Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-12
TENNESSER News.

Supplies of coal and warm weather are
now plentiful at Memphis.
| Dramatic entertainments are being given
at jackson by the Gilbert family.
Droves Of fine cattle from the Seouatchie
| Valley are being received at Chattanooga.
The membership of the Sons of Temper.
anee at Knoxville, is increasing at a rapid
| rate.
The Chattanooga iron works propose to
ship ffty car loads Of pig-iron per week in
the future
The Memphis and Raleigh railroad isnow
ready for the iron, which viii be laid down
pretty soon.
The Coffee County Court has levied a
tax of twenty-five cents on the hundred
dollars for school purposes.
Col. w. c. Pickens, of Blount county,
died at his residence near MaryviIIe, on the
Sth inst, aged about forty-five years.
William Kennedy, colored man, has
been appointed United States Gauger at
Memphis, vice Capt. Reed resigned.
Thieves, Saturday night, April 8, entered
the house Of Jack Allen, at Memphis, and
carried off $1,000 and 81, 200 bond.
Owing to some complications the South
ern Express Company no longer run cars
over the Virginia and Tennessee railroad.
The Union City Courier says that Troy
is thescene of countless mule traders. Troy
used TO be famous in the Wooden-horse
business.
In the country around Chattanooga
wheat looks very promising, and the pros.
pect Of an abundant fruit crop is encourag-
ingly good.
VIM. Norton is under a $4,000 bond at
Memphis upon the charge of having muir
dered man in Corsicana, Texas, a few
months since.
Messrs. Patterson, Ledbetter & Co., con-
tractors for the Memphis and Paducah road,
have sent out sixty cOnVicts to work in the
Wolf river swamps.
Hurt & Woods, at Chattanooga, have a
ham that is emphatically big thing. 1t
weighs 523 pounds. Imagine the size of
the porker it belonged to.
The next quarterly session of the Grand
Division Sons of Temperance of East Ten
nessee will be held at Knoxville, COM
meneing on the 18th inst.
The Roane Iron Works manufactures so
tons of rails and uses 20 tons of pig iron per
day. They have thirty or forty cords of
pig iron packed up about the mill.
The unfayorable weather of the past few
weeks has delayed the planting season in
West Tennessee. Planters complain of
being considerably behind with their crops.
Gen. Holman, superintendent of the
Customhouse Building, at Knoxville, has
been instructed to lay the entire yard and
pavements connected with the building in
sawed marble slabs.
A telegram has been received by DR..
Drooidonf 81 fha
University, from Senator Brownlow, stating
that the University claim had passed the
Senate unanimously.
The Memphis Avalanche learns that q
mass meeting will soon be called by Mr..
Mcdowell, Chairman of the Executive
Committee, to choose delegates to the
Democratic State Convention at Nashville.
The Knoxville Chronicle announces that
delegates to and from the Republican State
Convention at Nashville will be passed
over the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad at half fare. @Can these
things be" etc.
The rain storm Of Monday, April 8, did
considerable damage in Knox county. Fresh
plowed ground is reported as being badly
washed, while fences have been swept
away and the farmers calculations upset
generally.
On the 22d of April, there will be held
in Memphis a convention Of Baptists, for
the purpose of considering and deciding
upon what action should be taken in regard
to the removal of the Baptist Theological
Seminary from Greenville, S. g., to Mem
phis.
A citizen of Chattanooga who desires to
have the Baptist Theological Seminary
moved to that place, contends that four or
five hundred young men studying in Chat
tanooga for the ministry would be equal in
morslizing influences to a police force of
fifty or more.
In Happy Valley beyond Montvale in
East Tennessee, only one death has occur
red during the last twelve years, and that
was from old age. All who desire longevi-
ty go to Happy Valley, beside which the
virtues and advantages of "Araby the
blest" sink into insigniicance.
Six car loads of railroad iron were ship
ped Tuesday from the Roane Iron Works,
at Chattanooga, to Knoxville. 1t is the
first shipment of lot of two hundred tons
ordered for the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad. Laying new track
will shortly commence near Bristol.
L 0As 0udlldA3 AAhdAAOAcAA os5C4AS Vi VIC 4ACLA-
phis Waterworks Company, has concluded
a contract with a Cincinnati firm to ship
Immediately to Memphis two thousand five
hundred tons of iron water pipe for said
works, being twenty-five miles of pipe, to
be paid for by the first mortgage bonds on
the works.
During the storm at Brownsville Mon
day, April 8, Mr.. Burton's house was blown
over, and Mrs. Burton badly hurt. Also
Mr.. Jones' house was entirely destroyed,
and Mr.. Jones badly hurt. The residence
of Frank johnson and out houses were
destroyed. A negro named Peter Rice had
his house blown down, and both of his
thighs were broken.
The salary of the Mayor of Memphis is
5000 per annum for himself and 81, 200
for clerk hire. The comptroller, city trea-
surer, city attorney aud chief Of police get
$4,000 year each. The city engineer,
hospital physician and captains of police
gets $1,000 year, and other officials, 81, 200
to 81, 800 year.