Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-18
TENNESSEE NEWS.

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Rogersville has twelve lawyers.
Tullahoma wants free school.
Jackson has built city hospital.
Brownsville wants pillow factory.
Murfreesboro needs a markethouse.
Columbia has ''spiritualistic circle"
Union City has $123.6S in its treasury.
Chattanooga is to have another planning
mill.
Corn sells at S. per barrel In Perry
| county.
Perry county farmers feed their hogs on
peanuts.
Rev. S. Woodbury. died few days ago at
Shelbyville.
Ahail storm fifteen minutes long has vi
| sited Loudon.
Meningitis has appeared at Lafayette,
Fayette county.
Three prisoners broke jail at Rogersville
one night last week.
RevSJ. w. Irvine, of Maury county, has
married $50 couples.
The city attorney of Chattanooga re-
ceives salary of $500.
The average attendance of pupils at the
Memphis schools is 2,349.
The Welsh Congregational Church at
Knoxville nears completion.
Vagabonds visit Bartlett, Shelby county,
daily, begging money and food.
Maryville has sewn religious congrega-
tons, six doctors and four saloons.
Tho stock men of Bedford county have
meeting at Shelbyville the I'D inst.
Fourteen pairs of twins have been born
in Coffee county since Jan. /, 1873.
The wheat in part of Lawrence county
is damaged by cold and wet weather.
Saturday the 18th inst. thief was shot
by railroad Waterman at Knoxville.
A wild cat distillery in Anderson county
has been suppressed by revenue officials.
Miss Williams, near Trenton, was badly
burned by coal oil lamp few days ago.
The. young ladies of the Columbia Insti.
tute edit magazine named the Prison.
Rev. Mr.. Strickland, young minister,
died recently at Culleoka, Maury county.
Since Jan. l, Jno. II. Bopp has ship
ped over 1000 dozen eggs from MOrristoWn.
Mr.. Thos. Smith, Of Stewart county, was
accidentally shot few days ago while hunt
ing.
Within the last few months quite num-
Der Of Maury county citizens have gone TO
Texas.
A fatal disease prevails among the cattle
in the vicinity of West Point, Lawrence
county.
j. Scott Payne of Knoxville has been
restored to the army, his rank being second
lieutenant.
Tobias Lineberry, aged so years, has
married maiden of % in Flat Woods,
Hardin county.
o. P. Temple has resigned the presidency
of the East Tennessee Agricultural Society
at Knoxville.
Mrs. L. ]. O'Neal, of Bartlett, was in
juredpainfully by falling from a buggy
few days ago.
J.J. Crawford of Knox county had bis
leg broken by horse falling on him in
Knoxville Saturday.
A few days ago at Woodbury., Cannon
county, u. F. Odom was dangerously stab
bed by Henry Miller.
Mr.. Hardin Jolly, of Roane county, had
his hand badly injured in threshing ma
chine few days ago.
Robt. B. Hurt has been reelected Presi-
dent Of the West Tennessee Agricultural
Association at Jackson.
Mr.. John league, aged 81, died few
days ago in Hardeman county. He was
soldier in the war Of 1912.
A son of John Beasley, Esq, of Ruther-
ford county, was dangerously wounded by
a sling-shot few days ago.
There is a great amount Of cotton in the
fields in Fayette county. Mr.. d. F. Bates
has twenty bales unpicked.
S. L. Gentry's residence and outbuidings
with 5000 pounds of tobacco, in Stewart
county, were recently burned.
A Mr.. Parnell, Of McNairy county, killed
four crows and wounded the fifth at one
shot with his rifle one dayTlast week. MIR.
Parnell is sixty-five years Of age, and not
white hair on his head.