Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-14
TENNESSEE NEWS.

club.
Memphis wants a good system Of sew
| ersge.
The Bedford County Fair comm ences
Oct. /.
Chattanooga Is TO have new planning
factory.
The Memphis Exposition will have a
candy mandatory.
at Memphis, Julius Douglass has been
jailed for wife-whipping.
The Monroe County Fair Gro unds are
being rapidly improved.
Kingston had an unusual amount Of drunk
enness Monday, Sept. 8.
The Bradley county fair commences at
Cleveland on the 18th of October.
In Coffee county J. NJ. Shelton has raised
an ear of corn which has 1850 grains.
Pig iron in large quantities is being ship
ped from the furnaces near Greeneville.
A Memphis wife says her husband is
out for A. IT'LL two o'clock in the morn
ing.
At Cleveland negro boy has been jail
ed for stealing mill gudgeon valued at
$3.50. \
It said Athens is 10 have Republican
paper, edited and published by n. A Fat
terson.
The private subscriptions to the Pisgah
turnpike, in Giles county, have reached
$1,000.
In Bradley county there will be a good
chestnut crop. The ''simmon" crop Is only
middling.
Albert Buford, of Giles county, De mo-
crat, has withdrawn as candidate Tor the
Legislature.
In Fayette county last week Chalmers
shot Jim Morrow with!a shot gun and broke
bis left arm.
Near Summitville, Coffee county, re-
Gently G. r. Campbell killed rattlesnake
having nine rsttles.
A son ofW.P Hankins, Greene county,
has been appointed q cadet in East Ten
nessee University.
Recently at Athens, Hon. I. Nixon Van
Dykes pantaloon pockets were burglarized
Of the sum Of $25.
Rev. DR.. j. o. Church has opened the
SomerviIe Female Institute, with an at
tendance of SO pupils.
The Memphis Ledger says the indepen-
dent Congressional candidate, "Col. Kellar
is virtually out of the race"
The Athens Post says VIM. Rule has been
suggested as the Radical candidate for the
Legislature from Knox county.
Friday, Sept. Is, the Cleveland Banner
commenced IT'S seventh volume. Long may
it wave in the heaven-light of prosperity.
An engineer of the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad has commenced a survey from
Cleveland, Brady county, to Smiths n
Roads.
The directors of the Greeneville male and
female academies are soliciting subsGrip-
tians for the purpose Of coening these in-
situations.
The Confederate soldiers belonging to
regiments from Middle Tennessee will have
a reunion in Bedford cnunty tie middle Of
next month.
Wednesday night, Sept. IL, Stantontown
near Chattanooga was disturbed by three
med and five women screaming, scr tel ing
an fighting.
Lucius Crocket's large straw stack in
Coffee county was struck by thunderoolt
on the 9th instant, and, despite hard rain,
burned down.
The Greenevills Reporter says sit has
been rumored on our streets that the RLg-
ersville Reporter was soon to go into new
hands under Grant, Wilson and Carter
| ticket"
E W. Tatum contested the election Of
| ". ]. Rivers as sheriff of Fsyette county,
and the County Court having declared Xiv
ers legally elected, Tatum appealed, and
still holds the Office.
A Chattanooga editor thinks recent
triangular" dog fight in front of his sabc-
tum is premonition OF warm weather;
what will he think of the ''triangular"
speeches there 70 day?
| Last week a negro entered the Tullsho-
ma Independent Office played chuck a-luck
with a column of type and then asked for
'iif )" be was jobbed in the ribs and lift
ed by bOot-heel down stairs.
Green Turner, a mule thief, who was
formerly sentenced to death and obtained
new trial by appeal to the Supreme Court,
has been retired in the Criminal Court at
Pulaski and sentenced to twenty-one years
Imprisonment in the State prison.
At jacksonville, Saturday, Sept. Z, the
Democratic and Liberal Republican Con-
veution of Monroe and Loudon counties
nominated Il. A. Chambers for joint repre-
sentative; this gentleman represented the
former county in the last General As
sembly.
The Morristown Gazette gives the fol-
lowing statement of wheat and -four ship
ments from Morristown from July J to
Sept. /. Wheat, 1,64T, 1876 pounds, or 27,-
453 bushels. Flour, 532,593 pounds, or
1903 barrels. Also, during the same time,
nineteen car loads Of shingles, eleven car
loads Of hay, and two car loads OF staves'