Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-05
TENNESSEE NEWS.

MIR. Hight is preparing to build first
class hotel in Sweetwater.
A dog tax levied at the January term OF
the Rutherford County Court, was repealed
the LIST instant.
The protracted meeting in the Methodist
church at MurfreesborO, has been attended
with very gratifying success.
A rabid dog bit child and a calf in Lin
coin county the other day. The dog and
calf were killed, and the human calves are
now considered safe.
A stabbing affair occurred on the levee in
Memphis on the I'd inst. between two ne
groes named Sam Jackson and Jack VIII
liams. jackson, after stabbing Williams,
jumped on the steamer G. B. Church, as
she backed out to 60 up the river, and thus
getaway scot free for the present at least.
The police went in search of the blood
thirsty rascal, but he had mizzled before
their arrival at the scene of the trouble.
a negro woman was struck and killed by
a locomotive on the Memphis and Louis
vile railroad on the I'd instant. She had a
child in her arms, but strange to say, though
she was horribly mangled herself by the ac-
cident, it escaped with few slight bruises.
No blame is attached to the engineer who
did all he could to prevent the accident.
John Hastings, teamster, was crushed
TO death the I'd instant, in Memphis. He
was sitting ON wagon loaded with bricks,
with his feet dangling over the end very
near the mules. In passing over stone on
the street, the wagon jolted and the end
gate fell out, startling the mules. In trying
to check them Hastings fell under the
wagon, and the wheels passing over his
hips and bowels, killed him instantly.
Several years ago, a young man by the
name Of George Sutton, residing in Sewer
county, became deranged, and was so vio-
lent that his parents confined him in a sep
arate building, constructed with a view to
his occupying it, they not wishing to send
him to the Asylum at Nashville. A few
days ago he become perfectly rational and
asked to be released, stating that he had
but ten days to live and wished to prepare
for death. His request was complied with
and he resumed his place in the family cir
Gle, clothed in his right mind. He read tire
Bible almost constantly, and, strange to say,
died on the tenth day afterwards, thus re-
alizing bis foreboding.
Samuel Cartwright, highly respected
citizen of Rutherford county, COM
mite sui eide by hanging, recently.
When but little boy he had the misfor-
tune Of having his leg mashed, which after
wards resulted in white swelling, and from
that time to the day of his death he was
cripple, sometimes walking with a stick
and at others with a crutch. The leg was
always more or less painful to him, Int
within the last few days before his death
bis agony became so excruciating and his
sufieriDgs so intense, that he determined,
to throw away the existence that had be-
come an intolerable burden to him. He
had resorted to several expedients, lately,
but his actions were watched by his friends
and all resulted in failures till this last at
tempt. A most singular coincidence con-
nected with the event was the death Of
Sam Cartwright's father under pretty much
the same circumstances just twenty six
years before. Was there any fatality that
urged the son TO select the melancholy
to put an end to his own life