Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-30
TENNESSEE NEWS.
The iail at Athens is full.

The jail at Athens is full.
Greene county is to have cotton facto-
~.
Tennessee turkeys are being shipped
South.
The temperance cause is fourishing at
Chattanooga.
The GAINESVILLE and Princeton railroad is
talked OF again.
At Springfield delivered pork sells for five
cents pound,
A party intend boring for petroleum In
White county.
Fighting Joe Hooker is visiting the East
Tennessee coal lands.
McMinn county had meteoric show~
Wednesday night, Nov. u.
In January next Memphis elects tweHty
csuncilmen and five aldermen.
Greeneville has shipped recently two car
loads of hogs to South Carolina.
Chattanooga is shipping oxen to Lynch
burg, Va, because Of the epizooty.
1t is said silver mine has been diseeV-
cred near Aspen Hill, Giles county.
Bell Keesee and Winfield Roach, of
Clarksvile, are trying TO organize fire In
surance company.
Several small lots Of hogs from Warren
county have been shipped South during the
past two weeks.
Anthony Rankin and James q. Wilson,
two Of the Oldest and most worthy citizens
of Greeneville are dead.
Recently David Hoopus, colored, had his
arm severed by Steam saw at Hardin's
mill, near Celina, Jackson county.
The Unaks Furnace, in Greene county.
resumed operations on Nov. rs. and ran
out nine and quarter tons of pigs.
Last week two negroes were stabbed and
killed By white man named Moody. at
Jordan's Spring, Montgomery county, =.
A white wRlloon, four feet seven inches
between the tips Of its wings, was recently
Killed by VIM Gallon, 10 Knox county.
a young man named Cherry has been
jailed at Gsinsboro, on the charge of rob.
5ing the pcstotice, at Moore's store, CLAY
county.
man named Kirkland was shot, and, It
is thought, fatally wounded, by john Haley.
near lockwood, Roane county, on Sunday,
Nov. "a.
Tuesday night, Nov. 20, at Gilrs Station.
near Memphis, W. E. Raynor was attacked
and robbed in his bed room by an nm
known white man.
Diptheris has been prevailing among the
children Of Warren county to an alarming
extent for some time past. A number of
cases have proved fatal.
Several hundred horses, boupht for the
southern trade, are held by parties in Nd
per East Tennessee, their sale being pre
vented by the epizootic.
The McMinnvtlle Neoo Era saws: 0Our
hog crop this season is heavier than usual
tue hogs during tbs present year having
been sisgulary free from cholera and other
diseases"
Saturday,, Dec. ID, an election will he
held to ascertain whether the people will
ratlfy or reject the action of the Comfy
Court of Bradley, subscribing $50 600 TO the
Cleveland and DucktOwn railroad.
The Knoxville Board Of Trade are TO
correspond with the Boards of Trade of
Nashville and Memphis TO urge q united
effort to secure from the Legislature an
appropriation to further the interests of i'm
migration.
Thomas Martin, on Rocky River. in War
rem county, is seventy-two years old. has
never had days sickness; and during the
last year rrised a fine crop of corn and
wheat with bis own labor. He can now
shoulder two bushels and half of wheat,
and enjoys the belief. and appearance that be-
viii never get old.