Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-04
TENNESSEE NEWS.


Dover has q wagon factory 4siGlc
MaryVille is to have bank ugf
Ripley was laid out in 1885. s
Manchester has musical club.
Eggs are plentiful at Lawrenceburg.
Tullahoma has a real estate agency.
Gallatin is to have two wooden mills.
Knoxville is to have reading-reom.
Pneumonia prevails In Lawrence county.
A gin factory is building at Brownsville.
Obion county needs 1000 miles OF ditch
ing. a'g3a.,
Brownsville Is afflicted with bowling
CANNES. J4 h.s
The Gibson county wheat crop Is I'M
proving. a. - :.
MAryvile.
Stewart county has scholastic poppla-
ton of 3, $50. 80 = ba1g1a VI.
Dyer county teachers have mania for
changing books. '- OH
telegraph Office. - = -, -.
Mcaiinn county viii plant good deal OF
tobacco this year. MtDtA -
Trenton Is agisated over the Iennessee
Central Railroad. @
Prof. o. 81. P. Bennett Is preparing d
map OF Columbia.
Milan has voted Sl6,0OO TO the Iennes-
see Central Railroad.
A party of Brownsville citizens have leIt
for a visit to Texas. .sa 1tct
SD. MCLEAN, of Lawrence county, has
patented bee hive. T $3.50
II An effort is being made to change the
name of Philadelphia.
The Roane furnace recently ran elgnteen
tons of pig iron in day. :,
Knoxville has organized q car wheel
manufacturing company.
Much Bradley county wheat has been
frozen out by cold weather.
Old Aunt Phoebe Archer, Of Washington
county, died on the 10th inst.
Nashville letter has been forty one
DAYS travelling to Dyersburg.
Tullahoma has voted S., 600 TO the DUCK
River Narrow Gauge Railroad. l--
T.B. Carson has killed q hawk In Ripley
measuring four feet nine inches.
A new horse disease OF a malignant ype,
has appeared iniBlount county. 1oa
A few days ago at Athens the thermo me
ter was ten degrees below zero.
Two Lawrenceburg Youths ate seven r
pound cans of oysters for dinner.
MIR. Abraham Jones, prominent cltlzeu
of Washington county, died recently.
Uncle Billy Pollock, of Lewis county, re-
sembles Horace Greeley in his looks.
Mr.. Thos. Dryden, soldier OF the war OF
1872. died recently in Bedford county.
A Greeneville drover cleared $70O on a lot
of horses sold recently in the South.
Greene county man has contracted for
a STONE Griffin in which to be buried.
The iron and coal deposits in Rhea coun-
ty are commanding much attention.
Lincoln county farming is more back
ward than il has been since the war.
Pennsylyanian has purchased $50 acres
ef Bradley county land for $500 cash.
Valuable iron ore and indications OF coal
have heen discovered in McMinn county.
Fifty Maury county men are buying
mules in Kentucky, Indiana and Missis-
sippi.
~ has had three wives within twelve
months.
The Superintendent of Knoxville's pub
lie schools receives only $500 salary per
annum. ..
Recently a man named Call was drown
ed in Elk river, Lincoln county, by canoe
upsetting.
AuQJ S2lllo SIul5l, pAO1o o-N
70, died few days ago near hichmono'
Bedford county.
A patient who tried to escape from the
Jackson smallpox hospital last week, was
shot by the nurse.
A two year old child of Alonzo Compton,
of Knoxville, was injured few days ago Oy
falling from porch. -,
James McFall of Galstin, died recently
By pneumonia aggravated from Wouho
received in the war.
Asman girl, near Gardner Station, weak
lev county, last week was burned TO oeaIn
by her dress taking nre.
Three members of Willis FarrelPs ian3-
iIy in Ripley have died OF pneumonia
within the last few days.
Jno. P. Warren, who was gallant mem
Der of the ID Tennessee @. 5. A, died re-
Gently in Murfreesboro.
NC. CARMEL has been elected President
of the Humphreys County Agricultural ana
Mechanical Association.
Tom Jenkins, colored, aged 100 years,
was burned to death by house taking nre
recently, in Obion county
The incorporstors Of the Oakdale Iron
Company have presented Gen. J. L. Wild
er with fine gold watch.
Cant. James q. Walker, of Blount
county, was thrown from horse and bis
leg broken, few days ago.
A drcpsical subject in the Gibson county
poor house at one tapping discharged four
and a half gallons Of wxter. ....
| Col. Gideon P. B.skette, worthy citizen
and long leading merchant of Shelbyvllle
| died at bis home few days ago.
| A Greeneville doctor has ushered ll66
! specimens of speeches. humanity into thi;
world, and is still in the business.
The attempt to collect wharfage from
flatboatmen at Chattanooga causes dissatls
faction, and law suits may result.
| The body of Robert Hook, supposed to
| have been murdered for So by negro, has
been found in creek near Knoxville.
The Knights Templar Of Murfreesborc
sneak of chsrtering boat in this city To
attend the General Commandery at Clarks'
vile. :,
In Lawrence county, during the late cold
weather, two boys cut up their father
wagon tongue and half bushel measure FOL
fire wood.
A few days ago Miss E. McGinnis, o.
Yorkyille, Gibson county, was burned tc
death by her dress taking fire while she was
cooking breakfast.
| A few nights ago thief stole Column
bia horse which returned next day with 9
rope around its neck. 1t ought to 81
around the thiefs neck.
A few nights ago two OF Polk Allen
cows, in Maury county, gave birth to lou
calves, and two of his ewes to four lambs
And "yet he is not happy ..