Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-11
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Dyersburg wants a library.

Dyersburg wants library.
Lawrenceburg is to have two schools.
Lauderdale county has a fine corn crop.
Stewart county has voted for a school
tax.
Sullivan county has elected Radical
Sheriff.
West Tennessee, this year, is prolific in
candidates.
Rust has appeared in the cotton in Hay
wood county.
D. F. Porter, of Henry county, has cotton
six feet high.
Carroll county has elected a Radical
Judge and Sheriff.
Arlington, the county seat of Houston,
wants Masonic Hall.
Dover, Stewart county, is to have to-
bacco factory this fall.
The oat crop of Hawkins county is good,
but the cornis parched.
Thursday, Aug. l, LAGRANGE poled 120
white and 1S3 colored votes.
A colored female beggar from Ohio has
been seeking aims in Trenton.
Erin, in Houston county, is to have a
roundhouse and machine shop.
Wildwood, Haywood county, has organ
lied Greeley and Brown club.
This years wheat crop in Hawkins coun-
ty is the largest ever reaped there.
1t is rumored that the election for Sheriff
Of Stewart county will be contested.
Erin, Houston county, has been incorpor-
ated and wants Temperance Hall.
81. 81. Rogers has presented large bell
to the Episcopal church at Trenton.
James Mickey, Lawrence county, has cot
ton five feet high and full of squares.
Madison county has seven unselfish pa
triots willing to serve in the Legislature.
The GAINESVILLE Hook and Ladder Com
pany will give two dramatic entertainments.
Wednesday, Aug. I, two passenger trains
collided near Dyer station. Nobody killed.
Col. Il. S. Cole, of Carroll county, has
raised an ear of corn fourteen inches long.
Geo. 1. Hunt, of Madison county, has
raised cabbage having ten well developed
heads.
Saturday night, Aug. 8, thief entered
Joel Smiths house, GAINESVILLE, but stole
nothing.
Recently, in Dyersburg, Ruffin Allen,
who some weeks ago shot himself, died from
his wounds. .... $3.50.
Cageville is to be hereafter known as the
Alamo and has been selected the capital of
Crockett county.
The Waddy tract of land, four miles
north of Paris, Henry county, recently sold
for $50 per acre.
The camp meeting for the Paris circuit
will be held the first Sunday in October,
at Manly's chapel.
Thursday, Aug. l, 1872, Haywood county
elected colored constable and two negro
school commissioners.
Dunbar's Cave, two miles from Clarks-
vile, will have grand picnic and bran
dance on the 10Th inst.
The Upton County Bible Society held its
thirty fifth animal session at Antioch Bap-
fist Church, July u.
Recently Bartlett's store at Milan, Gibson
county, was burglarised by negro who is
now in Jail at Trenton.
Tuesday night, the 9th inst, DIR. Valen-
tines house, with forty bushels of wheat,
near Mckenzie, was burned,
The Odd Fellows and Sons of Temper
ance will build hall over Cumberland
Presbyterian church at Dyersburg.
a recent negro convention at Salem, Tip
ton county, nominated Jacob M. Broadnax
Tor The Legislature, and endorsed Barbour
Lewis for Congress.
The Directors of the Lauderdale County
Agricultural and Mechanical Association
have purchased land on which to locate
their fair buildings.
During the month of July, Memphis in
spected 263,7 TAT feet of lumber; expended
S5,O36'l % for improvements; collected ST.
Uoo.O0 Tor wharfage; had S4,525 worth of
hres, and paid $500 for pounds in which to
receive stray dogs, goats, hogs and other
wandering beasts.