Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-18
TENNESSEE NEWS.

greatly damaged.
The Cleveland jail has nine inmates
six Federal prisoners for violating revenue
laws, and two Others.
Pulaski and Fayetteville both complain
that not a single marriage license was is
sued for a Whole week.
Old Jackey Carroll, one of the oldest
! settlers on Duck river, aged about IS years,
died on the 18th inst. IN Coffee county.
The little dogs in Pulaski go to Church
with bells on the tingling of which min
giles tremendously with the notes of the
choir, but discordantly with the voice Of
the preacher.
Ayouth named Edward Hamilton alb
seconded from his fathers house in Hum
phreys county SOME weeks ago, and as late
as the 18th inst, had not been heard of.
Sam Oldham, who shot w. c. johnson,
the railroad agent, at Brownsville, was not
a class-leader, but a Sunday7school teacher
in the Methodist church at that place.
The Greeherlle Union knows an old
lady who rocks to and fro so much in her
rocker at home, that when she goes to
church she still keeps up the same motion.
The ShelbyUiHe Commercial Of the 18th
inst. says: Mr.. Alexander Cowan, who
resides some three miles west OF Shelby
vile, laid upon our table last Saturday a
sample of his large field of wheat which
measured three feet in height.
The Athens Post of the 18th inst. says:
Ex-Sheriff Fike of Meigs, was with US a
short time on Monday. He reports the
wheat in that county generally as looking
better even than in'McMinn, where it is GER
tainly as promising as we have ever seen it.
Tho DlnH Gffu ShNofinn G1nh houo nacc-
ed resolutions calling for a convention of
all clubs and sportsmen in Tennessee, to
convene in Memphis May 1, for the purpose
of organizing a State sportsmen's associa-
tion, with 4 view for the better protection
of game.
The Pulaski Citizen says: John NJ. Ay-
NETT and his family made a narrow escape
from death by lightning a few days since.
The lightning struck a tree in the yard, and
the current was conducted by a clothes
wire to another near the house, and both
were shivered.
The athens Post says; We learn that
III. Ii. Matlock sold his lot of beef cattle;
mentioned a week or two ago, at $500 per
hundred gross, delivered on the farm.
Frank Gettys sold his, numbering some
thirty head, at s4.s7a per hundred pounds.
These are two of the best lots of cattle sold
in McMinn county for some time.
The ShelbVriiie Commercial says. Mr..
j. T. Hummel, of Piqua, Ohio, has arrived
here with a car load of fine marble-work, to
be set up over the remains of the family of
Hon. Henry Cooper, who are buried in the
old cemetery. These will be the finest and
most emblemstical monuments In Middle
Tennessee, without any exception what
ever.
The Athens Post states that some of the
people along the Hiwassee river have con-
fidence that Congress will make an appro-
priation for its improvement, 1t is beE
lieved that at a comparatively small expense
the stream could be made nayigable for
steamers as high up as Charleston, at al
most ell seasons of the year.
Mr.. VIM, L. Raht, of the Savanna Farm,
Polk county, is running a dairy with fifty
or sixty cows, and manufacturing large
quantities of butter and cheese. The Sa-
wanna is on the Hiwassee river, near the
gap of the mountain, and is n of the
most valuable pieces of property in East
Tennessee.
The Ctsrsldhd Banner saws: On the
morning of the 18th inst, this section was
visited by a heavy frost which sent the Their
mOmeter nearly or quite down TO the freez-
ing point. Fortunately the frost was not
severe enough to iniafe the wheat CT fruit
crops. The only damage done, as far as We
have seen, was the nipping of the Irish po-
tato tops, tomato plants and the shoots upon
the grape vines.
The athens Post of the 18th inst, says:
In all the fields we have seen the wheat
stands unusually thick on the ground, and
some OF the farmers think that the heads
generally will be short, but well filled. The
acreage in Mc&inn county is immense, and
with a dry, cool May, the chances will be
good for a larger harvest by at least one
third than we have had for a number OF
years,
The ~SkettyUaie Commercial of the 18th
inst, says: Tuesday morning, about six
o'clock, the framed warehouse of c. A
Warren was struck in two places by light,
ning-one stroke striking the south end
and the other the west side. 1t shivered
the studding and Misunderstanding into fin
ders, and set the house on fire. The fire
was soon extinguished, as Mr.. Warren was
In the other part of his building az the time
and extinguished the flames.
The CIeUelGnd Banner of the 18th inst
| says H OoittliuCu hEN NCdtff-t " lAs
past two weeks he's rut cur farmers consid
erably behind with their farming opera,
lions, and especially so in regard to the
corn crop. Up to last Saturday but little
corn had been planted in this county. The
heavy rains of last week washed up a con.
siderable portion of the little which hat
been planted. So say farmers.
The Shelbyuiile Gazette OF the 18th inst
says: Tuesday morning the lightning
struck the real end of the warehouse Of C.
A. Warren, ST., shivering the roof, sleepeTs
Misunderstanding, etc, and setting ti'
building on fire. Mr.. G. A. Warren, jr.
was in the back door of the grocery house
and was severely shocked, but ran into the
warehouse to see what damage had been
done, just in time to save the building, il
fact, the whole south side of the square
from fire,
The Memphis appeal, of the 10th inst.
says: Miss Daniel and Mrs. Craig, while
sitting in an upper front room sewing, a
half-past 4 o'clock yesterday, were STRUCK
by lightning, the former being more fright
ened than hurt, and the latter painfully
though not seriously injured. She fell
from her chair ard was rendered uncon
scious by the electrical shock. Medica,
aid being quickly summoned she was re
lieved, and at nightfall was doing well.
A most singular fact is noted by the Va
UeT{y Journal, which says: 4 gentleman
of this town has two halfgrown Scotch ter
riers and a cow which had lost her calf sew
eral months ago. At first she wa exceed
ingly spiteful and vicious towards the pups
but the little rascals persisted in cultivating
an acquaintance, and soon whined and
wheedled her into kindness, and now they
follow her around the pastures and through
the woods, play all over her like big kitten:
when she lies down, sleep on her sides and
back, and it is now found that they are il
the habit Of sucking her. The fact is, that
being little orphans, they have adopted /;
mother of their own liking.
The WGueTly Journal of the 10th inst
says: Miss Mary A. III. Gay, of Decatur
Ga, visited our town Saturday last, In the
interest of the Confederate Cemetery, al
Franklin, Tenn. 1t will be recollected
that this lady superintendent the removal
and reinterment of the remains of the Con.
federates who persisted upon the bloody
field of Franklin, in November, 1854. Th'
cemetery is located on a beautiful anC
gently slOping lawn, about one mile soutl
OF Franklin, the ground for which was gen
erOusly donated by Col. John McGavock, &
liberal minded, patriotic citizen of VII
Hanson, whose doors, after the close of tina