Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-07
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The Fayetteville Express reports that
Capt. Tolley is rapidly recovering from his
severe wounds.
The Springfield Record says two new
farmers oranges were lately organized in
Robertson county.
DIR. p. d. Sims has received the nominal
ton for Mayor of Chattanooga from the
city Democratic convention.
A railroad meeting was held at Pulaski
recently in the interest of the Memphis and
Knoxville Air Line. The Citizen says the
attendance was small.
The Fayetteville Express is sanguine
that the Memphis and Knoxville Airline
Railroad will be built through that town.
A survey of that route has been ordered.
A white woman was assaulted and Sc
verely beaten by a negro woman, in Knox
vile, the other day, owing to improper re-
lationS between the former and her hus-
band.
A Tennessee OK, weighing 4,176 pounds,
has attended many fairs, among others,
that at Macon, Ca, aud is to be at the
Chattanooga Exposition. He is owned by
L. P. Fields, Of Wartrace.
The Columbia Mail notes the fact that
Maj. w. Vance Thompson, an account of
whose death we published a few weeks
ago, had a life policy in the Etna Life In
surance Company for $1,000.
The Chattanooga Commercial of the
9Th says: Mr.. A. GarTabrant, an old gen
tleman who came from Michigan about
three years ago, and located in South Chat
tanoOga, was found dead in his chair YES
terday morning.
The MlTfreeSb0rO Monitor of the 9th
says: A man by the name of Patterson shot
a negro woman, at the place of George
Buchanan, Esq, near Lavergne, last week,
and fractured her leg. She is expected to
die. Patterson fed.
The KnOrUilLe Chronicle of the 9Th inst.
says: We learn that on Sabbath a young
man named Mcdonald, living near Greene
vile, and brother of Rev. Mr.. Mcdonald,
who was drowned some time back, was
thrown from his horse and instantly killed.
The Columbia Mail of the 9th says:
The cotton gin of Thomas Jeftwich, of
this county, was burned last Monday. 1t
run by steam and it is supposed the fire
originated from sparks from the smoke
stack. Over forty bales of cotton were de-
stroyed.
The Fayetteville Express of the 5thg gives
the following: Saturday night, a party of
unknown persons, on Glidewell ridge, per-
petrated barbarous outrage on the person
Of Jesse Steed, an old shoemaker living at
Oak Hill, in this county, mutilating him so
horribly that he is not expected to recover.
The McMinnUiile NetU Era of the 9th
says: Last Thursday morning Mr.. Wiley
Randolph had the misfortune to lose his
residence, and the greater portion of his
household goods by fire. An aged sister
living with Mr.. Randolph was so badly
burned that she died from the effects next
morning.
The Fayetteville Express of the 18th says:
The Woolen mills, controlled by Messrs.
ASquith Il Griffin, at present located one
mile from this place on Elk river, will be
removed at an early day to the large and
commodious warehouse near the railroad
depot, when their manufacturing capacity
will be largely increased, and operated up
on a capital of $4,000.
The Chattanooga Commercial notes an
effect of the strike: 'One of the employees
of the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad. who smokes the weed
stepped into a cigar store, and with dole
full look and pleading accent, asked the
proprietor if he could not take off go per
NGlJs Just IDI lllll.
The new school law authorizes each dis
trict to levy a special tax of three mills on
the dollar for school purposes, if the people
so elect. The 9Th district, of Lincoln coun-
ty, has voted this tax, thus taking the in
itiative, as no other district in the county
has, so far, voted it. The public schools of
that district will now be taught ten months
in the year.
The Press and Herald says a negro man
was arrested in Knoxville the other day, on
suspicion that he had concealed weapons
on his person. \ search discovered a load
ed pistol. The negro attempted fight, and
would have made a successful escape, had
he not received the contents of his weapon
in one of his lower limbs, which was suffi-
Gent to bring him to a halt, but not dan
gerous.
The MOrriStOlrn Gazette of the 9Th inst.
records a singular occurrence which took
place recently in the court room at Dand-
ridge. Some one made inquiry of the
court in reference to the action of the court,
touching the death of Gen. Dewey, who
was some months ago suddenly taken off
by apOpleXy in the court room at Knoxville.
d. r. \. Blackburn, who had been a law
partner of deceased, rose to explain, but
before he had uttered word, fell heavily
to the floor, as if lifeless. BY the immedi
ate attention Of physician present, he was
revived, and was soon as well as ever.