Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-19
TENNESSEE NEWS.

nepro was fined $50 in jackson for
carrying pistol.
phis.
Building operations in Memphis will be
on a large scale this spring.
,6Col. John Walker, one of the Oldest and
most esteemed citizens Of Rogersville, died
on the 18th inst.
The prospects for a good wheat and fruit
crop are very fair in Hamblen county.
a new theater is among the things talked
of in Memphis.
There are nearly dozen cases of small
pox at the city hospital in Memphis.
There are two divisions of Sons of Tenn
perance, and one Cadet society in Hum
boldt.
Stephen McMullen has been fined $40
each by the Recorder and a Justice Of the
Peace for carrying concealed weapons.
Candidates for office are multiplying all
over the State, but the offices don't null
tiply.
Ii is stated that the insurance interest of
Memphis is growing more rapidly than any
other in the city.
The wet weather is seriously interfering
with the work of farmers in Rutherford
county.
A Second National Bank is about to be
organized in MurfreesborO. Ali Of the re-
quired amount of stock is already taken eX-
cept about eight thousand dollars.
Five car loads of cattle, and five ef horses
and mules were shipped South from Chat
tanooga on the 10Th inst. Sixteen of the
cattle weighed q ,645 pounds.
Major John w. Childress, Sr., has been
elected President Of the First National
Bank Og MurfreesborO, in place Of j. B..
Kimbro, deceased.
Messrs. c. j. and w. E. Nance, Of
Granger county, sold in Knoxville few
days ago four steers which aggregated
1000 pounds gross.
The late rains in West Tennessee have
considerably retarded the efforts Of planters,
but with fair weather they will soon catch
up.
AT a recent meeting Of the Young Mems
Christian Association in Memphis, one hun
dred and fifty dollars was raised in a very
few minutes for the purpose of advancing
the Association and improving its rooms.
The prisoners in the jail at jackson made
their escape on the night Of the 18th inst,
by saving out the plank on the inside of the
cell and then picking a hole through the
wall. Among the prisoners was j. W.
Brown, who is charged with murder.
The Directors Of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad have accept
ed the railroads recently purchased from
the State, consisting of the Cincinnati,
Cumberland Gap and Charleston railroad,
purchased by c. NJ. MCGEE and r. y. VIII
son, and the Rogersville and jefferson rail-
road, purchased by Capt. Joseph Jaques.
A negre named Charles Washington was
shot by a white man at Knoxville few
nights ago while at prayer. 1t appears that
he and a friend had retired to secluded
spu for the purpose of engaging in devO-
tional exercises, and appear to have IN
4ruded upon the privacy of the white man,
who fred on the negroes, intlicting hesh
wound on Charley.
The MurfreesbOro Monitor says: "Mrs.
DR.. Russell's claim for damages against the
Federal Government for the destruction OF
cotton, during the late war, has passed both
houses Of Congress. 1t amounts to some
thing in the neighborhood of fifteen thou
sand dollars. A number of other appli-
cants, in this county, are looking hopefully
forward to a like happy issue of their claims
against the United States"
A man named Durham played a fine
game upon a stranger in Memphis day or
two AGO, He succeeded in ingratiating
himself into the confidence f.the unwary
gentleman so far as to be teEdered share
Of his bed and board at the Worsham
House. The result was that Dunham got
away with the coutents of his bedfellow's
pockets, including money and baggage
checks, with the latter Of which he succeed
ed in securing all his baggage, and decamp-
ed. The follow was captured at Hum
b9ldt.
The Chattanooga Times of the 18th inst.
SAYS, in regard TO the Alabama and Chatta-
nooga Railroad: A LOT Of strikers brought
ND a train from Tuscaloosa day before yes
terday and occupied the track below Bir-
mingham, and refused to give way so as to
allow Gen Woiford's train TO run through
TO tuscaloosa: The difficulty has since
been compromised and the train ran
through to Tuscaloosa. We are not fully
informed as to the motive Of the parties who
have been for some time running these
wild trains on the lower end of this line,
but their proceedings smack strongly oi
hob law.