Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-30
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Is 1ne OalneSDOro NeaCS reports freen pee
selling in Cookeyipe from 8 to cents anC
plenty.
~ The Gainsboro Neaos reports six indict
ments found by the Grand Jury, Of jackson
county, for carrying pistols. @
The Mckenzie Times records the sudden
death from apoplexy, on the oath of Sep
tember, of Miss Florence SniVeler, aged
only seventeen. S---,....--
The Jonesborough Echo says the corr
crop is a good one. No green corn wal
used during the cholera, and hence VIZ
have quite harvest this fall.
The Humboldt Journal of Sept. 26says
On last Saturday, while attempting to BIAS
alog wit1 patent blasteT, two men (sgent!
for the pa enD had their faces quite serious
ly burned.
The Gallstin Examiner states that Ccl
John w. Head, Of Summer county, is en-
deaVoring to make arrangements to procure
supply ofEnglish lsborers, and invites the
cooperation of our farmers In that diree
ton.
The Mckenzie Times says: 1t is proposed
to organize q joint stock store at this place
with capital of six Thousand d9llsrs, tNen.
ty-6ye dollars constituting a share. Nc
man is allowed 10 hold more than foul
shares.
The Chattanooga Times reports another
whisky raid up the Sequatchie Valley, re-
sulting in the arrest of Lafayette Goss and
Taylor Morrison, and The seizure Of Wagon
aod two mules used In transporting contra.
band TO market.
The Chattanooga Times says freight
train on thu Alabama and Chattanooga
road went throughs bridge at Stewards, on
the 9th, killing The engineer and badly
scalding the fireman. The engine was baQ-
ly wrecked.
Sim Alexson, a correspondent Of the
London journal, was recently bitten by a
copperhead, but escaped with liberal pots-
tioDs of whisky, and poultices Of cockleburr,
jimson weed, nightshade, etc. He says the
cure is as bad as the bite.
> 4 The Brownsville States says: On the
Goth inst, near Brooklyn, in this county,
the daughter of James Hopkins was burn
ed to death. Her sad death was occasioned
by the explosion of an oil can, which
caught fire as she was in the act Of kindliDg
q fire in stove.
The Ripley Ne,us of Sept. 20 says: We
are glad to learn from Capt. W. Z. AleXan-
der, who was in town on Monday, that the
two cases Of cholera, reported on his place
last week, proved to be only cholera NOR
bus. We have heard nothing further from
the reported cholera at OSceola.
The GainsbOrO Nel1S says an attempt was
made In Putnam county, a short time past,
by an unknown person to let the prisoners
out of Jail by letting them have bottle Of
aqua FORTS, for the purpose of dissolVing
some iron bars, but they did not succeed. .
Humboldt is to have an election Oct. IA
on The question of issuing $4,000 in bonds
at g per cent, payable in ten years, the p-o-
ceeds to build male college for the whites
and college for the negroes. There is al.
ready female white college at Humboldt
under the auspices of the Odd Fellows.
The Memphis appeal says: 1t is stated
that there are in Happy-Holow thirty or
forty closed houses in which persons have
died from the so-called yellow fever. These
buildings are in . horrible condition, which
breeds disease and poisOns every breeze
that sweeps over the Inflated district In
which they are located.
The Knoxville Press and Herald states
thai on the 9th blacksmith named Henry
Henderson had an eye severely burned by
8 scale from hot piece of iron that flew
from beneath his banner. His eye was
distr5 ssiDgly turned, SO much so as to for
ever impair its sight and he was suffering
intense pain at last accounts.
The Ripley Ne11S of Sept. rs says: The
barn and Clubhouse of MIR. Thomas Scott,
On the Ashport road, were burned to the
ground on Tuesday night by inceDdaries.
Joe Nixon and Calvin Partee, two negroes
residing on the other side Of Cane Creek,
have been arrested, strong circums,antial
evidence pointing TO them as the pFrpetra-
tors of the devilish deed. mir. SCOTS loss
is about s. 900.
+ The Knoxville Press and Herald says:
Near dozen wagons passed through our
city on the Goth, bearing emigran's West.
Ali belonged to the same party, and were
going to Texas. The casual observer is not
sware CT the decided emigration being made
from our section. Almost daily evidences
are afforded to corroborats our statement.
We reg ct to chronicle the fact; yet it is too
true.
The Gallatin TennesSeean of Sept. 81
says: The American negroes in Gallatin
held an Indignation meeting in the court
house last Mon1ay night, on the question of
the employment of convict labor on the q.
and o. Railroad. Hon. Dock Blythe was
called to the chair. Hon, III. ROgan was
made Vice President OF TIE meeting, DR..
Allison, Secretary. Speeches were made
by Q. Johnson, Esq, Hon. W. Motley, and
others. "Courthouse Fox" was an inhuen-
tiAl parsonage in the assembly. The gener-
al conclusion arrived at, was that they must
emigrate, go to work, or starve, and that
they would be id if they intended to
work in contact and on level with con-
victs.