Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-12
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Unfolding Churchwell recently caught six
Young wolves near Waynesboro.
Over one hundred dogs have been killed
in Jackson, 80 far, this season.
The Jews at Trenton are preparing to
build synagogue at that place.
A negro man on DR.. VIM. Seats farm,
near Gibson Station, is 129 years old.
Woodfn Naylor has been appointed
United States Commissioner for Obion
county.
The corner-stoneoQf new monastery for
the Franciscan Fathers, in Memphis, has
been laid.
Walter Harrell, of Newbern, Dyer
county, accidentally broke one of his legs a
few days since.
Gen. L. NJ. Tharpe, of Henry, is an
nounced as candidate for reelection to
the State Senate.
DR.. Ewing, Of Clifton, recently bad q
pitched battle with a rattlesnake. The
snake was killed.
The commencement exercises Of the five
colleges In jackson began on the 9th and
close on the both inst.
Jesse Mask has brought suit against the
city of Jackson in the sum Of $3.50 for the
killing of favorite dog by policeman.
The contract for railroad from COVing-
ton to eight miles beyond Ripley has been
let, to be completed by next December.
In the Criminal Court, Memphis, on tie
Sth, sixteen persons were sentenced to i'm
pCisonment in the penitentiary from two to
twenty years each.
Spurious five cent nickles are in circula-
ton in various portions Of East Tennessee.
1t is surmised that they are manufactured
in Roane county, Tennessee.
A Mr.. Kyker, near JoneseOro, had pine
tree on his farm which was cut down in
1862. The stump still remains as green as
the day It was cut, and shows no symptoms
Of decay.
A difficulty occurred In Centreville, Kick
man county, between the town constable
aud several countrymen, in which the con-
stable used his knife pretty freely, cutting
one man severely.
The Jackson Wing and Tribune learns
that the Memphis and Louisville railroad
contemplate moving their machine shops
from Memphis to Humboldt. The grounds
have been purchased and surveyed.
H. w. Wall, of Carroll county, editor of
the Mckenzie Times, is announced as a
candidate for Floater from the counties OF
Gibson, Weakley, Carroll and Henry. Mr..
w. J. Mcfarland, Of Gibson county, Is q
candidate for the same position.
Cornelius Brewer, veteran OF 1917, IS
in Wayne county, "a years old. He can
see to read without spectacles, and is as
stout as most men Of fifty years Of age.
He was a private in the regiment comman-
ded by Col. Thomas II. Benton. -
On the ID, inst, VIM. Irwin, collier and
superintendent Of the Crane Creek coaling
ground for the Lagrange Furnace, struck
one Of his hands by the name Of Winters on
the head with shovel, crushing the skull
and causing death instantly. Irwin says he
did not mean to kill him.
Jacob Sebring, Of the firm of Sebring &
R. E. Lee, contractors, Memphis, is alleged
to have decamped with over $1,000, the
property of the firm, and without taking
his wife with him. The firm had been es-
tablished about two years. It is said that
Mr.. Sebring lost heavily gambling in Mem
phis.
While the baptism of several negro con-
verts was progressing of Memphis, last
Sunday, near the stern of the steamer
Great Republic, the wheels of the steamer
were suddenly set in motion, which caused
a general scamper to the shore. Having
got over their fright, preacher and converts
returned to the water aud the ceremony was
satisfactorily completed.
A man who claimed to be from Mary
land stopped at Mr.. John Hyder's residence
on Buffalo creek, in Carter county, recent
". He was riding a fine mule, bareback,
which at once aroused the suspicious of
Mr.. Hyder toward the stranger. After
L.
started on his journey, and succeeded in
stealing a splendid saddle which was IN the
barn at the time. he had got but a short
distance when the property was missed BY
the owner, who Immediately went in pur-
suit of the thief. Coming in sight Of him,
Hyder called to stop, which was not heed
ed, when be fred the contents of a shot
gun into the fleeing thiefs back, which
soon brought him to bay. he attempted
to resist Mr.. Hyder on coming up to him,
by drawing pistol, but was foiled in bis
attempts. He was taken to ElizabethtoWn
and placed 10 Jail to await his trial.
On the southern corner of Main and
| Prince streets, Knoxville, is q dlspidated
building inhabited by colored people, and
in one room reside Alex Washington and
his wife Betsey. The latter has been suf-
feIing for some time with phthisis. Last
Friday, in passing by, an unknown white
man, hearing her groans, entered ant. asked
one of the children, aged seven years,
"yhat allied the womsn?" On being told,
he asked the grill to get him glass, remark
ing that he 1c0uld cure her in five minutes.
Suspecting nothing wrong, the glass was
brought, into which the stranger put differ
ent herbs which he took from his pocket,
and poured over them a fluid resembling
whisky, and gave Betsy dose. In very
few minutes after swallowing the mixture
she was taken with crsmp and began foam
ing at the mouth, gToaning as if in agony
ali the while. 1t was subsequently discoV-
cred the woman had been poisoned. Who
the man was that administered the poison
has not yet been ferreted out.