Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-02-08
TENNESSEE NEWS.

They have the measles in Paris.
Knocking down and rObbing is common
in Memphis.
On the 2nd inst. the tax collector of Hen
derson county collected S},443.
The Oranges of Coffee county formed
Council at Manchester on the nth Ult.
The average attendance in the public
schools Of Greenyille for January was 50
per cent.
Jackson has an incendiary or two, it is
supposed, from the fact Of a small fire on
the 4th inst.
The Gdlldtin EraWiaer Of the 9TH says:
Fifteen additions were made to the Meth
odist Church at this place last Sunday.
The JOnesJOrO People are now relieved
Of the mOnotOny Of the ordinary salutatiOn
by substituting "IiOw is your mumps?"
There is an ordinance in JOnesbOrO re-
quiring all saloons TO close al 6P. II. \
keeper was fined $40 the other day for yiO-
lating it.
Trenton is agitated by the question of
purchasing Andrew College for public
school purposes. Seventeen hundred dol
lars is the rub.
Mckenzie is talking about reducing its
corporate limits, and there is now prOpO-
sitiOn to that effect before its Mayor and
Board of Aldermen.
Gov Brown has offered a reward Of 800
for the apprehension Of Jacob Cummings,
charged with having murdered Shannon
Felker, in Sewer county, on the 2lst Of
January,
The Jackson Herald Of the 5th inst,
says: Yesterday morning, James McGin-
MS, of this city, made an unsuccessful at
tempt to rape a cOlOred woman living in
Northwest Jackson. lie was arrested.
The Chattanooga Commercial compares
tho valuation Of property in that city to
that i'm Knoxville. The former, for 1873, is
S5,044,O ,OI3.Tj; Knoxville, S4,23G,57S.00.
The KnorrHie Press and Herald of the
9th inst. says: A difficulty occurred on
"Wednesday between John Black Cox and
BOnaparte Craig. which resulted i'm Cox
being shot in the head and receiving pain
full wound.
The Clereldnd Banner urges cotton cul-
ture in that section Of the State. The
reason it was abandoned there before the
war was the reduction in price and tue in
convenience Of marketing. both Of which
hindrances 10 IGt NOW exist,
Jerry Slusher. a citizen Of Washington
county, known as the East Tennessee
| Giant is going to start out on a tour for
the purpose OF exhibiting himself. The
JOnesJOTO Herald and Tribune says he
is perhaps as great a curiosity Of humanity
as win be found in the Southern States.
The Trenton Gazette Of tie 7th inst. has
this note: One day last week a man named
Phillips, who was stealing a ride on a
freight train on the Mobile railroad, fell of
the car when about mile on the other
side Of Rutherford Station, and was so
badly mangled that ne died in few min
! UteS,
4 new made grave was found Ia ely in
| Weakley county, and suspicious being
! aroused, it was opened and found to con
! tain the remains Of an infant which could
not be accounted for. This intensified Sus-
picions of foul dOihgs, but further particu-
| lars had rot reached the Dresden DemOcrt
of the 9th inst, which has toe acc unit
The Knorrdle Press and Herald OBJ
| serves that ROlfe 5. Saunders, Of Riverside
| farm, in Knox county, has just received
/ herd Of imported and thoroughbred Ayr-
shire cattle aud superb young thoT IL
bred Hamlbetouian stallion, bred by 5ir.
| L. Z. Rice. of Princeton, New Jersey, one
Of the most eminent breeders Of fine stock
| IN this country.
The Atlcils Post gives this Personal:
! Our young friend and fellOw-toyusman,