Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-26
TENNESSEE NEWS.


There are 81 schools in operation in Mau-
ray county.
Columbia has full Jail awaiting the
Criminal Court.
Rev. d. 81. Cummins, of Upton, died .
few days ago.
West Tennessee has had heavy frosts
during the past week. ~ ~
At recent revival st Huntington there
were fifty conversions.
Theirs are over 800 cases on the Circuit
Court trial docket at GaIlatin.
Asweet potato weighing sixteen pounds
was recently exhibited in Columbia.
The colored people of Maury county have
gotten up q fair, which promises to:do them
credit.
The Sparta Indez reports that q farm in
Van Buren county was lately sold for $50
per acre. W
A larger breadth of land than usual has
been sown in wheat this fall in the vicinity
of Joneeboro.
Vim. Dobbins, says the Memphis appeal,
was arrested the other day at the request OF
his dying wife for disorderly conduct.
Says the Gallatin Examiner of the 18th, q
protracted meeting of four weeks has been
going on at Saundersville. About 20 pro-
fessions. sst isA sa@
Sheriff Sims Latta's elegant new house
in Columbia is nearly finished, and when
completed viii be she finest in Msury
county. sf2aHA - A
Knoxville had q benefit concert for Mem
phis on the night of the 22d, by which the
sum of 500 was raised. That city has now
contributed about $1,700.
We see from the Gallatin Tenne IS eedn
that one Grimes who resides near Ri chland
Ststion was knocked down aud robbed.
His skull was thought to be fractured.
The Dyersburg Progress Of the 23d
saws: M. Tom Fowlkes, one Of the Oldest
and most respected of our countrymen,
died at his home in this county, last Friday
night. - 80
The Columbia Mail says: Prof. 81. G.
Mack, recently of Murfree sboro, and form
erly of Maury county, has removed to Col
lin county, Texas, and, is now engaged in
teaching school.
The Jonesboro Herald and Tribune has
this word painting: On Tuesday morning
the mountains in their white vestment rose
into the wintry skies, appearing like cOlos:
sal banks OF snow. -..-------.-..-..-
We learn through the Columbia Herald
that the extensive tannery of MIR. Houssels,
near Linden, in Perry county, was de-
stroyed by fire, on Tuesday the 18th inst.
His loss was fifteen thousand dollars, with
no insurance.
The Humboldt Journal Of the oath, has
this cotton item: One day last week Mr..
Hall picked 513 pounds of cotton on the
farm of Mr.. John Green, six miles east cf
Humboldt, aud John Jones, colored, 500.
Who beats that?
The Columbia Herald under the head of
aspiring Hill items" reports two families as
on the eve of migration to Texas, the Bud
get and the Grigsby families. Several mi
grations to Texas have taken and will take
place from the country.
The Columbia Herald says sn attempt
was made on the night of the 10th, to enter
the residence of Col. Prestidge, two miles
west of the city, for the purpose of robbing.
The Colonel being absent, the wife, by he
roic conduct, thwarted the attempt.
The Columbia Herald records the follow
ing fact and scientific comment: About forty
wagons pass AshWood daily, loaded with pig
iron from Nspier's Furnace, which is run
by Ward, Rains & &c. They are turning
out seventeen tons daily. The iron, as it
runs out Of the spout, looks like buttermilk.
The following is from the Columbia Mail
of the 23d: Webster Davis, colored, was
srrsigned before G. Clear, Esq, on last
Monday upon charge of stealing SIC from
Eugene Pillow. The boy, who is only
thirteen years of age, plead guilty, waived
an examination, and was committed to
toiail.
The following from the Appeal of the 23d,
shows how it is in Memphis: Major
Haynes, of the Citizens Relief Commissary,
No. 135 Main street, supplied six hundred
ard six families this week, previously fif-
teen hundred and fourteen-msking twenty
one hundred and twenty up to date.
The Dyersburg Progress boasts of Dyer
county cotton: At the Paducah Fair last
week special premiums by Buckner & Ter
reli, Paducah, were awarded on cotton, as
follows: j. G. Lambert, Dyer county, first
premium, $40; j. Pierce, Dyer county, sec,
ond premium, SO; N. Porter, Dyer coun-
ty, third premium, S..
The Jonesboro Herald and Tribune Of
the 23d records that e few nights since
some thief entered the loom house OF Mrs
Daniel Bowman, and cut from the loom a
web of twenty-eight yards of jeans. In the
same neighborhood, about the same time q
night thief br ike the close of Mrs. Har.
vey Buchanan, stealing every head of cab.
bage out of her garden and twenty-five
pounds of lard. At the same time quantity
of beef was stolen out of Jack Aston's cellar,
and Frank Se!lars had the pleasure of con-
tributing pair of pants to some naked and
impecunious individual.
The following WAS found the other day
loose on a sidewalk in Humboldt:
Oh, 1 am back at Humboldt,
And l don't care a d-n;
If | go back to Kansas
IN IL