Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-11
TENNESSEE NEWS.

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son, up to Saturday-515,9 ,937 bales.
The Commercial has the impudence to
call the climate Of attanoOga-'ItaliaD.n
Twenty-seven lawyers have died in Mem
phis since 1870. Not Of starvation, we
hope.
Memphis is making extensive prepara-
tions 10 celebrate the MeCklenburg Cen
tennial.
GreeneYille ezUlts over several new
buildings in course Of erection, despite the
hard times.
Caterpillars are doing a great deal Of
damage to the fruit trees in upper East
Tennessee.
One hundred and four citizens of Mem
phis and vicinity are at present quartered
in the Shelby county Jail.
Vice President Wilson saw a Mississippi
river steamboat for the first time on Sat-
urday, when he inspected the Thompson
Dean.
Mrs. Young, a widow residing nine miles
southwest Of Woodbury., committed suicide
a few days ago by hanging herself. No
cause assigned.
Ten or twelve COWS have been killed by
thieves, in the suburbs of Knoxville, re-
Gently, for their hides. None Of the meat
was taken away.
A red hot controversy is going on be-
tween correspondents of the Chattanooga
Commercial, as to whether Jew can be-
come a Knight Templar.
The military spirit has fired the Knox
vile heart. Calls are published for meet
iugs to organize two more companies. Fif-
tv-fOur uniforms have been ordered by the
Dickinson Rifles.
The cadets of the East Tennesse Univer-
sity are in a pOUt because the uniform Of
the Knoxville police So closely resembles
their own that it is almost impossible to tell
it'Other from which"
Moscow and Lagrange are represented
as being "WiId with enthusiasm" over the
prospective establishment Of the new cOUn-
tv Of Bell. Three-fOuTths Of the citizens
interested favor the project.
ChattanOOga's cOlOTed hook and ladder
company has received a new truck, which
is so arranged that by turning crank the
ladders are shot upward to a height Of
seveuty-fve feet, and are so placed that
they stand upright. Thus the ladders do
not touch the burning building.
The cosmopolitan character Of American
citizenship was illustrated by the four gen
tlemen who occupied the first car
riage. at Vice President Wilson's reception
I'm Memphis. The Vice President vas
born in Massachusetts, Mr.. T. 5. Davis in
Vermont. Alderman Hillsman in Tennes-
see and Mayor League in Londonderry,
Ireland.
Wayne furnace has ceased operations on
account of the low price Of iron. The
Wdy1e County Citizen says: at cost about
S. a ton TO deliver iron at Cincinnati, and
at present prices the company was losing
money every day they operated the furnace.
Last wear these works were assessed. for
taxes at $4,000, and paid out to employees
over s., 100 per week, besides distributing
thousands of dollars through our county,
and giving employment to about two hun
dred hands,
HThere is a sanguinary sUggestiveness IN
this paragraph from the Memphis AUa-
Iqacbe. "HOn. J. B. MCCreary'5 nOmina-
ton for Governor Of Kentucky will leave
Gen. CerrO GOrdO Williams and Col. StOd-
dard Johnson free to settle those little diff
ferences engendered by the late campaign,
without fear of being rendered ineligible
under the code. The stump speeches and
the printed cards, if carefully utilized, will
furnish enough business to enrich a half
dozen corners
The Vest Tennessee Journal predicts that
the Democratic party, in the next great
national contest, may rest assured or a
grand triumph under its broad banner.
Nothing is necessary but union and com
pgctness Of organization in order to reach
the overthrow of Radicalism and the re-
demption Of tho country. We stand firm,
saws the Journal and mistaken for the
only marty organization that makes war on
Ranublican unrepublicanism and bOasting
and blatant corruption
Knox county Is in a great worry as to
What she shall do about replacing the big
bridge that was recently blown away. A
arromineut citizen suggests, through the
press and Herald, that the county purchase
the Knoxville and Charleston Railroad,
which can be bought for $4,000 or SlOO,0OO
and. using the timbers saved from the
debris Of the Gay street structure, erect
wagon and foot way on the Knoxville and
Charleston bridge which spans the Ten
messed. making a toll bridge. He argues
That the reaaipts from tolls would thus be
made TO pay the interest on the investment
i'm the road and cost Of additions to the
bridge. Then, within Eve Oh ten years,
narties desiring to complete the Knoxville
and Charleston Road southwark, would,
doubtless. purchase the road at large 2d-
vance over ths purchase money, when the
county could replace the bridge over the
Tennessee at Gay street. To the average
KnOxvillian this scheme will doubtless be
suggestive of too long an interval between
drinks.