Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-16


jackson is to have new post Office.
Memphis is unusually infested with
thieves.
Hickman county has sixty public schools
in operation. II ~ ftlf ta
The DOUer Record reports marriages nu-
merous. in that locality.
Scott Penix was drowned in the river
near Dover on the morning of the 18th
inst.
The Chattanooga Commercial is inform
ed that Rhea county is taking steps to Or
ganize fair.
The jackson local editors are marvellous
" complacent over the growth and prosper
ity of that city.
Hickman county has a teachers institute
of public schools, with monthly meetings
of the teachers.
An amateur dramatic entertainment in
Cincinnati, given recently for the benefit of
Memphis, netted 81, 737.47.
The Columbia Herald says: Wheat SOW
ing still continues, and the breadth OF land
seeded this fall will be more than an ay-
erage.
The Mckenzie Times says a valuable
horse belonging to DIR. Honea was stolen a
| few DAYS ago. The thief was Immediately
pursued ana capIufeu.
MIR. d. r. Campbell, Superintendent of
| the Madison county schools, is on lectur-
| ing tour through the county, and is said to
be accomplishing much good.
The GdllOtin Examiner Of the 18th says:
| The dwelling of Mr.. Conquest G. Harris,
| in the Cotton Town neighborhood, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire last Saturday morn
ing, about O'Clock. Insurance, $1,000.
The Jackson Courier of the 18th makes
the following report: The county Jail con-
| tains twenty-three prisoners, two OF whom,
| w. J. Lyon, charged with murder, and j.
| T. Simpson, charged with horse stealing,
are white men, the rest are negroes.
The Chattanooga Commercial of the
| 18th says: Recently there have been sew
eral acts of larceny committed in various
portions of the city. The last one on re-
cord is that of stealing S. B. Clark's raw
| hides, sixty in number, amounting in value
to S240.
| The Hickman county correspondent OF
| the Columbia Herald says: There has been
quite an exodus Of our population this fall
10 Texas and Missouri. Eight wagons
passed through Centreville the other day
for the Far West. They were mostly from
Swan creek.
The Gallntir ErGminer of the 9Th states
| that dwelling house in that place, owned
| by Mr.. B. L. Burr, and occupied by Mrs.
| Vaughn, was destroyed by fire on Wednes-
day morning, the 18th inst. For awhile
| there was imminent danger of general
spread of the fire.
The Jackson Courier of the 18th says:
An ARRAY occurred on the farm of Mr.. P.
w. Mott, near Union City, a few days since,
between two men by the name Of Stafford
and Kiley, In which Stafford received a Sc
we're blow upon the head, intiicting dan
| gerous wound.
The Memphis Register notes the remark
able fact that, among the thirty-one active
members of the Howard Association who
visited the yellow fever patients during the
| late epidemic, both night and day, only
seven of them took the yellow fever, and
none of them died.
The Columbia Herald of the 18th gives
this item: Griff Wiggington was sentenced
to the penitantiary about eighteen months
ago for malicious shooting. After he had
served half his time out, the Supreme
| Court granted him a new trial. He was
| brought back here for trial last week, and
his case dismissed by the Attorney General
entering a nolle prosequi. He went home
much rejoiced.
The KnoreiI8 Chronicle of the 18th
states that John Lancaster, brakeman on
| the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
| Railroad, was accidently knocked off a
| train on Wednesday night, the 18th inst,
at Carters depot, and badly hurt. He was
leaning over from the platform to see
| about the heating of the boxing, when an
end of fence-rail struck him on the head
| and caused the fall.
The Columbia Herald of the 18th says:
| Vim. Marlin hung himself to an ironwOod
| tree last week with the stirrup-leathers Of
! his saddle, in the neighbOrhOod of Kinder
| hook When found he had switches in
eaci. hand which he had probably pulled
| in his death struggle. ietied his horse in
a small stream, but the animal had chewed
the bridle-rein in two. and got loose. Mar
| lin married a Miss Potts not great while
ago. 1t is believed that excessive drink is
| the cause of his self destruction.
The CdIlut6iG Herald gives an interest
ing bit of history; FOfty-three years ago
Mr.. Samuel A. Gillespie loved a beautiful
woman, Miss W., of Big Bigby creek. She
promised to marry him if he would build
| Just such house as she would design.
Being one of those remarkably fascinating
women. whose peculiar province it seems to
be to make old baChelOrs do foolish things,
| she had such influence over Mr.. Gillespie
that he bought the lot and built the house
according to her suggestion. After he had
finished it off in elegant style, she married
another man, and is now living in or near
Lafayette, Ala, we believe. Gillespie be-
came moroSe old bachelor, ard died of
broken heart. The house was put in lot
terry of $4,000, and DR.. Mc.limpsey drew
| it with $3.50 ticket, which ticket is now
in possession of DIR. w. H. Brown, who
now owns the house. That house and lot
has recently been improved, and is now
| ole o. the handsomest residences in Co
| lumbia.