Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-07-13
TENNESSEE NEWS.


Memphis wants to borrow 100000.
Tennessee gobblers raise orphan tur-
keys.
A McMinn county calf weighed ITO
pounds at its birth.
Maxvillc boasts a four winged roos-
ter, alive and moving around.
Oil has recently been discovered
about seven miles from Meanwhile.
Memphis is making preparations for
a stupendous Exposition building.
Wilson county dogs have compelled
the inhabitants to seek safety in dog
law.
Aldermen Garlic and Wilcox, of
Chattanooga, celebrated the Fourth
by foot-racc.
The smallpox is raging in the vic
Unity of Bartlett. Several persons
have died already.
The fine saw-mill of Pitscr Miller.
one mile from Bolivar, was DESTROYED
by fire Friday night.
An East Tennessee man has desert
ed his wife and five children, and gone
off with another woman.
Saturday night last, in Memphis.
seven dogs were killed in one fraternal
squad.
A man named Mckee was shot
and killed the other day by Stephen
De Mumbric, 65 miles below Memphis.
Last Friday, the 9th inst, Lee bod
son, while working at a railroad wreck,
near Knoxville, had his skull fractur-
ed and spinal cord injured by a falling
car.
A young German was found on Sun
day, the 7th inst, in Memphis, horri-
bly, manglcd. Both arms were nearly
severed, and one leg was cut smoothly
off at the knee joint. He refuses to
tell who did it, but says it was done
thirty miles up the river.
Week before last Mr.. Waddell.
living three miles from Rogersville,
was accidentally shot by his daughter
anu dangerously WOuHucu.
A severe hail-storm, running crops.
visited the country about and between
Kelso and Lynchburg, in Lincoln
county, last week
Mr.. Holmes Cummings has been Sc
iected by a county convention as can
didatc to represent Upton county in
the next Legislature. lie is for Gree
ley and Brown.
Ten thousand dollars is reported to
have been paid to the Mayor of Mem
phis by four men for the privilege of
running keno banks.
G. Hackett, Of Memphis, has plead
ed guilty to twelve indictments for
larceny, and has been sentenced to one
year S Imprisonment on each of them.
An old gentlemen of Henry county,
while ascending a ladder to gather
cherries, fell backward after reaching
the top, and, striking the ground, was
killed.
A shooting ARRAY took place at
Brownsville on Monday last between
Ben Ray and his brother in law,
Wilson, Ray shooting Wilson through
the left breast and Immediately af.
terward shooting himself through
the brain, A business dispute was the
cause of the difficulty.
Major Boittler, prominent lawyer
of Grcenyillc, died on the 9th inst.
A Memphis man jumped into the
river to cool his feet off. He was era
~.
\ celebrated songstrcss was arrested
on the 9TH in Memphis for wearing
mems apparel.
4 Chattanooga man will bet from s.
TO 81 900 that Greeley carries every
Southern State.
i, Mr.. A. G. Steele was killed in Giles
county recently by negro known as
Professor Bryant,
j. l.. Kyle. Of WayncSboro, last
week killed black snake twelve feet
in length, which weighed twenty
) pounds.
4 man named Wcdvcr, who married
a young and beautiful woman couple
of months ago, was recently arrested
. in jackson for bigamy, having another
wife at Glasgow Junction, His --latest
victim is only seventeen.
On Friday a man named l.. G
Crouch met with an accident al Ken
ncdy'S saw mill, near Erin, in which
his left arm was torn oft. 1t appears
that slab hung on the saw, and, in
, reaching near TO remove it, his hand
was caught, resulting as above stated
Ii had tO be amputatcd.