Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-09
TENNESSEE NEWS.


Col. G. b. Mckenzie, of Fayetteville, by
a fall broke his leg on the 26th ult.
The wheat crop in Madison and Hender-
son counties is locking remarkably we'll
Henderson county is out of debt and has
six or seven. thousand dollars in heI
breeches pockets.
In Lincoln county there were 264 mar
rage licenses issued in 1873; ISL to whites
and n to negroes.
= Wm..D Hicks, ESQ.,, one of the oldest
and most generally esteemed citizens OF
MurfeesborO, died suddenly and unexpec-
teddy of heart disease on the 9th inst.
Among the recent marriages in Morris
town were the following: Mr.. G.. w. Nc
Clanahan 10 Miss Maggie Furrow; and Mr..
NJ. NJ. Murrell to Miss Lou. b. Johnson.
The MufreeSbOrO Monitor says: There
are about two hundred paupers die a year
in this county, for which coffiIt Is must be
furnished at the publie's expense at the
rate of five dollars each, making q total OF
1000.
A sad accident occurred on the premises
of DR.. w. IL. McCord, near Eagleville,
Rutherford county, on the 2Sth ult.. From
| some unknown cause kitchen caught fire,
burning up negro child that was in it.
Every thing in the kitchen was destroyed.
The MiTfTeeSbOro Monitor says: Near
Milton, night before Christmas, colored
man was frozen to death. After getting
very drunk at a grocery on the Liberty
pike, he attempted to go home, but had not
proceeded far before he lay down on the
side of the pike, where lie was found dead
the next day.
The KnOIrHle Chronicle Of the 7th inst.
says: Yesterday, Deputy Marshal Silves-
ter Cooper, from Campbell county, arrived
in the city with two prisoners from that
county, James S. Brown and Betty Gray,
the former being charged with dealing in
counterfeit money, and the latter for selling
whisky.
The MlrfreeSborO Monitor of the 9Th
inst. says: We are informed that some
twenty odd persons left this place one day
last week intending to seek homes else
where, some in West Tennessee and some
in other places, but reaching Smyrna the
party concluded that this was the most de-
sirable county in the world for home, and
so they all returned.
The Fayetteville Observer says: Friday
night, the 26th ult., about Z O'Clock, the
residence of Mr.. VIM. Lay, about p miles
east Of this place, was destroyed by fire,
with all of its contents except few quilts,
bed tick and a bureau drawer. As the
family had been absent for two days, and
there had been no fire built on the prem
iseS during that time, the cause of the ca
lamity is attributed to incendiarism.
DR.. r. Il. Owens, a citizen of Morris
town, recently brought suit against the
corporate authorities of that town for dam
ages in allowing portion Of First South
street to be fenced in, and for permitting
several nuisanoes to be erected upon said
street, in front of his residence, etc. The
case was heard by Esquire Donaldson, and
Judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff
in the sum of 500, and costs of suit.
The freeholders of portion of Crockett
county, from the line northwest of Jackson,
comprising seven square miles and includ-
ing MaSon's Grove, petitiORed the County
Courts OF Madison and Crockett counties
yesterday, to consent to the change of the
county line. They desire to be attached
again to Madison.
The Jackson Herald Ofthe 18th inst. saws:
4 sad accident occurred at Henderson
Station, Friday night last. The north
bound freight train on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, due at Henderson NJ s O'Clock p.
NJ, ran over and killed man by the name
of Robert Scott. We were informed that
he had been lying around drunk all day and
in that deplOrable condition he met an in
exorable fate.
The Jackson Herald saws: On the night
Of the 3lst of December, John II. Smith.
living near Miffiin, in Henderson county,
had several horses stolen from his premises.
The next morning having discovered that
his horses We're missing, he, in company
with several of his neighbOrS, Immediately
started in pursuit of the thieves. In the
meantime, three suspicious looking charac-
tiers went into Lexington, in the same
county where they were arrested and lodged
in jail. The prisoners after they had been
thoroughly examined, were then taken out
and requested to give information rs 10 the
whereabouts of the stolen property. After
certain preliminarieS. such as sham shoot
ing and hanging the frightened scanps ac-
knOwledged that they had committed the
theft and told where the horses could be
found. The names of the three captured
are, Chas. Ford, Geo. Schielter, and JnO
Moore, and they claim to be from Texas.
The EROrUdle Press and Herald gives
the following: The typical East Tennessee
an, wagoning his household effects to the
broad West, is 4 familiar portrait. But
yesterday, we saw another picture. A rug
ged, middle-aged farmer, from northern
Ohio, came cheerily into town, driving a
wagon to which were harneSsed two faded
horses and an extra third animal in front.
From under the taIpGulin covering peep
cd the faces of wife and children snusly
escOnced amid the household litter. Stop
ping at Spiro's bakery the farmer purchased
sixteen great loaves of bread, volunteering
the information that he was from northern
Ohio. "Up there" said he, '"twas only
five months between SHOWS" and tired of
so sterile a region and hearing of the won
derful climate of East Tennessee, he had
sold his farm, packed his family and house
hold goods into his team, and wagOned it
a distance of over six hundred miles to
Knoxville. His final destination was the
fertile Sweetwater valley.
A correspondent of the HdcCn (GdO
telegraph and Messenger writes in regard
to sOjourn in East Tennessee: eReyert
We 20 JacksbOrO' a moment. There -
sides Col. De Tavenernier, a PrU~.sia
gentleman who fought calamity N fin,
Union army in the late unplea santness.
| and at its close married a distinc ,,ebod IaJ,
of JacksbOro, Miss Sue Car ~ Rom il
JackSbOrO, a slave owner of an exceIlen
family, she had cOnsc' antiousIv onnose,
slavery, and exerted al her powers durin,
the great struggle on the Union side
always opposinF however, the crueltie
pTactlced IN u at hotly-contested region b,
the paTtlsall9. in arms on both sides. He
adventures. would fill a volume, and are 4
DE glVer. to the public in published mar
ratlye Some day. she is handsome, highl
Cultivated, progressive, with the highes
moral and physical courage, and is muc'
| given TO Independent thinking. She mus
take ra:lk ere long among the progressive
| yet Cautious, fem ale formers Of America"
A wASFHNTON ROMANCE.
| A baautifUil younc, widow aDDears i