Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-11
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Brownsville is represented as remarkably
healthy.
Ripe peaches have made their ape france
in jackson.
The Baptists Of Brownsville are building
an elegant house Of worship,
Washington county boasts anegrO woman
one hundred and eight years old.
The County Superintendent for Dyer has
resigned, and the quarterly court failed TO
elect a successor.
The County Court Of Dyer has taken
action looking to the establishment Of 4
Workhouse for that county.
The ClereldRd Banner has received an
oat head measuring twenty-seyen inches in
length, grown in Bradley county.
The residence of III. III. Dulin, foreman
of the Winchester Home Journal, was de-
strOyed by fire few nights ago
A son OfP. Walter, Of Manchester, while
| care essIy handling pistol on Sunday, ac-
cidentally shot himself through the hand.
The editor Of the CiereiaHd Banner has
been feasting on roasting ears grown by
himself, and asks, Show would he do Tor
a Granger?'
The BrolraSCi!Ie States reports that tie
prospects at present are that there will he
| eight to ten elegant new business houses
completed and occupied by the lst Of Sep
tem6er in that town.
Hon. J. III. SlOss, Of Tuscumbis, Ala,
| who shot the traducer Of his daughter 4 few
| DAYS ago, read law when a young man II
| the Office of the Hon. L. Nixon NanDyke
/ at Athens, in this State.
While Mr.. Il. Z. McClaTy, Polk county
| wac engaged threshing his wheat. the ma
| chine took fire from friction and was en-
| tirely consumed, with about forty bushes
/ of wheat which had been threshed ans
| sacked.
| The Nc MinnrUe Nelr Era states that L
! DeKalb county, on the 9Th inst, Stark
/ Cotton shot Calvin Cantrell, intict.ng
serious and probably fatal wound on th
| right side Of the wIndpipe, at the base q
/ the neck. The ball miraculOusly miSSe'
/ the vital parts situated thereabOuts, AM
penetrl,ed 10 the shoulder blade, by whici
| It's further progress was stopped. Cotton
| has not been arrested.
! The Paris IHteliigeRcer states that
| white man by the name OF Nicholson, d
/ Henry county, was in that town few Gays
| AGO. and had some words with negro man
! about the meaning Of the Civil Rights bill
! Nicholson soon after left town to 60 home
| and was followed by four negro men, Wht
/ overlook him a little out Of town, when he
| as attacked and severely beaten by them.
! One of the negroes has been arrested.
The M,irfreeSJOrO NelCS learns that last
week a team Of horses belonging to DR.. l.,
| Russell. of Rutherford county, and which
/ were hitched to a wagon, became fright
ened and ran off a perpendicular blu
twenty-eight feet high, on the bank OF the
river, falling upon solid rock, and, trlr-
/ Their than breaking the tongue out OF the
wagon. no damage was done. The horses
! did not receive any injury, and shortly after
were put to work, and have so far shown
no signs Of injury.
At the late meeting of the Rutherford
county Council. Patrons Of Husbandry, ii
/ was stated that merchants Of MurireeS0orC
| have taken mOrtgag on the growing crops
| of Iaborers of farmers of this county with
| out their knowledge or consent, and a reso-
| luton was adopted cOndemning any and
| all such praticeS by any merchant, and
| asking such merchants to discontinue the
| same. as one liable to bring about dlScOrL
between the employer and employee, and
| i'll feeling between the mercantile and farm
| ing community.