Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-12
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The pTOSpecb IOr lTuiG III AAHieAlc COUhty
is not encouraging.
The German school in Lawrenceburg
numbers forty scholars.
Memphis is discussing the ACCESSIBILITY of
erecting another theatre.
A company has been formed TO work
lead mine in Bradley county.
Bradley county has received quite an ac-
cession Of immigrants from The North
lately. Ekt2ts& t5 sssit
The tax for county purposes in Bedford
is fixed at forty cents on the 500 Of taxable
property.
The Athens Post reports heavy frost in
that region Wednesday night, April 8,
damaging fiuit and early vegetables.
The tax levied in Rutherford for county
purposes is fifteen cents on the 500 of tax
able property, and the same for schools.
The farmers ofFayette county are re-
ported month ahead Of what they were
last year. The fruit prospect is SPLENDID.
The Wesleyan Female College, of Browns
vile, came very near being destroyed by fire
a few days ago. No serious damage was
done.
The tax in Bradley for county purposes
has been fixed at forty cents on the 500
of taxable property, and the school tax at
ten cents.
Our country exchanges insist upon it that
cerebro spinal meningitis hss become almost
epidemic in Nashville. This will be news
to our citizens.
The Murfreesboro Ne,os says that city
can boast of more beautiful flower gardens
and prettier women than any other town in
the State.
Maj. Ed. Steger, of Moscow, Fayette
county, had his gin house and three or
four bales of cotton burned few days ago.
His loss was about s., 800.
A negro woman and two children were
badly burn ed in Knoxville on Wednesday
night, the 9th inst, by oil spilling on them
from lamp and hen taking fire.
James Riddle, of Lawrence county, has
caught twenty-seyen wild turkeys since
| Christmas, and Jesse Green has caught
thirty-six since the LIST of January.
The Chattanooga Times argues for an
extra session of the Legislature, and insists
| that the failure to pass the revenue bill
renders such step absolutely necessary.
The kitchen and smoke-house of o. q.
Wall, OF Fayette county, were destroyed
by fire q few days ago, together with con-
siderable amount of clothing and provis-
| ions.
Frank Lowery shipped lot of well fat
ted beef cattle from Cleveland q few days
ago. One pair weighed 5000 pounds, an
| other pair 1900 and the others nesr the
same figures.
The SomerviIle Falcon reports the reve-
nue. of Fayette county for 1872 at SIS, DID,
| 45, and the liabilities of the county at &c.,
$3.50. This shows the county to be in
debt for only $365.94.
| Tho 1a1y1fu f,v ooiloat0r for
county reports that there remains only one
dollar uncollected of the taxes for 1872 in
the second district of that county, and that
| is due from a man who ran away.
There were 1878 marriages in Bedford
county during the five years ending Dec.
81, 1872. OF these, Att occurred in 1871
and 25S in 1872. There were fifty maria
ees during the first three months of this
year.
lobe and Pomp Murray, colored, have
been found guilty by the Criminal Court OF
Rutherford county of "traveling in mask,
and each fined 500. The former was or
dered imprisoned three months and the lat
ter one day in addition to the fine.
The Somerville Falcon learns thai dead
infant was lately found on the farm of VIM.
Pool, nine miles south of Jackson. 1t was
|
face of the ground and had evidently been
strapgled to death.
Sixteen head of beef cattle averaging
400 pounds each, raised in Sequatchie
valley, were shipped to Montgomery, Ala
from Chattanooga few days ago; and two
weighing 1890 and 1870 pounds, were
shipped to Augusta, Ga.
Trusty Glass, colored, of the fourth dis
trict of Fayette county, qualified last Mon
day, the 7th inst, as a Magistrate and was
duly sworo in as a member of the County
Court. Tnis is the first person of color that
ever held public Office in Fayette county.
The Knoxville Chronicle has been showT
by w. 81. Edwards, of Anderson county, a
bottle Of w&ter strongly impregnated with
alum, which came from a well at Goa
Creek, near the Knoxville Iron Company's
chute. The well is about eighteen feet deeI
and the water clear and cold.
On Sunday night, the 9th inst, one o
the buildings at Ladd's Springs, Polk coun
ty, used as a store loom by the family o
Mr.. B. G. Willis, of this place, with its con
tents, was destroyed by fire. The silve
ware, a trunk of clothing and lot of ba
con and -four were among the things de
stroyed.
The Chattanooga Times s ates that tn
property known as the Mcmillan track ha
been sold to Henry Tod, who represents
company of Youngstown, Ohio, capitalists
The property lies between the Crutchfelt
farm and the Vulcan Iron Works lands
and contains sixty-one acres. The price
paid is $4,000
The Chattanooga Times learns that thu
operatives employed at the Roane 1roI
Company's works are about to organize ;
cooperative association with a view Il
opening store, the profits Of which will bt
divided among the share holders, all o
: whom will be laborers and artisans EN-
ployed at these mills.
The County Court of McMinn has fixet
the county tax for current year at 10 cent
on the one hundred dollars worth of al
: taxable property and levied an additiona
poll tax of one dollar for county school pun
poses. A tax of So cents on the 500 c
! taxable property lhad previously been as
sessed to build new court house.
The Memphis Appeal Of the 9th con
tains five column report of lecture b.
Wilson, the Spiritualist, delivered at Green
Y laws Opera House in that city last Sunda
evening. 1t is not known what Wilso
: paid for the report, but it is safe to say tha
I five columns of sllier tWaddle never aF
peared in any newspaper.
The Cleveland Banner of the 18th ins
says, The last ten days of fine weather hs
made marked improvement in the al
pearance of the growing wheat croI
Some of our farmers inform US that nC
: near as much of it has been winter kille
7 as was anticipated few weeks age, an
It that in their neighborhoods the prospect
4 good for fair yield. The fields aroun
u town look well.
The Athens Post of the 18th inst. say
l. We are advised thai last week, Arthur
Drummer, who is farming in the absence {
}. his father, Rev. j. Il. Brunuer, had Il
y misfortune to lose all his horses-two fiji
d brood mares and an excellent gelding tire
n years old. Also, number of hogs. Ger
8 orally believed to be a case of poisoning
7. A COW and few Of the hogs will likely r.
cover. Three two-year old mules escape
entirely.
1t Rich iron mines have been discovert
J. near the line between Bradley and JAM
Of counties, and large tract of land, embra
II ing these mines, has been leased by con
IS pany who contemplate the establishment
E. in the neighborhood, during the preseI
y summer, of an iron foundry. The lare