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

The Springfield Record Of the 7th inst.
reports the health of that town improving.
The Fayetteville Observer of the 7th inst
reports the health of that town and vicinity
as good.
Mr.. r. S. Woodward has been appointed
CASTER of the First National Bank of Fay.
etteville.
The Warren county agricultural fair will
commence the 9th instead of the 10th OF
September.
Col. Buford, of Lexington, KY, a noted
raiser of trotting horses, will have car
load of his blooded stock at the Tennessee
Central Fair, at Murfreesboro, this fall.
The Pulaski Citizen of the 7th inst. says:
Rains have occurred in different portions oi
the county during the past week, though
some sections are still suffering and all need
more.
The Springfield Record of the 7th inst
says: a fine revival is now in progress at
Nei,Ps chapel, Red river circuit. Some
fourteen have been converted, and the WORK
stu goes on.
The Pulaski Citizen says: II has beer
estimated by gentlemen who have examined
the tax books just made out that the take:
this year will exceed any previous assess.
ment by about Is or 20 per cent.
The Murfreesboro Monitor of the 7th
inst. says: One of our farmers who rivals
Job or ''any other man" in patience, under.
took, few days since, to count the number
of seeds il a head Of millet, and was sur.
prised to find $500.
The Springfield Record of the 7th inst
says: hog cholera, in its worst form, is in
several sections Of Robertson county
Squire Jimmy Woodard, DR.. Draughon, A
B. Bouts, and many others have lost largely
by it.
The Fayetteville Observer of the 7th inst
says: The wheat is generally threshed
and the yield does not, as an average, real
ize expectations. Some fields measured
fifteen to twenty bushels of good grain tc
the acre, but large majority were as Low
as six to eight of an Indifferent quality
The Springfield Record of the 7th inst.
says: There has been considerable sicknes:
in Coopertown of this county, during this
summer, cholera, fux and typhoid fever
Only two deaths, however. We are glad tC
learn that this beautiful little village is again
possessed of its usual health.
The Kingston Ne1cs of the 9TH inst. says
We regret to learn that child of Mr.
Robert Burns, living near Cox's Ferry, in
this county, was killed yesterday evening
while feeding the stock, by mule which
kicked him on the breast, Just above the
heart. He died Immediately.
The MorristoWn Gazette of the 9th inst
ssys: There is not now, nor has there been
any cholera in MoTristOwn except the case
of Mr.. Carson, who contracted the disease
at Greeneville, came here Fand died. Our
town is being put in good sanitary c1ndi-
tiOD, and the health of the place was never
better.
The Fayetteville Observer of the 7th inst.
says: A wei-known negro man named
Aaron Lamb came to a sudden death at
Capt. Ships, about one mile east of this
place, last Wednesday. He was employed
to clean out a well, and was suffocated al
the bottom by foul air. Before entering, a
candle was let Gown, and it went out.
Live Goals we're shen lowered, and they
were extinguished. The negro was re-
monstrated with, and an effort made to dis
suade him from going down until the un-
favorable indications were removed, but
he persisted, and went to bis death. Hooks
were made t. drag the body from the well.
For 1 hour or two efforts were unayailing,
the hooks tearing out whenever caught. At
last the body was hooked in the mouth and
thus recovered.
The McMinnville NeaU Era of the 7th
inst. says: There are about two hundred
refugees from the neighborhood of Muir
freesboro and the rich lands in the "basinn
now stopping about fourteen miles south
west of this place, on the lands about the
head Of the Petty's Gap road. We learn
that quite number of them were robbed
few nights since Of various sums of money,
in all amounting to some hundreds of dol
lars. Doubtless they must We been rob-
bed by those who knew they had the money
and ere they kept it. There are also a
large number stopping in che bills this side
of Woodbury. eight or ten miles, and south
of the Nashville road, where they are stop
ping in cabins AMI boarding at different
places. 1t is hoped that our mountain air
will SO recuperate and invigorate them that
they can enjoy the best of he alth when they
return to their homes,