Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-26
TENNESSEE NEWS.
sartlett wants a new water tank.


WayDesboro is TO have ten-pin alley.
Drought has prevailed in Knox county.
The Radicals of Memphis are organizing.
Memphis policemen are killing rabid
dogs.
Troy wants an arm to the Memphis a nd
PaduCah railroad.
Ripley has a surplus of dogs, estimated at
several hundred.
Ducktown Copper mines turn out 6,OOO
pounds of metal daily.
Ripley expects to be visited by railroad
engine by Jan. /, 1873.
Troy has filed petition il the Chancery
Court asking town charter.
The German settlement near Lawrence
burg is TO have a church.
Memphians have been enjoying moonlight
excursions on the water.
Squire ChurchweI, of Waynesboro, owns
a Young Johnnie Warden wolf.
The sale of Memphis pounded hogs and
goats Friday realized $5S.
Five hundred dozen spring chickens are
daily disposed of in Memphis.
sam Sims, of Wayne county, recent ly
killed a scorpion foot long.
East Tennessee University is to have a
new dormifOry, costing $1,000.
A countyman recently applied at the
Jackson Gas Tank, to get his jug full.
The contract for grading the Denmark "
Durhamville Railroad has been let out.
There are seventy-twO prisoners in the
Shelby county jail-penitentiary recruits.
A bevy of young ladies recently visited
the WaynesborO ReUielC. The devil was
out.
Trenton wants to tap the Memphis and
Paducah Railroad ten or fifteen miles from
Ripley.
Week before last 500 hogsheads of tobac-
co were sold at GAINESVILLE, realizing over
100000.
James G. Ruknan, aged fifteen, was
drowned in Buffers creek, Wayne county,
last week.
The Lauderdale Agricultural and Me-
chanical Society viii hold its first annual
fair this fall.
a. J. Knapp, many years freight agent Of
the Memphis and Ohio railroad at Memphis,
has resigned.
Last week a young man was run over by
a wagon and fatally injured, twelve miles
from JOnesbOro.
| of Lauderdale meets at Ripley the first
| Monday in July.
SamuelP Walker has been nominated
| for Chancellor of the Second Chancery
Court of Memphis.
The area Of wheat and its average yield
in Lauderdale county are much larger than
for previous years.
West Tennessee Agricultural Association
at Jackson, will offer Sl5, 900 IL prize tick
cts to their fall fair.
Two pieces Of artillery from Rock lslanI
Arsenal, have been received at the Eas
Tennessee University.
The horse of Nelson McDOugal, OF
Wayne county, fell in well ten feet deep,
but suffered no injury.
The house David Crockett lived in wheI
a member OF Congress from Tennessee
still standing in Gibson county.
a little son Of J. Z. Harris was throw
from wagon and severely hurt about tn
head and eye, near JonesbOrO last week.
Last Friday a Missouri woman threI
herself on the railroad track at HumbOld
and was instantly killed by the locomotive
The Jonesboro Flag and AdUertlSe
thanks Mrs. J. W. Bpwyer of that place
for "a fine large watermelon or whit
meat?
4 lad named Conrad Wagner, while fish
ing three miles from Memphis last Sunday
was painfully bitten on the hand by q
snake.
Several houses at Jackson were en;ere
last week and deprived Of money and va
uables, by professional burglars, who al
operating largely there.
j. L. Kyle, Of FoTty-eight creek, nea
Wayncsboro, recently killed black 8nak
that weighed twenty pounds and measure
twelve feet in length.
3 Jas. 7. Written, Of Cyprus creek, Wayn
county, has a two months old "cur pup
that holds his horse by the bride while tn
beast is being curried.
Thomas Norvell, the printer, who fired
pistol at a Memphis policeman week be
fore last, has been tried and acquitted il
the Criminal Court Of that city.
During a recent IRE at WaynesbOrO
Young man COurted his sweetheart and SD
kicked him because he would not stop b
nonsense and help save the house.
w. II. BrutOn, Of Madison county, hS
raised a couple of cotton stalks four fe
and one inch high, each containing fort,
four squares, and some having blooms; SCI
eral branches are tlrcaty-tlgO inches Ions
Geo. Levi, a peripatetic vender Of dI
goods, etc, recently laid down to re!
awhile on his pack near Wayne Furnace
but was aroused by a rattle snake, Whic
he killed and found it had seven rattle;
enough to keep any one from sleeping.