Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-03
STATE NEWS.

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It is said that house flies have mad
their appearance in Brownsville. =
Col I. II. Baker has taken the editor
ial chair in the jackson Telegraph office
Union City will soon have ten larg,
brick buildings completed, two of which
are churches. ..-
Upton county warrants are said to b.
worth dollar for dollar against sixty cents
one year ago. 5000 -.
Gen. Longstreet passed through Knox.
vile few days since en- route for the
South.
Tennessee cannot but be healthy State
to live in, as is evidenced by the number
OF hale, hearty, old people to be met with
at every turn.
The Bristol Courier of Jan. 26 says:
Some eighty odd persons have profes-
sed religion at the Methodist revival,
which has been in progress for twenty
six days. The interest is undated.
The Covington Record says that all
the lawyers in Covington are married ex-
cept two, and that all of the doctors are
married, and most of them have from ten
to twelve children. a.
A few days since, little boy, the son
of George Bennett, who lives about five
miles north of Jackson, while about the
gin, got his head entangled between the
band wheel and trundle head. His head
was crushed, and the child was instantly
killed. =
The habit of carrying deadly weapons
is one of the evils of the times. Here in
Tennessee, we have law upon our stat
ute book forbidding this practice, and it
is only necessary TO have that law vigcr
ously and resolutely enforced to put an
end to more than half the violence of the
State.
The Union City Herald, of Jan. %,
says: ''Our people have been bored this
week by set of men and women calling
themselves the Marietta Combination
We are forced to pronounce them hum
bug and sWindle, if allowed to judge
from their performances while sojourn-
ing in Union City,"
There appeared in Humboldt, the other
day, a moderately good looking white
man and his negro wife, en- route to Mis-
sissippi, from q visit to the family of the
former in the North. The woman was
black, but good looking for negro. They
had two children, and the white husband
and father seemed ordinarily attentive to
their wants and comforts. I'D.
Two brothers, negroes, living ON the
plantation of Mr.. Wade Lyon, near Jack
son, had falling out few days ago,
and the Oldest struck his younger brother
with gun, holding the barrel in his
hand and striking with the breech-the
breech broke and the gun went off, de-
posting the whole load in the heart of
the eldest, killing him instantly.
A railroad from Jackson to Columbia,
Tenn, running through the center of the
STATE, would be an important feeder to
the great South Pacific Railroad. II would
pass through the best portions of Hender-
son, Decatur, Perry, Hickman and MauTy
counties. The first three counties are
now without railroad communications,
and each county will vote upon them
selves tax to build the road.
The Mckenzie Times thinks that the
act of the Tennessee Legislature imposing
a tax of fifty dollars on each commercial
traveller coming into Tennessee from an
other State, is destined to work great in
jury to the trade of Nashville and Mem
phis, and also to other places in the State,
and thinks that it will drive many Ten
nesse5 merchants out of the State to trade
elsewhere.
Thomas NJ. Acton, formerly the editor
of daily paper published at Jackson in
the days of Polk and Jones, lately paid a
visit to Jackson, after an absence of
tWenty-three yesrs. He is now connected
with the Constitution newspaper at At
lanta. William Meacham, another OF the
former residents Of Jackson, lately Wis
tied that place after an absence of twenty
years. He is now citizen of Honduras.
A Swiss colony was established in
Grundy county in 1868. Now, after
little more than two years, the colony is
in a most happy and prosperous condi-
of over ore hundred
families, making a population of more
than six hundred souls, and rapidly in
They are gradually surround
ing themselves with evidences of thrift
and comfort characteristic of old and
well settled districts.
Out of population of about six thou
sand, the total number of deaths in Jack
son, for the year 1870, including white
and black, was seventy-tnree. 1t is sig
however, that while the white
is at least four times greater
than the black, yet more blacks than
whites have died. As far as our informa-
ion extends, this is generally the case
throughout the South, and justi6es the
opinion so generally held, that the negro,
ike the Indian, is, in this country, a
rapidly expiring race.
Parties living in Maryville state that a
bear and panther are roaming in the
woods about three miles north of Mary
vile, from whence they make predatory
attacks on the occupants of the farm
yards in the vicinity. A citizen of Mary
vile was lately returning home about
lusk, when, as he was traversing road
through the woods, he was suddenly
confronted by the panther. The man,
was armed with a stick,
which he brandished before the wild
beast, who slowly and sullenly retreated,
until a clearing was reached, when the
animal disappeared in the woods.
The Grand Division of the Sons of |
of East Tennessee met in
Knoxville on the 27th of January. The
Knoxville Wing of the 28th says: ''The |
returns from the various Subordinate Di- |
visions presented healthy condition of |
The Order, and show a fair increase in
numbers during the past quarter. Knox
vile Division, heretofore under the juris-
fiction of the Grand Division of the \
State, has been regularly transferred to
his jurisdiction, and was well represent
cd. The Grand Division has good be
ginning, and we expect it to accomplish
much in field so ample"
The Union City Herald is not very
favorably disposed towards petticoats in
he pulpit. In its last issue occurs the
following: ga woman from Princeton,
Kv., preached at the Christian Church in
Union City, on the night of the oath.
She stated that she was born at Murfrees-
Doro. Tenn, resided at Princeton, and
was The mother of three children. While
we have due reverence for the cause of
religion, We can but condemn the practice
Of this woman. She should know that
she is only listened to through courtesy.
We want no woman in our midst, who
are determined to wear the breeches. Let
all such 90 North, where spirits are more
"
The Humboldt Ender, of Jan. q,