Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-09
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Contributions are still reaching Mem
phiS.
The Chattanooga Exposition is said to be
a success.
The Nc Kenzie Times laments the Excess
siye dissipation Of that town.
The Supreme Court which has been in
session at jackson since the first of October,
adjourned on the 18th inst.
The Columbia Herald of the 9Th an
nounceS the death of Maj. w. c. Allen, Of
Maury county, from paralysis.
According to the Record, 40 bales of
cotton were received at the Upton depot
during the month of October.
The TrOy NelcS of the 9TH says n. l..
Salter had all of the fingers torn off of one
hand by a saw at a mill near that place.
The GaineSbOrO NetcS claims that Jackson
county has the sOrriest Jail in the State. y
prisoner made his escape recently by re-
moving log.
The Jackson papers speak with cOmpla-
cency of a new enterprise in that town-a
dog agency, for the convenience Of buyers
and sellers of CANNES.
The Paris IatelIjgelcer of the 9th says:
On Monday night last, Dr. Porter, the pro
prietor of the Paris house, was robbed OF
thirty-five or forty dollars.
The Trenton Gazette of the Sth says:
Three thieves were caught and lodged in
Jail here last Wednesday night, for stealing
clothing and other articles at Dyer Station.
The .JOneSbOrO Herald and Tribune says
there is one private school in Washington
county, and the number of pupils enrolled
in the public schools is 2,2S5, with a Ii
censed teachers.
A man by the name of James Steward
was severelya and dangerously cut in Gaines
bOrO several nights ago, by some one who
seems to have taken advantage OF the in
toxicated condition of the man and of the
darkness of the night.
The SOnerUWe Falcon of the 9th has
this item: \ negro named Henry Winburn
had his LEG broken last Monday by falling
in well. He fell distance Of seventy
feet and crushed his leg, near the thigh, be-
tween the curbing.
The Columbia Herald of the 18th chrOni-
cles successful hunting excursion. A
| party of gentlemen went to the Collier
place, Lewis county, near the old Webster
| Camp last week. The party numbered
| fourteen, they had fourteen dogs and killed
| fourteen deer, in the three days. Six were
| killed in one day, three of which were slain
| by Charley Gordon.
The GreeaeUWe Nelc Era of the 9th
| saws: On last Monday, student at TuS-
| culum and Greeneville College by the name
! of MDonnel, who boards at his fathers
| some four miles north Of the College, after
| reciting his lessons started home about IL
o'clock, and while Looping his horse the
! stirrup broke and the horse dashed him
| against a tree, striking his head, MASKING
| il SO that he died in a short time.
Referring to the trouble onthe East Ten
! nesssee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, the
| CHATTANOOGA Commercial Of tho Sth says
"On Yesterday Capt. Jaques told the EN-
ployes that he would give them, III writing,
| a promise to raise their wages as soon as
| the financial embarrassment subsidized, and
| could do so with justice to the company
| 4 great many of them seemed willing to
| ACCEPT the proposition, while others said
| they wanted him to insert day, which he
thought impossible under existing circum-
| stances"
A constable near MI. Pleasant, according
to the Columbia Herald, levied on the sorg
hum mill of an old preacher, very good
man. but whose bad health made him I'M
fortunate. That night the preacher came
home and found that the mill had beer
taken off by the constable, but the evapora
tor was left. The good man put it on hi:
shoulders and carried it to the constable:
ward gate, about half mile distant, anC
left it there. The constable had failed tC
levy on the evaporation, and as soon as he
saw it he carried it back to the preachers
The preacher happened to come out int
the ward again. and took it back to the con
stables and left it on the gate. coming
| home late the constable saw the eVapOratO
and carried it back to the preachers. Thus
in one night, the retiner was carried TO Tn
constable's twice, and carried back twice