Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-25
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Lawrenceburg has base bali club.
Greeley fans have appeared at Knoxville.
Hawkins county is to baye a farmers
clab.
The fall fights have commenced at Cleye-
land. -
Covington has many improvements in
progress.
Memphis builds her street railway
coaches.
A ghost wanders about q Knoxville saloon
In arch Of spirits. t
The corn and peanut crop In Lawrence
county are excellent.
Henryville, Lawrence county, has the hog
cholera and debating club.
The Fat Contributor is expected to lee
ture in Memphis this winter.
New cotton from Arkansas and Missis-
sippi has been received at Memphis.
Peter Warmers residence, in Knox coun-
ty. was burned Thursday. Aug. %.
Thursday Memphis had another sun
stroke, the vicsi being an unknown man.
The tobacco crcp in the vicinity of Straw
berry Plains, Jefferson county, Is large and
fne.
Allen johnson, Of Greene county, a few
days AGO was bitten by a copper-head
snake.
Morris Weatherly, an aged and esteemed
citizen of Madison county, died on the 18th
inst.
VIZ. Norman, near Lswrenceburg, has
grewn a stalk of German millet eighty
inches long.
w. n. Spillers, a former typo in the
Clarksville Chronicle office, recently died at
Paducah.
James b. Mickey killed in Lawrence
county on the 10Th inst, rattlesnake With
ten ratlles.
Twenty-Five hundred persons attended
the recent colored Baptist association at
B Jiivar.
"The proprietors ofthe Clarksville Chron-
icle are minus an Essex SOW and shoat."
Where's that yellow curp
jackson has organized Greeley and
Brown club, with A. Rosenberg, President,
and j. Samuels, Secretary.
The annual convention OF the East Ten-
pessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
stockholders will be held Sept. 4.
Sunday, the 10th inst, q negro man
drove tfly-three hogs out Of the Second
Presbyterian Church yard ,at Knoxville.
Thursday, the 22d inst, John l.. Bran
con, recently candidate for the State Sen
a.e, died at his residence near Lawrence
burg.
Since the Rew crop was harvested this
year 546,5eO pounds, or 9,109 bushels Of
wheat have been shipped by rail from Cleve-
land.
There have been shipped from Fayette-
vile, Lincoln county, since the 10th OF
June, sixty-six car loads 10000 bushels)
Of wheat.
Rebecca Simpson, convicted as being a
particeps criminis in the Mason tragedy at
Greenevile, has appealed to the Supreme
Court.
a beautiful narrow gauge sleeping coach
named the "Tiny," for the North and South
road, in Georgia, arrived at Knoxville,
Wednesday, Aug. 81
Buffers audience at Rogersvlle, Tues
day night, Aug. 20, was composed OF ten
white skinned men, thirty negroes, fifteen
colored females and eight juvenile Africans.
The Clarksville Chronicle wants to know
if Capt. Simms won't give "bloW IN" when
his new steamer, Capt. Frank 7. Gracey,
arrives at the ClarksYille whArfboat. Ger
talnly.
i A strawberry Plains youth while out
driving with damsel, overlooked bis hand
In talking Dolly Warden; the buggy upset
and landed the fair companion in mud
hole.
In a Memphis bar-room recently,
shrewd whisky -guzzling, election day bum
mer drank the toast; "Grant and mumbo-
iumboism versus Greeley and Brown, and
hard speak king all round"