Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-24
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The work on the new brick hotel at Nc
Kenzie, is progressing slowly.
Judge Emmons has re-ope ed the ad-
iourned term of the United States Circuit
Court at Memphis.
Mrs. Hanly, of Weakley county, dropped
dead one day last week whilst out In the
ward feeding her chickens.
The chain-gang at Memphis is character
ised as a public nuisance and private
wrong, which ought to be abolished.
There is at least one place on earth where
Dolly Vardens are not to be seen. Nothing
of the sort has yet been seen at Mckenzie
There are only ten candidates for tax col
lector in Madison, TENT Lauderdale, seven
in Fayette, and, and gracious knows how
many in Shelby.
Mi. Sam Mahafy was attacked by a
vicious dog at Memphis that bit a piece out
of the calf of his leg. Mr.. Mahatty had
the wound cauterized and the dog shot.
Gen. J. D, G. Atkins will address the
Agricultural and Mechanical Association OF
Southwest Kentucky and West Tennessee
at Union City on the lst day OF October
next.
The work is rapidly progressing on Col
Falkner's road, from Ripley to Middleton
on the Memphis and Charleston Road. The
Advertiser says that the iron and rolling
stock will be delivered on The 1st of June,
and the road be in operation in September.
At Memphis last Saturday, young man
| named George Gleason, route agent on the
Mississippi Central railroad, was required
| to give bond for his appearance to answer
| the charge of falling to deliver S436 with
! which he had been entrusted.
| ,AThere were two distinct shocks of the
earth felt at Jackson on Friday night, the
! 10Th. about II O'Clock p. NJ. They succeed
| ed each other with only a short interval be-
tween the shocks. The old citizens say
they were pretty severe. They reused most
people from sleep.
A Republican meeting in the county of
| Crockett last week adopted resolutions urg-
| inc Gen. Grant for President, Horace May
nard for Vice President, and their Repre-
sentative, A. A. Freeman, for Governor, fol-
whom they instructed their delegates to use
all the means in their power.
The Bee boasts that no traces OF the re-
cent destruction by the storm which re.
Gently visited Brownsville, will be seen by
the first of May. The people of Browns
| vile and of Haywood county have a de-
served reputation for energy and integrity
to which some larger places are not en-
titled.
The great Jolly Island law suit on tria
at Athens, terminated last Friday, the de
cision giving three-fOurths of the island to
the Hopkins heirs. The other one-fourtl
Ooes to the heirs of Thos. II. Galloway
The rents of the three-fourths for twenty
two years will go with the recovery in favol
of the Hopkins heirs, making the tOta
amount of their final recovery about sixty
thousand dollars.
An ugly railroad accident occurred neal
Jackson on the 18th, by the breaking of al
axle at Crystal Spring. The ladies' anC
smoking cars were precipitated over an EN-
bankment fifteen feet nigh, and the fOrmel
badly wrecked. Mrs. A. w. Pierce, 0
BealIreQard, Arkansas, was dangerously
wounded, and fifteen others slightly, among
whom was E. D. Frost, Superintendent o
the road. No lives lost.