Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-29
SELLING OUT Ar A GREAT
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Trenton has two foundries and Two plow
manufactures.
A lead mine has been discovered in
Stewart county.
There was light frost at Trenton on the
morning of April %.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church at
Trenton has an organ.
The wheat crop in Gibson county is very
backward and unpromising.
The wheat prospect in Obion county is
more gloomy than for years.
Mr.. Cole Keel, of Stewart county, has
chicken with four perfect feet.
A Presbyterian Church has been organ
lied at Oakland, in Greene county.
There was but one marriage in Obion
county last week, and that was a colored
couple.
The Union City Courier says the Dres-
den District College has been located at
that place.
This is the dryest spring so far that has
been experienced in West Tennessee for
many years.
The thermometer was as high as IS at
Troy on the 22d inst, and down to 40 the
next morning.
The epizooty has reappeared in Gibson
county in a more malignant form than at its
| fret appearance.
The iron is laid and the cars are running
seven miles north of Jackson, on the Missis-
| sippi Central Railroad.
The army worm hss made its appear
ance ia East Tennessee, and its depreda-
J tons have been fearful in some localities.
! The Wasen Car Company have COM
menced their building in Chattanooga, and
expect to be manufacturing cars in ninety
days.
A lady in Ri pley is said to be tasking her
| ingenuity to find some way of getting to a
dry goods store without passing a drinking
saloon.
The village of Stanton, on the Memphis
/ and Louisville railroad, was destroyed by
fire Saturday night. The loss is estimated
at S15O,000.
The register at Troy reports sixteen real
estate transfers and six trust deeds for the
last two weeks. Not a good showing for
healthy business.
The dwelling of Reuben Anderson, 10
Obion county, was destroyed by fire on the
23d inst. He saved nothing but two feath-
er beds and bureau.
There was heavy snow storm in Dan
bridge on Friday afternoon, April %, about
l O'Clock. 1t showed for about half an
| hour, but melted as fast as it fell.
a fire broke out in the coaling ground of
| L. G. Beasley, in Stewart county, on the
| 22d inst, burning about $500 cords of
wood for him and 800 for Jarrett Milan.
Some of the young men of Troy have Or
| gained club to be known as the Amateur
Minstrels, for the purpose of giving series
| of concerts for the benefit of the Cumber-
| land Presbyterian Church at that place.
The foundation for the cotton factory of
the Mountain City Cotton and Wooden
Manufacturing Company of Chattanooga
has been completed, and brick laying will
commence this week. A portion of the
machinery has also arrived.
| The County Court of Jefferson has lev
led tax OF 20 cents on the one hundred
dollars of taxable property, and one dollar
additional on every poll, as well as a privi-
lege tax equal to that levied by the State,
for common school purposes. DR.. Sam.
Anderson was elected County Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction.
A woman named Ellen Boss was arrest
ed st Knoxville on the 18th inst, on q
charge Ct stealing some dresses, jeWelry,
! and fine linen goods from the residence of
Mrs. Heiskell, and pocket book contain
ing seven dollars from a negro woman iv-
ing with Mrs, Heiskell. See is believed
to be one of gang of hall thieves that have
| infested Knoxville of lac.
There is a revival Of Telision in progress
| at the Methodist Episcopal church in Dan
dridge, which is bidding fair 10 accJmp push
much good. All the different de .oLlina-
tons have joined in this revival and 5eem
to work together tremendously with bat
/ one end in view-the salvation OF sous.
Quite q number of conversions Lave been
made, and the interest continues una
bated.
The Jones6oro Herald and Tribune Of
April % says: Mr.. John G. Blakely, who
resides on Horse creek, about eighteen
miles from this place, and who is now forty
years old, and has lived in the same settle
ment ever siace he was child, made his
first visit to Jonesboro last week. He had
never seen a railroad or train of cara He
admired the engine of a passing train very
much, and said it could "bloW its horn
louder than 8 cow could baWl."
The following is appended to the report
of the Market Master of Chattanooga for
the week Guiding April 2G: alt has been
said that we are a people Of large jdeds-
from the above report it may be said that
we are great eaters, for in the short space
of one week we have managed to consume
nine tons of beef, nearly one-quarter ton Of
pork, one ton of mutton, one quarter ton of
veal, and one and one-qusrter ton of fish.
Total, t3oetUe tORS-besides chickens and
bacon"
The Knoxville Press and Herald of April
81 says: There was severe frost on Fri
dy night and ice was seen early yesterday
morning. We regret 10 learn that the
peach crop Is thought to be almost entirely
destroyed. Persons who examined the
young fruit early in the morning say they
were frozen through. The early vegetables,
grapes and taaSer plants of all kinds are
destroyed. We also hear that some fields
of the forward wheat are seriously injured.
The old ejectmeDt suit of Hopkins heirs
against Callaway's heirs has again been de-
cided in the McMinn Circuit Court in favor
of Hopkins heirs. The island sued for is
situated in the Tennessee river, at the
mouth of the Hiwassee, and is worth, at a
fair valuation $4,000 or $4,000. It has
been in litigation, in one form or another.
for tIstTdg four gears. The total amount
involved is about $4,000. The case goes
to the Supreme Court.
| The Troy Tines says: sObion fifty years
acc was territory, and there was not one
hundred men ia the territory at that time,
and five of them are now IN Obion and
have never lived out of the county in that
time. They were grown and married men
at that date. Elisha Parker, was perhaps
the first man ever built permansns resi-
dence in the territory, now Obion county,
| lived here fiftY-On9 OF two years, and then