Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-27
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Ducktown copper mines last week and was
killed.
Tie Tennessee River Iron and Manufac-
turing Company has been organized at
Pulaski.
The foundry and machine works at
Kingston, RoaDe county, will commence
operations in a few days.
DR.. Roberts, of Kingston, had his right
hand badly lacersted by the accidental dis
charge of a pistol in his hands.
There have been but three interments in
the cemetery at Shelbyville for the month
ending June 25-one white and two blacks.
The dwelling of Mr.. VIM. McGOwan,
near Triune, Williamson county, was
burned, with its entire contents, few days
ago.
The residence of w. 3. CashiOn, Of
Weakley county, was destroyed by fire,
together with most Of the contents, few
days ago.
The Lebanon Herald states that DIR. \.
3. Stark will soon remove with his family
to Russellyille, KY, having accepted the
Presidency of Logan Female College at
that place.
The Democrats Of Henderson county
will hold convention at Lexington 0nthe
lst Monday in July and nominate candi-
dates for county offices to be filed at the
August election.
The jasper Herald states that the
whOoping cough, which has been raging
among the children of the town for several
months, is disappearing, but is reappearing
in some portions of the county.
The Paris Iatelbgencer states that Mr.
| VIM. Sims, Of Henry county, has a bunch
of wheat consisting of sixty-two stalls
from one grain. Several of the best heads
counted eighty-four grains EACH
Mr.. Robert Riding, of Humphreys coun-
ty, informs the VdreTly journal that he
counted, as the product Of one grain Of
wheat, on his place, the extraordinary
number of LILO well developed grains
HOw's that?
The jasper Herald claims that that
town is improving as well as growing. Be
| side the Presbyterian church, which is now
under contract, there will be several new
| dwellings erected the present season. The
| town has doubled its size and population
since the war.
The Fayetteville Express reports that six
distilleries in Lincoln county have sus-
pended operations for the want of corn
Others are expected to follow suit soon. Ii
| is probable that several fruit distilleries
will 90 into operation, under Govern
ment license, in Lincoln county, this fall.
The GreeRrdle Americml says: Quite
an excitement was created last week by
the refusal of the Mayor to issue a warrant
under the corporation ordinance fOrbidding
the drsm-shops to be open after six O'Clock
| at night, or before six o'clock in the morn
Il = ,,r,Iar.soc1 shaf tho Mauni-
acted under legal advice.
The Sparta Iader has the word Of two
reliable gentlemen for the following: In
harvesting field Of wheat on the farm OF
Mr.. Lawson Moore, in White county, a
head was found having twenty-five meshes
with an average of nine grains to the mesh,
making in all one hundred and ninety
eight grains.
The BrO1rnSrIle States is responsible for
the following statement: IL is rather
strange that a minister rarely gets UptO de-
liver 4 sermon in Brownsville, that he does
not have to request the congregation to stop
talking. 1t seems that people would learn
TO behave themselves in house Of worship
and not have to be reprimanded regularly
every week.
The Kingston East TcnReSseean says: A.
J. Childress was badly stung by his bees
the other day. He was engaged in hiving
them, and by some means the entire swarm
got upon his head and face and stung him
severely. Water was thrown over him,
and being thoroughly saturated with coal
oil, etc, he was snatched from the stingiDg.
The CIeUeldad Banner states that two
men from Georgia were arrested in Bradley
county few days ago by Deputy Marshal
Clincan. for a violation Of the revenue
laws. by selling illicit whisky. y wagon,
two mules and 40 gallon barrel of whis-
key. were the trophies found in their pos
session. The men were jailed and the
property sent forward to Knoxville for con-
fiscation.
The UdUeT}g Journal of the 18th inst.
says: Capt. Hobbs has brought into our
Office the finest sample of wheat We have
oversee grown in Tennessee. The heads
are long and well filed with large plump
grains-each mesh containing three well
developed grains. If the people are at all
interested in knowing who Hobbs Is, We
are happy to inform them that he is one of
the most successful farmers in this section.
The captain informs us that he reaped
about forty acres of wheat this season, all
of which is as good as the sample furnished
us.
The Sparta IRder is authority for the
following: IL was at Burritt College that
il happened. A student was declaiming in
grandilOquent style Everett's eulOsy on
Adams and Jefferson. \ couple Of enter
prisinc calves had by some means found
their way into the hall from which the
stairway ascends TO the chapel. The
speaker had Just concluded the sentence
about ''the silvery trumpet Of America
turned into mourning, when one calf gOred
the other, and an unearthly baw-h-h-h rent
the air. If Gabriel had given blast on
his hoin, the effect could have not been
more overwhelming.
DYER is one of the best counties in the
State, but the DyerSbTg Progress COM
plains of the neglect with which that cOun-
ty has been treated rs follows: "Dyer
county never furnished the United States
with a President, she has not furnished the
State with a Governor with the recollec-
tiOn of the Oldest inhabitants, she never
had United States Senator that her peO-
pie remember of, she hasn't sent anybody
to Congress since the moon went down,
she has not had State Senator since the
trees commenced growing, and has accept
ed her misfOrtunes UncOmplainly. We
ought at least be entitled TOT State Senator
this time"
Weakley county is ahead. The DreS,ieIs
Democrat says: p. a. CashiOn, of this
county, had chicken Matched about
eighteen months ago that was gray on
one side running from the comb back to
the tail, on the opposite side deep black.
1t had very heavy comb, and large wat
tie on the black side and a small one on the
gray; heavy spur on the left leg and a
light one on the right. 1t laid dozen or
more eggs, set on them, hatched and raised
a brood of chickens. After the chicks
were weaned, it went into the rooster bust
ness-crowed regularly and fought the 9TH
er roosters. By-and-by, that is, week Ur
two ago, it land down and died with the
cholera. A post-mOrtem examination dis
closed the fact that on the gray side it was
a perfectly developed hen; on the black
side perfectly developed male.
A case of wholesale poisoning has re-
Gently occurred in Sewer county. The
facts in the case are related by a cores
pondent Of the KROIrille Chronicle as fol-
lows: The family of John Clark had liv