Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-19
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The potato bug has made its appearance
| In the gardens at Milan.
1.-The Springfield Record reports the Irish
potato crop in that section failure.
The Fdystterille ObserUer reports the
health Of Lincoln county as generally
good.
The Fayetteville 06sertsr recommend.
Col. ID. w. Holman, Of that town, for Gov
ernOr.
The residence of Patrick Smith, of Lin,
coin county, was destroyed by fire few
6ays ago, together with its contents.
Sir Robert Rhodes, Of Giles county, has
a flock Of seven hundred merino sheep, one
Of which recently yielded twenty pounds Of
wool.
The Fayetteville Express HOSTS the
names Of Chancellor Marks for Governor
and Hon John II. Bright for Congress
| from the fifth district.
j. W. Caldwell, a. NJ; II. d., of New
| Orleans; a son-in-law of DR.. Palmer, has
Sccepted chair ia the scientific depact-
ment of SteHart College at ClarksyilIe.
a. w. Hawkins, internal ReyenIie Col
IectOr, informs the H,nltdlgdon PEOPLES
PAGER that the receipts at his office in
april amounted to So, 659 .0S, and in May
to 81, 0S2-3L
The Springfield Record states THAT If
the election recently held in Robertson
county, for and against the school tax, the
vote stands thusly: For the tax, 1s3.
Against the tax, 1,196.
The stors house of Mr.. J. NJ. Willie, in
Madison county, was burhsd; with its eons
tents, on the night Of the 18th iiisti s
negro boy named Ike Dyson was suspected
of applying the torch, and after being ar
rested, confessed the crime.
The Huntingdon Peoples Paper reports
that young man named McAuley, in Car
roll county, playfully seized pistol few
days ago, thinking ii uhloaded, and pointed
at young man named Emerson Cham
bets, who had spent the night with him,
and discharged il, the ball passing directly
through Chambers heart, and causing in
slant DEATH,
Robert Fletcher and a man named
Steele got into a difficulty in Carroll coun-
ty few days ago, when the former drew
pistol and shot the latter, the ball striking
just below the breast bone and ranging up
ward hit rib, which turned its course;
it finally lodged under the shoulder blade.
The ball has not been extracted.
The Fayetteville Express relates this in
cident. a Lincoln county youth, with a
sgueaking voice, undertook to hun, "Ever
OF thee I'm fondl5 screaming, under his
sweetheart's lattice the other night, but he
didn't hum for any protracted period of
time. The girls father, something of a
hummer himself, installing tie origin OF
the music, salhted the aInorous swain with
bootiack and put period to his melody
by exclaiming, ''Scat, d-n you, you can't
come squslling around here without getting
scotehedr'
A correspondent of the KnOIriHe Press
and Herald writes from Greenyille under
date of June IS: zone week Of Circuit
Court is gone to-day. A moral atmOS-
phere pervades the town that is wonderful.
have not heard an oath or saw the least
violent or bad conduct during the week.
Mr.. J. B. Brown, an old and highly re-
Spectacle citizen of the town, SAYS he has
been in the mercantile business in the
place for thirty-six years, and never saw a
Circuit Court before, when be had not seen
some evidence of drinking, and this is the
testimony of Others similarly situated.
The bitterness that seemed to prevail here,
growing out of the temperance movement,
is fast giving way to better spirit.