Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-25
TENNESSEE NEWS.

| TENNESSEE NEWS.
Greeneville has 1887 dogs.
| Bartlett has had foot race.
| Dyersbug mosquitoes are dying.
Jackson is to have string band.
Sweet potatoes are cheap at Troy.
Trenton wants fire organization.
Memphis editors drink ''tomavery.n
Chattanooga wants steam fire engine.
The Fayetteville streets are improving.
Wheat is being sown in Greene county.
Memphis has two theaters, but no players.
Much wheat is being brought TO Greene
vile.
Mai. James is the fastestIwriter in Dyers-
burg. ID
But little fodder has been pulled in Lewis
ounty.
Apple cuttings are popular in Greene
county.
The Lincoln county Fair commences
Sept. "a. I'D
The Paris High School has ninety-four
students. -.--...-. - --...,.
Late corn in Lewis county viii fall short
one half.
In Loudon county hogs are dying rapidly
with cholera.
John Wilson wears the most stylish plug
in Dyersburg.
The colored people of Maury county hold
Fair Oct. 81.
Trenton's debating club is called the
HPlabonian." -
The suburban bellies of Memphis court
by moonlight. -..4-..--
West Tennessee College at jackson has
eighty students.
Several Shelby county Bartlett bellies are
ready to marry. .-.-..-...-
The Crockett county cotton crop is in
jured by drought.
Homeless drunkards ofsD yersburg sic ep
in the courthouse.
A horse trainer with an educated beast
has visited Trenton.
Santa Fe, Maury county, has a well at
tended public school. a IL. ~. -.
VIM. Foxall of Maury county, has killed
q huge horned owl.
Street corner political discussions are
popular at Memphis.
. The chestnut and muscadine crops OF
Lewis county are large. 'a-5.e
Tullahoma has received proposition to
establish wooden mill.
Press visitors to the Memphis Exposition
are to wear silk badges.
Chattanooga is to have an evening paper
called the EreliHg Mad.
A poisoned canine at Knoxville was po-
Iced Saturday Sept. q.
Troy loafers smoke two and half cent
cigars and play the fiddle.
At Huntingdon recently two new bales Of
cotton sold for 49, cents.
Fox hunting has begun In the ninth dis
triet of Lawrence county.
The Chattanooga Gas Company will lay
two miles of pipe this fall.
Ninety-tWo bales of cotton were shipped
from Fayetteville last week.
New corn in the ear is selling by retail,
at IS cents in Chattanooga.
For the last eight weeks Memphis has
had but half an inch Of rain.
Robert Garrison of Obion county recent
" found gold ring in the road.
Lincoln county raises twenty-five hun
dred bales of cotton this season.
A few days ago at Fayetteville, drunk
en- man fell through cellar door.
At Covington lot of workmen played
ten pins with each others heads.
Isaac r BIedsoe, an associate trustee Of
Upton Female Seminary, is dead.
The animal Sunday school celebration of
Greene county is on the 26th inst.
McKenzie's colored citizens patroDize
buggy driving Sunday afternoons.
Trenton is to have dramatic entertain
ments by the Sons of Temperance.
Some cotton thieves were recently shot on
the BLACKWELL place." Shelby county. 70
Mrs. Rose p. Thompson is to have char ge
of the Memphis Exposition tableaux.
Peter Elliott has been elected Mayor of
Trenton, vice Mayor Cowan resigned.
The dry weather has caused jCountless
snakes to perambulate Jackson county.
Six wagons of ''emigrants to the Vest
recently passed through Lawrenceburg.
In Lewis county corn and pork will
probably command high prices this winter.
All the stock ($50,O00) in the Chatta-
nooga street railroad has been subscribed.
Upper East Tennessee will ship large
qua ntities of dried fruit to market this
fall.
Maury county has eight lodges of Good
Templars and expects to organize three
more.
A daughter of Mr.. Leb Lewis, of Trenton,
was recently struck by well-windlass and
killed.
Recently j. W. Gaulden's barn, with
$500 worth of tobacco, was burned in Dyer
county.
At Columbia last week Major j.. L. Will
sons thigh was broken by a fall from a
buggy.
Owing to heat but little fodder was pull
ed in the country about Troy, Obion
county.
Mr.. James Eilis Hodson, an aged and re-
spected citizen of Santa Fe, Maury county,
is dead.
The national camp meeting near Knox
vile was opened Saturday the 21st of Sep
TENDER.
T. Written, of Rutherford county, disIo-
Gated his wrist by falling from crib at
Trenton. -.o
Saturday, Sept. 81, 81 900 of iChattanoo-
ga scrip, old issue, was sold at auction for
IS cents. .t 3D..
A protracted meeting at Trezevant, Car
roll county, recently, closed with thirty con-
versions.
The mayor of Chattanooga receives $500
and the aldermen $500 per year for services
rendered.
Memphis came near having fire Mon
day Sept. %, from the explosion of a coal
oil lamp.
Recently T. NJ. Kittrell, of Maury county,
was thrown from a buggy and his forehead
badly cut. $3.50
The neighborhood of Buffalo Ridge.
Washington county, was damaged by a re-
cent storm. ,.-
At Memphis Saturday night, Sept. 81,
Tom Burke was shot aud killed by Mike
Levy, colored.
A Miss Greene, of Washington county,
was recently thrown from buggy and Sc
riously injured.
A negro charged with murder in Ala
bama has been arrested at Williamsport,
Maury county.
The Education Convention of the NJ. Z. |
Church South, assembled at Knoxville, !
Saturday, Sept. 81. ..,. ~
Local railroad travel between Browns
vile and Memphis during the fall and win
far months ia haavv