Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-08
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The physicians report little sickness In
Coffee county.
-Four or FIVE of the assessors 10 Fayette
county have resigned.
The formers OF Bedford county have or
ganlzed cooperative association.
Rev. j. @. Boals has become pastor Of the
Presbyterian church in Somerv lie.
The Gallatin Examiner reports number
of new buildings going up in that town.
There were twenty eight licenses to marry
issued by the County Clerk OF Fsyette du-
ring the month of May-eleveD to whites
and seventeen to blacks.
Seuthey Nelson, who resides in Knox
county, was in Knoxville on the 9Th inst,
and drew bis pension. He was born near
Jenesboro, Tenn, in 1884. IA
{ Some members of the Salem (Methodist)
church, In Bedford county, have Withdrawn
their membership because al organ was
pl aced in the church for use.
James Myers who shot aud killed Marion
Raines near Jonesboro, in Coffee county,
has given himself up to the authorities and
been acquitted-it being justihable homi-
eide.
The Gallatin Tennesseedn learns that the
celebrated law suit IN Trousdale about tbs
location of the courthouse has terminated
in the Circuit Court there in favor Of Harts-
vile. The case Is 10 be appeale1 TO the
Supreme Court. -'i f-a 4 ..-s-
The Dyersburg Progress has gathered
statistics of the cotton raised in Dyer
county In 1872, and estimating for eleven
gins from which no returns had been re-
ceiyed, it puts down the crop at 5,5Si bales.
Averaging the cotton at S65 per bale, IL will
amount to 1885,, $50. .
The Dyersburg Progress OF the 5th inst
says: The crops in Dyer county Of all
kinds are looking splendid. Cotton and
corn are more especially looking well, and
it is predicted that we will have a much
larger cotton crop this year than ever be-
fore. aral1z6 ri
The Dyersburg Progress Of the 5th inst.
says: Doctors in Dyer county hsve hard
time of it. Job himself had more patients
than they. We have such q healthy coun .
try that our doctors have an abundance o.
time TO study medicine, and they a-e all
physicians cf the first water.
The Jonesboro Flag and Advertiser OF
the 9th ic st. says: We hear Of many c-ses
diarrhea, dysontery and other bowel com
plants, caused, we presume, by the sudden
change from winter weather TO excessive
heat, with perhaps an immoderate use OF
unripe vegetables.
The Somerville Falcon of the 9Th inst,
says: Farmers report that the grass IS run
ming away with their cotton crops. We are
lad to note that they are doing their ut
most to check it. 1t is not improbable that
The cotton crop will be rs good as it was
last year, he complaints TO the contrary
notwithstanding.
Wheat, our friend reports, viii be full
average crop in most localities be visited.
Heads are filling better than last year, which
will compensate for the thiDness on the
ground, as compared with Ia years crop.
Oats, grass and clover promise good yield.
Farmers will be in the midst of wheat har-
vest by the 18th.
The ShelbyYilla Commercial Of the 9th
inst. says: A 'dollar train" to Nashville,
OH Wednesday, carried one hundred aud
seventy-three persons from Shelbyvle,
many of whom had never been before.
These first visits to our State capitol ae OF
much benefit, and we wish all could go, at
least one time for one dollar.
The Chat anooga Times of the 7th lnst.,
says: We eonyersed yesterday with gen.
tleman who has just returned from an ex-
tended tour in Bradley, Meigs, Rhea, Nc
Mimi, Monroe and Loudon counties. He
reports crops generally looking well. Corn,
though Ia some localities, where the cut
worm has been prevalent, is somewhat
backward, Is yet thrifty and growing finely
Capt. II. L. Fowlkes, of Dyer county
informs the Dyersburg Progress that be
has sold this year over 5000 worth OF corr
stx 1,o aa1 an = far
Last year he raised over i 800 bushels OF
corn, which he is now selling as fast as be
can measure it out at 81 80 per barrel. He
says if he had planted cotton he would not
have realized more than 81 800.
The Jonesboro Flag and Advertiser OF
the 9Th inst. says: The wheat crop has
greatly improved within the past week, but
owing 10 the heavy freezes last winter,
wheat is very thin on the ground. Three
weeks more and the harVesters will throw
the golden grain right and left. The oai
crop looks well. Corn, also, Is growing
finely, AMI should the season be as favora
ble in the future as in the past, our crops
will yield abundantly.
The Shelbyvilla Commercial of the 9Th
inst. saws: Mai c. p. Houston has the
sword Of bis granf father, Col. Caleb Phifer,
which was worn by him as an officer In The
Revolutionary war. Col. Phlfer died oz
wears ago on the Sd iDst., and left this
sword to bis grandson, Maj. Caleb Phifer
Houston, who was then one year old. The
sword guard is Of solid silver, and all is wei
preserved. This relic should be sent tothe
Centennial Exposition of 1876, and we un-
derstand it will. gf,I gqmrf-
The Shelbyville Commercial OF the 9th
inst. SAYS: Sheriff Fonville arrested one
DIR. Glenn on Wednesday, against whom
the grand jury had found four indictments,
and upon falling to give bond was commit. ..
to iaii. He sent the Sheriff word few
days previous that he expected him, and
asked that be be permitted to plow over his
crop beforehand, but he did not send spec
ial word that he would stay TO finish the
crop, and Mr.. F. concluded to give him
quarters in the shade.
The Shelbyville Commercial OF the 5th
instant says: IL was last Saturday morn
ing, whils the air was pleasant, that MI
Robert Mathews and ''Uncle" Robert Cow :
an, were sitting az the front door Of w. u
& o. Cowsn's store, when Mr.. Mathews
remarked, "Wen, Mr.. Cowan, it is fCrty'
three years ago, this night, that this town
was swept With tornado, and three years
aud month subsequent (being the 18th Of
June 1887 the cholera broke out, and o
fatal was it that one-fifth of the population
died in few days."
The Shelbyville Commercial of the 9th
inst, says: Matt Walker, colored, was in
town ON Monday stepping around quite
elibly. He was ought from Virginia 70
huntsville, Ala, then ga very small place,
by Edmund Purguson when lad. de
helped to clear up the grounds where our
| Courthouse Low stands. When the coct
era was here in 1888, he belonged to Robert
Weight who died with l., and although ne
| had been free, as it were, because OF great
age, he was sold and purchased oy JONI
| G.. Walker, who made him free before I'M
war. He now lives with his son.. tme'
miles from town and is believed to be an
hundred and two years cid. 1t was In hi
hundIedth year that we remember seein
him ride with boys at the colored people;
Fair, waving his hat an in other wayi
| seeming to feel as young as any OF them
| But when ordered to ride out be becam'
yery indignant, and argued that no "niggel
- n r,oht M, canfrol him. s.-rT