Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-24
TENNESSEE NEWS.


has the best race track in the Sthte.
Ten charity volumes of "Forrest's Cam
nairnsn were sold in Memphis on the 21st
for ST.. ~,
A party from Knoxville propose to attend
the Macon, (Ga.) fair, which begins on Inc
9th inst.
Young Douglass who was shot not long
since at Knoxville by young huie bas near
ly recovered.
The Chilhowee range of mountains, Vlsl-
bic from Knoxville, were crested with snow
Oh the evening of the 21st.
The largest real estate transfer IN Lincoln
county for the week ending the 23d inst,
was SO63 acres for 81 500.
Rev. j, w. Waith, of Lincoln County,
was unfortunate enough ID have barn
burned the other day by incendiaries.
The Fair at Springfield this year, we see
from the Record, is diversified by the fol-
Loving: foot race, mule race and
Modoc battle
The Waverly Journal says the colored
people of Humphreys county have Fair
on foot; otherwise all is quiet and peaceful
in that section.
Count !Andrew, Elinsky, Polish exile,
lec,ured in the courthouse at Kingston re-
Gently, to ga small and rather noisy audi
euce.n So the NeluS puts it.
Tie Chattanooga Times states that
Webster & Marks are building q pair OF
engines for q small steamboat to run on the
| Cooss and Oostenaula rivers.
Somebody has been engaged in The bust
siness of poisoning CANNES about the town
| Of Pulaski. The Citizen observes their wo-
| ful antics and compassionates them.
| During the recent Methodist Conference,
| Rev. T. j. Duncan, on behalf of the preach
ers of GAINESVILLE district, presented TO Rev.
A, Mizen handsome gold-headed cane.
The Fayetteville Express Of the 23d says:
The brick work on the new court house
was completed last week. At its conclu
sion the bell in the yard was solemnly
tolled.
Chattanooga, il seems, has appropriated
| 500 out of the hospital fund of that city,
To psy the expenses of delegate TO the
American Health Association, which meets
| in New York. e.-
The Chattanooga Commercial thinks Il
! has reasons sufficient to remove all doubt
! that the route for TIE Cincinnati Southern
road has been definitely located; but where
1 is not yet known.
A few days ago the Fayetteville Express
saw four large axe-helves, recently made by
Mr.. Samuel Jones, of Lincoln, who has beer
long in the land, and will soon have lived
his i've score years.
Owing to the protrscted drought this fall
all the water mills In Rute erford county
have suspended operations, and farmers are
frequently compelled to seed grea5 dis
lance to get grain ground.
The Fayetteville Observer of the 23d says
The residence of Mr.. Burt Leatherwood, on
tally destroyed, with all It's contents, last
Friday night by accidental fire.
This item, commendatory of the ladies Of
Lincoln county, has its origin in the Fay.
etteyille Express: "They have two great
objects Ia view, which are to adjust their
bustles perfectly straight in this world, and
TO be angels in the next"
The Murfreesboro Monitor says: Mrs.
Polly Webb, living several miles south Of
town, has an old mare whose carniverous
propensities are wonderful. She readily
"gobbles up" all the chickens, ducks, bacon,
ETC., that comes within her reach.
The Pulaski Citizen observes that there
has been an unusual prevalence Of cHills
and fever among the people who inhabit
the banks of Pigeon Roost cresk, during
the summer and fall. Whole families have
been known to be shaking at one time.
The real property in Rutherford county
assessed under the present tax law, exceeds
that of last year by $3.50, 1854, and the per-
sonal property by SS01,0 There has
been an increase of 1911 white4nd 219 black
polls.
Tire Memphis Appeal of the 22d notes
the following fact in reference to the doc.
tors: -Four have died since the fever sci in
Minor, Hatch, Crone, and KennoD. Two
are dying Freeman and Blount. -Four are
sick-Murrsy, Rogers, Watson, and Joe
Williams.
The Murfreesboro Monitor learns that al
lessG 80 students have left Rutherford coun.
lY and gone elsewhere to attend colleges
| and seminaries this fall. These students
will expend at least $500 each In the course
| of ten months, msking total of $24, 00C
cash which has left that county.
a volume of Tennyson's poems, blue and
gold binding, has been offered as a specia
primium for the prettiest young lady on the
grounds, at the Strawberry Plains Fair, In
East Tennessee. Also a volume of Sil
Walter Scott's poems, blue and gold, for the
most graceful and modest young lady pres
ent,
The Memphis papers say Miss Louls
Wilkerson, almost restored to good health
has been presented with gold cross witt
the following inscription: "Loula Wilker
son, from A. E. Frankland, as mementC
for her attention to the sick and poor during
the yellow fever epidemic, Memphis, Tenn.
1873"
EzThe GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leaf Of the Ok
states that w. A. Freeman, near lakewood
under bond for his appearance before th'
Criminal Court last week, charged with lar
ceny, failed to appear. His attorney moved
the release of his bondsmen, on the grount
that the bailee was forcibly retained. Mo
ton was refused.
The following intelligence is from tn
Fayetteville Express of the 2Sd: We IN
derstand that Capt. W.P. Tolley, late Ell
tor Of the Lincoln County Neo1s, wa
struck on the head with an axe and yer.
! dangerously wounded yesterday morning