Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-19
FENSESskE NEWS.


There are twelve gangs in stswait
county. with three more i'm prospective.
There are eight prisoners in The Jail at
Clarksyille-one white man and seven col
o,ed-six for larceny and two for lunacy.
Mr.. Isaac Watson, of Washington county.
fell from his hose and was run over by
the wagon with which he was hauling
wheat and killed.
tn. CId7ksriue Chronicle states that
few nights ago an iRcendiary burned the
the wheat beioHging 10 Jesse Crolzer,a Mr..
Brown. ani NIly Croi zsr, of Montgomery
Iunty, which had been hauled to one
point preparatory to being threshed.
A few DAYS ago an Irishnan, whose
| name is unknown, was found dead near
Alfred Jctt's farm in Montgomery county.
An INQUEST OF the Jury was held-and the
verdict of the jury was that he came TO his
death by shooting himself with navy pis-
toll.
The Lexington Reporter has been shown
some teeth, a specimen Of lead ore, and a
| substance resembling isinglaSs, which We're
| Moved up in the farm of DR.. w. H. War
rem in Henderson county. They are sup
posed to have come from the grave Of an
Indian
The JoneSboro Herald and Tribune re-
ports that Mr.. Henry Hoss brings back very
GOOD reports concerning Washington
County men in California. As a general
rule the representatives that county has
| i'm different parts of California reflect credit
upon their native State.
The GdllatiR Examiner says: Eight muir
| ders have been committed in Sumner
county this year and no arrests have been
made. We do not understand this. This
wholesale murder business must be stop
ped and the guilty parties brought TO jus
tiee. Let the people take this matter in
| hand.
The Kao1Uale Chronicle learns that one
night a short time ago people in the neigh
bOrlOOd of Mr.. Simpsons place, about
mile or so up the liver from Knoxville, on
the south side, heard a strange sound,
| something similar to an explosion, and
next morning found that rock eight feet
| long, four feet wide and four feet thick had
been blown out of the ground by some
! mysterious power, no cause for the explos-
| ion being visible, leaving hole in the
| ground where the rock had been lying.
The Memphis Ledger states that letters
| from Memphians who have moved To Texas
to better their condition, give anything but
encouragement to others 10 90 out there.
| One written to a gentleman of Shelby
| county, advises him not to think Of leaving
West Tennessee to go anywhere on the
globe, and particularly not to go to Texas.
He SAYS there are more people there now,
| than can be fed during the next fall and
winter, and not half crop will be made IN
Texas this year. In many places in that
State the corn crop is a total failure.
The KROEUalc Press md Herald says:
From the Fifth civil district of Knox coHn-
ty comes a well authenticated narrative,
| with dates and the names of all the parties
concerned, regarding negro preacher who
had imposed himself upon respectable
farmers family, as a white man, aud had
thus won the affections of the farmers
daughter. The wedding bad been set
for last Sunday evening, but just previous
to the ceremony the truth leaked out, and
the negro preacher and expectant bride
groom ''stOod not upon the order Of his go
ing but went at once"