Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-22

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The Murfreesboro Monitor of the 21st
says: Cotton is opening quite rapidly in
some sections Of the county, and we have
heard Of farmers who viii begin to pick next
week. They think they can pick as much
as fifty pounds day in sore fields.
The Knoxville Chronicle says q letter
from DR.. D. T. Boyn; OF, st Montvale
Springs, states that Mrs. Sharp, the wife of
sandy" Sharp, living about five miles from
Knoxville, had fallen down at the springs
and broken her leg on the night of the 18th
inst
The Pulaski Citizen "feels assured that
the crops in Giles county are in very good
condition and that the yield in everything
viii exceed expectations. We arrive at this
conclusion rot from any reports, but from
the simple fact that there have been none
We bear no complaints"
A Roane county correspondent of the
Kingston Ne1gS, says: The Hrops are only
tolerably good. The wheat crop was fail
ure, killed out by the extreme cold winter,
and the spot. The oat crop Is excellent.
The general opinion is that the corn crop
will not exceed an average yield.
The Chattanooga Times has heard from
various counties up the river ami in North
Georgia and Alabama, which agree in say
ing that wheat has ''panned out" something
near two-thirds Ofthe splendid crop of last
year, while the berry is superior on an aV-
erage to that of the last crop. Corn, prom
ises to yield equal to last years.
!. The Knoxville Chronicle reports two
Moffat, colored, died at the residence of DR..
Levi Of consumption, and small child in
some other part Of the city, after an illness
Of several weeks. There are no new cases
of cholera IN the city, and in fact no old
cases, all of them being convalescent.
The Columbia Mail states that Mrs.
Mary Cox, nea- Hampshire, died Friday,
the Is b inst She was in her seventy-ff.h
year, and was the mother IF nineteen chill.
dreD, seventeen of whom lived to maturity.
Mrs. Cox was herself the twenty second
child of her parents, and cur informant
states that there may have been others still
younger.
The Columbia Mail states that the wife
of flames Andrews, Jr., died at Murfreesboro
on the night of the 18th. We have heard
no particulars, further than that her disease
was supposed to be cholera. She and her
husband lef. Columbia few days ago in
good health, and the sad intelligence of her
death brings sorrow to the hearts of her
many friends and relatives.
W. j. HARRISON, receiver of the Alabama
and Chattanooga railroad, has appointed
Msj, NJ. G. McCalla, chief engineer and su-
perintendent. The Tines says: We can
not but congratulate the public, the people,
and especially the merchants and other
shippers of this city, upon the accession of
of so wellk nowr, able and popular gentle
man as Msj. McCalla to the superintendent
cy.
The Columbia Mail of Aug. q has this
item: Missed Ella Anderson, who lives
about eight miles down the river, was ar
rested last Saturday by Milt VoOrhies and
brought before James l.. Guest, Esq, on
the charge Of bel g the mother of mUlatto
children. Her quasi husband was also ar
rsigned, but from some defect in the pro-
ceedings they were permitted by the court
to go on their way rejoicing.
The Mu freesboro Monitor Of the 21st
says: The dwelling of Mr.. John James,
eight miles soutt of town, was totally de-
stroyed by fire last Thursday morning.
There was no one at the house but his
daughter, and none of the furniture was
saved A boy By the name of Smell, who
came to assist, narrowly escaped by Jump.
ing out ofa second story window, receiving
severe wound on the head.
Mr.. Joseph Muecke of Kingston, has re-
turned from the Vienna Exposition. The
Neros ssys: While speaking in glowing
terms of the magnificent manner in which
almost every other nation of the world Is
represented, lie states that our government
has made most ignomiDious failure in its
various departments. The South, especial
ly, is almost entirely unrepresented, both
as to natural and mechanical productions.
While Tennessee had every advantage for
displaying our articles, we bad none to dis
play. In other words, at The time he left th
Austrian capital, the 20th of July, the Ten
nessee department had not yet opened.
The Pulaski Citizen of he 2lst has this:
On the night of the 12th inst. The northern
bound train on the Nashville and Decatur
Railroad ran over q negro one mile north of
Hsrwell Station, breaking his leg and frac-
turing bis skull. He is supposed to have
been drunk. The next morning the hand
car passed up t o read, and it might b,Te
easily carried the poor negro to the depot,
but no, neither his condition or his suffer-
ings could find any sympathy in the railroad
heart. So he laid for 10 hours in this mis-
era le condition, in m les of Pulaski, be-
fore his injuries received any attention.
Three drunken men have been run over on
this road, in two miles of each other, in less
than twelve months.
T. e Kingston Nel1S records the sudden
death OF an unknown colOred man near that
p zee on the 18th. 1t appears he had gone
TO lockwood on the 18th with a load of
PEACHES, mslOns, etc, and was n tur ing
home Oh Saturd y, when he was taken vio-
lently i'll, and several miles from wn was
seen lyi' G Oh th- side of the road. After
ward pass through town, and the next
time we hear of him he was lying in the
road between town ard Mr.. Benefits
house, late in the evening, evidently very
sick. From hence hs ODcs more mounted
his wagon and pursued his journey S far
as Mr.. BIS house, when be vas utterly un-
able to proceed further, being so weak that
it was necessary to help him out Of his
wagon. Here be was cared for during the
night, and died early the next morning,
The Pulaski Citizen says shat on the
night of the 18th a party Of men rode up to
q cabin on the premises of Mr.. VIM Swim
ney, one mile east of ElktoD, and accosted
Ileas' OaLnTFn, COlOreO, Will nQClfleS con-
corning the Whereabouts of a nergo named
Freeman. Pleas. answered that he did not
know where Freem7n lived but that Ben
Vance could tell, whereUpon he called Ben,
who had 10 sooner made his appearance
than DE was fred unon by the party. He
escaped, however, witho1kiDjury, and Pleas.
received the contents of the deadly weapon,
from the effects of which he died instantly.
1t is said the negro Ben Vance had diff
Guilty few days previous with some white
men across the river, but it is not known
that this had anything to do with the suose-
quent affair, and in fact, our informant did
not even know the number or color of the
men composing the assailing party.