Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-25
HAMILTON & CUNNINGHAM,
JAM eod1stp 1y Nashville, Tenn.
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The Union compress association of Mem
phis is to be incorporated.
Father Walsh's paTishioners in Memphis
propose to build him new residence.
Father O'Brien, who has been quite ill at
Chattanooga for some past, is rapidly con-
valescing.
The Chattanooga papers speak of rumors
about smallpox in that place, but say they
are untrue.
Caterpillars and mosquitoes have made
their appearance in West Tennessee and
North Mississippi.
DR.. A. K. Kinehart, of Harrison, Hamil-
ton county, was killed on the 22d inst. by
the accidental explosion of his gun.
Joe Roseburg, aged eleven years, was
accidentally drowned in Bayou Gayoso at
Memphis, on the 2lst inst.
Sixty stone cutters and sixty-five quarry
men are engaged in building the United
States Custom House at Knoxville.
The residence of Mr.. Henry Douglass,
a planter residing twelve miles south of
Memphis, took fire accidentally and burned
down on the 2Ist inst.
The artistic mixers of liquid decoctiOns
at Memphis, who supply their customers
with the beverage on Sundays, are having
hard time of it. The Recorder fines them
and the Grand Jury indicts them.
Almost the entire constructing force now
operating o. the Southwestern Railroad has
been brought 10 work on the McMinnville
end of it, and it is hoped to have the road
in running order frsm that point to the
Caney Fork in a short time.
A correspondent at Greeneville writes !:
The expressed Unwillingness Of ex-Presi-
dent johnson to go to Congress from this
district, leaves the people somewhat at sea.
There is still disposition to press him, and
if possible, by popular tempest, break him
from his moOrings.
The investigation as to the legality of the
merchants tax has convinced the Shelby
county attorney that the county assessors
must assess merchandise, stock in banks
and insurance companies, like other taxable
property. The new order has created con-
siderable stir in business circles.
Touching the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad law suit, Mobile dispatch of the
10Th says: Judge Wood decides that bank
rupt proceedings are now regular. brakes
motion for a receiver and injunction denied.
Stephens petitions dismissed. The whole
is Waterloo defeat for Stanton"
The Trustees of the Hsmpden Sydney
Academy, at Knoxville, have adopted a
resolution authorizing the sale of the prop
erty owned by this institution, with the
view of buying lot elsewhere and erecting
thereon a suitable building, the one now
in use being not only unsightly, but actu-
ally unfit for school purposes.
On Saturday, April 20, Judge Swayne,
one of the justices of the Supreme Court of
the United States, granted the city of Mem
phis an Injunction restraining T. E. Brown
& Co. from selling the city's property here
tofore levied on. The injunction was grant
ed upon the execution of bond OF SJ0,-
900.
The Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
was at auction in Montgomery, Ala, on the
22d inst, by the United States Marshal in
pursuance of Judge Busteed's order in
bankruptcy. The property was bid in by
the State to secsre its interest. The rep
resentatives of the second mortgage bond
holders were present and protested against
tba sale