Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-31
TENNESSEE NEWS.

MaJIry county has produced a pumpkin
weighing 6l9 pounds.
The DgerSbUTQ Progress reports a con-
siderable emigration westward.
A new post-office has been established at
Conasauga, Polk county.
More wheat is being soYn in Dyer coun-
ty this year than was ever known before.
There are at present twenty prisoners in
our county Jail at MurfreesbOrO, four of
whom are white and sixteen cOlored.
The carriage house of Judge 7. Nixon
NanDyke. of Athens, was burned by an in
cendiary few nights ago, together with his
carriage.
A teacher in the public schools at Muir
freesboro has been bound OveI to the Grim
inal Court for severely whipping one of his
pupils.
A negro man has been sent to the peni-
Tertiary from Williamson county for three
yesrs, for shooting a horse belonging to an
other negro.
The saloon of j. J. Keely, of Cleveland,
was robbed few evenings ago by two ne
gro men, of about S35 in money. The ne
grOes were subsequently, arrested.
Mrs. Catherine Kempf, wife of Henry
Kempf, of Memphis, made a mistake and
took dose of strychnine for quinine. She
died in few minutes after swallowing the
poison.
The Patrons of Husbandry are talking
Establishing large cotton factory at Par
is, and the citizens of that town have held
meeting to aid the project, and twenty-sev-
en- pledged themselves to take stock in the
enterprise.
The CIeueldnd Herald states that corn
doctor visited that town a short time ago,
and that during his stay, be grossly insult
ed lady. He was subsequently waited
upon by a party of gentlemen, who cow
hided him, and he found it desirable to
leave by the first train.
Several moths ago r. W. Hayes, of Will
hanson county, lost his house by fire.
Strange to say, a piece of plastering was
left on the inside wall Of the chimney,
about four feet square, upon which is pho
1ographed plainly the likeness Of a man.
The theory is that it is the photograph of
the incendiary.
The Franklin ReUielg and journal says:
From Squire JO-Jon' Green we learn that
at Old Jefferson, in Rutherford county, in
the house of a gentleman by the name of
Major, nails fall on the visitors from above.
The room is ceiled, aud without crack
that pin can get through. A nephew of
the Squire says that a ten-penny nail
struck him. Great crowds throng there to
witness this phenomenon.
The Columbia Herald and Mail boasts
that no town in Middle Tennessee is keep
ing pace in prosperity with Columbia. On
every side, and in every direction, the car
penter's hammer can be heard, and new
residences and commodiOus business
houses are going up. Every contractor and
every carpenter has his hands full, and
other towns and cities are laid in contribu-
tiOn. Property has advanced of course,
and in few years Columbia can claim to
be city.
The CleUeldnd Banner says: One day
last week, in BledsOe county, an old man
left Sequatcbie Valley, with two horse
wagon, loaded with saddlery, for this direc-
tion, accompanied by two young men-tEe
old man riding on horseback. After the
party reached the top Of the mountain the
young men attempted, and thought they had
killed the old man, and threw his body in a
brush heap, and then took the wagon and
all tine horses aud came on in this direction.
Tie meat InUrIIiug boy was out cow
hunting and found the old man in the
brush heap, still alive but speeches.. The
alarm was given, when the man who help
ed the party the day before up the noun
tain, recognized and identified the old man.
Pursuit was made, and the two men over
taken, arrested and carried back. We
learned no names.