Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-06
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Ripley is improving.
Cotton in Maury county is opening rap
| idly.
| The corn crop of Roane county is prom.
| ising.
Haywood county has elected Radical
Sheriff.
Sunday fifteen Memphians visited Nam
| moth Cave.
Trenton is 10 have railroad meeting and
a roller skating rink.
j. l., Maxwell, of Maury county, has
raised five pound beet.
L. V. Smalley of the New York Tribune
was in Memphis Sunday.
| "Loll Union Leagues" are about TO be
revived in Maury county.
Successful candidates were serenaded at
Memphis Saturday night.
Chattanooga has cheap melons and le-
gion of street-loafng ours.
The Memphis Peabody is to have an ele-
vator. Somebody viii rejoice.
In the recent Memphis election $4,000
were spent among the bummers.
a stationary steam engine of fifty horse
power has been built at Knoxville,
Rats, flies, and ieas abound in the Eagle
creek neighborhood, Wayne county.
Daniel Taylor, pensiOner of the war of
1872, died In Blount county last week.
Walter Aiken, of Maury county, averaged
thirty-one bushels of wheat per acre.
a. j. Mcknight, of Maury county, has
raised fOrty-two bushels of wheat per acre.
The Roane Iron Company's steamer j.
T. Wilder has been launched at Kingston.
During July, 1872, no marriage license
was issued by the County Court clerk of
Lauderdale.
Uncle Billy Pollard, of Little Buffalo
creek, Lewis county, resembles Fl. G. in
physiognomy.
Friday night d.. Hart's store and dwell
ling were burned at Careyville, Knox coun-
ty. Loss $780,.
-Four hundred bushels of wheat were
grown on ten acres of land at the Booker
place, Maury county.
Fannie Anderson, a cOlOred inmate of
Maury county poor-house, is one hundred
and five years of age.
A Memphis Borgia nightly gives strych-
nine to the CANNES, killing fifteen and up
ward every twelve hours.
1t is said Col. A. P. Currey, of Memphis,
the defeated candidate for sheriff will con-
test the election of Doyle.
Mr.. William Young, an esteemed chris
tian gentleman, OF johnson City, Washing
ton county, died last week.
The Memphis Court Squire concerts Fri
day evenings are popular; Nashville has
capital ones Monday nights.
Thursday an eight year old son of Col.
G. 5. Cameron fell twenty feet from Mem
phis porch and received no hurt.
The Maury County Farmers Club, offers
500 prize for the best five acres of corn
raised in that county this year.
At Clifton, Wayne county, recently calf
fell in well eighteen feet deep, and when |
taken out showed no signs of injury.
The Methodist minister of Columbia has |
been granted leave of absence from Sunday |
next until the second Sunday in September. |
Defeated candidates at Memphis amuse |
themselves by looking into ga comic mir |
ror." Any kind Of glass would do as well. |
The editor Of the Waynesboro Reuieay is |
seeing snakes, and adVertises for married |
man with small faaily to tell him about |
them.
The editor of the Mckenzie Times, while
recently visiting Nashville, imagined the |
thermometer 106 degrees. Awfully heated |
was he.
A thief last week entered the sleeping |
room of I. j. Moore and the saloon of j. |
f. HALEY, Trenton, carrying off clothing
and valuables.
The Union City Herald thinks "the |
man who works hard for the devil and sings
and prays, should not be respected in the
Railroad ring"
Smith Hilton recently shot by Landon
Carter-himself wounded but recovsring-
at EizabethtOn, Carter county, has died
from the effects of his wounds.
Major Geo. Lipscomb, of Cross Bridges,
Maury county, has raised eighty bushels of |
wheat to the acre and Col. A. j. Cooper at
Savannah, Lewis county, ninety-seyen
bushels par acre