Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-13
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Somerville has silver cOrnet band.
The New Presbyterian Church in Mem
phis will be dedicated next Sunday.
A Chattanooga negro has five fingers and
thumb on one Of his hands.
A number of citizens of Greene county
propose to organize a Bee-keepers Associa-
zion.
The vote Of Fayette county on the rail-
road subscription was 1,7TS for subscription,
and 1,626 against the same.
During tie late snow storm in East Ten
nessee, snow fell to the depth Of 49, inches
near Tazewell.
The fire In CoVington on the 9Th inst.
destroyed property to the value Of between
sixty and seventy thousand dollars.
Six colored prisoners escaped from the
Somerville jail the night of the 9th inst. by
breaking a hole through the brick wall of
the prison.
Fifty dollars have been appropriated to
make repairs on the courthouse at Athens.
The Post speaks of it as "munifcent ap-
preparation"
The body of q man, supposed to have
been a railroad employee, was found five
miles from Memphis on the Pigeon RoOst
road, last Friday.
A business letter from Livingston, Over
ton county, dated 9th inst, says. eve had
FIVE inch snow last Friday night, and
showing again briskIy last night.
The Claiborne County Fair promises 10
be a grand success. One thousand dollars
was subscribed within twenty-fOur hours,
and $4,000 will easily be raised, the Specta-
tor thinks.
a There is a boy at Carroll Station, Madi-
son county, whose feet are Handicapped.
The great toe comes out back Of the rest
and serves as a thumb. The toes are long
and slim like fingers.
A negro man, Jerry DOak, living in the
western part Of Trenton, upset a coal oil
lamp one night last week, which set fire to
one of his children and burned it so badly
that it died the next day.
The Jonesboro' Flag states that new
paper will soon be established in that place
to be called the Christian EudngeliSt, with
the motto, "The Bible, the whole Bible, and
nothing but the Bible" Il viii be edited
by Ed. James Miller, Of johnson City.
Mrs. II. ID. GOnce, wife Ofthe postmaster
at War Gap, Hawkins county, charged with
destroying letters, has given bond for her
appearance before the next term of the
Federal Court at Knoxville
The Memphis appeal says at least 10000
pages of legal cap, closely written, will be
sent from this city 10 the next term of the
Supreme Court. This mass Of legal lore
and contention would make twenty good
sized quorto volumes. Such an amount of
solid reading going up to one term Of the
comt from one Of the three divisions Of the
State is calculated to give one an idea of the
sort of work the Supreme Court has to DO.
The reading Ofthose documents forms only
small part of the work that the judges have
10 perform. From the Second Chancery
Court, last week, one transcript was sent
containing twelve hundred pages. 1t was
found necessary to bind it in calf skin.
The Dyersburg Gazette says: The re-
port that Deputy Sheriff Meadows had been
killed by "Judge" Atkins is not true.
Meadows had arrested Atkins and was
bringing him to DyeTsburg, both parties riG
ing horses. On the road Meadows alighted
20 fix his saddle, when Atkins put spurs to
his horse and ''got up and got" In his
fight he met Constable Gaulden and told
him that he had shot Gus Meadows all to
pieces, that his dead body could be found
by Will HudsOn's farm, that he was well
armed and would shoot h-ll out Of any
body that tried 10 arrest him. And this is
hoS the report come to be circulated. At
kins is still at large, and Meadows is the
Invest corpse you ever saw.