Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-05-18
TENNESSEE NEWS.

There will be considerable fruit in Sum-
per county.
There is great deal of sickness in Hum
Hhreys county.
The schools in Jonesboro are greatly dis
turbed by measles.
The cat worm is destroying great deal
of corn in Obion county.
There will be enough fruit ia M0ntgom.
cry TO supply the home demand.
TIE last term Of the Washington county
Circuit Court cost that county 81, 200.
The f4i mers of Madison CT unity are gen.
orally complaining of backward crops.
The caterpillars are doing a good deal of
damage to the fruit trees in Robertson
county.
There was 3 case of small pox in Dover
Hast week. 1t appears to have created some
thing of panic.
The residence of James S. Smith, of
Madison county, was burned on the night
Q If the 18th inst.
The epizoo.ic is believed to have made
its appearance in the Shsrpe's creek neigh
Sorhood in Sumner county.
"a little son Of Mr.. Caskuff, of Clarksvifle,
was run over by wagon few days since
and received injuries which resulted in his
dea'h,
There are now confined in the jail at
Jackson thirty-four criminsls-twenty-
eight of them from Memphis, awaiting final
action of the Supreme Court.
A train on the McMinnvile and Man
chester Railroad was ditched nesr Tullaho-
ma on the Is b inst, and three box cars
were badly wrecked, the passenger coach
turned over, and several passengers severely
lruised.
- The Jonesboro Flag and Advertiser OF
the 10th inst. says: As a general thing
through Upper East Tennessee, the fruit
D has been killed by the frost, but now and
then we hear some of our citizens, who live
near the mountains, say they have abun-
dance.
Miss Alice Ogburn, of Montgomery coun-
ty, was thrown from horse on the 18th
inst, and had one of her thighs broken
near The hip Joint. On the same day Mrs,
w. @. Smith, of New Providence, was
thrown from a buggy and had one of her
ankles broken.
The cut worm is doing a great deal Of
damage TO the corn in Marion county, and
some farmers have been compelled to re-
plant Wheat and oats look tolerably well
Some orchards inithe county will yield fui
crop of fruit, though in some sections the
frost did good deal of damage.
The DyeTsburg Progress of the 18th inst
saws: We hear many of our farmers com.
plaining of the backwardness o.
the corn and cotton crops, OIL
account of the heavy rains. Many have
plowed up their cotton and corn and re-
planted, which will Of course make g shori
cotton crop in this couEty.
This Jonesboro Flag and AdUerttSer o
the 10th instant says: We are glad 10 say
that the recent rains have greatly benefit
ted the wheat in Upper East Tennessee
1t is true the hard winter froz9 it out very
much in some sections, but if the season
continues good until harvest, an abundan
crop will reward the labor Of our farmers.
The Bristol Ne1US says: DR.. 5. M. Stove
has laid upon our table very rare curlosl
ty, being a couple of iron ore specimens
which would ordinarily be pronounced pet
rii.ations. In reality, they are beautifully
exact limitations Of oak roots, showing th'
bark, with every wrinkle and prominence
Evidently the wooden particles have beer
replaced by this pure article of brown hem
attic ore. They are one and a half inches IL
diameter, and show the peculiar interna
structure of the wood in the most miutt'
manner.
The Dover Record of the 10th inst. says
A gentleman arrived in town Thursday af
ternoon of last week, and Immediately re
paired to the Office of our worthy County
Clerk, with view of obtaining a marriage
license. He was Informed by Mr.. Ross tha
inasmuch as the lacy, whose name b,
wished embodied in the license, had becom,
a femme cOveTt the night befOre-uncom
promising parents nctwithstanding-ht
didn't think it would be legal transaction
and as the Ledger man says, respectful!
declined.
THE Chief of Police in Memphis, th
ether day, received a telegram from Mis-
sissippi town, telling him to look out FOR
you5g lady who had left home with be
mo hers jewelry. She was only nfteen
aud of one of the best families in that por
tion of the State. The Chief Of Police,
very attentive man, accordingly met ne
and took her in charge, and returned be
homie. The reason she assigned ior ne
strange conduct was that she had stron
desire to go off.to some dis tant place an
then turn up twoor three years later as .
antbn7ess of mark. Sh3 had been readln
"Oaila's" works, and thought that all tha
ess needed tn make her such another ou =
dle S,f trash and wickedness was ngt
caance and good deal of mystery.
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