Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-30
TENNESSEE NEWS.

There is a good deal of sickness in Roane
county.
Fayetteville is resolved to have a tele-
graph line to Decherd.
1t is common now for negroes to steal
bales Of cottun in Memphis:
There are at preseIitseyen inmates Of the
Rutherford county Jail, six colored and one
white.
Twelve thousand five hundred bushels of
coal have been sold in Fayetteville this
winter. 81
A farm of 500 acres in Granger county
was sold lately for $500. 1t belonged to
the heirs of L. 4. Garrett, Esq.
The Springfield Record of Jan. 20 says:
| a large American eagle was Killed on the
waters Of Sulphur Fork, near this place, last
| week.
There was an average quantity of wheat
sown in Rutherford county, last fall, and
the prospect at present is good for a large
yield.
Jas. S. Brown, Esq, died at his residence
near .Tate's Station, in Montgomery coun-
ty, Monday night, Jan. 20; of heart disease
aged "a years.
The Springfield Record states the condi-
tion of the matrimonial market in this Ian
guage: Slight beautiful, accomplished
Young ladies, worth ten thousand dollars
each, in and around Springfield, wish to
shitch' to some clever, industrious young
gentlemen"
There is a most extraordinary and pre-
cious relic preserved by a gentleman in
Jackson. The Herald of Jan. p says: "a
gentleman of this city, has preserved in al
cohol, a bed-bug which was caught N bed
that Gen. Jackson slept in. The bug is in
a perfect state of preservation, and looks
like any other insect of the kind" Us this
an honorable memento of the hero of New
Orleans?
The Fayetteville Express says: The
other day a venerable Fayetteville darkey
stepped on a piece of apple peeling, slip
ped up and fel to the earth with such force
that his bones ratified like a pair of casta-
nets. lie gathered himself up slowly, look
ed ruefully at the hole his c0at-tails had
made in the ground, cast a spiteful glance
at the peeling and exclaimed, "Dam if l
see what folks want to skin apples and eat
'em fur, no how"
The Fayetteville Observer Of the Goth
inst. says: Mrs. Mullins, who lives near
| Swan creek in this county, was burned to
| death a few days since. She was in feeble
health, and while Citing near the fire, her
dress caught. Another lady noticed and
called her attention 10 il, when she became
greatly alarmed, and instead of attempting
to e~xtinguish the flames, got up and ran
out doors. The wind famed the blaze, and
she was speedily so badly burned as TO
cause her death in a short time.
The JoneSbOrO Echo of Jan. "a says: \
few days since seven Greeneville ladies en-
tered four different bar-rooms in succe sion
and held PRAYER meeting in each, exhorting
the men in charge of the same to give up
the soul-deStrCying business and seek hon
orable employment. y deep impression
was made upon at least n of them, and
he has written a letter to the owner Of the
concern, throwing up his situation, he
having resolved to engage in some other
business.
The JOneSborO Echo Of Jan. "a says:
We are informed that "Lody' BroylesS, 4
native Of this county, but for some time
has been living with a relative IN CalifOr-
MIA, attempted suicide by cutting his throat
a few days since. 1t is hoped that the at
tempt may prove futile, but fears are en-
tertained by his friends here that the wound
is fatal. He was quite young when he left
home, and we regret to hear of his attempt
liz u ldht AlS OhA A1lNs III was q wy
promising. pious boy. We did not learn
the cause of the act.
The MOrriStotrR Gazette repeats a little
tale Of a passenger, to the effect that as the
Virginia and Tennessee passenger train
was coming through a cut in Peak noun
tain, on Saturday, Jan. u, a hugg black
bear was overtaken on the track. The
usual precautionary signals of danger were
sounded by the engineer, but instead Of
prOhting by them IS dumb brutes usually
do. and switching from the main udcE,
bruin planted himself in the attitude usual
to his tribe when determined to DO or die.
and patiently awaited a tussle ITith the iron
horse. The conflict was exceedingly brief
"a mass of mangled flesh and bones,
weighing 465 pounds, was gathered up as 4
trophy, and the iron horse snorted from the
battle ground.
The M0rriStewR Gazette Of Jan. %
saws: ave learn that a mar named Sproule
was shot by the Sheriff Of Cooke county
one day last week, under the following Cir
cumstances. Sproule is a distiller Of whis-
XIV and a few nights since visited a church,
where religious services were being held,
in an intoxicated cOndition-he offered in
suits to such an extent as TO be put out OF
the house. After services were over he
was arrested and while under gdaTI q 2
private house, he was rescued by some of
his friends, who broke into the house for
the purpose. After his release, the party
visited the church, and demolished its
doors, windows and benches. A warrant
was issued for the parties, and when the
Sheriff attempted to arrest Sproule he tried
to escape by fight, but was summarily
STOPPED by pistol shot penetrating his
body. We learn he was seriously though
not fatally wounded.