Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-17
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Sam. P. Walker is a candidate for the
vacant Chancellorship at Memphis.
II is said that Memphis and vicinity IS
being oyerrtln with a seemingly well organ
lied band Of stock thieves.
The people of Jackson are making RAIDS
on mad dogs, and in the hurry OF business
but little time is taken to see whether all
degs killed are mad or not.
Knoxville papersIrepOrt supposed case
of husband poisoning, by a wife or mother
jnlaw, which turned out to be only death
bv heart disease, as pOst-mortem e1anl-
nation revealed.
NSGen. Wofford has leased the branch OF
he East Alabama and Cincinnati Railroad
running from Alfalfa to Gadsden, Alabama,
! and cut on an accommodation train for the
convenience Of persons on the line OF the
The County Court Clerk of Macon
| county says sour county is out OF DEBT anu
the county bonds are at par" Any county
in this condition is rich, and if the people
wish it to remain so, they have only 10
keep it out of debt.
ESQ. John z. Dromgoole had a very val
uabla dwelling house on his farm seven
miles from Murfreesboro, burnt on the 1V-h
inst. The fire caught from the Kitchen,
| which Was III Inc pooSSSSlOhOA AAN "-0
worked the farm.
LANES Burks, a respected citizen of Can
non county, took the cramps while in the
water fishing with.a sein and was drowned,
on the 18th inst, near Readyville. DE was
married, and thirty years of age, and an in
dustriOus and honorable man.
Mr.. Adams Lee. who has figured some
: what extensively in the newspapers regis
tered at the Barnes House, Chattanooga,
last Saturday, and attempted to depart
next day without attending to the little
formality of paying his bill. The proprie-
! tor allowed him to depart but detained his
baggage as collateral, having, as he remark
ed to us, read the newspapers.
+ The financial affairs Of Chattanooga are
a badly CRIPPLED. The Times says the people
3 have allowed their representatives to ruI
the city in debt sorue 100000, and make M
4 | nrovision for its redemption, until nov
E the city warrants can not be sold at 90 cent
on the dollar, and the City Council at ever.
meeting presents the hUmiliating spectacle
of a man issuing his own notes payable OF
demand at a discount of so cents.
Il East Tennessee has not lately been troub
: led with very copious showers Of rain. The
a Chattanooga Herald says: The continues
t dry weather is beginning to make itself fell
Y we hear from the country that the pros
/ meets for wheat and oats are becoming YER
: gloomy. Corn is not good stand. Som
4 ! farmers have plowed up their helds and WI
: plant anew. The blackberry briars are sal
: to be largely affected with the rust, althoug
u we have not heard of its settling on tn
the wheat. The wheat is said to be slight
ininred by the fly in some localities.
Referring to to the departure OF he'
a Father ByTne from Memphis, the Appet
" saws: yesterday the reverend and muc
\, esteemed gentleman left our city at the ca
IT of authority to enter on new field OF La
Dor. Endowed with rare qualities OF MIN
to and heart, he has, during his short solouT
b. with us, won the regard and friendship
G. all who had the pleasure of his acqualntanc
". Perhaps no one has ever gained in the sho
nd period of fifteen months greater numb
id of warm and devoted friends, whose regre
RI over his departure testify the deepest lo7
ne and esteem for the good father"