Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-27
TENNESSEE NEWS.

They have had an ice cream and straw
berry festival in Jackson already.
The Masonic Female School in Morris
town is in hourishing condition.
There was light hail and snow storm
at GAINESVILLE on the morning of the Goth
inst.
The saw mills throughout Sumner county
are ali employed supplying the constant de-
mards for lumber.
he value of real estate sold in Sullivan
county during the first three months Of this
year is stated at S20,0S8.
During January, February aud March
the County Court Clerk of Sullivan issued
orty-six marriage licenses.
Some Ten or fifteen dogs, supposed to be
mad, have been killed in the neighborhood
OF Marble Hill, in Moore county, the past
fweek.
The residence of Mr.. Henry Wall, in
Montgomery county, vas destroyed by fire
on the night of the I'D inst, together with
its contents.
Notwithstanding the severe winter, the
wheat crop in Lawrence county promises to
be much better than was hoped for few
weeks ago.
Farmers represent the wheat crop in Sui
Ivan county as very Indifferent. MANFRED
and clover land suffered least from the hard
freezes of March.
The first person inferred in the Gallatin
Cemetery was John g. Sims, a lawyer, who
died in GallsIin in 1928 or 1924. Gen.
James L. McKoin madethis ncoffi.
The next meeting of the West Tennessee
Fair Association viii commence in Jackson
on the 18th of October, and continue five
days. The grounds are to be extensively
improved.
Tie new temperance order called the
Friends of Temperance, is in a fourishing
condition in Jackson. Quite number Of
ladies have joined the order, giving tone
and increased interest TO the meetings.
J. r. Reed, confined in the jail at Dyers-
burg, awaiting trial for sell ng bale of cot
ton belonging TO somebody else, made his
ESCAPE on the night of the 22d inst. by saw
ing three bolts in two with an old Enife.
Tie recent revival in the Baptist Church
in GAINESVILLE resulted in twenty-five acces-
sions to that church. The revival in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, result
ed in eight or ten accessions to that Church.
AbJut forty English immigrants passed
through Knoxville on the oath inst. Some
of these were on their way TO Oakdale Iron
Works in Roane county, and others were
going to the works in the neighborhood of
Rome, Ga.
An Eastern company Of capitalists has
purchased the mill property near Union
Depot in Sullivan county, and are already
at work improving the same with the inten-
tion Of Immediately erecting an extensive
cotton factory.
A Hotel Company has been
formed in Jackson, the ground
purchased, and the work of constructing
a Grand Hotel will commence in
a few days. 1t is TO be four stories high
and viii contain about one hundred rooms.
There is not an idle mechanic in Jackson
when the weather is suitable for work, I'M
less from sickness or preference. From
present indications there will be more i'm
provements this year than last. There is
not vacant house in the city or suburbs OF
any kind.
The Lawrenceburg Journal of the Oath
lost. says Mr.. q. K. WEIGH, of the Eagle
Mills, has hen that about six weeks ago
Matched brood of chickens, and three
weeks after she commenced "laying" again,
and has continued up to this time. Every
day when she starts to her nest, she takes
her little brood to hen that has brood
ab ut the same age, and leaves them in
her care until she returns from her nest,
when she resumes her maternal charge.
Favorable indications have been discoy-
cred at the foot of Buffalo Mountain, near
johnson City, in Washington county,
which go to prove the existence of bitumin-
GUS coal in large quantities. A company
has been organized, and are now at work
sinking a shaft for further development.
Mike has also been discovered near the
same place, and 8 company will be organized
to work it soon. Iron ore also exists in
abundance.