Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-20
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The increase in numbers of pupils a
the Springfield high school continues.
The Springfield Record says: Business
in our place did not, during the late panic,
fall off as reports say it did in other places.
The CteUetGRd Banner chronicles the
death of Mr.. James Donohoo, who was a
pioneer of Bradley county, and who had
reached the age of 81.
The parties who were arrested at Dyers-
burg on suspicion of having murdered Mr..
Marshall, and were tried last week for COM
initial, proved an alibi and were acquitted.
No clue to the guilty parties has yet been
| found.
The MmfreesJoro Neacs of the 18th inst.
says: A negro man was arrested Saturday
for stealing a coat from E. Resented.
| There was big race to catch the thief,
nearly all the Israelites on the west side
joining in it. The negro was finally over
hauled and committed to Jail.
The Kingston NelrS of the 10th inst.
says: A man named James Cross, living
in the extreme upper part of this county,
we understand, got into difficulty with a
colored man one day last week, when the
latter struck him on the head with piece
of scantling and smashed his skull most
w It'll ldoG llOlu NIOSo NdS
not expected to live.
The Kingston Ne1cS has the following:
A box containing some $50 worth of cloth
ing for the orphan children of Memphis,
present from the Ladies' Missionary Asso-
citation of this place, was shipped to the
Mayor of that city last week. The Presby-
terrain Sabbath school, through their Super
intendent, also sent off some $40 or S11,
l,o ~ aOllao+ior, toll 10
half of the orphan children Of the afflicted
city.
The Paris Iatelligeacer says: Mr.. John
FL. ToombS, who lives near Springville, in
this county, made this year nine heavy
bales of cotton ON twelve acres of land. 1t
has all been picked out, ginned and pack
ed. Mr.. VIM. L. d. Hill, raised on the
farm of j. NJ. Todd, few hundred yards
from Cottage Grove, on two measured acres
of land, 81 barrels, Or 1S5 bushels of corn
92a bushels per acre.
The Chattanooga Commercial of the
10Th inst. says: Yesterday evening" when
the passenger train arrived on
the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad, soldier in
the marine service, going from Baltimore
to Pensacola, was met by a person, well
hliOh W bIlG utDOb WIN tJ-
tempted to pass ten dollar counterfeit.
His plea was that he wanted it changed,
and got angry because he was not accomo-
dated. The soldier was no sardine if he
was from Baltimore. The man attempted
to pass it on several Others, but failed and
disappeared. The policeman will attend
to bringing him to limbo.
The KROrUiie Chronicle of the 18th
inst. says: We learn from areliable source,
that Oh last Sunday, one weekagO, Louder
milk was seen at Tellico Plains, and the
following Thursday he was skulking around
in the forks Of the Hiwasse and Tennessee
rivers. The same or following night Mr..
Powell, living in that neighborhoOd, lost
fine horse, and there is no doubt in the
minds of the people there, but that Louder
milk stole it. He is certainly one of the.
most daring robbers East Tennessee his
ever been cursed with; but he is most. as
Suredly nearing his end, and will ere long,
keep Manglum and The two AIynatts COM
pany.
The CIdrkSrUe Tobacco Leaf oils the
following little tale: "a little girl in the
country recently dreamed a new piece of
music which she had never seerI or heard
of-really was never composed, and in her
dream studied the music all night. So inn
pressed was her mind that she. arose early
in the morning, went to the piano and
played it as perfectly as if she had practiced
it and had the notes before her. The fol-
lowing night she dreamed a Eucky ticket in
the Louisville Library Drawing, which
promised fortune to a prominent doctor
in the vicinity (the family paysician). She
told the doctor Of the Circumstance, who,
by the way, does not go much on dreams,
but Immediately ordered The number and
has received it. Now we shall know wheth-
or there is ANYTHING in dreaming or not