Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-26
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The fruit prospect contlnues goou III
Fayette county.
The fruit crop has not yet been injured
in Obion county.
The farmers of Bradley county are well
up with their work.
The Methodists have the largest Sunday
school in Somerville.
The Sabbath-schools in Union City are
in fourishing condition.
The trees in Fayette county are almost
covered already with caterpillars.
VIM. s. McEwen, an old and respected
citizen of Kingston, died on the 21st inst.
A new Methodist church is IN course OF
erection at Fosterville, Rutherford county.
The residence of John Watkins, Of Ruth
erford county, was broken into and robbed
a few nights ago.
At no time in the history of Union City
has there been more life and prosperity
than at the present.
The heavy frost of the 18th inst. in Nc
and some of the fruit.
James S. Bridges, an old citizen and
resident of Athens, for more than forty
years, died on the 21st inst.
The dwelling house on the farm of Mr..
R. F. Mailing, in Obion county, was des-
troyed by fire few nights since.
An accepted Dresden sutton lately sold
bis interest and good viii in his sftianced to
a Mckenzie rival for pointer dog.
Meningitis is still prevailing to serious
extent at and near Lafayette, in Fayette
county. Several deaths have occurred from
it.
A fellow was fined fifty dollars and costs,
the other day, by the Recor ,er's court at
Chattanooga, for carrying concealed wea-
pons.
w. w. Wood & Co, Pump manufac-
turers, of Cleveland, have received an order
from Jonesboro, Ga, for a car load of their
pumps.
The assessible property in Murfreesboro
is valued at about 81, 200, 600, and the per-
sonalty at about $3.50, 900, being decrease
from the amount assessed last year.
VIM. DOuthat, who has been appointed
Postmaster at Fayetteville, has been unable
to give the required bond. The business
men of the place do not desire chat ge III
the office.
The historic pistol mentioned in the pa
pers few weeks since, has been delivered
to Capt D. D. Bell, of Union City, son OF
the late Hon. John Bell, to whom the pistol
formerly belonged.
The Union City Courier Of April p says:
The wheat prospect has improved very
materially within the last week. Many
fields that looked unpromising short time
since will make an average crop to all ap-
pearances.
Mr.. Daniel Kelley, merchant Of Nor.
gan county, has during the past month
brought and sold to s. COIN, Of Knoxville,
furs to the amount of over s., 800, and says
it wasn't much of fur season either in
that county.
The Sparta Tribune, heretofore so conf
dent of the location of the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad via Sparta, has recently
become convinced of the uncertainty oil
things of this world, and how little faith to
put in mans promises.
The residents of the second, third
fourth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth
districts of Fayette county, were entirely
exempted from all indictments by the late
grand jury. They ought to congratulate
themselves on their good order.
The people of Madison county are
arousing themselves on the subject Of tbs
extension ofthe Nashville and Northwestern
Railroad from Huntington to unite with the
Mississippi Central to New Orleans, and the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad to Mobile.
Some fellow has been putting poison in
bread, meat and cheese, and throwing 1t OF
the premises of some of the citizens o.
Cleveland, and broadcast over the streets
for the purpose Of poisoning dogs. Some
forty or fifty dogs have been killed by tht
operation.
Henry Owen, coiored, who resides nea
Belmont, in Fayette county, few days ago
innocently engaged in the happy pastime o
fiagellating his wife with an iron cotton tie
and delighting her vision with view of th'
| muzzle of q five shooter. He had to pa
for his amusement and was bound over Il
keep the peace besides.
The Lewisburg Gazette of the 18th inst
says: The engineer, locating the railroad
reached this place last Saturday, but falling
to receive further orders, as he expected
he did not pass town more than half mile
He expected to make the location of thu
entire line from Columbia to Fayetteville
within four weeks, and then the contracts
are to be Let out.
The Chattanooga Times says: The Roant
Iron Company are now working both mill
day and night, with an ample supply o
coal, iron, ore and old rails. The Company
are now building a new pudding furnact
of the old fashioned style, in which they
propose to test the question again very care
fully which is the best method of pudding
their iron, by hand or by machinery.
A countryman, who had imbibed toe
freely of something stronger than water in
Knoxville on the 23d inst, fell off the front
seat of his wagon, Immediately in font OF
the wheels, in such q manner as to block
the wagon. Fortunately for him, his team
stopped at the unexpected obstruction, and
some passer-by palled him out from his
perilous position and laid him in the bot
ON of his wagon.
The Knoxville Press and Herald of the
24,h inst. says: Two years ago man
named Benz. Andes sold his farm near Sc
vieryille for $1,000 and moved to Nebraska.
There he lost by death his mother, sister
and child, and his own health and that OF
his family. Last night he was camped about
a mile from the city, having returned here
to spend the balance of his days. He eX-
pressed himself as hoping to rent his old
place next year and live and die among his
old friends.
The parties injured in the railroad acct
dent at the second crossing below Athens,
on the 18th inst, were not as seriously
hurt as at first stated. There were four
persons in the wagon when the train struck
1.-TWO ladies, little child, and the col
ored driver. The wagon was knocked to
pieces and scattered around. One of the
ladies was thrown distance OF 25 or 30
feet with the child in her arms, yet the
driver was the only one seriously hurt, and
ha is said tn he recovering