Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-08
TENNESSEE NEWS.

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chicken. 5 81
There is good prospect for an abund-
ance Of fruit in Rutherford
The late frost did no damage to the
wheat and fruit in Lincoln county. 20
A correspondent of the Mc lMintriiie Neec
Era, says Gen. Frank Cheathamis model
| farmer. $3.50 .sses-is.i> ~ III
The real estate transactions in Giles
county for the last week foot up nearly
S30000. - tn
The Changers of West Tennessee, are to
have conference at Humboldt on the
18th of June. sf,e ~.
The Jackson Herald and Courier have
been consolidated under the title OF the
Courier Herald.
A public meeting at Manchester, Coffee
county, has expressed a preference for Gen.
Cheatham for Governor.
Ned Hopkins, colored, died in Warren
county few days ago at the age OF one
hundred and fifteen years.
Mitchell Trotter, of Humphreys county,
| is candidate to represent the sixteenth
senatorial district in the next Legislature.
Mansfield House, of Franklin, has been
nominated a cadet to the military academy
at West Point by Hon. w. @. Whit
thorne. 1852
A buglar entered the residence OF DIR.
W.D. Wilkinson, in Jackson, few nights
ago, and stole fine gold watch and $40 in
money. :
The negroes had a baptizing in Pulaski
ON Sunday, the Sd inst, at which ten per
sons were immersed and over two hundred
sprinkled.
Col. w. +. Kercheval, of Lincoln county,
is candidate for Congress in the fifth dis
trict, "subject TO the decision of central
conyention.n
Arvel Collier was drowned near Mans
fields Gap, in jefferson county, on the LIST
inst, in attempting to swim pond on
horseback.
Gov. John G. Brown assures the PiildSti
Citizen that under no conceivable circum-
stances would he be a candidate for Con-
gress in the Seventh District.
The northwest portion tof Knox county
was visited by a severe hail storm on the
4th inst, which did considerable damage
to the wheat, clover and other crops.
The Milan Exchange says wheat never
looked better in Gibson county than at
present. The prospect for peaches in the
eastern portion of the county is very prom
ising.
Lie SLOW NuiCu lc1 lttSt WEEK IL Ic-
ported to have damaged the wheat in Tuck
aleechee Cove, Blount county, to consid-
cradle extent. 1t fell to depth of six in
ches, and broke the stalks.
Silas G. Ross, of Lincoln county, was
found in the road dead, with his neck
broken, on the I'd inst. He was subject to
palpitation of the heart, and it is supposed
fell from his horse while suffering from an
attack.
A deluging rain fell in Fayetteville
and vicinity on the Sd inst. About eighty
yards of the railroad track was swept away
about a mile from town, the rails and
crosS-ties being carried over one hundred
yards.
The residence of Mr.. Hampton, in Lin
coin county, was destroyed by fire on the
night Of the LIST inst. Furniture, provis-
ions, clothing and money were all lost.
The fire caught from stove in the kitchen.
No insurance.
A correspondent in Dickson county in
forms the Wdrerty Journal that the late
wind storm which passed through that
county did great damage. Many houses
were blown down, while large orchards
were utterly destroyed.
The Fayetteville Express says it is diff
cult to estimate the damage done by the
heavy rains to the wheat crop in Lincoln
county. In bottom lands it has been very
seriously injured, but in other places it does
not appear to be much hurt.
The PuldSki Citizen SAYS: On the LIST
inst. a preeocious hen belonging to Mr..
West, of Giles county, presented her owner
with a quadruped paradox chicken with
two legs going and two coming. Mr.. Dwyer
says the two back legs brought it back as
fast as its front legs carried it forward, and
in the struggle TO decide which end ought
TO 60 foremost, the poor thing died.
The Winchester Home Journal states
that one of the severest hail storms and
the heaviest fall of rain witnessed for
many years visited the western portion of
Franklin county on the Sd instant. Not
far from Ridgeville, in the edge al Moore
county, the fall Of hail was so great that
wagon load could have been gathered
within the space of ten feet square.
The WdUerly Journal of the It'll inst.
says: A severe hail-storm visited this
county on Sunday evening last. Hail
stones, in some localities, fell to the size
of hen eggs. The damage done to the
fruit and the forward wheat crops by the
hail, we learn, is immense. This seems to
be a season of storms. Just few weeks
since a wind storm passed through this
section, and did a great deal of damage.
Just after this followed a tremendous
freShet, which inundated all the bottom
lands, sweeping away the fences, drowning
stock, DESTROYING the growing crops, and
injuring the farmers in the bottom lands
generally. We learn that the damage done
the wheat crop alone, in this county, on
Buffalo, Duck and Tennessee river bot
toms will exceed S75, 900. The farmers in
Rig Bottom alone have sustained loss of
at least $4,000.