Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-17
TENNESSEE NEWS.

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the square of Bolivar.
MIR. G. w. Doughty, of Kingston, has
| gone to Texas to make his future home.
The StoddeTt House of Jackson was sold
recently at chancery sale for s., 900.
The Jackson people are evidently happy
and contented from the representations of
their journals.
On the night Of the 18th inst. Gen. Jno.
L: Wilder lectured In Chattanooga on
what he saw in Europe.
There was last week a case of sickness
in Jonesboro which was thought to be
cholera, and a general alarm followed; but
1t proved TO be only case of over-eating.
W. A. Pullen, blacksmith of Wayland
Springs, Lawrence county, in shceing a
wild horse on the I'd inst, was thrown to
the ground and had his leg broken. He
died the same night.
The HdrtSriiie Sentinel of the 18th inst.
says: On Saturday last a vote was taken
throughout Smith county 10 see if the voters
would pass a ten cent school tax. In every
district except that of Carthage the addi-
tiOnal taxation Was voted down. Dixon
Springs did not hold an election.
The Gdildtin Examiner of the 18th inst.
says: The wheat crop in this county was
ACfNA uIDAC tlldu IlOhs MIN no
miShap there will be larger yield than for
many years past. An increased amount of
land has been sown, and as far as we have
observed it was plOwed in with more care
than usual.
says: Last Wednesday evening, while beat
ing around the brush and ponds for game,
Joe You're unluckily received the greater
TonTfforn Of Load ,aFh HID 81 a.
of one of his companions in the hunt. Al
though severely peppered Mr.. You're was
not seriously hurt.
The Milan Exchange of the 18th inst.
says: Harry Demp, a negro manwho lives
at Hope Hill, in this county, was in town
Tuesday and bought pair of shoes. Har-
" is one hundred and twelve years old. is
able to pick cotton and do a great deal of
farm work. He remembers the revolution
airy war very distinctly.
The Chattanooga Commercial of the
14th inst. says: Yesterday, Mr.. E. B. Do
bell was driving his two horse wagon to his
furniture store when the horses took fright |
and ran away. The wagon was literally |
hoken to pieces, and Mr.. Dobell getting |
entangled in the harness, was kicked on |
the head by horse, and also run over by |
the wagon, getting his side severely bruised. |
The Milan Exchange observes: The
and young men of the town |
have organized a moot legislature, which |
meets at the College every Friday night. |
They have a Governor, Speaker of the |
House, etc., and discuss questions of State
and national importance with far more dig
nifty and good breeding than do the solons
at Washington.
The GGlldtin Tenesseedn of the 18th
says: Gilly Davis, colOred, who stood in
dicted for an assault with intent to commit
murder, disappeared Tuesday morning after
his case had been submitted toaa iury. The
fact was discovered early in the morning,
and the court ordered capias to issue in
stanter for his arrest, but at last accounts
he had not been heard from. He was un-
der bond of $500.
A JoneSboro letter to the KnOrriUe
Press and Herald says: "a Mr.. Mike
Slower, who lived four miles west of town,
had the misfortune to lose his house, with
It's contents, by fire, on Sunday evening
asst. 1t was, perhaps, the Oldest house in
he State. The body, which was composed
Of logs, is said to have been built in 1884
Or 1855, by Mr.. Keicher, one of the first
settlers in this end of the State7
Of the site of the proposed Insane Asv-
UNI for East Tennessee, the KpOrrHe
Press and Herald Of the 18th inst. saws:
AFTER completing their tour of inspection,
he members Of the eommissiOn-with the
exception Of Hon. John King, who was too |
atigued to accompany the other members
throughout the tedious work-on Friday
hight compared notes at Athens, and
greed upon throwing out as undesirable,
III but five of the properties offered. We
understand that enc of these considered
desirable is in upper, and a second in lower
east Tennessee, while the other three are
n Knox county.
l.. K. Gregory and Miss S. A. Scar
borough, both of Madison county, were
married on the 18th inst. The Jackson
Wig dad Tribune says: They were
married at MIR. J. b. Johns0n's. They had
iloped and some time during Thursday
light after the inmates of Mr.. Johnson's
house had all retired, Mr.. Scarborough, the |
ather of the young lady referred to above.
md young man named Cock, knocked at !
he door and asked for GreSOty. Un going
nut Mr.. &. lras asked If he was armed. He |
eplied that he was not. He was then at
acked with sticks and while endeavoring ,
o escape was shot at several times. He
ell while retreating, and then he drew a
istol which he had on his person (although
e had concealed the fact through pruden-
ial reasons) and fired twice. The attack
NC parties then Fetreated leaving behind
hem pistol and stick.