Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-02-28
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Fayetteville is to have new large Touring
mills.
A new Methodist church is being erected
in Jasper.
Calvin Parker, died in Bradley county,
Feb. 22d.
The Kingston revival continues with I'M
abated interest.
A saloon keeper of Columbia has been
admonisied by letter.
The ladies Of Pulaski are to give con-
Get for the benefit of the Lyceum.
Pulaski and Brownsville are in dispute
as to which has the finest bank building.
Married Feb. "A, Mr.. Vim. Wendell and
Miss Nellie L. Hord, of Rutherford county.
ID. G. BOwan, a Justice of the Peace Of
Bradley county, died the 10th of February.
Rev. James Miller, of johnson City,
East Tennessee, died on the 18th of Feb.
1874.
The CIerelGnd Republican says: James
COwan, a citizen Of Cleveland, died Feb.
-, 1874, Of consumption.
Jackson had afour hundred fight Feb.
%, in which crockery was thrown about
promiscuOusly and a Mr.. Cain badly
scratched.
George NJ. Roach and Miss W. E. Hen
ley, and Mr.. J. T. Graves and Miss Katie
Roach, were married in Fayette county
Feb. 10.
At a wedding in Manchester recently
some malicious chaps turned loose and
drove away several horses, which guests
had left h.tched outside.
The house of j. h. Ernzy, of Coffee
county, was robbed by burglars Of about
$1,000 Of notes of hand and greenbacks on
the I'D of February.
Mr.. John Pearce, an old and respectable
citizen of Cleveland, died suddenly on
Thursday morning, 18th of February, of
congestion Of the lungs, in the GSth year of
his age.
The Jasper Herald of Feb. 20 says: The
interest in the Temperance cause is on the
increase in Jasper as well as other places.
There were twelve persons initiated into
the Good Templar's Lodge last Tuesday
night.
The MlrfTeeSbOrO Monitor Of Feb. 20,
saws: The excitement about the young lady,
Miss Carroll, living near Christiana, who
is reported to have a reptile in her stomach,
has by no means abated, as an average of
one hundred people visit her weekly.
The Columbia Herald observes that
young negro man died near WillianspOrt
ullutT SlEdLlAt CLCuulSldllltc. III llAC NillAt
of his death his feet were quite putrescent.
He had been laboring under a delusion
that men were pursuing him for his life
and had run bare-footed over the rocks
which gashed his feet badly.
The Fayetteville Express has the follow
ing: Wiley TOlley, the negro man who
made the murderOus attack upon Hon. w.
p. FOLEY a few months ago, has been ex-
a
his confinement in the Jail at this place.
For days al a time he refused TO touch
food, until the jailor, Mr.. Wilson, finding
that pursuasiOn was of no avail, used force
and compelled him TO eat.
The KHOLuWe Press and Herald of Feb.
26 SAYS: A noted saloon keeper of Knox
vile, apprehenSive of awOmen's whisky war
in this city, declines to renew his license,
and is therefore unable to supply his thirsty
patrons with liquor. The revival meetings
have given so many needless men serious
subject for thought, that the saloon keepers
all complain that the church services are
more efIectual in depriving them of bust
ness than a wOman's crusade could posi-
bly, be.
The Fayetteville Observer grabbles up
| the following: In the minutes of the
County Court, of 1910, we find the follow
ing, signed by Thomas II. Benton, Clerk.
Ordered that the tavern keepers of Lincoln
county be permitted to charge the following
rates and no more:
For half pint good whisky. u &c
do do peach brandy. 12ac
do do Jamaica rum, .........25 c
| For lodging. ................... O4c
The PuldSLi Citizen of Feb. 26, says:
| The body of an infant was found in the
edge of the creek just above the bridge last
| Thursday evening. Esq. Alexander i'm
mediately empannelled a jury and held an
| inquest upon the body, the jury returning a
verdict in substance as follows: The de-
| ceased was a white male child, about As
! hours old, and came to its death by having
| its mouth stuffed with cotton and its lungs
compressed, the marks of fingers upon its
breast bein. plainly visible. No clue TO
the mother of the child or the peTpetratOr
| of the foul murder has been discovered.
The SOmerriYe Falcon, of the 18th OF
| February, says: We had the extraordinary
pleasure of attendingthe fiftieth anniversary
] If the wedding of Mr.. J. G. Robertson and
lady, which occurred Thursday, the 18th
| inst. The former is seventy-five years OF
age and the latter sixty-eight. All OF then
children, seven in number, were present.
Seventeen grandchildren were present and
seven absent-twenty-fOur in all. One
| great grandchlld, three sons-in-law, one
! daughter-in-law and one grandson-in-law
were also present. One hundred and sew
| enty-five persons, outside Of the family
participated in the festivities. "AarOn,
! an old servant who witnessed the marriage
of the happy couple fifty years ago, was also
! nrasnnt 10 once more offer his cOmgratula.