Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-17
TENNESSEE NEWS.

VIII be very good if no further damage
sustained.
After the last cold snap the MorTiStolr
Gazette expresses some concern about tn
wheat and fruit crops.
Miss JEANNE Patterson gave select read
ings at Franklin Hall, GAINESVILLE, on tin
14th inst.
A Troy mystery is how a footlog go
turned around in its position, end for end
during the freshet.
Polk Ellis, who was cut by Gleason a
L~ynehburg, is, contrary to expectation
likely to get well.
Mr. Charles w. Hubner, formerly of Fay
etteville, has been appointed Assistant Post
master at Atlanta, Ga.
A cyclone swept across the Northern par
OF Franklin county on the 18th inst, greatly
damaging fences and timber.
An item of gossip about Mulberry, Lin
coin county, is the existence of an unusua.
number of cases Of paralysis.
The late frost affected the peaches i'm tho
neighborhood of GTeeneville, but it i.
thought there viii be a coed crop.
Rev. DR.. Thomas Teasdel, of Columbus,
Miss, has been conductinga series of meet.
ings at the Baptist church of MurfreesbOro
The Troy Signal reports that the peach
crop of that section is all destroyed by the
late frost; also that the wheat is seriously
injured.
On the 18th inst. GAINESVILLE is to vote
on the appropriation to secure the location
of the Southwestern Presbyterian Uni
versity.
A colored girl jumped into a creek neal
Knoxville the other day, to escape an angry
mother. She was ished II with consider
able difficulty and amid much excitement.
The Troy Signal commits itself to the
statement that that locality was disturbed
by an earthquake on the 18th inst. A
single shock was felt and a runbling noise
heard.
The late frost did not damage the wheat
in Lincoln county, though it was a bare es-
cape. The fruit was injured to some ex-
tent. A hail storm near Moline beat off a
great many peaches.
GAINESVILLE claims to be exceedingly free
from lawlessness. The Tobacco Leaf saws
the jailor is nearly starved out, and the Do
lice are compelled To crack fellows heads
occasionally TO assure the city authorities
that they are on duty.
The Winchester Home Journal says Mr..
W. &. Tanning has been "taken inn on a
trade. He bought 4 fine mare from a stran-
ger named c.. G. Allen, who guaranteed
the SOundness both of the animal and OF
his title. When Allen had gone, three
men from Dalton, Ga, reached Winchester
and replevined the mare.
The Fayetteville Express Of the 18th
inst. says: That rickety stIucture-Bean's
creek bridge, on the Winchester and Ala
hama railroad, gave way during the late
fIeshet, and the train, being caught between
that point and Decherd, was unable to reach
here for four days, during which time We
had nomail.
The hnOrriUe Chronicle observes: The
people of Monroe county are thoroughly
awakened on the subject of the proposed
narrow gauge railroad from Tellico Plains
to the line of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad. 4 p Of
wealthy English capitalists have purchased
the Teliico iron property, and propose, if
proper announcements are offered, 70 i'm
prove the property at once and on a large
scale.
The Press and ,Herdld'S Maryville cor
respondent writes: Our sheriff, Mr.. J. p.
EdmondsOn, returned from counties below
here, bringing VIM. Willis, who, with
others, broke Jail at this place several
months ago, and fled the country. Willis
crime was assault and battery. The sheriff
captured him near Loudon, where he had
recently married. The sheriff brought
also Houston Martin, whom he captured at
Sweetwater, and who has been indicted in
the Circuit Court at this place for carrying
concealed weapons.
What the crusaders could do for Fayetie-
vile is recounted by the Ooservant Express
as follows: 'lf the crusaders ever reach
Fayetteville, We hope they will visit the
barber shops and endeavor to suppress the
immOderate and incorporate use of bay
rum; and if it is not asking too much. we
would like for them to pull out the caudal
feathers of the masculine poultry in this
vicinity, with a view of e~XtinguiShing
cock tails; and make a raid on the apothe-
carries, who might be persuaded to give
more weight 10 their scrIIples and less
weight to their drachms,"
The Tobacco LeGf says: "Clarksville,
at no period Of her history has experienced
greater prosperity than now marks her pro-
gress. 1t is to lie seen in every department.
new buildings going up, Several mag
nificent Structures), population increasing,
and life and animation in every depart
ment OF trade, and not a respectable house
in the city unOccupied, every one who is
willing 10 work is employed, and no cr0ak-
erS on the street corners. Our leading men
and merchants are rapidly working into a
wholesale trade, while no less prosperity
charaeterizes II tobacco and produce mar
ket and our manufacturing enterprises.
We know of q new movement on foot, that
is yet private, but certain of success, that
will bring 100000 capital to our city,"
The Manchester Home Journal copies a
bit of local history from a very ancient
copy of the Tennessee Gazetteer: "Win-
chester, a post town and the seat of justice
of Franklin county, situated on the Boil
ing Fork of Elk river. 1t was established
in 1910, and incorporated in 1913. In
1888 it contained about 200 Inhabitants,
seven lawyers, four doctors, one Presbyte-
rian, Methodist and one Baptist church,
one male and one female academy. eleven
stores, four taverns, six carpenters, -four cab
met makers, four brick layers, two matters,
twelve tailors, four shoemakerS, fourteen
blacksmithS, one silversmith, three carriage
and wagon makers shops eighteen hands),
three turner's, one coppersmith's shop, "
painters, two tanyards height hands), two
saddleTs' shops (six hands, and three gro
c~eries."
The Fayetteville Express says: A strnge
woman, attired in a melancholy dress of
black alpaca, visited Fayetteville on the
18th inst, and adopted the most transpar-
ent device for obtaining money that ever
came under u observation. She had five
very common stereoscopic views, whichshe
proposed to exhibit to our citizens at ten
cents per glance. Several gentlemen, who
were not sufficiently courageous 10 resist
her opportunities, deposited ten cents in
her eyer-Open palm and went through the
farce of examining 4 picture with as much
grace as they could command under
the circumstances. After annoying our
business men a little, and convincing every
body that there was brass enough in her
face to make al equestrian statue Of Her
cules, she mercifully relieved the town Of
her presence.
Miss CAROLINE RIMMER, a daughter OF
DIR. Rimmer, a sculDtOr and arr. professor of