Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-21
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Whitewashers and paper hangers are very
busy in Memphis.
TIE town of Trenton is said to be improV-
ing very rapidly.
Memphis is reported by the doctors as
distressingly healthy.
I he fire engines in Memphis are trying to
play the bluffs out of existence.
The new Methodist Church at Paris will
be dedicated on the 18th of May.
Memphis shipped the other day 1864
bales of cotton direct for Liverpool.
Col. Robert Looney is spoken of as can
didate for Congress in the 9th district.
Cornelius Allen, an old citizen of Fay
etteville, died on Sunday of last week.
AT Memphis the eminent reign of keno
has given place to the lottery business.
Sharp-sighted citizens discovered snow on
the mountains south of Bristol on the 10th
inst.
Rev. Henry B. Warren, formerly of Giles
county, died a few days since at Paris,
Texas.
Montgomery county has only seventeen
candidates for jailor, and few more in
prospect.
1t is proposed to organize a stock COM
pany at Jackson for the purpose of building
new hotel.
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad viii soon
commence running double daily trains from
jackson south.
The Jackson papers mention the death OF
Mr.. John g. Carpenter, a very worthy citi-
zen of that place.
Much of the valuable land surface of
Giles county was washed down into Ala
bama by the late freshet.
The wheat crop in the vicinity of Ruther-
ford Station looks as healthy and vigorous
as the planter could possibly wish.
The Trenton papers announce the death
of Hon. Joseph b. Dibbrell, former Chair
man of the Gibson County Court.
Candidates for the various county offices
in Hawkins county are almost as thick as
black birds in the spring of the year.
Frank Luscombe has at last has been
given possession of the postoffice at Dyers-
burg, and order again will come out of
chaos.
Mcintosh, who lately escaped from the
Lincoln county Jail, has been recaptured
and sent back to his place of involuntary
residence.
The Brown & Co. VS.. the city Nicholson
pavement lawsuit at Memphis cannot be
settled by arbitration; so the war is to 60
on in the courts?
The river at Memphis is above twenty
feet larger than usual, the neighboring land
of HOpefeld being so much submerged as
to look like an inland sea.
Joseph L. Weakley, Grand Master of the
[. D. o. F., of Tennessee, and P. G. Sire,
E. D. Farnsworth, were lately visiting the
lodge of that order at Pulaski.
Mr. denomination Of fbo ruOo1a,, ~,
at Raleigh, is now manufacturing Jeans out
pare fayorably with the best Eastern make.
The Sweetwater Enterprise warns the
people of East Tennessee against James
Graham, alias. Robertson, an escaped Peni-
Tertiary convict, who is peddling through
the country.
Mrs. Sykes and her two grown daughters
live near Union City, and neither of them
weigh over 80 pounds or is over 40 inches
high. Their husband and father is of ordi-
nary. height.
Wednesday last, at about noon, Mr..
Bracken, a prominent merchant of Union
City, Tennessee, died after very brief i'll
ness at the residence of Samuel Satterfeld,
in Bowling Green, Ky.'
The JOnesboro Herald and Tribune says
Rev. n. G. Taylor is spoken Of as the Re
publican candidate for Congress in the third
district. Mr.. Taylor is now the stationed
minister of his church at Athens.
The good people of Brownsville came
promptly to the relief of the sufferers from
the recent tornado. They collected for the
relief of Mrs. Hood $162, besides "a consid-
cradle amount for the other sufferers.
Judge Sibley, counsel for the NicolsOn
pavement contractors at Memphis has had
notice served on the Mayor that be would
apply to Judge Trigg for mandamus to
compel the General Council to levy spe-
cial tax to pay the judgment.
Mr.. Henry Terry died very suddenly on
Tuesday evening, April l6, at the residence
Of his son-ln-law, Mr.. ]. r. Burnett, in
Jackson. He ate supper in good health,
walked to his room and dropped on the bed
dead.
A raft of about 100000 feet of pine and
walnut lumber was caught floating in the
river near GAINESVILLE a few days ago, by
John Cross, VIM. Searcy and S. Kellogg.
The raft is very valuable, its worth being
estimated at $1,000.
The Jonesboro Herald and Tribune ia
vors the selection, by the Radicals, of f, S.
OALlSAOIe4lJ VI Nd1 bCAs III bliC DtSlJIOu Vi
ElectOr in the first congressional district,
and viii II. Fain, Esq, of Sullivan, as a
candidate for Senator from the second sem
atOrial district.
Mr.. Snowden, one of the Shelby county
jurors in the FoSton-Schoield homicide
case, is very i'll of meningitis. 1t was on
account of his illness, rather than failure
to agree, that caused the jury to be dis
charged without having rendered a YER
dict.
The Memphis Ardldnche of the 10Th
says: The stables of Col. Hunt, of st.
Louis, and MesSrs. A. & L. 3. Cheatham,
of Nashville, have arrived. Gen. Harding's
horses left at 7 O'Clock last night, and will
reach the track on the noon train to-day.
Mr.. Turner's stable will follow tomorrow,
The iron interest in Greene county is
looking up. Several new furnaces viii be
started at an early day. The narrow gauge
railroad from Greeneyille to Paint Rock is a
fixed fact. The preliminary surveys have
been completed and the Board of Directors
have decided to Jet eight miles Ito contract.
Some eXCiteInent oxzets in Lincoln couu-
ty, near Fayetteville, by the report that the
ghost of a colored blacksmith named Mar
tin, occasionally visits its former earthly
habitatiOns. The spectre usually appears
in halo Of colored glory, bearing in its
hand copy of the fifteenth amendment.
A Jackson merchant advertised that he
would take anything convertible in pay
ment of old debts, That his debtors are
taking him at his word is evinced by the
fact that up to this writing he has received
couple dozen of Barlow knives, and about
a dozen secondhand and rather dilapidated