Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-07
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Knoxville wants first class gymnasium.
A firm in Bristol intend manufacturing
brick by machinery.
The prospect for peaches in upper East
Tennessee is very slim. ...
There are eight candidates for Sheriff an
nounced in Union county.
Joe Harris fell dead while working in a
brickyard in Cleveland recently.
There are sixteen candidates for the Of
fee of Jailer Of Montgomery county.
A gentleman named William Poach re-
Gently died in Weakley county at the age Of
IO7.
TIE machinery of the city government of
Memphis for the month of March cost S32,-
900.
The residence of D. B. Shriver was des-
troyed by fire the I'd inst. Loss about
$1,000.
One hundred and fifty-two property hold
ers owe the city of Memphis $S89,6S7 for
back taxes.
Jack Ray has resigned his position as
road-master of the western division of the
Northwestern road.
The Jackson Wing and Tribune thinks
that the farmers in Madison county are
planting too much cotton.
The wheat is up six to seven inches in
East Tennessee, and the prospects for a
good crop are excellent.
A negro woman was instantly killed by a
train near Bartlette, on the Mobile and
Ohio railroad, on the I'd inst.
A meeting has been held in Chattanoogv
to secure the removal of the Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary to that place.
The prOtracted services in the Presbyte-
rian church at ClarksVille continue, and are
attended with most gratifying success.
A stable with two valuable horses, the
property of Judge Overton, near Clarksville
was destroyed by an incendiary recently.
The residence of Benz. Barr in Jackson
was entered by thieves the Sd inst, and
Butlerized of quantity of silver spoons.
Aylmer D. Bright, son of DR.. Bright, Of
Jackson, has been appointed cadet from thai
district to the United States Naval Acad-
emy at Annapolis.
Kerosene was the cause of Winnie Jack
sons death in Memphis last week. Light
ing fire with kerosene may be termed light
ing a funeral pyre.
A music box surprised Jackson editor
recently, causing him to sing out
''Music has charms, as men supposes,
To lead them to places where they redden theil
noses"
Seven hundred and ninety-four arrests
were made by the police in Memphis du
ring the, past month, or five hundred anC
fifty-three blacks and two hundred anC
siXty-one whites.
One hundred and fifty emigrants passed
through Knoxville last Thursday, from va
rious points in East Tennessee, en- rOut,
for the central part of the State, where
they intend to settle and cultivate cotton
A charge was made in Washington
County Court, by Col. T. H. Reeves, tha
there are now outstanding ten Thousand
dollars of illegal warrants against the coun
ty, issued between the years 1861 and 1865
in many cases without even an order from
court. A committee has been appointed tt
investigate the charge.
The bricklayers employed on the new
courthouse at LoudOn struck on the Is
inst. on account Of negro bricklayer be
ing employed on the wall. Capt. Clark wa
notified by the white hands that if the
negro continued TO work they would not
! consequently he discharged the negro, aAC
the hands resumed their work.
According to the statistics of wealth, pop
ulation and taxation just issued by the cen
sus bureau at Washington, Shelby county
has real and personal property valued a
S47,412,S73 assessed at 5,064, ,924; she
pays $7O,2l9 State tax, $375,S13 county
S486,S81 city, making total of $932, ,S23.
The Grand Jury Of the Memphis Grimm
al Court were badly sold on April fools day
They received an invitation to dine at {
house on Madison street, and accepted il
unanimously. When the appointed houl
drew nigh, however, they found no sucf
name in the city directory as the one ap
pended to the note of invitation. They
summoned the Sheriff and compelled hin
to disclose the name Of the man who de
livered it. He did so, and several young
fellows implicated in the sell were arrested
They proposed to compromise the matter
and modified the angry jurors, by offering II
dine and wine them right royalty. The
jury considered the case carefully, and afte
mature deliberation, rejected the offer, sus
pecting some new trick in it.