Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-20
TENNESSEE NEWS.
TuIlahoma wants a square.

Dyer county crops are unusually hne.
A new depot is being erected at Rogers
vile.
Chattanooga is organizing a Greeley
Club.
A Murfreesboro man is about to patent
1eayoke.
Knoxville is about to have Corn and
Wheat Exchange. n Isl ~.
The Woodbury. Hunting Club is out on
its annual excursion.
The steamer Lucy Coker was launched
at Chattanooga Thursday
In the Memphis district there are six
candidates for Congress.
DR.. Geo. d. Crosthwait, Of Murfreesboro
has invented a car coupling.
Market street, Chattanooga, has recently
been Davigable for canoes.
An effort is being made in Memphis to
establish uniform charges among sellers OF
cotton.
The Chattanooga Times learns that the
damage to wheat is not so great as was
feared.
MIR, Jno. Short, of Rutherford county,
has peach orchard containing 2,700 bear
ing trees.
W. S. McGaughey, near Athens, has a
watermelon patch numbering three thou
sand hills.
Saturday, the 18th inst, lightning struck
tree and KILLED pig in Rev. j. d. Whlte' s
garden at Athens.
The Recorder of Chattanooga Thursday
fined two boys two dollars and costs Tor
stealing peaches.
L. +. Sharp, ESQ.,, of Ten Nile Valley,
McMinn county, has raised hfty-one push
els of wheat to the acre.
A young lady living near Murfreesboro
remembers when she first walked and the
first sentence she uttered.
Anumber of Northern fruit trees planted
at Heiskell's station, in Knox county, have
proved to be crab apple trees.
A few nights since Mr.. Fl. Master, Of
Chattanooga, had a fOrty-dollar meer-
schaum pipe stolen from his porch.
Memphis police are kept busy by "diSor-
derlies," mad dogs and stray children,
genuine summer weather crop.
A mare belonging to j. NJ. Hill, of WI
son county, has given birth to two colts
this year; nor were they twins.
Samuel L. Cooper, living near Auburn,
Cannon county, has killed one hundred
and fifty-six squirrels this season.
Col. John Baker, aged seventy-eight, one
of the best citizens of Madison county,
died Tuesday night, the 10th inst.
w. Barrett, of Auburn, Cannon county,
has corn shoot measuring three feet five
inches from the stalk to the end of the ear.
DR.. II. j. Nancy, of Auburn, Cannon
county, recently killed seventy-eight birds
at two shots, and never took good aim
either.
Dog fighting, cursing and swearing are
fiequently INDUCED in near the office Of The
Cleveland Banner. Get up another story
higher. --.
sWhat is solitude?" asked merchant
Sunday school teacher in Memphis; and he
was answered: "The store that don't ad-
vertise."
Saturday, the 18th inst, Mr.. Edward
George, one of the highly esteemed OLD
citizens of B1ount county, died at Mont
Vale Springs.
From the counties of Polk, Bradley and
McMinn, forty applications for license TO
distil brandy and whisky under the new law
have been made.
Not long since I. j. Jetton and boys
near Auburn, Cannon county, killed ninety
seven rats one afternoon, and it wasn't
good day for rats either.
One farmer in Sequatehie valley has foul
hundred bushels of wheat i'll the shock,
damaged so much by the rain that it viii
| not pay to thresh it out.
Isaac Doyle, a veteran OF 1872, now
seventy-fve years Ofage, has this year cult
| vated twelve acres of new ground near
| Heskell's station, in Knox county.
Mrs. j. A. Major, of Shop Spring, Wilson
county, has raised turnip beet weighing
four pounds and thirteen ounces, and mea
suring twenty-three inches in circumfer-
| ence.
Rutherford county has colored debating
club, who have discussed "Whether Nayi
cation is by land or water" They are tC
debate (which is the greatest man, an ora
tor, a tax collector or squire"