will soon supervene.
Six and half inches of rain fell at
Lagrange on the 10Th inst, as recorded by
Dr.. Franklin's pluViometer.
Work is progressing rapidly on the GUS
tomhOuse in Knoxville, and about fifty
hands are employed.
A large number of people from East
Tennessee have migrated to the Western
States during the past year.
The SONS and daughters of Erin cele-
brated st. Patricks day in grand style in
Knoxville, and closed the day with a
splendid ball.
a Sweetwater correspondent of the
Loudon Star mentions the appearance of
meningitis at Fork Creek, in Monroe
county.
The jackson Telegraph says: SIT
only costs $50 and costs for policeman
to shoot lock of hair from the head of
an inoffensive citizen, because said ,citizen
would not give away his whisky"
A public library and reading room is
talked of in Knoxville. Something of the
kind should be established in every city,
as it will cause many an hour protitably
employed that might otherwise be lost or
worse than wasted.
A sad accident occurred on tho Mem
phis and Ohio railroad on the 18th inst.
A respectable citizen of Memphis, named
Daniel Farrell, was killed at Galloway
station. A train ran over him, killing
him almost instantly.
A man in Knoxville, Tenn, is the own
er of an original style of walking-s stick.
it is cabbage stalk that was cut by his
father in Florida, while soldier in the
war of 1912, and is said to make a very
serviceable cane,
The Memphis appeal says that the
lies which the press have told about the
Binkley College ghost swindle, have made
MIR. s. w. Phillips, late keeper of the
ElmwoOd Cemetery, a raving maniac,
and it is supposed that his reason is for
ever dethroned, at least in this life.
The Hartsville Vidette of the 18th
inst says: "The spectacle of free citi-
zen arrested ard carried off by armed
men, was presented to our people few
days ago when squad of United States
soldiers came into ibis neighborhood and
captured MIR. John Mungle, under the
charge of Illicit distilling.n
The Knoxville Press and Herald
Of the 18th inst. says: ''We learn that
w. G. Brooks, who has been on trial in
Clinton, charged with the murder of
Capt. A. n. Ragle, was convicted yester-
day of murder in the first degree, with
mitigating circumstances Motion was
entered for new trial"
The Huntsville Vidette saws: Ono
people were ever more unitedly in favor
of an enterprise than the people of Ma
con and Trousdale are in favor of the
Cumberland and Ohio railroad. We think
a mass meeting of the citizens should be
held in Huntsville on the first Monday
in April, to push forward the work"
Louis Whitaker, q negro, was arrested
lately near Somerville, on a charge of
burning barn. On his way to iail, he
escaped from the officer. Pursuit was
made, and Whitaker was found in a ne.
gro cabin. He ran out, and the consta-
BILE called to him to surrender or he would
be shot. Whitaker disregarded the call,
and the constable and several of his posse
shot at him as he ran, killing him almost
in a antly.
During the storm at Memphis on We'd
nesday, March Is, the lightning struck
the Nicholson pavement and, branching
off in various directions, formed a perfect
letter Q, of some fifty feet in length,
marking the pavement distinctly for fif-
teen minutes with various hues of all col
ors. While the storm was at its hight, a
large gas reservoir was overturned and
some ninty thousand feet of gas liberated.
Fortunately, the wind was blowing from
the fires, else terrible explosion would
have resulted.
The Brownsville States of the 10th
inst says: "On the place of James Bond
ESQ.,, near Hatchie river, cold blooded
murder was perpetuated by a negro boy
Is years old on the body of his stepfa-
ther. The deceased inflicted some slight
punishment on the prisoner, by which
the latter became angered and having
made the necessary preparation by Sc
curing az axe, lay in wait and inflicted
the fatal blow.
The Brownsville States prints a COM
munication from John W. Medlin, who
says that he is the Elias spoken of in
scripture, and at the close of his commu-
nication remarks: "Great and startling
events must now shortly transpire, and
the severe judgment will be inflicted on
the nations of the earth, which will re-
suit in the utter destruction of the present
system of government in the world, and
upon their ruins will be established the
great dual kingdom of God-the Millen-