Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-10
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Memphis is to be circused.
Knoxville has a dancing school

Memphis is to be circused.
Knoxville has dancing school.
Pot atoes are scarce at Dover.
Souirreis abound in Shelby county.
The Stewart county fodder crop is short.
Woodhull lectures this winter in Mem
phis.
Loudon county is to have new court
house.
Wine and beer will be sold at the Mem
phis Exposition.
The Jackson lawyers have adopted a
I In Stewart county the corn crop is near
" one half short.
At Dover peanuts sell at from Is cents
to 100 per bushel.
The Memphis Recorder had over 3OO
cases on Monday the 7th.
EFamous trotters will contend Tor the SlOU
purse at the Memphis Fair.
Recently stranger dropped dead at Snei-
by depot in Shelby county.
Bartlett sppetites devour hind quarter
beef at ten cents per pound.
Hog cholera prevails greatly In some
sections of Stewart county.
"How to make $50 week" has SWIM
died Knoxville man out of 81.
W. c. Whitford, of Stewart county, has
grown peanut having five pods.
Monday, Oct. 7, the Memphis Recorder
assessed fines to the amount of $3.50.
Eighty-three persons attended the Mem
phis Recorders levee Monday, Oct. 2.
'Tis said the Memphis Register is to re
sumo publication as a morning paper.
The postof1ice at st. Johns Landing,
Stewart county, has been discontinued.
Mrs. S. j. Kilgore's little daughter OF
Greenville, recently fell and broke her arm.
Recently twelve emigrsnt wagons en-
route for Texas, passed through Waynes-
boro.
The Memphis Exposition will use the
flags and bap ners of the Nashville Exposi
ton. t
Sea Williams, of Union City, recently
had an ankle fractured by the kick OF a
horse.
The Knoxville Board Of Trade has its
printing done in New York: home enter
prise. -of :,
At Memphis the Societa di Unione e
Fratellanza celebrate the birthday OF Co
lumbus, Oct. II.
DR.. Smith, of Dover, recently killed q
copperhead snake measuring thirty-three
inches in length.
Capt. Mat. Merriwether has sweet
potatoe growing through the thumb-hole Of
a pair of scissors.
The personal property Of the Chattanoo-
ga Street Railroad Company is exempt from
taxation for fifty years.
The dead body Of an unknown Child
wrapped in a newspaper, was found 81
Memphis, Sunday the 9th.
a few DAYS ago Brooks Jackson, OF Oblor
county, picked out two hundred and sew
enty-three pounds of cotton. E
Last week, near Lick Greek, Greene
county, little girl named Young was
thrown from horse and killed.
John Sailor, while on his way TO Knox
vile recently, was shot accidentally by Q
youth, who mistOok him for bird.
A deer pursued by hounds was recently
shot within hundred yards of the Waynes
boro Reuielc Office; how about the dear?
The Shelby county court has elected Col
Butler T. Anderson, brother Of the late
Gen. Patton Anderson, Commissioner OF
Revenue.
A few days ago Mrs. Mary Farnswortt
of Greenyille, caught her foot in carpet
| and falling against the wall had her shoul'
| der dislocated.
Sunday morning, Oct. 6, at jackson
lightning struck house killing Saran AN,
derson and paralyzing a woman nalneu
Lull; both colored.
Application has been made to the Second
| Memphis Chancery Court for the incorpo-
ration of another Elevator Company WIN
a capital stock of $25O,OOO.