Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-24
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Springfield is crying for bacon.
Dyer county is infested with anti-sheep
CANNES.
4 temperance society will be organized
in Pulaski soon.
A man was recently put in the Hum
| phreys county Jail for blgamiys
| The youth of Shelbyville have a literary
club. entitled the "Hermathenian SOcie@
ty."
| Indications of valuable mineral deposits
have recently been discovered within mile
Ct Athens.
4 farm uear Sweetwater, Monroe county,
was lately sold tincluding all its appurte-
nanees) for $4,000.
The athens Post notes that a ruhfOr is
| current that the lockwood Iron Works,
Roane county, are about to change hands.
The Athens Post of the 23d inst. says: a
poor female lunatic, who seems to have no
| friends nor home, was committed to the
county jail at this place last Monday.
The Rev. d. II. 5elph, formally of Ruth
erford county, died near Lexington, Mo-,
ON the 18th inst. He was greatly esteemed
| both as a minister and teacher.
ii. G. Bats, Of Robertson county, took
| the medal at Cumberland University for
the best argument in a debate on the ques-
| ton whether capital punishment should be
abolished.
The Clereiaad Banner of the 23d inst.
saws: The MayOralty for this place. was
! decided on Saturday last, By the election
Of 7. Z. Hardwiek over Henderson Xix, by
the slim majority Of eight votes.
The ShelbyUjUe Gazette cf the ed inst.
saws: Sunday night last. while Mr.. Marion
Bedford, of Moore county, was away from
home. his house was fired by some un-
known person and burned TO the ground.
Nothing saved at all.
New pOstoffices have recently been es-
tablished in Tennessee at the following
places: Kimball, Gibson county; Roaring
Falls, Shelby county; Martin, Weakley
county; Hiawassee College, Monroe cOun-
ty; and HOlmansyille, in Robertson
cOGrty.
Mr.. Lazarus informs the PulGSki Citizen
that he Over-eStimated bis loss by che break
in- into his store last week. lie has re-
covered some four or FIVE hundred dollars
worth Of goods, found under hay stack in
the SpOfford meadow, and he thinks his
losses now will not far exceed a hundred
dollars.
The KnorriHe Chronicle Of the 22d inst.
states that Deputy Sheriff Alex. Reeder ar
rived in the city the night before with two
prisoners, named respectively Smith and
King, from TuckahOe, eighteen miles from
this City. They were arrested under a
charge Of carrying concealed weapons.
The daTkening exodus from our South
ern sister State continues. The ChGttG-
noOqa Commercial of the 23d inst. notes
that on the evening before one hundred
and twenty-five cOlOred labOrers, with their
families, arrived from Georgia and tsok
the Memphis train for Arkansas
The MmfreesJOrO Neirs of the 23d inst.
says: Yesterday morning a dispatch was re-
ceived at police headquarters from b. F.
Derden, of Lavergne, to the effect that
negro boy had, the night previous, stolen
from him two horses. The negro made
his appearance here yesterday, having the
stolen animals in his possession, and was
promptly arrested.
A correspondent writes to the KROIriHe
Press and Herald that at an early hour on
the 10Th inst, ROgersville was startled by
the intelligence that Mr.. George y. Alex
ander. of our town. had attempted to COM
nit suicide by cutting his throat. Further
details show that he cut a severe cash near
the jugllar vein. it is thought, however,
that he will recover. The cause is not
known.
Kaolin of good quality and great album
dance has been found on the Knoxville and |
Ohio Railroad. The KROTciHe Chronicle |
states that for some time Mr.. Weaver, at !
the pottery works in North Knoxville, has |
been getting clay from mississippi to |
use With the ordinary clay from this vicin- |
ity in the Manufacture of crooks. This |
clav cost Mr. Weaver about seven and |
L rE Ill l. not you'll
from the newly discovered formation at |
sixty cents per ton. The bed is more than /
80 feet thick.
A distressing accident is reported by the
KROrriHe Chronicle Of the 22d inst. 1t /
saws: A few days since young man
named Call, living near Tusculum College, /
about five miles from Greeneville, took
down his gun, and having no idea of its be-
ing loaded, ran the ramrOd into the barrel
in careless manner, when, by some I'M
means, the gun wasdischarged, |
driving the ramrOd partly through his neck, |
breaking it off. He fell by his mothers
side, and expired in about two minutes. /
He was about eighteen years of age.
Chattanooga is to have gUanO factory.
The Commercial of the I'D inst. says:
I'VE learn from MeSSrs. Joe Ouerbacker,
and ID. j. Duffy, that they will begin Op
erations with their bone mill on next Mon
day. The capacity of the mill with their
present power is from one to two tons per
day-full capacity from three 20 four men.
They will give employment to four men.
They can dispose of the products OF their
mill in the Southern markets at forty dol
lars per ton, the bones, for several tons Of
which they have already contracted, cost
ing twenty dollars delivered"
The Jackson Herald, Of the 2ist inst,
SAYS: About two weeks since, a man giving
his name as s. G. Smith, hired horse from
Tomlinson & Towards livery stable in this
citv, saving be wished to ride out in the
country several miles. Smith took another
notion after he had gone to the country,
and did not return the horse to the stable, |
but made Lis way to Humboldt. Up to
last night, all efforts in endeayOring to cap
ture the thief and secure the horse were
when dispatch was received,
saving that Smith had been arrested by
detective and lodged in Jail at
Sardis, Miss.
The RnO5rdle Chronicle of the 22d inst.
saws: son Monday night, Mr.. Isaac L.
A Anderson. who lives on the MOfiat farm,
ust below town. came into the city, and re-
turned to his home about O'Clock. He
soon after retired to bed, having first count
I'd over some money he had received for
rents during the day. During the night
his bedroom was entered by . thief or
thieves, who took out a small table or stand
which contained some papers in a drawer,
pants and his wife's dress.
The prize they wanted was found in Mr..
4 IS pants pocket, being pocket book con-
aiming S422.l0. Mr.. Anderson's theory is
hat some one saw him through the win
low Of his house counting the money, and
With such temptation resolved to make a
rood thing of it. His pocket book was
ound empty some forty or fifty yards from