Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-10

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Heir TO $500 ,O00A Pet OF Old
Probs-POIitieaI-A New steamer
Northern Landsharks.
To the Union and American. c
McMNSvILLE, April9 8. 1S74-The rains
Throughout this section have been quite
heavy since Monday. Hickory Creek, Ca
ney Fork and Collins River are higher than
they have been for years. No material
damage is reported.
1t seems TO be generally believed that The
! McMinnville and Manchester branch win
pass into the hands of the Nashville, Chat
tanOoga and st. Louis Railroad Company at
an early day, despite the failure of the re-
cent Negotiations, which, by the way, fell
to the ground lesStiroughsn indisposition
to trade than on account of a mutual mis-
understanding as to the terms proposed.
Everything is Of the Grange-Granges-
in Warren. The Order has p~roportionalIy
more numerical strength here than in any
county in the State. - r1op
Col. John III. French, of this county, is
one of three heirs of the estate left BY the
late John Hopkins, Of Baltimore, Nd. The
property IS worth only SI5,OO0,O00.
A certain young lady residing near Ne
Minnville is a particular pet Of Old Probs.
! She transmits to the Signal Service Bureau
weathsr reports similar to those sent by the
official observers throughout the country,
and her meteorological observations and
calculations, made with extreme accuracy
and preeiseness Of detail, seem to be appre-
ciated at Washington, as she is regularly
Supplied With the blanks, instructions, etc,
prescribed for other stations.
McAinnville Is a 'stuek-up" town. 1t
boasts of being goo feet higher than Nash
vile above the level of the sea. Ben Lo-
mond, towering some two or three miles
of, sees that and goes the plucky little city
of the mountains 800 better.
The political situation is quite as much
mixed here as in Davidson, Candidates
are thicker than cat-gut manipulators in
BrOwnlow's inferno, and the Congressional
race is involved in a maze of doubt, pecu-
liarly distressing to a list of candidates
running from A to Blizzard. Old Warren
has not been happy SINCE they tackled her
on to the tail end Of East Tennessee.
COmplimenting a Radical official makes
q fellow feel as mean as if he had lifted a
neighbor's sheep, but it must be confessed
that Kennedy, who runs Uncle Sans mail
monopoly here, is one of the most efficient,
IL lC u OCltd4AlN OIC u lAC AO1t puDtlA
pcStmasters in the State. / hope this Dem
ocratie endorsement will not cost him his
head.
Wallace, Of the Nesc Era, having hustled
out of his patent outside, declares that,
now he is himself again, he feels twice as
good as when half Of him belonged to an
Other concern away down in Nashville.
Bob White has just Disseminated the Leb-
anon Herdld, and Slater will soon follow
with the Manchester Home Journal. These
straws show that the wind sets strongly to-
ward the actual, practical independence of
Tennessee journalism.
HailstOnes from the i~nfinitesimal size Of
a back-pay grabber's conscience to that of
tine fruit depOsitedbyt the queenly shanghai,
fell here during one &C Tuesdays stormy
yisitatiOns, and glaciers are doing a land
office business.
The fruit prospect is decidedly refresh
Ing. Warren banks largely on her peach
and apple crops in good seasons.
We arc bowling for amOre ~gTeenbacks"
up here and hail the action OF Congress
with all the enthusiasm that could be pos
sibly suggested By lean and empty pocket
books. If imitation is TO ruin the country,
we are willing to try some of il in Our'n.
The AelC Era calls attention to the fact
that the merchants of White county are
hauiing theiI goods from Nashville, and
explains that they have had to fall backupon
the old-fashioned road wagon becauseo of ex-
orbitant railroad rates. McMinnville is thus
materially damaged in its trade, while the
railroads lose q large amount of business.
Stock men, too, are driving their cattle
and hogs across tie mountains in prefer.
ence TO paying the freight charges now in
force.
An influx Of summer visitors quite as
large as that OF last season, even should
there be no cholera epidemic, is anticipated.
The Warren House is still in the hands
that made it so popular, and many Of the
best people in the town are already making
preparations to receive bOarders.
Rev. DR.. Chaddick, of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church at this place, has ac-
,epted a call to Chattanooga
The Male and Female Colleges and Lyon
Institute were never in q more iOurishing
condition than at present. Meanwhile is
in a strong claim TO the location
lere Of the projected Baptist University, on
he score of accessibility, health and supe-
ior social advantages.
Judge Walling launched a steamboat %
eet long and 20 feet wide on the raging
waters Of Caney Fork last Tuesday. She
will ply between Nashville and Franks
The enterprise has the hearty en-
OrSement OF the farmers in that productive
The forests of Coffee and Warren coun-
les have scarcely been touched. Cord
rood goes begging at S1.50 all along the
NTs.n-,Nra ovI NTan,hao4a- r.fir,a1
Wheat looks magnificent in Warren and
he adjoining counties.
James NJ. Towles, well known in Nash
lille and other sporting circles, died in this
Ounty last Sunday of congestion Of the
yer,
Our Public Square is to be enclosed and
into a city park.
Large numbers of first-elaSs beef cattle ;
re being shipped daily to Southern points. :
Two Canada capitalists were down in
lis section a few days ago, looking up the :
ties to 5000 acres Of land, covered by 8
,venteen grants, in GTundy, Van Buren,,
and Cumberland counties. These
acts were offered for sale by one A. r. +,
IcMurry, of Cincinnati, but the grants :
to be bogus, as the lands are held G
nder older and well established titles. :
lorthern land sharks are doing an extern
We business in this line, and every week
: so, victimized parties come out here {
uniting for the suppOsititiOus domains in .
hieh they have foOlishly invested 'un- l
CHIT, unseen.n S
The philanthropic Rhodes, who bosses r
e train between Tullahoma and Nc
ehalks the hats of impecu- {
Gus editors without passes at the ?
me rates allowed ministers of the D
spell. He believes i'll putting the press
I'd pulpit through on the same tariff.
nodes checks up anywhere in the woods
the wave of a handkerchief and helps
S female passengers off with the grace of P
Chesterfield.
The news agent here sells three copies of
e UNION AND AMERICAN where he gets
l of one Banner and the same is true of h
anchester and Tullahoma. II. a
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