Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-20
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Only $50 couples sought marriage
licenses in Crockett county last year.
Some Ofthe citizens Of Crockett county
want the county line changed so as to in
clude their section in Madison county.
The cotton gin OF VIM. johnson, three
miles west of PinsOn, with five or six bales
of cotton, was destroyed by fire eli the Sth
inst.
The JonesJOrO Echo states that the
dwelling house belonging to Mrs. Shell,
near Carter's depot, was entirely consumed
by fire on the 18th inst.
The AidmO Sentinel feels safe in assert
ing that there are more persons in Crockett
county with the letter j in their names
than any county in the State.
J. J. Birdsong, ESD, of Madison county,
recently killed four hogs, sixteen months
old each, that weighed 1856 pounds. The
Jackson Wig and Tribune wants to know
who can beat this.
The EROIuWe Press and Herald brings
out its '.Rocster" to celebrate the election
of Peter Staub to the Mayoralty of that
city. The election came off last Saturday,
resulting in a majority of 127 for Mr..
Staub.
The Jackson Wig and Tribune has a
Denmark item TO the effect that the gin
house Of Mr.. John Wharton wss burned on
the morning of the 9th inst. Five bales of
cotton were lost, and about 1000 bushels
of cotton seed.
A Swede named Otof Olseen was killed
on the 18th inst, on the farm of j. b.
Long, four miles west of Jackson, by the
falling of a tree. He was struck on the top
of the head by limb which mashed in his
skull in frightful manner.
The Gdlidtin TenReSseeGa states that Mr..
J. &. ROdemer commenced work OH the
Cumberland and Ohio Railroad at that
place on the 10th inst. He is to have about
fifty hands at work this week, and it is his
intention to push the work to the mouth of
Dry Fork to completion as speedily as pos
sible.
On the 18th inst freight train on the
Mississippi Central railroad, with passen-
ger car attached, was thrown from the track
near Oakfield, in Madison county, and the
passenger coach, cabOOse and one stock car
utterly wrecked. A lady from COrinth,
Miss, was badly burned by the falling of a
stove upon ner.
John f. Hamill, Register of Hamilton
county, was dangerously stabbed last Fri
day near Chattanooga by A. ii. Garden.
The difficulty grew out of the fact that the
latter quaTreled with the formers wife, and
abused her. The quarrel resulted from the
fact that fhe lady's son refused to sell Car
den a load Of wood on credit.
Where is all the specie? We have bit
of inductiye evidence from Gallatin that it
is boarded by the people. The TeRnesSeedR
states that MIR. W. Baker recently discovered
that $500 in silver had been mysteriously
removed from one of his trunks. Mr.. Ba-
ker'S daughter confessed that she had col
luded with certain negress to remove the
money, but the magistrate found that the
evidence against theinegress was insufficient
TO hold her.
The Jackson Wing and Tribune cores
pOndent at ClaybrOOk, writes: son the
10Th, at night, variety store owned by Mr..
Dilliha, situated on the Jackson and Lex
ington road, a mile and a quarter east of
this place, was burned down. How it caught
fire is vet mystery. Mr.. Dilliha was
sleeping in the house at the time. A faith
full and sagaciOuS dog aroused him from his
slumbers, and when he awoke, the roof of
his house was a sheet of flame, and red hot
embers were falling thick around him. lie
saved very little from the burning, and be-
sides his stock, lost SlS6 in currency, which
was consumed in the connagration, he barely
escaping death himself.
The Knorrule Chronicle of the 18th inst.
says: Thursday night some Of the men at
the rolling mill found a woman drunk, and
asleep, lying in the street near the rolling
mill, and feeling assured in their minds
that if she remained there all night she
would be a corpse in the morning, they
picked her UP and placed her sufficiently
near fire in the mill TO be comfortable,
ard payed no more attention to her, but
continued at their work. After lying a
while in that position, flame of fire was
notice to arise from the neighborhOod OF
the srot where they had placed her, and the
men, rushing to the scene, found that her
dress was on fire. After extinguishing the
flames, which they did Immediately, it was
found that one of her legs, from the knee
down, was pretty badly burned, but other
wise she received no injuries,