Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Chattanooga had a thunder storm all to
itself Friday last.
A Persian cat, valued at 5000, strayed
into the streets of Memphis where it was
run over and killed.
There are 81 prisoners in Chattanooga
Jail; 10 Of them are from the county and
are charged with criminal offences.
A cancer weighing between ten and
twelve ounces was successfully removed
from the breast Of a widow lady residing
near JonesbOrO.
Olive Logan delivered q series of three
lectures in Memphis last week. The ladies
attended every night to see if she wore the
same dress each time.
DR.. Boyde, of GAINESVILLE, Ark, eloped
with his sister-in-laW, leaving a wife and
two children behind him. He was nabbed
in Memphis last Friday.
Two men weo were being tried in a
Knoxville Court for fighting in the public
street, renewed the row in the Court
room. They were fined SO each for con-
tempt of Court.
Many springs and wells in and around
JOnesboro' have become almost dry. This
is the first winter such a thing has taken
place within the memory of the oldest in
habitant.
The Jonesboro Herald and Tribune
grayely informs its readers that one 1t.
Isaac Branscom sis disabled by a severe
Catarrh on his right hand" He carries a
pocket handkerchief in it all the time now
A company is being organized at Cum
berland Gap for the purpose of working the
furnaces in that vicinity. They are said to
have capital of S500,OO0, and viii work at
least two hundred hands. They propose to
transport their pig-iron to Chattanooga on
boats.
A movement is afOot in JOnesboro' to
create an immense State school fund. The
programme of the organization which has
taken the initiative in the scheme announce
their programme TO be: l. To secure the
enactment of prOhibitOry liquor law. 3.
To create school fund of say S2,000,000 in
the State. From $500 to $1,000 have
already been subscribed in JOnesboro' alone,
and it is expected that Washington county
will give 100000 altogether.
The Rogersville Reporter describes a
''dOuble pig" the property of Mr.. Eli Jones,
War Gap, as follows: 1t was one of litter
of nine, recently born. Its head was re-
gularly formed, with the exception of the
ears. OF these it had three, two coming
out naturally and the odd and irregular one
being situated in the center of the back
part of the head near its juncture with the
neck. Its neck was unusually large. It's
shoulders were double. Two foFefeet pro-
jected upward from the back and two were
naturally pendent. From the shoulders
backward were the bodies of two pigs, hav-
ing two backbones, two tails and four hind
feet, which were ranged in aline below and
at right angles to the bodies. This un-
natural production was dead when found,
and was of the masculine gender.
Mr.. John Coleman committed suicide re-
Gently at his home about two miles east of
Blountville. He had been missing some
thirty minutes when he was found by his
wife, about the hour of sunrise. He had
taken couple of hanks of thread and
hanged himself to peach tree limb. His
hands and knees were touching the ground,
and his body was warm when found. 1t
seems strange that he should have died in
the manner he did, and must have jumped
from the limb. He was aged about so years,
leaves a wife and family of children, had
once been very incorporate and at times
victim of insanity, during which he was
guilty of great violence to bis family. Since
the war he became religious and was much
changed for the better.