Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-15
TENNESSEE NEWS.

/ jackson Is 70 nave dancing acauemy.
/ LaWrenceburg has good msle school.
| Columbia enjoys ice at I've cents pei
pound.
The Maury County Fair commences tn,
18th inst. --. .-
Dover, Stewart county, has prosperous
school.
Fayetteville, Lincoln county, has foul
white schools. - aF 81 =.
The roof is being put on the Memphii
Exposition building.
Memphis Is thronged with planters look
| ing up cotton pickers. esG
I Chattanooga has q scholastic population
Of ], 134 white and 742 coloced.
Hog cholera has been prevalent In the
| nth district Of Maury county.
| At Columbia large room Is being
| fitted up for the Knights of PythiaS.
Isaac Huff, colored lunatic, has been
jailed at Columbia for safe keeping.
Boyd's grist-mill, at Columbia, ground
elghty-fve bushels of meal in four hours.
A Gibson county man recently went in
the neighborhood of Dyersburg to duel
another. ,-.
Warm weather and the drought have
caused much sickness in the vicinity o.
Jackson.
Eugene Cooper, of Maury county, was
recently thrown from q swing and had his
jaw broken. --. -..-..s
Within the last two wee Ks nineteen con-
ve,ts have joined the Met hodist church in
East Jackson.
The Circuit Court of Maury has decided
the 'hog law" against Columbia, who viii
have to try pork hereafter.
Col. Ambrose r. Reds residence near
Denmark, Madison county, was burned on
the 18th inst. Loss $1,000.
10 Stout, of Stewart county, recently
killed an owl that measured ffGy-six inches
from the extremity OF its wings.
A proposition to subscribe $4,000 TO the
Duck River Valley Railroad viii be SUBJ
mitted to the voters Of Fayetteville, on the
5th Of October.
During the present season, Fayetteville,
Lincoln county, has shipped twenty bales
Of cotton and 1880 bushels Of wheat,
making 104 car loads T-e-rs7 - - ~
In the neighborhood OF Medon, Madison
county, many cattle have died from a dis
ease resembling bloody murrain, caused
by drought and the dried vegetation.
At Columbia recently young man be-
came jig juiced and pawning bis valice for
sobered thought it had been stolen.
Vim. Floyd who was recently struck In
the head by George Malone while search.
ing for an escaped convict in Sullivan
county, has died from the injury there in
ficted.
The residence OF Mrs. Sheriff. In Coving-
ton was burned on the night Of the 9th
inst, with nearly all its contents. The
building was new and the loss viii be
nearly $1,000.
At Columbia, few days ago, James M.
Cranberry was knocked down By an attor-
ney named A. G. Hickey, in presence Of the
Circuit Court, whose Honor, Judge Mar
tin, fined both parties. =
The Columbia Herald says: "0ur town
Is again in possession of a fair one from the
magnolia wales Of Louisiana, where the
warm breath comes from the mystic gulf
stream, and keeps the sweet flowers ever In
bloom" That is fguer. rative.
Owing to the strike amongst the marble
cutters East, the shipment Of marble from
Hawkins county has virtually been sus-
pended for some weeks. Before that,
several car loads were shipped during each
month. s-0
The tax list shows that the value of land
in Hawkins county is 81, 972, 742 and there
are in the county 1874 town lots of the
value Of Sll0, $50, and other taxsbles valued
at SIPS, 406 making the total wealth Of the
county S2,2l2,92S. There are also in the
county l,S47 citizens who pay poll tax.
The Columbia Herald Of the 18th inst.
says: "The following prominent and pub
lie spirited gentlemen represented their re-
spective counties in the recent railroad
meeting at this place: Humphreys, Rev.
A. A Wilson, L. s. Goodrich; Marshall, r.
G. Mcclure; Lincoln, Col. D. w. Holman,
Geo. B. Bsyless, DIR. j. II. Holman, j.
Gillespie, DR.. N. D. Hampton and L. P.
Bright; Coffee, NJ. r. Campbell; Moore,
William Smith; Hickman, o. A. Nixon,
w. B. Russell; r. B. Russell, and VIM.
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