Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-13
TENNESSEE NEWS.

az memphis, dleu q lew Jays SAco.
Miss Laura Belcher has been appointe
principal of the Chelsea public schools.
Thos. w. Childs, of Lincoln county, wa
killed last week by being thrown from hi
wagon.
The Tazewen Spectator suggests Senate
Ii. R. Gibson as a candidate for Congress
from the second district.
Percy Roselle, the boy actor, will appea
at the Memphis Theatre next week il
Shakspearean delineations.
The rebuilding of the ColoTed Baptis
Church at Shelbyville, recently destroyed
by fire, has been commenced.
1t appearing that VIM. Nolan, arrested
at Memphis for murder in Texas, is no
the guilty man, he has been released.
Congress consents to allow a $60,00(
claim due from the Government to Messrs
| Cowan & Dickinson, of Knoxville.
The average attendance at the Memphi:
| schools during the month of March was 2,
! 157, or ninety-two per cent. Of the scholars
The land subscriptions to tie Memphi;
! and Kansas Railroad are increasing rapidly
! The number of acres exceed quarter of a
million.
Tennessee stands as the fifteenth State
in the valuation Of her property, but as
| the sixth in the amount of her indebted
ness.
The Board of Trade of Chattanooga is
! discussing the question Of aiding the Chat
tanooga, Montgomery and Pensacola Rail-
road.
On Friday night, April 3, the residence of
A. J. Edwards, Deputy Sheriff of Marshall
county, was destroyed by fire with por-
ton of its contents and $500 in money.
The Democracy of Knox county meet in
convention at Knoxville, on the 9th day Of
May, to select delegates to the Democratic
State Convention, at Nashville, on the 9th
Of May.
At Chattanooga little girl of Mr.. Hugh
Tally, aged about four years, was attacked
by an Infatuated COW and horribly gored.
One cheek was badly lacerated and a jaw
bone broken.
The Roar Iron Company at Chattanooga
turned out over one thousand tons of fin
ished rails during the month of March. This
was accomplished in "single turn" in both
the puddle and rail mill.
The dog tax is to be enforced by the
Shelby County Court. Each family is to
be allowed one dog free of tax, but all 9th
er ours will have to support the government
at five dollars head.
Senator Carl Schurz has written to the
Maifest committee, stating that, if his du-
ties will permit, be viii be in Memphis and
address his German fellow citizens at the
Maifest on the 5th of May next.
The Jail at Fayetteville having proved in
sufficient for the purpose originally de-
signed, a correspondent of the Observer
suggests thtt it be locked up closely, to pre-
veni outsiders from breaking in, and then
left to stand as a salutary warning to future
Jail builders.
The property of the French Broad Ce-
ment Company, situate a few miles east of
Knoxville, and lately operated by c. II.
Locker & Co., was sold on the 10th inst,
under a deed of trust, at auction, for s., 800
Mr.. Hugh Martin, Of Knoxville, was the
purchaser.
The House Committee on Postal Affairs
reported a bill TO Congress on Tuesday for
the relief of Win H. Kirk, Postmaster at
Maryville, Tenn, for postage stamps and
stamped envelopes lost at the time of fire
at that place last winter.
The Cleveland Banner says: We have
met several of our most intelligent farmers
within the past few days, and they all agree
that the prospects for a splendid fruit crop
were never better than now. With no more
frost, we may reasonably expect the finest
peach crop we have had for years.
Capt. E. d. FarnswOrth, Past Represent
alive from the State of Tennessee, to the
Grand Lodge of the United States of the
l. o. 0. F., has accepted the invitation Of
the Fraternity of Knoxville and East Ten
nessee, to deliver the annual address at
MorristOwn, on the 26th of May.
At a recent meeting in Pulaski, in the in
teTest of the Memphis andKnOxville Railroad
project, commissioners for Giles county
were appointed. The meeting was addressed
by Col Rose who thought the route
through Giles county to Lincoln was the
most feasible and advantageous of any for
many reasons, the principal of which was
that it could be built for 100000 less. He
had the assurance of the President and
Executive Committee that before the road
is located, surveys should be made in that
direction.
The Shelbyvills Commercial of the 18th
inst. says: at is not OfCener than once a
year that we have freshets so damaging as
that Of Monday night. Reports from nearly
every part of the county have been received.
The creeks have been as full, with a few
exceptions, as our oldest citizens ever re-
member, and the damage to cOrufelds is Sc
we're. In comparing quantities Of rain by
the streams, it should be remembered that
all water channels become enlarged cOntin-
ually, and the recent rain has had an effect
to almost warrant the assertion that the
young food has not been eXcelled."