Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-14
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Houston county boasts a four legged
chicken,
Brownsville shipped %, 159, bales of cot
ton 10 July !.
Rich specimens Of lead ore have been
found in TrOusdale county.
About twenty hogs were killed In Wash
ingtOn county a few DAYS ago by dogs.
There has not been a rain in Jackson. OF
any consequence, since the 2Sth of April.
Mrs. Susan Beyell, Of Crockett county
fell dead at lhe dinner table a few days ago.
Ii is claimed by the HTdynesborO Citizen
that Wayne is '-the iron county of Middle
Tennessee.
The residence OF Mr.. J. Ward, Of Trous-
dale county, was destroyed by fire a few
days ago.
\ man named Williamson King, of Hen
derSon county, was killed a short time ago
by being kicked by a mule.
The Brownsville Bee SAYS considerable
sickness is reported in Haywood county,
resulting from the hot, dry weather.
The people Of portion of Gibson county
desire to be annexed to Crockett county.
but the County Court Of Gibson refuses
its assent.
The SOmcTrWe Falcon states that a num-
Der Of escaped convicts from the peniten-
tiary are said to be skulking and hiding in
the bottoms in Faye.tc county.
W. VI. Norman has shown the TdyueS-
bOrO Gazette a hairy chicken. 1t is per
fectly devoid Of feathers, and is covered
with fine coat of hair, some Of which was
nearly an inch in length.
The Grecaerde Union says: ''SOme of
our oldest citizens say there was more
drunkneSs in town on the Fourth than
they ever knew" This does not speak
well for the temperance crusade which has
been waged in that town for months.
Mr.. {. ii. Gray, of Carroll county, has
shown the Nc heHzje Times two chickens
with their heads grown together and per
feet in all their other parts. In the same
brood there were six chickens Matched from
three eggs.
The young ladies of Alamo recently met
gin convention" for the purpose Of discuss
ing and deciding what young nan in that
town would make the kindeSt and best
husband, and by a unanimous vote the
editor of the Sentinel was declared the man.
The IFGyneS5OrO Citizen states that
Charles Polk, Jr., Of Hardin county, met
with a serious accident one day last week:
he was hunting birds and while standing
on a stump his gun was accidentally dis
charged. the whole charge passing through
his neck between the iugIlar vein and the
neck bone. He was alive at last report,
and it is thought that he will recover.
The G0lldtn TeRneSSedl states that
several large droveS of cattle and mules
have been shipped from Sumner county
during the past week TO Kentucky, Indiana
and Ohio, for pasturage. The stock all
over the county are suffering for want of
paSturage, all vegetation having been burnt
up by the drOuth. The loss to the people
from this cause alone will be immense.
The JOBeS5OrO Echo states that a large
lump Of silver was recently found by Mr..
William Templin. on his farm in Cooke
county, near Newport. ItweiglIs two hun
dred and eighty pounds. and If converted
coin would probably he wOrthabOut $1,000
There IS no other silver in the vicinity. and
by whom ana when il was buried is an
Interesting question, over which the GU
riOuS minded viii puzzle and perpleX their
brains.
The wife of Prof. T. o. Summers. of
MorTistOwn, died al the residence of her
father, in Washington county. last week.
Il is another one of those lamentable fatal
tiles resulting from an incautious admins
tration of morphine. The nurse had, by
her own direction, given her three powders
instead Of one; afterwards her mother gave
her one. without knowing that the others
had been administered; and still laier the
physician, without knowing that the other.
doses had been given, administered ether
and laudanum. The next morning sh
was found in deep stupor aud died in d
few hours, ..