Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-03
TENNESSEE NEWS.

OAlOu lily looks Dau.
The merchants of GaiT sbero are starting
wages to Nashville for goods.
The Waverly Journal states that Erir
Station is once more clear of cholera.
Dr. Randolph He'll, solaier of The wal
OF 1872, died recently near Fountain Head
Sumner county.
David A. Deaderick died in Knoxville,
August %, in his 18th year, after long
and protracted illness.
Rain fell in the neighborhood of lions
Church, Maury county, on Aug. 25-the
first rain since June L.
Active preparations are going forward at
Windows, near MuIfreesboro, for the ap-
preaching campmeetiDg on the 9TH Of Sep
tembe-.
The Jonesboro Echo says the chicken
cholera is raging on Nolachucky river. In
some places farms are left destitute of th
fea hered tribe.
We notice that Samuel Carmichael, "wor-
shipful master, Stone Fort Grange" is or
ganizing oranges in Coffee and adjoining
counties.
The Gainsboro Ne1oS states that VIM.
G. CummiDs OF Cookeville is engaged in
getting up sewing machine ofhis own in
vention.
The Troy Times say great deal ofsickness
is reported through the country, cholera in
fantum is raging among The children, and
is fatal ia great many cases.
The Paris InteLligencer states that Nun
roe Haynes wife, near Henry Station, last
week gave birth to lriplets, one girl and two
boys. All doing well.
a prisoner mined Mclean escaped from
the Wayne county jail a few mig Us since.
Some one assisted him from the outside.
Three locks were broken with q crowbar.
Owing to the postal troubles on the Nc
Minnville and Manchester railroad, the
mails are now carried from Tullahoma by
buggy, arriving only one hour after the
train.
The Times states that an injunction has
been obtained against the City Council of
Chattanooga to restrain them from issuing
the $4,000 in bonds lately voted for school
purposes.
For the last two weeks the average ship
ment of coal over the Knoxville and Ohio
Railroad amounted to from 800 to 400 tons
per day. On Aug. 20 $50 tons were ship
ped.
The Columbia Herald says: One of the
place is reading law. If she should take
notion to practice, wouldn't she wheed!e
the juriesi
The Huntingdon Republican says: A
c7lored boy about IS years old, Ell out of
a wagon about ten miles west Ct this place,
a few days ago, aud was killed by his neck
being broken.
The Express of Aug. %, says fifteen
hundred bushels of wheat were shipped
from Fayetteville over the Winchester and
Alabama railroad, during the previous
week, although dealers are holding back for
higher prices.
The Fayetteville Express understands
that there is great desl of sickness in the
neighborhood Of Mulberry village. Flux is
prevailing there to a considerable extent
and several prominent citizens are i'll with it.
The Chattanooga Times states that on
Aug. %, Henry Burnside, negro employed
on the Tennessee river improvement near
the Roane Iron Mills, had his left arm COM
ple.ely torn eff above the wrist by pre-
mature explosion.
The Murfreesboro NetCs of Aug. 20 says:
Coroner Blanch beld an inquest yesterday
on the bodies of two negro men, who met
digging well or the land of E IS. Jordan
The Murireesboro Ne1vs states that on
the night of Aug. 26 there was coal oil
lamp explosion at the house Of Cole Brown,
colored, east of the old cemetery. The
house was set on fire, and Cole received
several severe burns on his arms, shoulders
and face.
The Trenton NeoCs learns that on Aug.
25, at Jackson, Tenn, while the hands we're
finishing off t2ree story brick building,
some part Of the work gave way and then
came mighty crash that killed one man
outright. Some thirteen were on the top
of the house at the time.
The Trenton Ne1Us states that Mr.. Geo.
T. Thomas, son of Elder D. P. Thomas,
was bitten on the toe by copperhead
snake on Aug. 20, four miles north OF town.
He suffered intensely, but by prompt med
ical assistance and the "curse of the land"
he is fast recovering.
The TenneSseedn continues to urge the
building of three-mile railroad from Gal
latin to the Cumberland river, stating that
folly ecuipps it would cost only $4,000,
while Gallatin can secure it by subscrip
ton of S25, 900, the Cumberland and Ohio
Company greeting to run 1t.
From persons living east OF Memphis,
he Register learns that the storm. of Aug.
27 was terrific. Near Whites ard Good
ett's stations, on tbs Memphis and char
eston "a lroad, q good deal of timber and
fencing was blown down, and thu rain was
3 very heavy one.
The Knoxville Chronicle states that at
Thorn Grove on Aug. 28, young man
I'M ha oF Of fuir
Ok to tree when the same flash of light
ming struck both, killing thu animal. Carri-
pan had all the hair scOrched off the back
Of bis head and lay insensible for fifteen
minutes after recovering the shock.
There are in White county, according to
lie Sparta Inder, forty white and two col
Jred schools in operation, at cost of about
$1,000 per month. There are four white
and four colored schools yet TO begin, which
will cost about $50 per month, making in
all fifty schools, at cost Of about ST 300
Dor month.
The darkies Of Fayetteville ara exercised
over the ghost of Aaron Lamb, a negro re-
Gently suffice tied in a well. The Express
says a few of them assert that they have
seen the defunct Aaron, cothei in the
usual ghostly garb-that is, white sh e.
tied in the middle with cotton string, and
a two-story night-csp surmounting the
head.
The Paris Inteligenncer of August 20 is
rather personal: Gu Friday last, diff
Guilty occurred between 81. G.. Lefls, of
this offic, and Mr.. James Dunlop, in
whica both par les were slightly wounded.
Neither party has sustained any serious In
Jury. The extravagant rumors that have
gone abroad in the country are false. Both
parties were fined by the Mayor.
Who ever saw dead mule? The Mem
pbis Register of August 20 responds
poor, hard-worked mul3s yesterday
gavs up their ghosts, and went to that place
where all good mules 60. Two Of them
were attached to wagons, and one to drsy.
They were all overcome by the heat; in
fact, their death was caused by sunstroke.
The Knoxville Chronicle Of Aug. 20,
says: Yesterday morning young man
nared James Mynderse, at Craig & Bart
let's saah and blind factory, met with an
accident which might have proved serious
sffsir. He was feeding a circular saw,
when, by some means, his right hand was
drawn into the cav, AID two of his fingers
were slightly cut.
The Columbia Herald states that Mr..
Tom Jones has one acre and half in grass,
On which he realized, two years ago, one
hundred dollars; last yesr, sixty dollars; aud
this year he thinks it will bring him eighty
dollars. Aud, the best of all, his land is
constantly incraasiDO in fartjlitV