Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-25
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Compelling persons charged with crime
TO sit for photographs is a police rule in
Memphis, yet there is no law for it.
sOu the night of the 21st inst. burglars
attempted to enter the residence of ex-
President johnson, at Greeneyiile, but
failed.
Joseph Carter, indicted as accessory be-
fore the fact to the murder of Joseph p.
Mason, has been tried at GreeneVile and
acquitted.
The Fayetteville Observer publishes a
long list of transfers of estate which have
Business in that line must be lively in
Fayetteville.
Various papers throughout the State are
still publishing, as news item, the &C
count of the blowing up of the Sentinel Of
fee in Raleigh, n. c., which occurred on
the 11th inst.
The taxable value Of real and personal
property in Shelby county, according to the
assessment for 1872, is S4l,976,565, all of
which lies within the corporate limits Of
Memphis, except $7.SI7,565.
The demurrer OF the Memphis Gas Light
Company to the suit of the Gayoso Gas
Company for damages has been sustained,
but the plaintiffs were granted the privilege
to amend their pleadings for the future
consideration and decision by the court.
The suit Of the Trustees of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South, for the re-
coverv Of the Rhsatown Parsonage, occu-
| pied rs 3 J. R Hughes, of the Metho.
dist Episcopal Gnu en-, has been compro-
missed by the latter suTrendering the prop
erty.
In McMinnville, SUNDAY Oct 90, there
was to have been wedding Preparations
! for grand feast had been made, large
party of gusets invited and the indications
were that everything would pass off in the
lOveliest manner imaginable. When the
! the hour set for the marriage service ar.
rived, everything was in readiness for the
ceremony but the bridegroom, which indi
vidual, who always figures prominently al
a wedding, had not yet put in an appear.
ance. The minister in attendance having
certain scruples in the matter, declined tC
perform the ceremony unless the bride
| groom came, and as he failed to appear,ith
prOnouncing ofthe ceremony was indef
nitely postponed, but the dinner was not
for the hungry guests sat down TO the well
filled table and attacked the viands in so Wig
orous fashion that they were able in due
time to retire from the field, conquerOrs.
The citizens of Chattanooga have organ
lied their association, which they modestly
chriSten the "Citizens Municipal Reform
Association" The object of the organiza
ton seems to lie the taking of the manage
ment of affairs concerning the town int
the hands of the people. Article 4, Of the
proposed constitution is as follows: "Money
collected from the citizens in the shape OF
taxes ought to be spent, though judiciously
yet in a liberal sense. For particular con.
sideration we recommend the improve
ment of the streets; the public schools
buildings in general; the encouragement OIL
industry in the broadcast sense of the word
and last, bat not least; the condition of thu
poor and helpless"
The Chattanooga Times, of the Path inst.
has this to say of man who has been OF
Grating in that place, in confidence
way: A man who gave his name as w. R
Byers, of Paris, Texas, came to this cit,
Friday night with young girl and he
father, from SeQu2tehie. He was married
to the girl on Saturday, and obtained from
Mrs. German $3.50 worth Of goods on falls
pretenses, and a small amount from Ro
senbaum y CAIN. He went up to Look
out on Sunday, on bridal tour, and mad
his father-in-law pay The toll aud hotel bill
Tuesday night he went to the Railroa
Saloon, ON oh street, and got round Q
drinks without paying for them. After
wards he came back and had quarre
with the saloon keeper. He was up befor,
the Recorder yesterday and was fined $50
which he could not pay, and he now Ian
guishes in the city jaa. His victims re
covered the goods which he had obtained
but, OF course, they were somewhat dam
aged by use. He had draft from fir
: ia Paris on firm in New Orleans, whic
from comparison with his handwriting ar
pears to be forged. His father-inl law lei
yesterday for home, taking his daughLe
r with him, and feeling, as he said to Nj
: Owens (another VICTIM to the extent
f hack hire for the mountain trip ''poWe
: fully hurt"