Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-21
TENNESSEE NEWS.


The wheat looks remarkably well il
Bradley county.
Dyersburg has steam cotton gin and
wooi-carding establishment.
James Thompson, Of Houston county,
committed suicide short time ago.
| A large number Of fruit trees are being
| planted in Greene county this fall.
Many Maury county citizens favor law
prohibiting seining and fsh-t1aps.
John I. Edwards, an old citizen Of VII
son county, committed suicide several DAYS
ago. ~. s-.r -
r. w. HAYES, Of Williamson county. has
had Two houses burned within a few
months.
Bolivar has voted tax Of five cents on
the one hundred dollars to have hook and
ladder company.
Rev. w. II. Wallace Of Rutherford
county, has taken charge Of the Baptist
Church at Franklin.
The corn crop Of Greene county, though
a little short, IS turning out much better
than the farmers expected.
The residence Of VIM. Pomeroy, near
Aoiensville, in Williamson county, was de-
slroyed by ire few days ago.
Asa Harper, of Williamson county, was
one hundred years old the 9th of March
last, and ie lively and in good health.
The WGDeriy Journal reports that the
wheat in Humphreys county looks well,
and the average increase Of acreage soWn
in this section is over ice per cent.
The late Jason Z. Patton, of Williamson,
left legacies OF land and $4,000 in money
to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
% erect building suitable for a house of
worship and Masonic lodge.
The Kingston East Tsfnesseeda states
thatvandalism displayed itself in bewway
in that town some time since. Some indi-
viduais broke into the courthouse, and OBJ
tanning the charter of the Templars, erased
some Of the names.
The editor Of the CHATTANOOGA Times
has been presented with a cluster of five
second crop apples, about the size Of quail's
eggs, well developed and healthy; also a
second crop pear, about the size of a wa
nut, the product of trees in that CITY.
A difficulty occurred at a contrasting
In Bedford county a few nights AGO. in
which Samuel Russell stabbed a negro
named Sam. Jones seven or eight times in
the Dack. The negro stabbed Jones once,
which It IS thought will prove fatal.
Hiss 1S0ta DOEcH, VI OfS6ue county, was
killed by lightning few days ago. About
six miles from where this occurred, the
house Of Mr.. Bailey was also struck, the
being torn from one end of
the house, the window-glass all broken out
and a large portion of the end wall of the
house torn down.
The DyersbtTy Progress states that |
Nose Haggard, coloreds living on the farm !
Of Floyd Furguson, In Dyer county, in be- |
ing let down In we'll fifty-two feet deep,
fell when only two feet from the top, dis |
lance Of fifty feet, breaking both legs. In |
The first attempt to draw him out, he fell a |
second time, a distance of ten feet. He was |
finally gotten out and is still alive, though |
mangled.
The Franklin Reuielv and journal saysi |
Capt. John II. Hunter, near HillsbOro, SAYS
hat he sent a negro maR 10 fix up some
encing after the late hail storm, and as he
arried 50 long, the Captain went to see
lin, and found him gathering up par
ridges, snow birds, and other kinds of
'irdS, which had been killed by the hail.
lie got at least buShel of them. The
all in many places was as large as goose
.ggs.