Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-14
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Mr.. Jesse Steed, of Oak Hill, Lincoln
county, was not maltreated, as reported a
week or two ago. f ~ ~ ~
The ,JonesbOro Herald and Tribune says
stock in the Washington county fair
grounds is in demand at par for cash.
The total contribution of citizens of
Knoxville to the dettititte Of Memphis foots
uD S3.O75, besides $50 .O-ls Vi CO...
THE Humboldt Journal of the 7th SAYS:
An unoccupied house belonging to Mr.. E.
7. Butler was burned few nights since
most likely by an incendiary.
The Jackson Herald says: The block of
buildings on Market street, recently de-
stroyed by fire, has been again rebuilt and
now presents magnificent appearance.
The Jackson Herald gives the following
statistics of Madison county: Taxable
property, S6,24S, 727.00. State tax, S24,-
994.90. County tax, 81 ,o70.54. School
tax, S17,261.45. Polls, 1882.
The Pulaski Citizen of the 18th says:
The Engineer Corps Of the Memphis and
Knoxville Railroad is now in the vicinity
of town, and will pass here to-day Or to-
morrow en- route to Fayetteville.
The Morristolcn Gazette says: Morris
town has as prosperous and as excellent a
male High School as there is in the State,
and the only female High School between
Bristol and Chattanooga is located here.
A difficulty originated at Union City on
the Sth inst, says the Jackson Herald, be-
tween two men by the names of Todd and
| Wallace. From words they came to blows,
when Wallace struck Todd with. brick,
from which he died Sunday.
The Springfield Record OF the 18th de
| clares that there was on exhibition at the
| Colored Fair, at that place, last week, a
| full grown live American eagle, that meas
| ured between six and seven feet from tip
| to tip. 1t was captured in Robertson coun-
| ty, a few miles north of Springfield, a few
days since, by Mr.. Arch Powell, assisted by
| his dogs.
On the night of the 9th about s O'Clock,
Mr.. Berry Lyle's residence in New Provi-
| dence, Montgomery county, caught fire
| from flue between the ceiling and roof,
and was totally destroyed. The house was
insured in Kennedy & Faxon's agency for
$1,000 and $500 insurance on furniture
which was all saved in badly damaged
condition.
The CldrkSUiiIe Tobacco Leaf says
There were two marriages at the Southern
hotel Sunday morning, the 9th inst. The
parties were from Christian county, KY.
| The ladies were sisters, and only one of
| them intended marrying when they eloped,
but after arriving here the otherlo made
it up and concluded to splice while an OPP
portunity was offered.
The MOTriStOtCn Gazette of the 18th
inst. says: The revival meeting mentioned
-, To- of no
byterian Church in this place, has been
continued nightly since, and has increased
daily in religious interest, a number have
made profession of religion and muiti=
tude Of young persons, each night, present
themselves for prayer.
The MOrristOlcn Gazette of the 18th
inst, says; Sheriff Boyd on Saturday last
committed Carey CoGheraH and his wife
Margaret, (colored), Of the vicinity Of
Whitesburg, to the jail of this county. They
were arrested and tried before Esq. Nenny,
of WhitesbuTg, on charge of assaulting a
schOolmaster named Geo. W. Seacey. In
default of bail they were lodged in jail.
The MU.frees66r0 MOnitQr of the 18th
inst. says: The revival Of religion which
has been in progress at the Cumberland
Church, in this city, for the last three or
four weeks, is still holding nightly and in
creasing in interest. There have been 40
professions Of religion, Is accessions to the
church, and there are 20 OF 20 penitents az
the altar. The meeting will probably con-
tinue for some time yet.
The Jackson Herald gives the following:
4 difficulty occurred about II o'clock Sat
urday, the Sth inst, upon the arrival of the
South bound train between Mr.. Hart, a
passenger, and Tom, alias Bud Harris,
notorious yellow boy, in this city, iHWlich
Mr.. Hart received a serious hurt on the
head, and Harris pistol shot in the shout
der Harris, it seems was drumming for a
hotel and endeavored to take Mr.. Harris
baggage anyhow, which resulted in the az
fray.
j store house at Dyer Station, says the
Humboldt J0uu4qi of the 9Th, was entered
and deprived Of goods, etc, to the amount
of one hundred and sixty dollars. Entrance
was effected by cutting out a panel of the
door. When it was made known that the
theft had been committed, the citizens
turned out in force and the thieves, (two
in nuunber), were captured before they had
gone more than three miles from the burgh.
They confessed their guilt, claiming to be
from New FORK.
The Humboldt Journal OF the It'll inst.
says: We learn, rather indirectly, of an
occurrence which happened at or in Pick
ettville few days since, and in this wise:
Swinney, farm laborer on the farm Of Mr..
Rumes, got ON a general bust and visited
the residence of Mr.. RumeS, with the evil
dent design Of getting up row; but fail
ing of success in this he took himself out
in the field and there found another field
hand at whom he several times fired his
pistol, but without effect. A warrant for
his arrest was taken out but before it could
be served upon him he decamped, taking
mule belonging to a neighbor with him.
The Chattanooga Times of the 18th says:
DR.. Glenn. Venable was yesterday releas-
ed from jail, where he has been pining
since the last days in June. He was
called in by a colOred woman on the MORN
ing of June "a. She complained of severe
pain in the stomach, and the proof before
the cOroner's jury showed that Glen. adj
ministered a couple of teaspoonsftIl of NOR
phine within an hour of the time he first
saw the patient. This, of course, sent the
woman and her pains into another world.
Glen. was committed to Jail on the charge
of manslaughter, but the cholera kindly
interposed between him and the miniOns
of the law, and by sending the principal
witnesses for the State to keep company