Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-16
n TENNESSEE NEWS.

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A position numerously signed by prom
inent citizens of Memphis has been pre-
sented to the Mayor of that city, asking
the removal of the bluffs. -.
| The Directors of the Nashville and
Cincinnati Railroad viii hold q meeting
in Lebanon, Tenn, on = the 25ih of
August, 1871, by order Of the President.
The inmates of the Wilson county
pcorhouse are 10 be dressed in uniform
the whites in a green suit, with yellow
stripe, and the blacks in yellow suit
with green stripe. II ~ q. y
Brownsville challenges West Tennessee,
North Mississippi and Arkansas for q
game of chess, to be played at Browns
vile. Expenses of the winning party
paid. -
The Sparta Tribune says: ssThe only
| case of sun-stroke we have heard of in
this county was that of young darkey
welting his father over the head with a
paling." ....--. ..-...-.-.,,
The Bristol Ne.os says: ssHawkins
| county boasts of giant, jeremiah Shes
ser, aged % years, height II feet, weight
$50 pounds, with foot Is inches long.
He is now terribly drawn and crippled
from imprudent use of spirits of turpen-
tine for rheumatism.
At recent meeting of the GAINESVILLE
Board of Trade, q committee was ap-
pointed 10 secure a charter for railroad
| from GAINESVILLE and New Providence to
the northwest, in the direction of Prince
town and Shawneeiown, and also to 80
licit stock for said road.
An amateur farmer in the vicinity of
Athens threshed his wheat crop last week,
and announces the product of one field of
6 acres at 1G bushels. He says nice cal
culation shows those 16 bushels cost him
| 81. 93} per bushel. As at present advi-ed,
he don't regard amateur farming paying
investment.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle says
''Since the complete failure of the wheat
crops, hereabouts, is an assured thing, it
is gratifying to know that the July rains
leave little doubt of large yield of corn.
With q plentiful supply of this staple
grain, there is no danger of suffering for
man or beast"
Tho Shelbyville american Rescue has
the following paragraph, which Horace
Greeley should be called on to explain in
his next edition of "What | know about
farming" sour friend Thos. c. Allison,
residing in the Sulphur Spr,Ag District,
has an eight months old sucking calf,
that gives regularly at each milking, a
half gallon milk. This calf was brought
to its milk by another calf sucking it"
The Brownsville Bee has long article
| in reference TO some citizens of that To-
cality who have lately returned from a
visit to Denver in Colorado. They say
that the air is bracing and beneficial to
persons Of weak lungs, but they were not
favorably impressed with Colorado as 8
country for farmers, as nothing in the
shape of crop can be raised without
Irrigation.
Tne Lebanon Free Press of July Il
says: ''Col. Benz. F. Ball, General En-
dOWment Agent of the st. Louis Mutual
Life Insurance Company, is in this city,
aud on yesterday he concluded an engage
ment with the Trustees of our University
for the Endowment thereof. Col Ball,
and also the Board of Trustees, are san
guine of success. His proposition is to
raise, by insurance upon lives in favor of
the Trustees, the sum of FIVE hundred
thousand dollars"
The Brownsville States says: 'fThe
Holly Springs, Brownsville and Ohio
Railro ed is progressing rapidly under the
able management of President Smith and
his excellent board. The work is going
forward toward completion in a thorough
and satisfactory manner, and Browns.
I'll ho nf
work of railroads, and with her cotton
factory, she will speedily become city
OF ten thousand inhabitants, and one of
the leading commercial emporiums of the
State"
The Knoxville Press and Herald of
the I4,h says: ''The Anti Tobacco Cons
vention met at the Methodist Church,
yesterday. The assemblsge was smaller
than the importance of the subject seemed
10 demand. Still there was enough to
give assurance of The determination of
those who control the movement. a con-
stitution was adopted, and officers elected
10 serve until October, the time fixed for
the annual meeting"
The Knoxville Press and Herald of
fhe 1Ah ssys: "a negro employed in
Huffsker's brick yard, on the corner of
Crozier and French streets, yesterday,
found a number of human bones nearly
decayCd. They had been buried near the
foundation of chimney, and'were about
two feet below the surface. The lot ON
which the bones were found is lot No.
in the original plan of the city. From
the decsyed condition in which the bones
were found, it is probable the bones were
placed there many years ago."
TIE GAINESVILLE Chronicle says "Our
Methodist friends have gone back to first
principles, and are holding neighb )rhood
class meetings, and are reviVing al the
different meetings Of the church, some
thing after the fashion of the primitive
Wesleyan times. The nesrer any de-
nomination clings to Original faith the
nearer, we think, they will be to. the
cross. The new tangled notions, of the
present day, in church or State, do not
compare fayorably with those of pristine
purify