Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-02
TENNESSEE NEWS.

| S1,ZOU OF the GeaD0uy 1unu.
| J. c. Gillespie has been elected Mayor
of Humboldt for the ensuing year.
The graded public schools of Maryville
have received $500 of the Peabody charity.
| DIR. S. i. Caldwell, prominent physi-
clan of Gibson county, died on the 23d OF
| November.
| The Memphis Register says there were
three thousand visitors at the Memphis Ex-
| position on the Goth ult
Mr.. John II. Gardner, of Bedford county,
was married on the 18th ult., to Miss
Myrtle Bryant, of Lynchburg.
The Gdttdtin Tefnlesseedn says child of
Mrs. McFall was found dead in its cradle
on the morning of the 26eh ult.
1t is stated that the farmers of East Ten
nessee have sown more wheat, and it is
| looking finer, than ever before.
The MaryrlLe Republican has been
favored with lot of corn raised by the
Sabbath School scholars of Mt. Emory Sab
bath School.
The Jo,sesb6ro Echo of Nov. 20 says:
Last Wednesday morning little brown
jug was found hanging in locust tree on
Main street, dressed in mourning.
The Troy Nescs of Nov. rs, states that
Mr.. Dick McRee, brought into that Office a
turnip of very curious shape, measuring /
foot in circumference and weighing 20lbs.
The Greeneritle Union has this note:
About ten thousand hogs have passed
through the toll-gate on the Warm Springs
road, going South, despite the hard times.
The following common place is from the
LynchbtTg Pioneer of the 2Sth ult: The
weather for the past few days has been
splendid for killing hogs, and great many
have taken advantage of it
Greene county has three thousand chill
dren in school. The Union says: The
Greeneville schools have PAS pupils in at
tendance, and are in a more prosperous and
fourishing condition, with brighter pros
poets for the future, than for years past.
A correspondent of the GdLLGtin Erdrp-
iner writes: ''On Tuesday, Nov. II, the
idiot son of Mr.. s. Lee, living on the
headwaters of Brushy Fork creek, left
home, and, up to the Doth, had not been
found or heard from. The child was ten
or twelve years old, of light build, and
could not talk"
A citizens meeting was held at Louis
vile or the 22d ult. to consider the ques-
ton of improving the navigation of the
Tennessee river above Loudon. Resolu-
tions were adopted setting forth the need of
improvement and requesting the influence,
on that behalf, of the East Tennessee
Congressman.
The JOnesbOro Echo of Now 20 has the
following: On Thursday last it was made
known to Capt. Howern that negro
woman who had been in Jail for some time
had given birth to child. The jail was
thoroughly searched, the sewer examined,
but the child not found. 1t is supposed
that by some means her child was given to
an outsider and destroyed.
The Gdlldtin TeTlneSSedn of the Doth ult.
says: On last Tuesday morning Mrs. Har-
riet Griffin, who lived on the Red River
turnpike, woke up in the morning before
day, and asked some of the family what
o'clock it was, complained Of being drowsy
and said no more. When breakfast was
ready, some of the family went to her room
and found her dead.
Sheriff Edmondson, of Blount county,
levied on the steers of a citizen the other
day, and when about to drive them away,
the citizen came out and shot the oxen.
The Sheriff hauled them to town and sold
them for beef. A Sheriff in Knoxville the
other day levied on mirror and was fol-
lowed up by the spiteful owner, who broke
it all to pieces by giving it a kick.
The Memphis Appeal says: Detective
McCune has arrested two noted thieves,
Peter Lyons and Charles Wilson, the latter
of whom, about eleven months ago, con-
cealed himself in Gen. Forests house, and
while the family was at supper, stole a val
liable gold watch which had been presented |
the owner by friends in England during
his visit there. Lyons, it is said, some
time ago stole sixteen hundred dollars
worth of clothing from Powers & McGeoy's'
on Second street.
The Jackson Herald gives the surveyed |
route for new railroad. Ii says: ''The |
report of Capt. j. j. Williams, Engineer of |
the Jackson, Tennessee River and Birming-
ham Railroad, has lately been published. |
The survey of the route commenced at a
point near the Mobile and Ohio Machine |
Shops in this city, running in a southeast
erly direction to the Little Middle Fork of
the Forked Deer river, thence to Martins |
Creek, thence over the divide, down Clark's |
Creek, thence to Jacks Creek, leaving Hen |
derSOn Station three miles to the west'
From this point the route continues to tie |
head waters of the Forked Deer, to a low |
ridge which divides the waters flowing into |
the Tennessee from those flowing into the |
The route then leads through |
McNairy, leaving Purdy two miles to the |
west, passing over the field of Shiloh and |
at Pittsburgh landing connects with the sur- |
vey via Big Bear and Cedar creeks, 1872 miles |
to Birmingham. The report of the Engin- |
eer gives assurance that the supply of coal,
iron, lime, marble, pine and cedar lumber |
along the proposed line is ineXhaustible."
The Jackson Courier says: The growth |
of this section of the State of Tennessee is
steadily progressing. Population and ma
terial wealth is increasing at highly sat
ratio. There is scarcely single |
acre or single rood of all this large scope |
of territory that does not show some sign of
becoming at an early day, tributary to the
common veal. The towns are building
houses almost as fast as lumber can be OBJ
tanned, but not so fast as the need of the in
fux of newcomers demands. In short, de-
spite of bad government, high taxes and
high prices, this immediate region is fast /
the hopes of its inhabitants. In
the country, the small farm. system is fast
coming into favor. We feel free to say to
the people of other and distant States, that
Jackson and the surrounding country pre-
Sents homes worth coming tO-hOmes with
advantages unsurpassed by those of almost
any other section of the West. The city of
Jackson, now containing resident popula-
lion of over 5000, is augmenting the nnm-
Der. 1t is already a railroad crossing; and
that its people will not cease endeayor I'M
ill the jackson, Tennessee River and Biz
mingham Railroad shall be built, we feel
sure, by which they will not only pierce
coal-fields and manufacturing districts of
but open up trade with East
Tennessee by way of the Tennessee river.
In sober earnestness and in all candor,
here is not and cannot be, in all beautiful,
,alubrious and fructifying Tennessee, a bet
5er locality for the concentration of capital