Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-23
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Tennessee, has been located at Trenton.
IL has rained in Knoxville, says the
Press and Herald, fourteen consecutive
days.
The Memphis mosquitoes have recovered
from their hybernal prostration and retaken
their harps from the willow tree.
The colored citizens of Jefferson County
passed resolutions of respect TO the memory
of Chorles StImner, on the 18th inst.
The heavy rains made a break forty feet
wide in a fill on the East Tennessee, Nir-
GINA and Georgia railroad near Lenoirs.
Rev. DIR. W. d. Chadick, Of Meanwhile
has recently taken charge of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church in Chatta-
nooga.
A Mr.. Hartsfield in Henry county was
shot in the thigh a few days since by the
accidental discharge of a pistol in his own
pocket.
Prof. John Powell has resigned the charge
of the Paris High-school, and accepted a
call from the Chelsea Baptist Church III
Memphis.
A horse and a dray loaded with coal
went down under a boat in the river at
Chattanooga ON the 10th inst. Thu horse
was drowned.
The Sparta fnder states that two men
were recently arrested in Putnam county,
charged with ku-kluxing. They are now
in jail at Cookville.
The Lmchburg Sentinel, of the 18th inst,
says: Early wheat, in some parts OF this
county, is beginning to head. This is some
weeks earlier thar ever before known.
The Sparta Inder of the 18th inst; says:
Farmers are getting low spirited on account
Of the heavy aud continued rains and con-
sequent delay of the planting season.
The Lmchbvrg Sentinel, of the 18th inst,
saws some of the farmers of Moore county
express fears that so much rain will do a
great injury to the wheat crop, by causing
it 10 s-scald," etc.
In Lawrence county a tax of 40 cents on
each hundred dollars worth Of property was
levied for county purposes, and I'D cents Tor
school purposes and 80 cents on each poll
for school purposes.
Z. ID. Rowland, Of Jackson, fell nom a
s~tep-ladder on a show cgse smashing 1t to
pieces. Several of these penetrated deep
into the flesh of Mr.. r., lacerating and
wounding him severely.
The United Friends of Temperance of
Humboldt have decided to celebrate May
day in a grand picnic. The several Sunday
schools have been invited to participate
and a gala day is anticipated.
Subscription lists are in circulation in
Memphis to raise funds for the erection OF
a suitable monument to the memory OF
Fathers DALEY, O'Brien, Carey, Lee and
Shelby, who died during the yellow fever
epidemic last year.
The MdryriHe Republican of the 18th
inst. remarks: Last Tuesday heavy showers
Of rain fell in this locality, flooding the
creeks to an extent unknown since The
great 1water-spout flood which happened
about seventeen years ago.
On SATURDAY. night, the 18th inst, the
corn crib of Mrs. Mary Cock, living SIX
miles north of Paris, was consumed by Ire.
About fifty barrels Of corn and fifteen hun
dred pounds of hay, and the wagon and
pillow gear, in an adjoining house were also
burned,
The Dresden Democrat says: "Maj.
Jno. II. Glass, of Trenton, was over here
last week to pay $1,000 for a negro man
that he bought seventeen years ago. de
executed his note payable when a young
gentleman became of age, which event oc-
CURED a few days ago.
The LynchbUrg Sentinel of the 18th inst
SAYS: The almost inceSsant rains OF the
last week have swelled the water courses
to an extent rarely, if ever before reached.
The destruction to fences along their banks
has been great, and this, too, at q time
when farmers cannot well spare time from
their other labOrs to rebuild.
The LOudoR Journal says: \ COW on
the farm of James Blair, three miles South
of Loudon, dropped calf about two weeks
ago and would not recognize 1t. 1t died in a
few days. Ten days afterwards, she gave
birth to another, bestowing upon it, all the
licking caresses of a fond and happy COW
The KnoruUe Press and Herald of the
Dist inst. makes this statement: We learn
that Mr.. John NJ. Fritz, announced hereto
fore as having been convicted at the Cir
cult Court in Kingston, was, in reality, ac-
quilted. The jury, through some mistake,
reported a verdict of guilty, and an applica-
ton for a new trial was instantly made.
The Jury was instructed to again retire, ant
came in with a verdict of acquittal, M the
case was therefore dismissed.
The Memphis Ledger of the 18th inst,
SAYS: a committee of ten citizens, appoint
ed from the Chamber of Commerce, waited
upon the Quarterly Court yesterday after
noon, a short time previous TO final adj
journment, and presented a petition ask
ing for an appropriation of S2O,OO0to secure
the location of the West Tennessee insane
asylum in Shelby county. The subject
was briefly but clearly discussed, and the
appropriation made by a vote of sixteen to
three.