Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-05
TENNESSEE NEWS.

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Gen. S. w. Campbell is a candidate for
Congress from the Jackson district.
Fannie Hodgson, an authoress Of Knox
vile, is going to Europe.
A citizen of Upton county recently found
81 rattle-snakes under one log heap.
Some persons who went to market re-
Gently in Memphis were Mortified. They
found negro who had the smallpox sell
Ing vegetables there.
A JOnesboro paper says little boy living
near Fall Branch was recently run over by
a wagon and terribly mangled. He will
recover, bus will be cripple for life.
A young man named Whitley, was shot
and killed by the irate parent of the dead
mans sweetheart, few days since, near
Fulton, Tenn, some forty miles north of
Memphis.
A young child of Mr.. Lowry, of White
county, was climbing over a fence, when it
slipped and fell, and in falling caught hold
of rail, which rolled off and fell upon it in
such manner as to fatally injure it. 1t
lived but short time after the accident.
The Mckenzie Times says that the re-
ceipts of the recent fair in that locality were
about two hundred and fifty dollars. The
cash premiums awarded amounted to one
hundred and sixty dollars, leaving balance
Of near one hundred dollars in the treas
airy.
What is known as the "fast" freight train
on the Memphis aud Charleston railroad,
was recently thrown from the track near
Germantown, by bull that climbed on the
track and showed fight to the locomotive.
The train was delayed about two hours by
the accident. The bull is dead.
The seven-year locusts are in myriads in
Claiborne county. The hogs are getting
fat by feeding on them, so it is said. And
the candidates for public offices are so
numerous in and about Trenton, according
to the Gazette, that they already outnum-
Der the locusts and are still increasing.
Col. Long, an ex- Confederate, with only
one leg, was hunting on horseback, near
Bluff Spring, and when in the act Of dis
mounting placed one OF bis hands on the
muzzle of his gun, which was accidentally
discharged. The contents of the weapon
went through bis hand.
A few days ago Mr.. Patton, living two
or three miles north of Milan, mounted his
little boy, about nine years old, on a mule,
to ride home from the field. II was him
self walking behind, when the mule became
| frightened and threw the boy, who became
entangled in the gear, and was killed with
in twenty yards from where he had started,
| having been kicked and stamped to death
despite all the efforts of his father to save
| him.
Mr.. ]. L. McC -intock, living near Boyce's
| mill, in Upton county, was recently danger
ously burned by the explosion of coal oil
! lamp. His daughter was filling the lamp,
while he held the burning wick near to give
light, when the gas escaping from the lamp
| ignited, causing the explosion, which re-
! suited in burning both arms of the unfor-
! tunate man to a perfect crisp. His body
was badly burned; and be was for several
DAYS wholly insensible. At last accounts bis
condition was very critical, but his physi-
clans entertained hopes of his recovery.
| Among the Lauderdale items is one that
! one Hill and companion, Mitchell, were
on board OF a trading boat, at JOhnson's
| Landing, four miles below Ashp0rt, when
Mitchell provoked difficulty with Hill
| which ended in his getting shot, andi is
thought he will die from his wounds. An
other recontre of the same sort occurred at
| Glimpvills, in which Neut. Clean shot Geo
E. Williams. Williams was saved by bot
tie of whisky in his pocket, which the shot
struck before entering his body.
The details of the falling from bridge
near Jonesboro of Sue, daughter of Elmer
son Beard, are that she, in company with
other little girls, was on the bridge to wit
ness the passenger train pass, and leaning
over the railing it gave way, precipitatinG
her a distance of twenty feet. She wa
picked up apparently lifeless at the time
and terribly bruised. Fortunately she WA
not standing on the center of the bridge
when the rail gave way, as her injurie
would have been more serious, if not termi
mated her life. She is doing well as it is
and it is hoped will soon recover from he
| injuries.