Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-09
TENNESSEE NEWS.

GAINESVILLE has received new steam
fre-engine.
The postal money order business ranges
from $4,000 to $4,000 monthly, at Trenton.
1There was considerable rise in the river
al Knoxville, on the 4th. 1t was falling on
the 7th.
Commissioners have been appointed to
open books for the subscription of stock for
a railroad from Trenton to Memphis.
A sneak thief entered a boarding house
in Chattanooua, few evenings since, and
robbed three gentlemen of their carpet-bags,
shoes and other personal property.
The Dyersburg Progress learns that
Thomas Hill, son Of Col. Hill, Of Trenton,
was killed few days ago in Arkansas by
an officer of the law.
a There were the cards Of eleven candi-
dates for tax collector in the last number
of the Trenton NelUS, and the editor was
preparing his columns to receive seven
more.
A meeting is called for all the Superin-
tendents of the roads between New Orleans
and Washington, to be held in Knoxville on
Wednesday next. The principal business
will be the arrangement of a new schedule.
Capt. Eslinger, of cambridge, arrived at
Knoxville on tbs 9Th with 500 bushels of
corn, 100 bushels of oats and small guam
tity of lard. Arch. Chambers, OF Sewer,
with $50 bushels of corr, % bushels ofmeal,
and 1000 pounds of bacon.
The GreeneviIle Sentinel says the contract
to grade eight miles Of the Greenevine and
Paint Rock Narrow Gauge Railroad was let
to Mai. A. Noel, Of Knox county, and the
masonry for the Nolc, ucky liver to George
Croft, Of Cooke county,
The Chattanooga Herald ofthe 7tb learn
ed that a gentleman had arrived from up
per East Tennessee and reported large
| feet of fat boats and lumber on their way
to Chattanooga as there had been general
rise ia all the tributaries of the Tennessee
/ in that section. The Holston river was said
to be out Of its banks.
A stranger was recently found lying in
the road near Humboldt. He had called at
a house near by where he was found, on
the previous evening and asked for some
thing to eat, and being refused, proceeded
| on his way when he was Overtaken by a
young man and without provocatiOn was
shot. No clue to the assassin yet discoY-
cred.
An inquest has been held at Dyer's Sta
| ton on the body of a colored child about
months old. The facts elected by the jury
were these: The parents of the child had
gone to the field to work, leaving this child
and another less than three years old alone
and on the bed. They were gone, as they
state, about two hours, when, being driver
to the house by a shower of rain, they
found the child hanging by the neck BE-
tween the bedstead and the wall, dead.
The Fayetteville NelgS sincerely regret!
to learn that Charley Shivers, Of Marble
Hill, Moore county, was seriously wounded
in Giles county few days ago by U. S
revenue officer. Mr.. Shivers was driving
wagon along the road, when some one
claiming to be a revenue officer, ordered
him to halt, which Mr.. Shiyers refused L
do. Thereupon the offer shot him with
double-bar shot gun, INJECTING five wound
upon his person. Mr.. Shivers passet
through this place on the Thursday previou
and it was understood his wagon wa
loaded with tobacco.
On the night Of the 10Th ult., two me-
disguised went to the house of nOtoTioU
cyprian, by the name of Nancy Alien, tire
miles southeast Of TullahOma, and Ordere
her and two other women who were theI
at the time to leave. They accompanie
this command with other violent demon
, STATIONS, until the three women hurried
vacated the premises. The men then 81
: fire to the house and burned it to IL
ground. The incendiaries were not recOs
9 nized, and their motive in committing Il
. act cannot be coDjectured, unless it was
rid the nei3hborhood of a social nuisanc
The Murfreesboro Monitor states on SUI
!, day night, June 2, couple of white me
: named JEFF Allen and George Herrod, CO..
fined in the county Jail al that place on q
: charge of larceny, made their escape fro
: that institution. They had managed
: some means to furnish themselves with o.
pieces of hoop iron, and by dint of enerE
= and toll cut heir way through the thick OF
= plank of the first floor. The sleeper tn
:. they reached, after getting through Il
- plank had, on former occasion, been G.
= through by some weary toiler after the Zig
!. of day and the blessings of freedom, al
= the block taken out had been fitted back
y y its place with bars of iron. These bs
y Allen and Herrod wrenched Of, and wi
: them they picked their way through t
- outer wall of The prison. 1t is suppos
!, that they had been at their work about tN
~ ! WapkS