Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-11
TENNESSEE NEWS.

There are complaints Of hog cholera in
some portions of Weakley county.
Jack Be7ll, colored, died in Gibson
county on the 24th ult., aged 100 years.
The shipments OF cotton from Trenton
to the 1st inst. foot up 1859 bales, which
exceeds that of any previous year.
Miss Matte l.. Elder, of Trenton, and
Miss Ella M. Stacey, of Memphis, gradu-
ated at Jackson Presbyterian College on the
29th ult.
The Alamo Sentinel of the 9th inst. says:
The wheat crop, we learn, in every portion
of Crockett county is looking exceedingly
well and promises an abundant yield.
The Purdy Gazette of the 7th inst, saya:
Our farmers report the crop prospects in
the country, as much better than was an
ticipated after the heavy rains in the
spring.
The county court OF McNairy county, at
its recent term, adopted an order that in
the future no orphan child shall be bound
to any man who drinks TO excess, nor to
any one else unless of unimpeachable
moral character.
The Alamo Sentinel of the 9th inst. says:
At kind Of social gathering of the lawyers
of Alamo and adjoining towns, after the
Chancery Court labors of last week, two
buckets full of lemonade were drank, and
of one pint of whisky on hand not more
than one third was drank, and there we're
ten or dozen lawyers present. What town
or city can beat that for sobriety among
the legal profession?
The Paris Intelligencer says the Cairo
and Tennessee River Narrow Gauge, an
extension of the st. Louis and Cairo Road,
will soon be under contract in Duck River
Valley. Ballard county, Kentucky, SUBJ
scribed money and land with great liberali-
ty. The st. Louis and Cairo Company
agree 70 iron and equip this road whenever
graded and crcss-tied. It will have a
branch to Brownsville, Raleigh and Mem
phis.
The Mckenzie Times of the 9th inst.
says: Our post Office was broken into
again last Thursday night. The thief or
thieves probably searched the house for
money, but Mr.. Yates had fortunately TAX
en- precaufiOn to move it before locking
the Office for the night. Mr.. Yates stock
of goods is go large that it is impossible 10
tell whether any was taken or not. There
was q nickel in the cash drawer, er,,which they
were too magnanimous TO touch.
The Trenton NelCS Of the 9TH inst, says:
A rare specimen of the genus homo was in
town this week, in search of fiddle. After
overhauling the stock of Mr.. W. o. Kelly,
he made the liberal proposition to thai gen
tleman that sff be would be kind enough
to present him with a fiddle and piece of
oil cloth to "wrop" it up in, he would re-
turn in few weeks from his home in Car
roll county, and deliver lecture at 25 cents
head on the subject of "The Useful in
the Creation o, God" Failing in this pro-
position, he then offered to take instead a
music box, if he could have one ''6xed up"
to play new tune called, 'Of for Rich
mond Bsforg the Break of Day"
The Trenton NelrS of the 5th inst, says:
Last Monday we witnessed an exhibition
of the precocity We so frequently read about
as occurring among animals of the lower Or
der. We saw gallOping through the sqasre
a Iiderless horse, which had evidently Just
broken loose, as the bride reins were brok-
en- and dangling on either side. Just in
front Of him, and hardly out ofdaneer from
his fore feet, galloped also a large dog at
tempting to seize the reins, which he sue
ceeded in doing several times, and once so
su ,cessfully as to stop the horse sufficiently
to be approached by by-stander and held
until the owner came up-tne horse and
dog both belonging to the sane man.