Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-06
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Hartsyille has a histrionic club.

Huntsville has histrionic club.
There were 255 marriage licenses issued
in Roane county during last year.
Mr.. Jesse Rickers, of Huntsville, was
married on the 21st ult., to Miss Sallie E.
Anthony.
There was a big Changers dinner about
three miles south Of Kingston on the 27tl
ult.
Thornton Easily, an old and respecteE
citizen and one of the early settlers of Hay
wood county, died on the 29th ult.
The Dresden Democrat Of the I'd inst,
says: lobe White was arrested last Satur.
day night and carried to Milan on a charge
of robbing gentleman at that place a few
weeks before.
The Manchester Democrat of the I'd inst.
says: The first load of cotton we have seen
pass through Manchester since the war.
passed here last Monday en- route for Muir
freeSboro. 1t was raised in the eastern
part of our county by Mr.. Samuel Gentry.
The hnOIcdle Chronicle of the 4th inst.
says: Yesterday Mr.. 5. p. Evans, United
States Marshal, received a letter from one
of his deputies, Mr.. j. C. Duff, to the eff
feet that he had captured and confined in
the Monroe county Jail, John Wimberly,
ever known in East Tennessee.
Myers, colored, of Kingston, was hand
ling two pounds of powder, when Sum
mers, colOred, of the same place, fired a
cracker at him to scare or surprise him.
They are living yet, but they are both
singed, blistered and impurpled with pow
der, so that they can never more lay claim
either to beauty of form or complexion.
y, Il r. h, D..
says: Frank Phillips last week arrested and
put in Jail at that place, a negro named An
drew HopSon, who shot another negro al
Dover Furnace, Stewart county, some time
since. He was captured by mistake fol
Haywood, but upon being arrested confess
ed that he was fugitive from Stewart
county, giving his name and offense.
The Chattanooga Commercial of the
18th inst. says: There were shipped from
this point yesterday over the Western and
Atlantic Railroad eleven cars of grain, two
of coal, one of friedrich, ans one of package
freight. One car load of grain awaits
shipment. Over the Nashville and Chat
tanOOga Railroad there were three cars OF
zig iron and fifteen of miscellaneous
freight.
The Sparta IadeI Of the LIST inst. says:
"On the Path ult., negro man living at
Mr.. David Officers, in Putnam County
went out to hunt some missing hogs. In q
few hours he was found lying by the road
side dead, with no marks of violence on his
person. A strange one-eyed dog, unknown
TO the family, was found crUuched by the
side of the corpse, and when it was removed
to the house the dog followed, keeping a:
close as possible. No clue TO the cause u
his death has yet been discovered.
The Kingston East TeTneSSeedn, Of the
I'd inst. has the following: 1--WE are inform
ed of a serious shooting affray last SatUr-
day, about twenty miles above here, ON the
line of the Knoxville and Ohio railroad
between Vim. Latimer and Thornton
James, in which Latimer was dangerously
il not fatally wounded. James is a con-
tractor on the above named road, and il
seems that Latimer came to his works, got
into a controversy with him, drew his pistol
on him. and pursued him to his house,
when James got his gun and discharged
its contents Of buckshot into the body OF
his pursuer."
The EBOIr;le Chronicle of the Sd inst,
gives the following item: On Wednesday
evening Gideon 5. McCampbell went to
Forest Hill school house, in the second
civil district of Knox county, on horseback
TO attend singing. He hitched his horse
with a number of others near the house,
expecting to find him all right when the
singing was over. But in this he was mis-
taken, FOR his horse was gone and there
was no clue as to the direction he had
taken. Next morning he and his father
started in pursuit of the horse, andfolloWed
him several miles TO a DOint beVOnd COpDer
Ridge, near Lammie's mill, where they
found the horse, with the saddle and bride
cut to pieces. The wretch who committed
the act, not satisfied with his meanness in
riding off horse that did not belong to
him, had stuck a knife into the horses
shoulder in three or four places.