Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-08
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Chattanooga wants a park.

The area sOwn in clover this season in
| Robertson county is very large.
Young Knoxvillians are afflicted with
measles and whooping-cough.
Roane county has given $4,000 towards
| establishing a county fair.
Up to the 9th inst. the Grand Jury had
| found 26 indictments against Hackett, the
Memphis embezzler.
Col. d. Hulburt, of Georgia, is in Chat
| tanOoga advocating the construction of
mario guage railroads in East Tennessee.
The election in BlOunt county in regard
to the school tax resulted Ais for, 5O2
against-majority against, 81.
The jackson PLGindedler says the vote
! in Henderson county on the proposition to
aid the Jackson and Tennessee railroad, was
423 for and 81 against.
The Circuit Court meets at MurfreesbOro
the 18th inst. There are A cases on the
appearance docket and 226 on the trial
docket.
Chattanooga is to have a street railroad.
A petition has been filed in the ChanceTy
Court to construct a road from the Tennes-
see river to Lookout Mountain.
Since the reduction of rates of freight on
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad there
has been unusual activity in the grain mar
ket in Memphis.
At a negro party in Knoxville recently,
a stick of wood exploded, blowing the stove
to pieces and putting an end to the fun.
The explosive stick came from a neighbours
wOodpile.
A Memphis cook named John Kelly, was
badly carved on the 4th inst. in 'contrO-
versy" with one Ed. Smith. He was stab
bed f@lr times and lies in a precariouS con-
dition from his wounds.
During the recent railroad festivities in
Jackson, turpentine ball lodged on a ne
gro's head and started a cOndagration in
his wool. Before an amateur fire brigade
could eXtinguish it, the entire capillary
thatchswas smoking ruin.
Some scOundrel in TullahOma has writ
ten anonymous letters to citizens of that
place, notifying them to quit the county. 1t
is evident his object is TO make political
capital. A Radical paper could make a
first-class Ku-Klux sensation without more
foundation. The Cincinnati Gazette has
created one on less.
Memphis had first-class faction fight
on the 9Th inst. between two families named
Lee and Callahan, respectively. A crowd
cOngregated about the cOmbatants and sOOn
joined in the battle. The police arrived
just in time to save Mrs. Lees life. Mrs.
Callahan had taken her a prisoner and was
in the act of immOlating her with carving
knife, when she was arrested.
The Memphis Ledger says: The printed
marriage license issued by our County
Clerk contains vignette of an unfortunate
pair standing up in front Of solemn look
ing minister, and a number of celestial look
ing juveniles standing around, forming a
most suggestive picture for three dollars
and half, the price of the certificate Of
marriage.
There is pool of water one mile from
Tazewell, Claiborne county, known as the
Blue Hole. 1t Is disconnected from any
running stream. The water is perfectly
clear, but looking at it in q body it has a
blush tint. Several have attempted with
ropes tied together to sound it, but have
never succeeded. There are a great many
fish in it, and two or three va iesies.
There is wafer prophet in Memphis
who insists that when the SHOWS melt on
the plains and Rocky Mountains there viii
be river never before seen in font of
Memphis. He predicts that it will back up
Wolf river, cut out the bed of the Bayou
Gayoso and leave the city on an island,
provided the bluff does not drop into the
subterranean lake which is supposed to ex
ist beneath Memphis.
Within the last few days a colony of
beavers made their appearance on creek
that runs through the Stephenson farm,
near Horn Lake, Shelby county. In an
astonishingly short time they had cut down
several trees, eighteen inches through, and
were busily engaged at work constructing
a dam, The neighbOrs set traps and sue
ceeding in catching one, but broke his leg
in the process.
Mr.. David Maupin, of Powell's Valley,
Claiborne county, was bitten by rabid dog,
the other day. He noticed that there was
something strange in the actions Of his dog,
and in short time the dog left the house,
but returned in a little while, and laid down
in the yard. On going to the door a second
time lie saw that the dog had ''ft." He
went back and got his pistol, stepped out in
front of the house to shoot the dog, but the
pistol snapped, and the dog at the same
time made a spring toward him, and fasten
ed his teeth in his breast.