Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-24
TENNESSEE NEWS.


Fifteen candidates for tax collector in
Marshal county.
Sweetwater claims to have one thousand
inhabitants.
Athens has q coored Division of the
Sons OF Temperance.
A new Courthouse for Morgan county
has been erected at Wartburg.
Horse thieves are confiscating the stock
of farmers in the neighborhood of Knox
vile.
Steamboat racing is being revived on the
Mississippi. We win soon have ''fright-
ful explosion" to record.
Since September last 10000 emigrants,
from Tennessee and Georgia, bqYe entered
the Lone Star State, with 1862 wagons.
A man named Sheets was shot and killed
in Loudon county recently. His murderer
was 'three sheets in the wind" at the time.
A store house in Statesville, Wilson coun-
ty, was entered by burglars on the 18th
Instant, and quantity of money, clothing,
etc, was stolen.
Henry Gardner, an engineer on the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad,
was killed near Cleveland, the 21s inst, by
an accident to his engine.
Clinton, died from the injuries she received
while playing on a turn-table in Clinton,
the 18th inst.
The Knoxville and Charleston Railroad.
recently sold in Knoxville, was purchased
by the Blue Ridge Company, which has for
some time past been managing the road.
Joseph Staley is in jail at Jonesboro for
numerically beating his little daughter, a
child five years old, some six weeks ago.
The child died the other day from the eff
fects of his brutal treatment.
The Monitor is the name of a small
weekly paper published at MaryVille by w.
B. Scott & Co. 1t is edited by Yardley
Warner, who announces that he viii adVo-
cate 'the interest of the freedmen, eduea-
ton and religion"
Tom Jester an old boatman was assaulted
and stabbed by two brothers named Crush
in Cha ttanooga last Friday. The wound
Is in the abdomen and may send old Tom
to be Jester to the kingof Terrors. Whisky
was the cause of the trouble.
The widow of Peter Graves, who died
about two weeks since, ON Thompson's
creek, in Bedford county, made the cloth,
when girl, that was made into his burial
clothes, and which were used about two
years ago. They were very old, perhaps
fOur-scOre years.
At a wedding in Williamson county
Feb. 10, the bride was married in the shoes
which her mother wore on the occasion OF
her marriage on the Sth day Of February,
1868 period OF "a years and one week
to day. The venerable mother, now past
her four score years, was present, and
witnessed the ceremony.
Two cases of accidental shooting oCCurred
at Paris recently, one of them resulting IA
tally. Samuel Russell was accidentally
shot and killed by Mr.. Zedro, while the
two were out hunting together. In the
other case, j. w. Digs shot himself in the
breast while returning ramrod TO its place
in his gun. lie is expected to recover.
A large number of emigrants from East
Tennessee left Knoxville on the 10th inst.
en- route for Kansas, Missouri, and Cali
fornia, in which States they intend TO settle
There were eighty emigrants on the train
when it reached Knoxville. At that point
the number was increased to one hundred
and thirty.
The Cleveland Banner says: Some OfOul
| farmers are complaining that the severe
winter has froZe out much Of the wheat
crop. We have examined some fields and
must confess that it is not as thick on the
ground as we would like to see it. The
spring has been unusually cold and the
crop is very backward in this section.
Mrs. Putnam, the heroine Of the Putnam
Davis breach Of promise case at Knoxville
obtained judgment for $4,000 against the
| defendant, who is married man. Severa
attachments have been levied on his prop
erty. His farm was sold the Doth inst, anC
bought by Mrs. Putnam for one Thousand
dollars. Another warning to innocent mel
TO "bevare of the vidders
William Fugate was arrested in Chatta
! nooga on the 2lst inst. on capias from TIN
| Circuit Court of Claiborne county, charging
him with murder. He had on his person
! $500 in cash and checks, and was armed
with two fine pistols. He was fined by the
Recorder of Chattanooga $50 for caTTyin!
concealed weapons with intent to use then
| unlawfuIly, and then turned over to thu
authorities of Claiborne county. Tit
prisoner confessed that he killed the mai
| with whose murder he is charged, but die
! it in self defense,
The Knoxville Press and Herald says: 4
| number of Confederate dead are scattered
| over the country around Knoxville. Their,
are some graves near Mr.. LedgerwOod's
on Beaver creek, one at PoWelPs station
two at Bells bridge, and there are SOM
near John Karn's, above town. Thes
should be looked after by the society organ
! lied for that purpose. The two at Bell
bridge were neatly buried by their com
rades, who made rails and fenced and GOV
cred the graves, but we understand SOM
| unprincipled soldier took the rails to repai
a fence with, and left the graves in the opel
wood.
Work will be commenced on the MacOl
and Knoxville Railroad as soon as the RICH
of way can be obtained to the ChattahoO
chez river. The line is now being locate
| and the prospects for beginning the work a
an early day are very favorable. The rout
| will run twelve miles on the Macon an
Augusta road, then 90 to COvington, fifty
two miles, by which it will be one hundre
and three miles to Atlanta. From COving
ton line North win join the Knoxville an
! Maryville road via LawrenceviiIe, GWinnei
county.
The Knoxville Chronicle learns that th
gentlemen who purchased the KnoXvill
and Charleston Railroad the goth inst. hay
hopes of completing it. They have nearl
two million of South Carolina scrip.
they can relieve the road from here to Al
derson, South Corolina, of all encumbTance
a New York combination of capitalists hav
agreed to advance enough upon the frs
mortgage bonds ofthe company to cOmplet
it. They will give six million In this wa
| if needed.
Nd wonder the young men of KnOxyill
are emigrating to Texas and other distan
! States. The Press and Herald says: w
understand another suit for damages for
breach of promise will be brought to speed
trial in our courts. The parties are we
known in our city, the hero being day an
night cOnserVator Of the peace, quiet an
dignity of the city, while the heroine
only blushing into the ripeness of matur
womanhoOd The lady estimates he
blasted hopes of welded bliss, and othe
things, at $4,000. Knoxville is evidentl
a dangerous place for young men of soci;
! habits.
A Greeneville paper says: Cooke count
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