Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-12
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Gallatin has twelve drinking saloons.
Oats look very fine insome parts of Moore
county.
Squirrels are quite numerous in Sumner
county this year.
Three large bears has been seen in the
mountains Of White county recently.
The Big Book neighborhood in Stewart
county is infested with mad dogs.
The wheat in the Flat Woods district in
WAYNE county promises large yield.
There is fair prospect for plenty of
peaches and apples in Sumner county.
Messrs. Bird & Spargin have commenced
the erection of a cotton factory at Bristol.
The chandeliers for the Custom-house at
Knoxville are being put in place. Cost,
5000.
The farmers of Greene county want a
law authorizing the slaughter Of sheep
killing dogs.
The area of ground in wheat and oats in
Tipton county is double that sOwn for
many years.
Our State exchanges mention the pres
ence of an unusual number of drummerS in
the various towns.
The total number of deaths in Memphis
during April was 81, of which 45 were
white and 40 black.
The fruit crop in Blount county will not
be so large this year as usual, though there
will be fair supply.
Specimens of rich lead ore has been
found on the premises Of EndymOn 1oak-
ley, IN Washington county
In some localities in Sumner county,
north of the ridge, the fly has done much
damage TO the tobacco plant.
1t is now mooted that DR.. VIM. r. Sc
vier. of Jonesboro, will become candidate
for Congress in the First district.
The wife of G. B. Toombs, Of Obion
county, tainted and fell into the fire few
DAYS since. burning herself badly.
The Republicans Of McMinn county
have held a convention and nominated can
didates for Circuit Clerk and Register.
Jarrett Milan was s OF and badly wound
ed by Tom Davis. in Stewart county,
few DAYS ago, in a personal difficulty.
A thief broke into the Presbyterian
Church at HendersOnvilie, Sumner county,
and stole the fine Bible used by the church.
VIM. Darden was killed in saw mill
near Union City by belt breaking and
the end hitting him on the head on the 9Th
inst.
A woman named Susan Rory died in
Memphis on the night Of the Sth inst. from
the effects of a coal oil lamp explosion the
same night.
The frost did not injure the fruit in
Greene county. The prospect is that the
wheat yield will be much larger than for
fifteen years.
Frank Morris, a little son of Judge Jona-
than Morris, only thirteen years old, killed
three deer at one shot, in Wayne county,
week or two ago.
A hail storm in the southern and west
ern portions of Hardeman county on the
Sd inst. did considerable damage to the
wheat and other crops.
The Bristol Courier reports nearly all
the peaches killed in that vicinity, but says
there will be fair crop of apples. The
wheat was not injured by the late frOsts.
The LlnchbTg Sentinel states that the
most sanguine farmers in Moore county
look for only twO-thirds yield of wheat,
if no other damage befalls the growing
crop.
Nathan d. Reed, Of Rhea county, is a
candidate TO represent the foaterial district
composed Of the counties Of Meigs, Rhea,
James and Cumberland in the next Begis-
lature.
j. T. and J. II. Lyon, brothers, of Madi-
son county, quarreled and the former
struck at the latter with heavy stick, but
missing his aim, hit his mother, breaking
her arm badly.
The GGlIGtin TeRReSSeeGn is informed
that some of the best farmers of Sumner
county regard the wheat crop as having
been seriously injured by the long continu-
Gus wet weather.
A little negroe child iabout three years
old was burnt to death in White
county on the 9th inst. by its clothes taking
fire. The mother of the child was out OF
l,a
The Bristol Courier states that there
are Three Democratic candidates for Sena-
tor in the first district, MesSrs. Denny,
White and Hodges, and that the Republic
cans have two, MesSrs. Early and Welsh.
Rev. W. J. McAnally, of Cairo, Crockett
county. has been elected as one of the al
ternates to the Grand Lodge of the world
of the independent Order of Good Temp
lars which meets in Boston on the 2Gtl
inst.
The body of f. G. Bradbury was found
in Weaklev county few days ago. He
left home the night before, about II o'clock
intoxicated, and was found in the woods il
a nude condition, stark and stiffin death.
The DVerS5lug Progress Of the 18th inst
saws: The farmers are busy atwOrk plant
ING corn and cotton. We learn that then
will be a much larger acreage Of cottoI
planted in Dyer county than was at frs
expected.
The crusaders have commenced in Crock
EFT county. Fifty-one Of the fair sex liv
ING in The eighth civil district have petition
ed the salOon-keepers of Cairo, in tina
county, to sign the temperance pledge.
The Chattanooga Times Of the 9th inst
saws: So far as the Board Of Health hav,
beeu able to learn there are Just six case
of small pOX III the city. There never hay'
been SINE it broke out in February NOR
than dozen cases, perhaps, at one time.
The Dorer Record of the Sth inst. says
From our farmers ON the Tennessee ant
Cumberland rivers the report comes @
GREAT loss of wheat by the overflow on
Country is damaged to the extent Of severa
Thousand dollars in the wheat crop.
James. S. Newman, formerly Of Knox
VILE. was found dead near Springfield, Mis-
souri. on the % inst, He was in a sittin
posture when found, with a pistol in hi
hand, as though he had SHOT mmsel
though he is supposed to have been mul
dered and robbed.
The Athens Post says: Mr.. Chrisley III
loer. of McAIinn county, is now in bis lO6t
~aar- and is believed 10 be the oldest ma
IN Fast Tennessee. Though feeble an
frail he ;g atiIl able TO get about, and read
without the aid Of glasses. There are tW
other citizens in the neighbOrhood aged $
and 9S respectively. N.
The Chattanooga Times of the lOt
inst. saws: We hear of no injury WhateVi
TO the wheat from the frost. There lssOn
uresent injury to the wheat IN the 10
lands, resulting from the water, put III