Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-20
TENNESSEE NEWS:

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House il Knoxville, was laid last Monday
Ihere are three wooden factories with
thirty miles Of Jonesboro.
Negroes in the neighborhOod of Browns
vile amuse themselves by throwing stone
through the windows of passing railroa
trains.
A negro burglar was arrested in McKeu
zie last week while in the act of takin
money from the till of store into whici
he had broken.
A valuable slate quarry has been dis
covered near Bristol. 1t has been leased b.
a company of Welsh gentlemen who are
working it energeticalIy.
The gas works in Brownsville, now beini
built, will cost $4,000. Gas will lie fur
nished at $3.50 per thousand, and the mum
Der OF consumers to begin with will be 12O
A saloon keeper in Jackson has been in
dicted by the grand jury, under the new
law, for selling liquor to minors. Failing Il
give bond be was sent TO Jail.
Memphis negro stole copy of "Whar.
tons Criminal Law" and was studying i
when arrested. He will have some lega
practice before he regains his freedom.
man in Washington county in cutting
down large hollow tree "broke up'' tbt
winter-q quarters of two monster reptiles, +;
rattler four feet and two inches long, and I
racer ten feet long.
Mr.. wills Miller, living on Saline creek
Stewart county, has lost lot of hogs, from
what he supposed at first to be cholera
But having opened one after it died, hC
found that it was simply worms.
M. q. Phelps, of st. Louis, Mo-, was ar.
rested in Jackson recently and confined for
lunacy. He has been for long time ad
dicted to the use of opium and morphine
aud it is supposed that his lunacy is the re-
suit OF the use Of these perniciOus drugs.
Three million eight hundred and fifty.
three thousand nine hundred and forty
nine dollars is the estimated Valae of ar
ticles manufactured in Memphis during the
year commencing the last day of August
1870, and ending the 1st of September
1871.
The Coffee County Democrat saws,
There was a runaway couple at Tullahoma
the other day, and they sent black boy uE
Tor license. Our worthy County Court
Clerk, not thinking for moment but what
tie couple were black also, made the black
boy go on the bonds. A good joke Oh the
parties.
The Chattanooga Times comes to us in a
new dress, enlarged and improved in all but
its sound Democratic principles, which
could not well be bettered. 1t is now one
OF the best and neatest papers in the State
outside of Memphis aud Nashville.
The Alabama and Chattanooga road pas
sed into the hands of the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad Company, who will run it
temporarily for the State of Alabama, until
the road is sold undera decree of bankrupt
cy rendered by Judge Busted ofthe United
States District Court at Montgomery.
In Memphis last week a hurdy-gurdy
man inflicted condign punishment on an
bystander who was ridiculing
his performance. He struck the scofIer'S
nasal organ with a brass key and sent him
TO grass. The hrdy-gIIrdy man now Ian
guishes in bastile.
Gabriel Tate, residing near RogersyilIe,
has a eve which in 1869 when only two
years old, dropped two lambs; in 1870,
three; in 1871, four; and this spring, she
brought six, giving birth, in four years, to
fifteen lambs, or nearly four lambs year.
These facts are vOuched for by reliable
gentlemen.
The Memphis Ledger says: There are
white and eleven colored
churches in Memphis, any number of COZ
eges, private, public and free schools, ten
Masonic lodges, seven lodges of Odd Eel
ows, two lodges of knights of Pythias,
charitable societies and asylums almost in
ten courts of record and four
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: MeSsrs. w. N. Wright, VIM. johnson, l.
L. Wilson, II. &. TOwnes and B. A. EnlOe,
4 sub-executive committee appointed by the
Democratic State Committee, recommend
hat convention be held in each civil dis
,rict Of Carroll county on the 2jth of May,
20 appoint delegates TO meet at Huntington
)n the first Monday of June TO express,a
preference for suitable persons to represent
he State and county in the various offices
20 be filled at the August election.
The COving,On Record says ''A negro
S now in confinement in our Jail for at
empting to destroy his own life, some time
asst week. He made another attempt
at self-deStruction, by trying to
sever his head from his body with piece
If tin roofing, which he managed t0-get
hold Of and convert into a saw. He was
and his design frustrated. He
S labOring under the maniacal hallucinatiOn
hat the Lord has sent for him and he
must CO."
a negro named Valley was arrested in
Chattanooga last Friday on a charge of
another negro in Jacksonville,
Ala, last August. Watley confessed to the
Killing, but claims it was done in self-de-
ence. The authorities of Jacksonville
tate that the evidence is the other way,
hat the murder was premeditated. Watley,
s they state, armed himself with carving
lnife, having previously sharpened it for
he purpose, with which he attacked Alex
.nder, and with single blow cut his neck
ialf of, severing the jugulaF vein so that he
lied to death in a few moments. Watley
las been sent to Jacksonville for trial.
JenesbOrO'is not always a picture of rural
eace and innocence. The Herald and
Tribune thus describes a scene in the town
aturday night: About ten O'Clock John
SarleycOrn sent his first representatives
pom the streets, and then his forces rapidly
until the red glow of heated
were everywhere TO be seen. |
he drunken mirth 'tgrew fast and furious"
nd then the voleyed Oaths filed the streets, !
S if we were visited with deputation from
'Ophet. The scenes were disgusting in the |
xtreme, and it seemed as if King Alcohol |
7as wreaking special vengeance upon the !
OWN. A sight was witnessed which prob !
bly, never shocked the morals of this COM
lunity, three white women cursing and !
ceiling along the pavement in a condition /
beastly intoxication. One young man,
all decency and disregarding hui |
IAN life, gallOped up and down Main street,
rinO a DiStOl saVeral timns vallino and |