Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-17

Jackson muzzles its dogs.
The Dover Record reports terrific rain
on the night of the 18th.
A certain school district of Madison
county numbers 1872 children and 156 dogs
by actual count.
This police of Jackson inside fifty arrests
during the week ending the 16.h-fghtiug,
lewdness and vulgar language.
The VSlue offsrm productions of Shelby
county IS estimated ct over four millions Of
dollars by he census men.
Rev. Colin Mckinney, born in North
Carolina in 1910 and for many years Pres
by!erian pastor of Jackson, died in Ripley
on The 10Th inst.
The late election resulted in the defeat in
Upton county of the additional school tax.
The vote was very light, the polls being only
opened at three or four precincts.
On Tuesday night. the 18th inst, says
the GAINESVILLE Chronicle, Mr.. Nat rrice, Of
New Providence, attempted to swim Cum
berland river, near Corbsndsle, but gave out
and was drowned.
Tie Columbia Mail says: James Friel
excavated from the bottom of Duck river,
few days since, bombshell that had never
been exploded. It is Of modern manufsc-
IuLC, <IA - blppO5Su " h6NO DScu ILL OHA
there sometime during the late war.
The Murfreesboro Ne1rs says: The BsI-
tist congregation here have granted their
pastor, DR.. Chas. Marley, leave of absence
for two months 10 visit the different asso-
Citations in Middle aud West Tennessee, in
the interest of Union University.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle announces the
death Of Mr. Consrd Frech, which occurred
at his residence on the morning of the 18th
inst. Mr.. Frech was born in Germany in
1875, immiorated to this country in 1894,
and came to Montgomery county in 1857,
since which time be has been useful and
highly respected citizen.
The jackson Wing and Tribune says: :
III. F. ID. Theus showed US on the 18th
inst. bunch Of the most remarkable beans
we ever saw. Several of them measured
two feet snd half in length and one inch
in circumference, while the others measured
nine inches in length and two in circum-
ference. They were 'cornfeld BEANS"
tender snd striDgless.
According 10 the Dyersburg Progress,
Dyer county has finer crops, bigger and
better crops of all kinds, than nearly cour-
ty in the State. Soma little of the cotton
has the rust, but not to hurt. There are
more bolls to the stalk than was ever BE-
fore seen in the county. We are glad to
see immigrants making their way into Dyer
county. 1t is very healthy sign.
The Dyersburg Progress understands
that on Thursday night, the It'll inst, near
Hurricane Hill, couple Of negroes at Mr..
Gas. RobertsOn's were examining a pistol,
when it was accidentally discharged, the
ball entering and lodging in the lungs of
one OF the negroes. 1t was thought he
would not recover.
Th9 Jasper Sun wants narrow gauge
railroad from thai town to Pikeyille, and
says the three counties of Bledsoe, Sequa-
chic and Marion, are able to build it, and
that County Courts ought to submit the
question to the people, whether they vote
stock sufficient to grade the road through
each county.
The jackson Wig and Tribune states
that some twelve monLhs ago a couple Of
twin sisters, living in Madison c2unty, were
married on the same night by the same
minister. In due season they were de-
livered on the same night Of nine pound
girl baby each. 1t states further that re-
Gently, in one small neighborhoOd of jack
sou, eleven children were born il one
month, and all girls but one.
Hare is a tough one from the Dover Re-
cord: Mr.. I. B. Prewitt has iDformed us
that large portion of Mr.. James Green's
tobacco crop on Indian Greek in this coun-
ty, has lately been destroyed by his hogs.
The tobacco was in topping-.new land
when the hogs broke into the field, com
menciDg at the top of the plant breaking off
the leaves and chewing the stalk to the
ground.
The editor the Jasper Sun has been up
the Sequatchie valley, and writes: Cora
looks better than it has for years before, and
if there is no mishap to it there will be
more corn in the valley this fall than there
has been any year since the war. Free
public SCHOOLS began in nearly every neigh
borhood in Sequatchie valley on the first
Monday in this month. The people of the
valley were generally in good health; only a
| few cases of sickness. We were sorry to
find ESQ. VIM. Foster, of Fosters X Roads,
| Bl-dsoe county, at the point Of desth,
caused by fall from horse. Mr.. Eos er's
next door neighbor, Mr.. Lea, was als) not
expected to live; disease of the heart the
cause of Mr.. Leafs Illness, "