Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-08
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The fruit is all right in Stewart county.
The wheat looks well in S umner county.
The wheat in Moore county looks splen-
didly.
The wheat promises well in Coffee
county.
Wheat and clover in Gibson county are
looking remarkably well.
The young men of Knoxville propose to
organize military company.
The religious revival meetings at Knox
vile are being continued with very crafty
ing results.
The Cleveland Banner says that the
wheat prospect in East Tennessee is not
very 1attering.
The citizens of Trenton are moving in
the matter of establishing cotton factory
in that place.
The peaches in a portion of Moore county
have been seriously damaged; otherwise
the fruit promises well.
The Trustees Of Hiwassee College near
Sweetwater, have established Law De-
par.ment in that institution.
The Trenton NeocS severely cTiticzes the
farewell address of Senator Robertson, de-
livered upon the adjournment of the Leg
islature.
The Rogersville Reporter says that bsryta
in abundance has been discovered in HsW-
kins county and company has been form
ed to mine it,
a violin, made by a young man residing
near Dyer station, is on exhibition in Tren-
ton 1t is beautiful and symmetrical piece
of mechanism.
Reports from different parts of Gibson
county state that although the weather has
had vat n f4rTr ha-
hind in getting ready for pl 4nting. Most of
the farmers were planting corn last week.
During the month of March the Loudcn
freight depot shipped the enormous amount
of 1,7I0,356 pounds of grain. The DEPOT is
so it is impossible to furnish storage for all
the grain.
D. Ii. MCGOWAN, Esq, of Shelby county,
recently engaged several Georgia ''niggers,"
paying all necessary expenses OF trsnspor-
tstion on them. Several of them have
"vamoosed," and left Dave minus about
fifty dollars.
The merchants of Brownsville have
brought suit against the Louisville and
Nashville and the Great Southern railroad
for excessive charges on freight. Several
other suits have also been brought on the
SaLl6 STOuAus'
Al the late term of the DeKalb Circuit
Court, William Hutchins, for the murder
OF P. ID. Cummings in Cam on County five
years ago, was convicted of murder in the
second degree and sentenced to tine peni-
Tertiary for ten years.
The Tullahoma independent says great
diversity of opinion exists in Coffee county
as to whether the peach crop has sustained
fatal injury, ba5 that paper inclines to the
belief that there will be plenty OF peaches if
good weather continues.
In Memphis last Friday evening, Charles
Kelley was shot at with pistol by Daniel
Eagan, the ball striking the former on the
breast bone, glancing off and thus inficting
but slight wound, certainly miraculous
escape. Eagan vanoosed.
E. The Lawrence Journal publishes an &C
count of an accident which happened late
ly at the Wayne Furnace, resulting in the
burying alive of two workmen, John A.
West and Will Barlow. They were dug
out as soon as possible, but West was dead.
Barlow recovered,
a Mrs. Davis, in Trenton, while making
fire in stove, thoughtlessly used kero-
sene, which resulted in an explosion. Her
clothes caught fire and she received very Sc
we're burns. 1t was only by the timely eX-
ertions of few persons that she escaped
being burned TO death.