Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-07
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The revival at Kingston was in progress
March ).
The merchants of Cleveland report BUSH
ness brisk.
Martins made their appearance at Overs
burg on the Sd inst.
There were two car loads of tobacco
shipped from Springfield March 8.
Mr.. j. o. Griffith organized three
oranges in Robertson county last week.
The residence of DR.. Jno. AIcCampbell
and contents, inIenTy county, were burned
Feb. 2S.
st revival five miles from Athens there
were twenty-six conversions, some very
aged persons.
The Cumberland Presbyterians are erect
ing church in Marion county four miles
east of Jasper.
John Alexander, colored preacher, was
sent to Jail at Paris, on the I'd inst, for be-
ing too much married.
The GTeeaeUilIe Union, of the 9Th inst,
reports revivals of religion In progress at
RheatOwn, WaTensburg, Mount Pleasant
and Tusculum College, in Greene county.
The cOlOred folks Of Athens have initi-
ated measures for the establishment Of q
college at that place. A portion Of the
money to erect the necessary buildings has
already Det.n secured.
The DyerSblTg Progress of the 9Th inst.
says: Load after load Of cotton is still com
ing to town to. be ginned. There is some
cotton in the county yet that has not been
picked.
The GreeRecille Union has this temper
ance note: Our municipal authorities
have met in solemn council and declared
the saloons TO be. nuisances, nOtwithstand-
Inc s1,s,-~ Il \
act of the Legislature.
The Jasper Herald states that Ms.
Coughorn, living in Marion county, has
reached the advanced age of one hundred
and thirteen years. She is ENJOYING very
good health, and last summer cultivated a
small patch of corn by her own labor She
goes about wherever she wishes to, ALWAYS
Waikin..
The Springfield Record Of the 9Th inst.
SAYS: John Binkley had his arm broken
last Sunday in jumping off freight train
in full motion, and Ed. England had his
breath knocked from him at the same time
and place, while performing the same feat.
They had strOlled to the water tank, one
mile from town, and when the train stop
ped Tor water they boarded it. 1t was a
through train and finding it would not stop
at the depot, caused them to thus act.
The athens Post says: We learn that a
gentleman from the Northwest will COM
mence the erection of a foundry and ma
chine shops at Sweetwater in a short time,
and that the mOnied and business interests
there propose to give the enterprise a large
measure of encouragement and support.
Sweetwater is the thriftiest village on the
line between Chattanooga and Bristol. and
has been built up since the war mainly by
the energy and liberality of few men.
The Sparta IndeT of the 9Th inst. SAYS:
An old gentleman by the name Of Sanders.
father Of the man who was killed by Turn
CT, was robbed on last FRIDAY night of $500.
and some valuable papers. The burglars,
four in number, entered the house disguised
and armed, and carried away the table, in
the drawer OF which the money was kept
After breaking the lock and taking the
money, they threw the table and papers into
the river. Two white ten and two negroes
have been arrested.
\ correspondent of the KnOTUUe ChrOn-
icle writing from Maryville, Feb. -, says:
Yesterday morning Mr.. Andrew Creswell
and lady started TO their home in the Thir-
teenth district, having been on a visit to
relatives residing on Little river. At the
Mclean ford, Mrs. CreSwell'S horse fell
down, throwing her in the water, which
runs very rapidly. Dir. Cresswell's horse
became affrighted so that he could give her
no assistance. Her body was carried by
the strong current down into the deep
water. and on down TO the residence of
Col. James Davis, about one-fourth of a
mile, before she could be drawn from the
water, when she was dead. This is a sad
bereavement, she being the mother Of a
lor w Of NH
however.
The KnOrUWe Chronicle relates a curl
GUS story about a lady living in the upper
end of Knox county, who began again not
long since for the first time in about thirty
years to speak to heT relatives as well as
strangers. When she was six years Of ace.
she was As merry as a cricket, and had
something to say 10 every one, strangers as
well as acquaintance. Her father cOnsid-
cred her TO forward aud when she was
about seven years old, punished her severe
~ for speaking too much. The child took
il so to heart that she never spoke again to
her father or any one else for about 80
wears, with the exception occasionally TO
her mother, and her sisters and their chill
'dren, but had not word for her brother
in-law or any one else. To question her
always proved useless, for no reply could
be elected. Thus she dragged along
weary, lonely life, until few weeks AGO,
when attending revival, she became con
verted, and again began to talk to every
body in a rapid, vehement manner, until it
was found that her reason to some extent
was impaired. She was taken home, and
at last accounts, her mental condition was
much improved.
RIG SyVTEnEE