Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-16
TENNESSEE NEWS.

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Covington is ssalmost iunning over with
refugees from Memphis.
Prof. Thos. r. Moss died at his home IN
4 Chattanooga on abe 18th inst.
A lodge Of he Knights Of Pgthias is 10
be established in BroWnsville.
Trenton has Touring mill which 10
turning out fifty barrels Of the best quality
Of -four per Gay.
1 Knoxville IS to have quite an accession of
gans and one Baptist.
The Brownsville States reports that over
five hundred dollars was collected In that
town last week fof Memphis.
A youth named Porter, aged nine years,
picked two hundred and four pounds Of cot
Ton 10 Crockett county few days ago.
We learn from the Knoxville Press and
Herald that the bridge over the Holst0n
was expected to be ready for travel on the
18th inst.
The Chattanooga Times Of the 18th says:
The Mayor informs us that corps of nur-
ses is being organized to send to Memphis,
4 and that several will depart on their mission
\ Of mercy this morning. ~ sa
The Upton Record states that freight
business continues good over the Paducah
and Memphis Railroad, over 600, 900 pounds
of miscellaneous merchandise having
reached Covington during the month.
The Trenton Gazette Of the 18th inst.
says: There is q good deal of complaint
throughout this country at the low prices Of
cotton, and very few are selling, conse.
quently there is little money in circulation.
i 4 The Athens District Conference, at its
recent session at Decatur, appointed COM
mi.tee to locate and establish school for
girls, provided sufficient Inducements are
offered by any Of the COMMITTEES which may
compel for it.
The Chronicle of the 14th states that the
Knoxville Hebrew Benevolent Association,
through its secretary, Mr.. F. Heart, sent
| liberal contributions yesterday to the yellow
fever sufferers at Memphis and Shreveport.
The Odd Fellows also sent contribution
TO Memphis on the 18th.
The Trenton Gazette of the 18th inst.
says: A son of Robert Overall, eleven
years old, near YoIkville, recently picked
in one day sos pounds of cotton and an
other nine years old picked the same day
240 pounds and stopped long enough DUR
| ing the day to have a hard chill.
The jackson Herald says: A lady in this
city has just finished a silk quilt containing
eight thousand different pieces; none Of
them being of the same variety. This quilt
| is a symbol OF g. human life, no two Gays
of which are alike, no two years or months
of which are marked by the same events.
| The Knoxville Chronicle records q re-
cent incident of life in that city as follows:
| A colored man, sffiicted with tumors in
most terrible manner. and evidently the
object of pity and charity, was robbed of
about three dollars by another colored man,
whose soul is as black as tar, and who
| would not hesitate to rob his Own mother.
The Lawrenceburg Journal of the 18th
| tells it "on this ways w. N. Lindsay and
John Weaver went deer hunting last We'd
nesday, and Mr.. Lindsay killed with dou-
BILE shot, two deers, which fell within ten
feet of one another; and he said if he had
had gun with three loads in it be could
have brought down the third.
The Jackson Herald of the 18th inst.
says: A friend from Henderson county in
forms us that . proposition wss submitted
by the County Court of Henderson on last
Monday, to vote tax of $l50,OOO in the In
terest of the anticipated railroads TO run
through that county, the Memphis and
Knoxville aud Henderson Station and Paris
Dads.
The Knoxville Chronicle of the 18th
says: Paul Ssurm and Ed Fitzgerald had
a difficulty aud on Sabbath exchanged
shots, somewhere 10 North Knoxville,
Sturm receiving slight wound on the top
of his head. Sturm took out q warrant
against Fitzgerald, and Fitzgerald took out
a warrant against Sturm and his brother
in-lav.
At recent meeting Of the Lawrenceburg
Sunday-school Rev. G. 3. Davis reported to
the school that he had been teaat er OF the
Bible-ciass for near seven years, and during
that time not q single member had died and
bnt one had ever been sick. By the mid
die of August, 1874, he viii have carried the
class through the Old Testament scriptures.
Chattanooga is raising funds for Mem
phis. The Times says: 4 collection was
taken up In the Episcopal Church on the
18th for the benefit of the Church Orphan
Asylum at Memphis, at which time very
liberal contributions we're made. The Turn
Verein were also collecting money for Mem
phis on the 18Th. q concert given at James
Hall under the auspices of the Hebron Be-
brew Benevolent Association on the night Of
the IL b for the sufferers of Memphis, clear
ed ABOUT $500.
The jackson Herald reports seeing in that
city on the 9th inst, a caravan OF seven
wagons, con aiming four families, who were
going from Middle Tennessee to Northwest
Texas. The wagons were all new, the
mule tesms were in the finest condition,
there was an air Of comfort in everything,
the men were intelligent, and everything
indicative of independence in spirit and
pocket. A similar train passed through
J ckson on the 9Th. Their route is through
Denmark, Memphis, Little Rock, and on to
the great State that will be richer by the
addition of these sterling people.
The Henryville correspondent of the
Lawrenceburg Journal, under date of the
>11th, writes: "Tbe Napier Furnace will
soon be, if it is not already, in full blast.
They calculate to make as much as ten tons
OF metal per day. You ought to come to
Henryyille and hear the whistle at II o'clock
it makes Us feel like railroad vas COM
ing near us, and have no doubt but what
it will help Us to get one some day. One
of the Furnace hands said, here, thst he
could dig 4 tons of metal per day-it is so
rich, etc. He further said that arrangements
were being made to start the Bush Creek
Furnace, which is only three miles from
Napier's. Hunters are killing plenty of
venison since the LIST of September. 1t is
believed that deers are more plentiful here,
since being protected by law, and from be-
ing driven in by hunters and other counties
not protected by the game laws"
The Mckenzie Times has this account Of
case of malicious shooting at Concord
church in Carroll county, on Sunday night,
Oct. 8, between Henry Pate and Jack Tur-
ner 1t happened that at the close of the
meet ng young Turner approached Pate, re-
marking as be came up, lets go home; this
Pate refused to do, and made some short
answer to the request. Turner then walked
off, and about six PAGES distant, Pate turned
on him, drawing small pocket pistol and
leveled it at Turner'S body and instantly
fired, the ball striking Turner on the side
Just above the right hip and ranging for
ward, grazing the skin distance Of four
inches and LODGING in his shirt bosom. 1t
is said that it struck piece Of silver in his
pocket, thus in all probability saving his life.
As it is, the wound is the merest triae, Pate
fed and is still at large.
The Humboldt Journal claims popula-
ton of $500 for that town. Il contains
ffty-hve mercantile Establishments, two
large Touring mills, mammoth saw and
iath mill 81 Daininp mill cotton cOTppress.