Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-27
TENNESSEE NEWS.

large crop OF wheat IS expected this
year in Maury county.
Ed. Boyle, latter day Saint preached in
WilliamspOrt recently.
There is a religions revival among the
Presbyterians Of GAINESVILLE.
Four prisoners were sentenced to Peni-
Tertiary recently, in Columbia.
The Tobacco Fair at GAINESVILLE, takes
place on the 10th day of May next.
The recent cold weather has injured the
peach crop in Maury county, TO some ex-
tent.
John Smith, of St. Louis, fell from win
dow in Memphis the other day and was
killed.
Farmers in Maury county are preparing
to plant a large area with cotton this
spring.
The negroes of WilliamspOrt are disap-
pointed at the postponement of Bob Beaty's
hanging.
Col. a. G. Cooper, State Senator, has
sold his place iD Lewis county and remov-
ed to Maury.
Maury county claims to have a champion
old man. He is SO years old, and walks to
Columbia to sell his cotton.
The pea nut raisers of Swan Creek,
Lewis county, have sold last years crop
and have plenty OF money.
During the trial of negro in Columbia,
last week, a witness swOre that the defend
ant had "hoodooed" his dog.
The Columbia Herald says that the num-
Der of negroes arrested for theft is largely
on the increase in Maury county.
Mr.. VI. A. Bailey, of Iron Mountain,
Stewart county, has lamb that was Is
inches high at week old, and the horns
were protruding.
Roberts Brothers, of Roberts Bend, Duck
River, Maury county, sold between thirty
and forty thousand pounds of bacon recent
Iy. One side weighed 1242 pounds.
Leroy Fite, a young NimrOd, of Lewis
county, killed four deer during the last
snow. He killed all four with a small
squirrel rife gun in less time than ten min
utes.
The house in Columbia occupied by
James X. Polk when he was made Presi-
dent, is being torn down by DR.. A. L. Pill
low, who proposes to erect a new building
on the site.
Lizzie Robinson, while suffering from the
pangs of decided love, attempted to end her
woes in the Mississippi, at Memphis, last
week. She was arrested, lectured and fined
by the Recorder.
TIVE prisoners in Tazewell jail, one charged
with murder and the other with an unmen-
tionable crime, have recently made two I'M
successful attempts to escape. Threats of
lynching them have been uttered.
A fishing party captured a remarkable
species of fish the other day in the Blue
Hole near Tazewell. 1t will be sent either
to the Smithsonian Institute at Washington
or to the British Museum of London.
J. NJ. Minton, living six miles west Of
TazeWell, has a lamb that walks on its hind
legs, eschewing the foremost legs altogether.
1t is q curiosity in the brute line, so much
so that the owner has heard from Barnum,
and perhaps it will add another new feature
to the great shoWman's museum in New
York
William Fugatc, who was arrested in
Chattanooga last week on a charge of muir
der, was released last Saturday on giving
$4,000 bail TO appear for trial. The evil
dence showed that the killing was done in a
fight provoked by the deceased. The act
was committed at Tazewel, in March,
1867, and the Indictment found in May of
the same year.
The negro boy, Sut, who murdered his
step-father near Carter's Creek Station, in
Maury county, about two months ago, was
tried on the 18th inst. and acquitted on the
ground of insanity or idiocy. A few
minutes before his trial he was seized with
a violent fit and fell upon the floor. At
first he was terribly convulsed, but finally
sunk into stupor, and lay there during
the entire trial, a mere mass of human
flesh, utterly senseless Of what was going
on around him. He is to be removed to
the lunatic asylum.
John Harris and Hugh Jones were ar
rested last Saturday at Beaver Creek, about
ten miles frsm Knoxville, on a charge of
horse stealing. Jones tried to give leg bail
and ran three miles, despite several shots
which were fired at him, but was easily
tracked in the snow and captured
in a thicket near home. Jones
is married and his wife says he
brought the trouble on himself by associa-
ting with Harris. The two had been steal-
ing chickens and other articles Of food and
seemed to want none Of the necessaries of
life.