Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-12
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Tim Sheehan, q grocery keeper in
Franklin, is a veteran of Waterloo,
Improvements are going up RAPIDLY in
Brownsville.
There was fine rain in Chattanooga
on the 10th inst.
Three brothers in Rutherford county
have fifty~two children.
z A large number of new dwellings are
going up in McMinnville.
A large and new Presbyterian Church
is being erected In McMinnviIle.
The corn crop is fine in Franklin
county.
Street cleaning is the order of the day
at Chattanooga
Dog-slaughtering has been going on at
lively rate in Brownsville.
The Temperance cause is making head.
way in Brownsville.
} Paris boasts of tomato weighing two
pounds, two ounces.
They are having fine rains in Henry
county.
The streets of Paris are being improved
and put in an excellent condition.
There have been large numbers of yisi-
tors to Lookout Mountain recently.
2 Howling dogs are the greatest nuisance
at present complained of in McMinn vile.
james F. Smith, Esq, of Giles, paid
S135 for fine Berkshire hog one day last
week.
The prospects for the corn crop in
Williamson county is pronounced exceed
ingly bad.
Crops in Haywood are reported splen-
did and beyond the reach of injury by
drouth.
An interesting protracted meeting is in
progress in the Methodist Church at
Brownsville.
The Hicks murder trial closed at
brownsville last week, the defendant being
acquitted.
Trotting races for 800 purses will be
had over the Chickasaw Course at Mem
phis next Thursday and Friday.
A MIR. Wallace, of Jimtown, in Ruth
erford county, has year old sucking
calf that gives milk.
Mir. w. ]. Owing, of Roane county,
is putting up an extensive foundry and
machine works rear Kingston.
Mr.. Louis Solinsky, of Pulaski has
purchased in the last six weeks IA, 500
pounds of wool, all from Giles county.
Mira. johnson, wife of William John
son, a prominent citizen of Knoxville,
died at Montyale Springs on the Ssh inst.
The new and magnificent hotel, the
"Warren House." at McNIinnville, is
being rapidly pushed forward to compile
ton.
For eleven months ending July 81,
Brownsville shipped twenty thousand,
six hundred and forty three bales of
cotton.
Nat. Reeves, who killed Dick johnson,
q negro, in Memphis, some time since,
has surrendered himself to the authori-
ties.
There will be a railroad meeting at
Brownsville on the 18th inst, in the in
terests of the Denmark, Brownsville and
Dnrhamville Railroad.
1t is thought that Memphis will, on the
10Th inst, ratify the city subscription of
5000, 600 to secure the completion of the
Mississippi River Road.
There will be Stock show and basket
picnic at the grove of B. c Thomas, in
Warren county, on the first Saturday in
September.
Circuit Court began in Shelbyville last
Monday, with 220 cases on the civil dock.
ct and 10D On fine criminal, some of
them serious felonies.
Hugh Tally was refused bail in Chatta-
nooga on the 9th inst and was sent to
Cleveland jail for safe keeping until the
November term of the Circuit Court.
At meeting of the st. Andrews Soci-
ETY. held at Memphis, on the night of the
9th inst, John Ainsle was elected orator
for The Scott celebration on Tues day
next
Maj. Nat. F. Cheairs, of Giles county,
refused one hundred dollars per acre tor
two hundred acres of his land, last week.
The offer was made by New Yorker, all
cash.
The Lebanon Herald chronicles as
among the present visitors to the city of
Cedars, Joseph Buford, of the firm of
Spire & Duff of this city, and A. F.
Tavel, of the firm of Paul & Tavel.
The coloied people of Greeneville had a
large celebration on Tuesday the 9Th inst.
Ex-President johnson was present, and
intended making a speech, but was pre-
vented by the coming up of rain
storm.
The Athens Post says three car loads
of the ''Heatben Chlnee, with moon eyes
and pig tails complete, passed down the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad last
Saturday, en- route for Louisiana. No
hkee here, not much ratee and dogee.
A preliminary meeting of railroad Off
Gals was held in the office of the E,s
Tennessee and Georgia railroad, at Knox
vile on the 10Th inst, to perfect meas
ures TO run faster freight trains from
Norfolk to the South and Southwest than
has hitherto been attempted.
AT meeting of the Agricultural and
Mechanical Society of Giles county, on
the 7th inst, the time fixed for holding
the next fair was reconsidered, and the
10Th, 18th, 18th and 18th days of Octo-
Der next were fixed as the days on which
it will be held.
The Pulaski Citizen of the 10th inst.
says: Zone of the interesting features
of our Exposition was the introduction of
several swarms of Italian bees by Mr.. T..
B. Hamlin, of Nashville. He claims
that these bees are far superior to all
others and are more hardy and indus
trious."
The Board of Directors of the Wilson
county Agricultural and Mechanical AS
sociauon are working with zeal and en-
ergy to make the ensuing Fail Fair the
most successful one ever held by the As
sociation. The booths at the grounds
will be rented to the highest bidder on
Saturday, the I'd.
The Lebanon Herald of the 10th inst,
says, Henry Shearon, boy Is years of
age, con of Nj. F. N. ShearoD, of the
ID distric:, was accidently shot last Fri
dsy night. Young Shearon was return
ing from church, when pistol which he
had in his pocket was discharged, the
ball entering his right thigh and inficting
painful flesh wound.
The Murfreesboro Monitor of the 10th
inst. says: On last Tuesday evening
some wicked wretch placed a cross-tle
across the track, about halfway between
Smyrna and Henderson's Station. The
ShelbyVille accommodation was in the act
of passing over when the obstruction was
observed, or serious damage might have
resulted from this fiendish act.
The Shelbyville Sylvan Cotton Mills