Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-17
TENNESSEE NEWS.

In Upton county, standing corn is worth
$50 per bushel.
Mrs. Brown, of Granger county, died a
short time ago at the age Of 105 years.
E. q. Ridgely, editor of the Huntingdon
Republican, has been appointed postmaster
at that place.
The GreeneUiUe american reports that
the chestnut crop is better than ever known
before in that section.
The store Of w. J. Hartley, in Roane
county, was entered few nights ago and
robbed of goods to the amount of about
twenty-five dollars.
The Springfield Record states that con-
siderable complaint is being made by those
living east of thai town of the rayageS Of
meat and chicken thieves.
The barn and stables of W. Z. Mitchem
Of Carroll county, were burned a few days
AGO. He lost about fifteen barrels Of corr
and all of his fodder and oats.
The KINGSTON East TenneSSeedn has
been shown a new kind of sweet potato
blossom-a bright cherry looking flower,
which somewhat resembles a nOrnin e
glory.
The Lebanon Herald states that Capt.
Ellis Harper, on a wager, cut and split
eighteen and One-quarter cords of cedar
wood firm Monday morning until Satur-
day night.
One of the editors of the Springfield
Record raised a sweet potato in his garden
that weighed six pounds six ounces, and
measured twenty-five and half inches in
circumference.
The Athens Post says: We learn that
hogs are in demand al 5a5ac grsss. There
are fewer fatteniug hogs in the county than
usual at this season of the year, and pork
will probably rule high al killing time.
The Athens Post states that for the last
two or three years q number of farmers
of McMinn county have been experiment
ing in growing cotton, and SO far the eX-
pertinent has proved highly satisfactory.
The Columbia Herald says with refer
enee to the MauTy County Fair: The
millers were made judges of -four at the
Fair, samples having been handed them,
taken from the barrels Of those competinS,)
and some of them voted against their own
flour, not knowing of course, out of whose
barrel it was taken.
The Columbia Herald of the 10th inst.
saws: A gracious revival has been in pro-
gress in the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church in this place, for over week, under
the supervision of Revs. Jones, Dixon
Chapman and Blake. There have been
thirfy-two conversions up to this writing,
and Tuesday night there were twenty
mourners. Sunday ten persons Joined the
church. The meeting will continue the
balance of this week, and probably next.
Horace Foster writes to the kROIUitle
Chronicle that last fall the Commissioner
of Agriculture 1T Washington sent him one
gallon of white rye, which he sowed on
One-third of an acre Of ground about the
18th of October, common upland, without
any manure. He harvested and threshed
it and had nine bushels Of excellent rye,
and sold the straw, 625 lbs. at 81 per hun
dred. He is sowing the entire yield this
fall on about twelve acres of land.
The Lebanon Herald states that few
DAYS since, Mrs. Wilmouth and her sister,
were standing in the front yard, when a
large red fox jumped over the fence and
came towards them. Mrs. WilmOuth
threw a stick at 1t, when it Immediately at
tackled her and bit her arm TO the bone.
She sue reeded in catching it by the neck,
and her sister struck it several severe blows
Oh the head with stick. Thinking they
had stunned the savage brute, they released
it, whereupon it ran into the house and up
the chimney. Remaining there moment,
the fox descended, falling into the hot EN-
bers in the fireplace, and, jumping thence
through a hole III the side of the chimney,
IL made for the woods.