Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-01
TENNESSEE NEWS.

II appears that Sparta has had an unU.
sually festive Christmas.
Farmers around Mckenzie say wheat IS
looking fine. and have hopes Of big yield
next harvest,
Tie SpGTta hl5Gr Of Dee. p SAYS: Sew
erai families from Ohio have recently 10
Gated i'm our midst. Wegive them hearty
welcome.
The Gr,.acrWs Union OF Dec. - says:
Large numbers Of emigrantS passed down
the railroad last week from the upper COM
Ties, bound for West Tennessee.
On the 2lih OF December there was a
damaging fire ia the village OF Gardner,
West Tennessee. Gardner X Sims lost
about Sj,Gpa, and Mrs. Wheeling about
500.
The Ripl'y Nei-S of Dee. 20 SAYS: The
Board of Aldermen IL the last stated meet
inS voted themselves twenty dOlia.s each
AMI the Mayor fiily dollars. ~ compensa-
tor for services during the year.
The Chattanooga Commercial of Dee.
81 saws: There were shipped yesterday from
Chattanooga. over the Western and Allan
tic railroad, fourteen cars Of grain and one
Of cattle. Twenty CIR loads OF grain await
shipment.
At' ~ 4A+tf-fa 'fft' = AfNts SsAN
Caps. :. \. Mcbauc informs lis that he or
ganizcd a grange at ClarbSbUrgh, in this
county: a. IFS organization tWenly-Seyen
members were initiated.
The Nc Fcn.if Tines Of Dee. - says:
\ savage fight look place al Gleason on the
night oi the 9th inst, between james
Whitseit and Josiah Page, in which Page
was badly worsted, being struck on the
head and face with a billet of wood.
The Sparta IHdcr of Dec. ,, has this
item: Yesterday the parents vi = negro
family, living in West sparta, went to the
drawing q presents &c the colOred peoples
Christmas Tree, leaving their children at
home. While they were away, one of the
youngest. child ABOUT three years old, fell
into the fire and.waS burned to death.
The following is from the Nchclzie
Times under date of Dec p; Wa. Hall
lost a purse Of money last night, containing
eighteen dollars in silver. lie had an idea
who had found il, so iie sued out search
warrant and proceeded 10 90 through the
pockets Of citizen of African descent, and
in an obscure one found his money.
The GfeeReCWc Union, of Dee. p, has
the following: Monday evening, party or
men, at Midway, had just arrived at home,
and ono Of the party, MIR. Brown, cooked
his gun, aud was about blowing IN the
muzzle of it. and Ead "a. u in his mouth,
when 1t went OFT the ball passing ont the
back OF his head, producing q very danger
Gus wound.
\ correspondent Of the KROJrWe Press
and Herald writes: At a late hour, on the
night before Christmas, Denpsy Hodge.
living in the upper end Of BlOunt county,
was aroused from his sleep by the sound OF
rocks being thrown against his door. He
cot ont Of b,5 ned, went and opened the
dor, and, we understand, demonstrated
with the parties. telling them NOT to hurt
or Kill the children. i fence-rail was
thrown against him. end foremost, which
penetrated his breast to the hollow, Causing
his death I'm q short siNe. \ COroner'S in
quest vas neid over the body, but no proof
obtained sufficient to justify arrest.
The ha0rrHie Press md Herald SAYS:
At the First Baptist Church, on Christmas
morning, a marriage ceremony was per-
formed in which two ministers, one a Bap-
fist and the other a Methodist, ofiiciated.
uniting in the silken bonds of matrimOHy,
Rev. NJ. 0yetstFeeI, OF SANFORD. Nv, and
Miss Texdnna Crank. of Knoxville, the
bride being q sister Of Mrs. Lancaster, OF
this CITY. Rev. DIR. NAYS Ofiiciated Hntilsit
was time for the bridegroom to place the
ring on the finger of the bride. and thispar
Of the ceremony beiugunusual in the Baptist
faiInula. it was performed 10y Rev. Dr. Jun
ningham, the pastor of Church Street Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South,