Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-16
TENNESSEE NEWS.

tremely well.
j. G. Kinzel, of Knoxville, has received a
patent for a rail-splitting machine.
The Dyersburg papers say big crops of
tobacco will be planted in that vicinity.
Thirteen divorces were granted at the
last term of the Haywood Circuit Court.
R. P. Cypert is candidate for Repre-
sentative in the Legislature from Wayne
county.
The Herald says that the mortality among
the colored population in Chattanooga is
very great.
Haywood county is out of debt and has
plenty ofmoney. She is buying in her rail-
road bonds.
Mad dogs are becoming uncomfortably
numerous in Knox county, and many have
been killed.
w. W. Hobbs, of Humphreys county, has
a white Chester pig two months old that
weighs 81 pounds.
Col. Thomas II. Reeves is organizing a
company Of colored soldier at Jonesboro for
the frontier service.
The Jonesboro Flag says that the citizens
of johnson City have become the prey of
thieves and robbers.
Fifteen hundred dollars have been sub
scribed for the repair of the Zion Episcopal
Church in Brownsville.
Extensive fires have been raging in the
woods in the vicinity of Waynesjoro doing
a great deal of damage.
The increase of gas consumption in
Memphis will be at least five per cent. IN
der the influence of competition.
n. B. Price sold sixteen head of cattle at
Knoxville on the 18th inst that Melted him
nearly 81, 100. That kind of farming pays.
Rev. Mr.. Randle, who resides a short
distance from Trenton, and several mem
bers of his family are Frustrated with
smallpox.
Aylmer D. Bright, son of the Rev. DR.. j.
E. Bright, formerly of TrentC a, has been
appointed a cadet to the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Maryland.
The taxable property in Washington
county amounts to s., 1851. The school
tax levied by the County Court at the April
term amounts to S3,743.
Judge w. P. Martin, Of Columbia, who
was recently threatened with appoplexy,
has so far recovered as to be able to hold
court last week at Pulaski.
The Chattanooga Herald calls upon the
ministers Of that city to put the same prac-
teal spirit into their sermons that Olive
Logan puts into her lectures.
On Thursday night, April II, the store of
MessrS. Burger 81 Hood, at Maryvile, was
entered by burglars and robbed of clothing,
hats, boots, etc., to the amount of SI60.
The city attorney of Chattanooga has
been instructed by the City Council to OBJ
tain an injunction preventing the railroads
from laying any additional switch tracks
across Market street.
The Tennessee and Kentucky Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Association will hold
its spring fair at Humboldt, Tenn, on Fri
day, May II, 1872, continuing two days. a
liberal list of premiums is offered.
One night last week, a lady passenger on
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, while asleep
between Jackson and Columbus, was rob-
bed of an elegant set of brand new front
teeth, which she was wearing at the time.
The case Of injunction OF the company to
prevent the sale of the Alabama and Chat
tanOOga road in bankruptcy was up for a
hearing before Judge Wood, of Mobile, last
and continued until next Thurs
day.
Letters have been received from Elk.
Norton, President of the Paducah and Mem
phis railroad, stating that he has purchased
,, 80 tons of railroad iron, sufficient to lay
the track between Memphis city and Cow
ington, Tenn.
Jacob Fritz, who it will be remembered
was accused of being implicated in the
murder of John Coker, steamboat man,
a short time ago, has surrendered to the
authorities at Kingston and given bond for
apr eaTance at trial.
A Shelbyville paper gives the following
names as probable candidates for Congress
in the 4th district: Gen. Palmer, DR..
and Mr.. Ready, of Rutherford;
Col. Matt Martin, of Coffee, and Hon. John
NJ. Bright, of Lincoln.
A man named Crisco has been sentenced
to the PeniteuIiary for two years for burn
ing the barn Of Frank H. Bills, in Marshal
county. He is said to be an old offender
from Bedford county, and has already
served term in the Penitentiary for for
mer felony.
a Mr.. Johns, from Middle Tennessee,
was committed to Jail at Fenton on last
Saturday for attempting to pass altered or
raised money. He had cut the s'tWenty
from a green Confederate bill and pasted it
across the end of one dollar United States
treasury note.
A number of leading merchants on Front
and adjoining streets in Memphis, have
agreed to close their business houses at six
O'Clock P. NJ, commencing on the 10Th of
April and ending on the 18th of September
next. This is done in order to give their
clerks some recreation.
The United States District
Attorney, Judge Hudson, has re-
ceived instructions from the department at
Washington, to Immediately commence
proceedings in ejectment to obtain posses
sion ofall property sold to the United States
at the direct tax sale made in Memphis CITY
in 1866, and not since that time redeemed
by the owners.
Speaking of the Alabama and Chattanoo-
ga Railroad, the Chattanooga Times says:
Trains are running regularly between this
point and Birmingham. We understand
from an officer of the road that the assign
ees are trying to effect arrangements with
Gen. WotfoTd to run his trains through to
Tuscaloosa. That portion Of the road ly-
ing in Alabama is in the hands of the as
signees i. bankruptcy, but this we are in
formed will not interfere with the running
Of Gen. Woiford's trains as heretofore.
The Maryville Republican states that on
Monday, the Sth inst, DR.. j. G. Gillespie
and family, of Louisville, in Blount county,
were poisoned from drinking milk, which
had been placed in a new tin vessel. The
Doctor was in Maryville Monday morning.
and was taken sick on the street, vomiting
freely, and was scarcely able to ride home,
Upon his arrival he found his two children
in bed sick with the same symptoms. The
children had drank the milk at breakfast: a
short time before DR.. G.. arrived from
Maryville, Mrs. G. had drank some of the
milk, and little while after his arrival she
was taken with the same symptoms. Our
latest information is that DR.. Gillespie and
the two children were better, but Mrs.
Gillespie was very poorly. Upon a care.
full investigation, he concluded that the
poison came from the presence of lead in
the tin vessel.
The Cotton Crop Prospect
From the New Orleans Price Current
The weather was cloudy and unsettled on
Saturday, Sunday and Monday, with
heavy Gale on Monday but Yesterday If vvas