Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-16
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Horse thieves are busy in the neighbor-
hood of Ia lewell.
Drunkenness and noctural depredatious
atliIcJ ,lonesboro.
Shelbyville has a calf that commenced its
tx,sLence weighing l27 pounds. o.
During tie stOlm Of the Sth inst. in Lin
coin county, hallstOnes, large as partriS ge's
egs, fell.
A lax of one dollar on each dog and hog
in MurfreesbOro would run the city ma
| chinery several months.
Temperance is gaining ground in Win
! chester, but the decrese OF demand does
not alter the price of whisky.
When the Knoxville girls get tired of
! their sweeUhearJs visits, they set their little
! brothers 10 throwing stones at the young
men.
! The KDoXvillians are enjoying pyrotech-
mic displays every evening now. The
| farmers residing at the outskirts Of the city
are burning OFF their brushpiles.
| The citizens Of johnson City expect to
! begin the publication of paper i'll their
| town in a short time, TO be edited by A. Il.
| Yeager, Esq, an attorney at law.
7 he gang OF burglars III Shelbyvile con-
/ tinue their operations unchecked. One Of
/ lie latest exploits was to steal the bell from
/ tie belfrey OF the Presbyterian Church, the
nigHof The 18th inst.
/ The MurfreesbOrO Monitor says: Re
/ ports from the surrounding country indi-
/ cate a full crop of fruit the coming season,
unless some unforeseen calamity over
/ t-kes it.
The other day, a man in the southwest
/ portion of Washin ton county, in cutting
( down large hollow tree, "bT Ike up the
! winter quarters Of two monster reptiles, a
/ rather four feet and two inches long, and a
/ racer ten feet long.
/ On Friday night, March s, the ticket Of
! fee at johnson City was broken open and a
/ number of railroad tickets stolen. The
/ agent had fortunately removed the money
/ a ID valuables before. As the stamp was
| Gispla ed these tickets were in all probable
ity regularly stamped.
TIE Masonic Temple at Knoxville is
nearly completed. The roof is finished in
the Mansard style with dome rising from
/ the centre of it. The front slope of the
| roof is covered with Vermont slate of al
t.rnale colors, green and red. The build
! iug cost $4,000.
a negro bricklaYer named Campbell was
! shot and dangerously wounded in Knox
! vile last Thursday. He was under the in
! QUence of liquor at the time and was ra;s-
! ing disturbance. When a policeman at
/ tempted to arrest him, he showed fight, and
/ was only subdued after two balls were
lodged in his body. The officer was OBJ
| liged to use his weapon in self defence.
/ The Fayetteville Observer says: On the
waters Of Norris Creek, near Oak Hill, Liz
! coin county, lives an aged lady, Byzantine
/ Cole, wife of James d. Cole, deceased, and
! daughter Of Col. Berry Leftwich, who par
/ ticipa,ed both IN the Revolutionary war and
/ tie war Of 1872. She was born in the State
! OF Virginia in 1855, and moved TO Tennes-
8 e in 1913. She endured the hardships and
priystiOus of pioneer. She raised a fami-
! ly of ten children, five sons and i've daugh-
! t-r,; of these, seven are living and three
/ a dead. She has tfty-seven grand-child-
ren living and thirty-tive dead. She has
! elghry-One great-grand-children living and
| nineteen dead. She has one great-grest-
/ grand-cmld living.