Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-17
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Lebanon has a coal famine.

Lebanon has coal famine.
Columbia youths have mania for cock
fighting.
Fires are raging in the woods of Law
renee county.
The Lebanon Herald favors monthly
stock sales in Wilson county.
The Gayoso Gas Company of Memphis
gives employment to 1S5 men.
A dozen or so of the dogs in Shelbyvile
were poisoned Tuesday night, the 18th inst.
The Columbia people propose to run
pike road from their town to Marshall
county.
The police interrupted duel between a
merchant and a lawyer in Chattanooga on
the 10Th inst.
johnson, who shot Singleton near Chat
tanOoga and escaped from custody, has been
re-arrested.
The Fayetteville Ne,cs reports an unusu-
ally large number Of deaths III Lincoln
county last week.
Two negroes made an unsuccessful at
tempt to break jail at Shelbyville on Tues
day night, the 18th inst.
There is a good deal of sickness in Bed
ford county. Colds and pneumonia seem
to be almost epidemical.
There is a lively trade going on in Bed
ford county in horses and mules. The buy
ers generally ship them South.
JOnesborough is infested by a set Of
young thieves who rob passenger trains
while the passengers stop for refreshments.
1t is estimated that not less than 500
hogs and 200 head of cattle were frozen to
death in Bedford county during the late cold
snap.
B. A. Nelson, N. Marshall and Joseph
Gates, within four miles of each other in
Bedford county, are the fathers of sixty
two children.
Mr.. W. B. Shorter sold in Lebanon few
days ago fourteen head Of cattle weighing
in the aggregate 1885 pounds, an average
Of 1874 each.
John Williams, colored, aged fourteen,
was caught in the act of burglariOusly en-
tering store in Lebanon on the 11th inst.
He is under arrest.
Alfred Finlay, one Of the porters in the
Peabody Hotel, Memphis, fell from wagon
on the 18th inst. and dislocated the cerebral
chord, causing instant death.
There is not brick to be had in Pulaski,
and buildings Of every description in which
they are necessary are now brought to
stand STILL
Mr.. Thos. Tidwen, who lives about fifteen
miles south of Lawrenceburg, reports that
the foxes and wild cats are becoming very
plentiful in his neighborhood.
A black infant, about a month old was
found lying dead in a ditch in Memphis, Jon
the 14th inst. 1t is supposed that it was
abandoned by its parents.
The Sparta Tribune says the proposition |
for a subscription TO the Southwestern Rail- |
road carried in OvertOn county by a consid- |
cradle majority, but was defeated in Put
nam.
A correspondent Of the Lebanon Herald !
says that on the It'll inst. three men from |
Kentucky arrested two horse thieves in the !
vicinity of Concord Academy, and took |
them to Kentucky for trial.
A Joint stock company is being organized |
in Pulaski to build a hotel. Col. a. Cox, /
with characteristic hberality, heads the list
with $4,000, leaving only $4,000 10 be |
raised by the business men of Pulaski.
Mr.. Samuel Weaver, of Lawrenceburg, |
took m Tuesday, The 18th inst, by way Of |
barter, struck and turnover" in the shape |
of sixty fine deer hides, all from one Gus
toner, who wasn't much of a shootist |
either.
Maryville, Blount county, was visited by
a most destructive fire on the night of the /
18th inst, Two buildings were destroyed |
before the progress of the flames was ar
rested. There was no fire organization in
the village.
The Sparta Tribune Of the 14th inst says:
The railroad excitement has about subsidized,
as everything goes to show that the Mem
Dhis and Charleston Railroad Company pro-
pose to have our line finished and cars run
ming thereon within contract time.
The next great excitement for Memphis /
will be another meeting Of the stockholders
Of the Charleston Railroad, to be held on
Wednesday next, the 2lst inst, for the pur-
pose of passing definitely and forever upon
The proposition Of Col. Scott and his cond-
tutors of the Southern Security Association.
The colored Baptist church at Shelbyville
was destroyed by fire Tuesday night, the
18th inst. Services had been held in the
church that night, and it is supposed the fire
originated from accident. The building and
furniture cost about $1,000. The Sunday
school library, numbering about five hun
dred volumes, was also destroyed.
A young Ethiopian from the country, |
who attended the MGrdi GrGs festival in :
Memphis, bought a couple of pounds rof
powder and put the package in his poe 6et,
He afterwards lay down by a fire to sleep.
A spark fell in his pocket and caused an ex-
ploson which broke several Of his ribs and
burned him badly.
The Lawrenceburg JoVrnal of the 18Th
inst, says: "L4ast night about eight O'Clock.
a dusky damsel accompanied. by party of !
friends, appeared at the jail and stated that
she had come for the purpose of marrying
Conner, VINO was an inmate Of !
hat institution. Mr.. BT.mpass took the
prisoner out and went with the party to
squire Turner'S who performed the cere |
nony, in his usual felicitous STYLE. After
he congratulations, Henderson returned to
ais lonely cell and couch, and the dusky
pride went on her way rejoicing, perhaps"