Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-25
TENNESSEE NEWS.

line OTeeReCttte .dnteTtcdn says the plum
trees around that town are in full bloom.
The GreeReciile AIasricda reports that
the first new corn received in that town
sold at fifty cents per bushel.
The army worm is playing the wild with
vegetation in every portion of Williamson
county. 1t is a smaller Int very voracious
species,
Joseph Frady who shot and killed VIM.
y. White, in Knox county, on the 18th
inst, has been arrested aud lodged in Jail
at Knoxville.
The residence of J. B. Moore, of Lincoln
county, was destroyed by fire few daya
ago. Only portion OF the furniture and
clothing was saved.
A revival which has been in progress al
the Cumberland Pres5yt, rian Church at
Yorlyille, Gibson county, has resulted in
about sixty conversions.
\ revival at the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church near John Reeds, in Moore coun-
tY, has resulted in twenty-five or thirty adj
ditions to the church.
The Baptist Church at Palmyra, in Mont
gomery county, has experienced a revival,
resulting in seventeen conversions and ele-
ven additions TO the church.
The GreeHeCiUe sireTis6n rileIihons the
passage through that town of a train of
wagons containing some twenty-five or
thirty cQOred persons, emigrating from
Nadkin county, n. c., to the West.
From al parts of Robertson county the
Springfield Record has reports of the de-
structiOn<Of grasses, turnip tops, etc, by
the aTmy~Orm. This is quite severe, after
going through a long drought, to have what
little was left devuared by worTas.
The MurireeSb0r0 Monitor states that
the worms, which have infested Rutherford
county for some time, have done great dam
age-destroying fields of millet, and young
wheat and rye, and eating the fodder off
the corn, and ALEC doing some damage to
cotton.
The ClarkSrHIe Tobacco Leaf reports the
burning to death of negro woman at st.
Johns Methodist Church, where the ne
grOeS had a supper. A lamp exploded set
ting her clothes on fire. The flames were
not eXtinguished until she was burned 10
death.
a negro woman Al Guthrie got on the
train and paid leI fare to GAINESVILLE. Her
husband got on and failed TO pay when the
conductor came around. He was put off.
When his wife found that he had beer put
off the train she leapcd over board, the
train going thirty miles an hour, and was
instantly killed.
The LyRch5Tg Sentinel states that the
dwelling house of Henry Carpenter, OF
Moore county, together with its entire con-
tents, was consumed by fire few nights
ago. Mr.. H. and family We're absent at
the time, and as they left no fire on the
place, many are led to believe it was the
work Ofan incendiary.
The MUrfreeSbOrO Monitor states that
while services were being held in Bradleys
Creek Church in Rutherford county a few
nights ago, young man about eighteen
years of age, named Pickett, got friend
Of his to cali another young man, named
Burnett, out of the house, and as soon as
be was outside of the door Pucket stabbed
him in the left breast with a knife, inflict-
ing a serious, if not mortal. wound.
The army worms are ravaging portions
Of Lincoln county. The Fayetteville Oh
SerUer says: Last Monday morning a gen.
tleman discovered the army worm in his
German millet. He Immediately issued
orders to prepare for cutting, but it was
or 4 o'clock before they got TO work, and
the worms had then destroyed about five
acres, which was at the rate of about an
acre per hour.
Phillip Bradley, living near McEwen's
station, in Humphreys county, met with a
serious accident few days ago. While
being let down in a well, which was sixty
feet deep, and when within twenty feet of
the bottom of the well, the rope broke, Mr..
Bradley falling 10 the bottom, feet fore
most, breaking his leg in three different
places, also crushing several bones in his
feet.
The Sheriff of Claiborne county arrived
in Knoxville Tuesday, accompanied by a
large guard, eScOrting seven prisoners, SEN
fenced at a recent term Of the Circuit
Court for that county. Four of them are
to be taken to the penitentiary at Nash
vile. The other three, named John Craig,
Frank Craig and Jas. MaSSiDgill, were
found guilty Of murder and sentenced to
be hanged, but appealed to the Supreme
Court, now in session.
The Springfield Record SAYS: Cedar
Hill Circuit is certainly one Of the most
desirable rural appointments in the Ten
neSsee Conference. II has a good parsOn-
age located in Cedar Hill. three good
church houses, viz: TurneTsyille, Adams
Station and Cedar Hill, the latter two To-
NftANu tAi lllN o. LOUIS anu southeastern
Railroad. 1t also has a magnificent camp
ground. The entire church property in the
bounds of the circuit is valued at $1,000
and clear Of debt. 1t has a membership of
49S, and good Sunday-school at each ap.
pOintment.
George Bird and VIM. Wright, of Perry
county, had a difficulty a few DAYS AGO,
during which Bird stabbed Wright three
or four times, and Wright knocked Bird
down with rOca and Shot him in the
chest under the collar bone. Both are
badly hurt, but neither fatally, rs is be
lieved. In the same county, two men
named Perry and Mcdonald had a personal
difficulty, in which Mcdonald was making
at Perry with an az, when Perry threw a
rock at Mcdonald which struck him on the
head, breaking his skull and killing him
almost instantly.