Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-28
TENNESSEE NEWS.

MaVerly hsS five saloons.
The jail at Shelbyville is "chuck full O
prisOnSrs."
there are thirty-seven prisoners in th,
F, Jail at Columbia.
A hub and spoke factory has been estab
| lished in McMinnville.
The Changers of Cooke county intend
building fine Touring mill.
The fly has made its appearance in the
wheat fields in Bradley county.
The tops Of the mountains in upper
East Tennessee were white with snow a
few days ago.
The Shelbyrille Gazette reports that from
$500 to $500 have been invested by citizen:
Of that town in the Louisville lottery.
There is but small supply of hogs IN
Lincoln county, and few sales have beer
made at seven cents per pound gross.
The murrain has proved quite fatal in
some parts OF Lincoln county among cat
tie. One farmer has lost all he had by this
disease.
A few nights ago at Charleston, in Brad
ley county, jim Only, formerly a convict
in the penitentiary, shot and badly wound
ed Joe Kinds.
The storehouse and residence of Mr.. C..
B. Scott, of Humphreys county, were de-
stroyed by fire few days ago. Mr.. Scott
saved his furniture and a portion Of his
goods.
The Kingston East TenneSseedn states
that Stay, young man employed on the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad, was shot
and killed few days ago. Jealousy was
the cause of the murder.
The Fayetteville Observer states that
during the past eigh: years, an average of
twenty thousand dollars per year has been
invested in the erection of new buildings
and other Improvements in Fayetteville.
a lockwood correspondent Of the Hing
St0n Independent, gives an account of a
party Of United States officials attempting
the arrest Of two brothers named Bean.
living on Whites Creek, when they both
ran, and Icing fired upon one Of them re-
ceived two serious wounds in the lee,
while his clothes were terribly cut up with
balls.
The KnoIUiile Press and Herald learns
that negro man named Scott, who had
been at work on the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad, aud saved SOS, was returning to
Knoxville last week, and while en- route to
the terminus of the Knoxville and Ohio
Railroad, was waylaId and robbed of $50.
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son and thus retained.
4 citizen of Monroe county, living near
the foot of Unaka mountain, informs the
Athens Post that a short time before the
storm commenced Sunday night, two dis
tinct shocks Of an earthquake occurred.
The first lasted several seconds, and was
preceded by a low, rumbling sound like
distant thunder. Persons living on the
mountain also felt the vibrations, which
seemed to be parallel with the range of the
Unaka. Severe shocks have been felt in
that region before.
The Jasper Herald says: Quite a num-
Der Of covered wagons containing immi-
grants, who are returning from Texas and
other States, have passed through Jasper
within the last two or three weeks. They
come back wiser, but not wealthier, people.
One man remarked to a citizen of this
county that he was doing well in Bradley
county two years ago, but thought he could
better his condition by going to Texas, and
accordingly converted his property into
money and went there, but now he says
two years of his time is gone and several
hundred dollars in money, and he has &C
quired nothing but experience