Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-29
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Col ]. A. Barnard is a candidate to Iep-
resent Roane county in the Legislature.
G. j. Adams is candidate to represent
Carroll county in the next Legislature.
The blind staggers has attacked the
horses on Collins river, in Warren county.
A rattlesnake with twenty rattles was
killed in Williamson county a few days
ago.
William NJ. Hawkins, formerly of War
rem county, died in Ladonia, Texas, on
April 5.
An unusual tendency to bowel diseases
has manifested itself in and around Hunt
ingdon.
Col. Robert W. Haywood, of Brownsville,
is a candidate for Congress in the Ninth
District.
Benton county has thirty-six candidates
for county offices, thirteen of whom want
TO be Tax Collector.
r. d. Smith and Frank NJ. Lavender are
candidates to represent Williamson county
in the Legislature.
The residence of Asa Jones, in Warren
county, was destroyed by fire on the even
ing of MAY %, together with its contents.
The residence of r. P. Lowe, at Hum
boldt, was destroyed by fire on the morning
of the 10th inst. Most of the contents
were saved.
The store of f. NJ. Marberry, at John
sonville, was recently robbed of about so
in money and lot of goods. No clue to
the thief.
Samuel GallinUre was run over by the
cars near lockwood, Roane county, and re-
ceived such injuries as to cause his death
in few days.i
A tract of land in Carroll county, within
two miles of Huntington, was sold at auc-
tion Oil May % at S1.50 per acre. The
same land sold few years since at SIS per
acre.
Corn has sold in Lincoln county at s.
per barrel. The Fayetteville Observer is
informed that in some localities there is
hardly enough of the old grain to feed stock
while doing the necessary blowing.
Mansfield House, son of Col. John L.
House, of Franklin, who was appointed a
cadet in the Military Academy at West
Point, has been compelled to decline the
appointment on account of i'll health.
The WdUerly Journal states that Mr.. A.
Bolin, aged siXty-nine and who had been
married twice, was married in Benton
! county to Mrs. Nellie Kellem, aged seventy,
and who had been married four times.
George Thomas and his brother Monroe
were out hunting in Lincoln county few
days ago, when the latter accidentally dis
charged his gun, the load taking effect in
Georges left arm, rendering amputatiOn
necessary.
Mr.. ]. J. ChristenberTy has shown the
| HmtiRgdOR's Peoples Paper a small
| Spanish coin 163 years old, which, he says,
was, according to tradition, left by one of
| De SOto's men when on the march from
| Florida to discover the Mississippi River.
Sulphur Spring Grange, in Lincoln
| county, has adopted resolutions declaring
| the present road law insufficient; that the
next Legislature be urged to enact some
law by which good roads can be had, and
asking the cooperation of all the Oranges
| in the state in this matter.
The barn of r. Mead, near McMinnville,
was burned on May %, together with two
mules, horse, harness, about six tons of
hay and one hundred bushels of corn. The
| fire originated from cigar which Mr.. Mead
had been smoking, the stump of which he
threw among some combustible matter.
The Pulaski Citizen says: Mrs. George
WOoding sent us the other day curiosity
in the way of a rose. 1t was simple red
| full-blown rose, from the center of which
pair of buds just ready to bloom were
| growing. The buds grew out of each other
and were emphatically twins. 1t was a
curiosity, such as we never heard of.
a few weeks ago a negro woman, appa-
rently crazy, came to the neighbOrbOOd Of
Col. Terry, in Carroll county, bringing
with her white child a few weeks old.
Sue stayed aboU: Two weeks at the house of
Altman Wright, negro residing Ill that
vicinity, at the end of which time she ran
away, taking the child with her. She was
pursued by Wright's wife, who took the
child away from her by force, and now has
it in her possession. 1t is supposed to have
| been stolen.
The MmfreeSborO Monitor of May IS
says: Two colored men named Harvey
| Weakly and Henry ScrUggs, We're arrested
and brought to town Tuesday, and were
arraigned before Esq. Clark Wednesday,
charged with the murder of Henry Gooch.
Scruggs was acquitted, but Weakly was
committed to Jail to await trial at the
Criminal Court. Three negroes were tried
at the last term of the Court for the muir
der of Gooch, but mistrial was entered in
| the case.
A little son of Samuel Douglass, of Sc
vier county, about two years old, was play
ing around his mother on May %, and in
| aiming W ltdp luIO HtI zap LOln d Clldll,
fell, dragging large pair Of scissors out Of
his mothers lap which fell underneath him
with the point of one blade up. The blade
entered the little fellows abdomen to the
right and below the navel, extending in
ward almost the full length of the blade
about five inches, producing wound from
which he died in few hours.
The MtJreeSborO Monitor states that a
sad instance by poisoning occurred near
Smyrna Tuesday evening, May 20. Mrs.
Moody, the sister-in-law of John S. Trigg,
ESQ.,, had been afflicted with pneumonia
for about ten weeks, but was recovering
when some one brought morphine and
placed it near the bedside of the patient,
and it was given to the unfortunate lady as
a dose of quinine. The morphine was ad-
ministered Monday night, and death took
| place Tuesday afternoon,