Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-24
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The citizens of Greasy Cove and Flag
Pond, in Washington county, are going to
make an effort for new county. The In
tention is to try and secure a portion Of
| Carter county in order to give the amount
of territory that is required for all new
counties.
Robert Hice and John Oliver, of Wash
ington county, had quarrel about a gun.
Oliver, becoming very much excited about
the matter, stabbed Hice in several places
with his knife. Hice's condition is dan
gerous. A warrant was issued and search
made for Oliver, but he has not yet been
found.
The Humboldt journal states that many
of the farmers of Gibson county are send
ing of to Kentucky, or Illinois, or else
where, to purchase their corn and meat for
next year. They have raised cotton almost
exclusively, and as the result, they find
themselves, at the end of the year, without
corn and meat and very little money with
which to procure it.
Last Saturday, Horace Shields, colored,
entered the grocery store Of John Keys
Mrs. Keys being in the back room, he got
held Of the money box and was about to
help himself when she came in and caught
hold of him. He dropped the box and
commenced choking her, then, tearing him
self loose and rushing out at the back door,
attempted TO make his escape by the rear
alley. Mrs. Keys ran out in the alley and
gave the alarm, and after a short chase the
young rascal was caught.
The KRozcille Chronicle learns that a
few days since a colored child was burned
to death in Middle Brook, three miles from
that city. The mother had been called ont
by a neighbor to do something for her, and
she, engaging eolored girl TO take care of
her children, left them in the house. II
seems that the girl, afterwards, LEFT the
children alone, and, the fire burning down,
one Of them took her apron full Of chips
and threw them on the fire. While in this
act, her apron came in contact with the
flames, and she rushed out of the house
screaming, but no grown person was near
to render any help, and she burned to
death. Her body was Afterwards found
some distance from the house, burned into
crisp.
The Jackson Wig and Tribune is re-
sponsible for this: Two Of the most dis
tinguished lawyers of Bolivar were travel
ing on horseback near Middleton, in Har-
deman county, day or two after the rob
berry Of the bank at Corinth. The whole
country at the time was full of scouts,
looking for ssbald-headed men riding bay
horses" One of the lawyers above men
toned seemed to fill the bill of particulars
furnished by the Sheriff of Lee county in
his proclamation, and the result was that
'.the two solitary horsemen," Of the legal
persuasion, were arrested, placed under
guard, and were about to be taken to Cor
NTH in triumph, when they succeeded in
giving a satisfactory account Of themselves.
A gentleman Just in from the mountains,
furnishes the Kn0Icille Press and Herald
the following particulars of homicide
which occurred near Huntsville, IN Scott
county, last week: ID. G. Chambers,
constable, had an execution against the
property of a man named j. NJ. Penning-
ton. He had previously levied, and Tues
day was the day Of sale. j. NJ. Penning-
ton and his brother, w. 7. Pennington,
had made threats against Chambers, de-
elaring that if he should bring any one to
bid on the property, they would kill him.
When the hour of sale arrived, some words
passed between the parties, and Chambers,
in the belief that the Penningtons were 60
ing to shoot him, opened fire upon the two,
killing j. II. Pennington and wOunding
w. 7. Pennington seriously. The inform
ant states that the citizens Of the neighbor-
hood think that Chambers was justifiable
in shooting.