Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1875-12-23
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lgnTere will be n big deer hun
ia the hbuntains between Christ
! mas and New Years day.
Tue Tusculum Monthly uwil
very soon make its appearanee
Oee sije being already worked OF.
Several droves of mules from
Kentucky passed through this
comfy, Tor the South, the past
week.
sSENe pulpit OF the tuthersn
Church, pear Caney Branch, WIN
be occupied by Rev. Mr. Barb, un-
til after the holidays.
M. Jerome Gregg must accept
oar compliments for the ability
With which, he handled the sour
rency question on last Friday
night. Ae-was FIRST best.
The eleventh ANIMAL meeting
OF dhe State Teachers Association
VA be held asths Ogeaa House
Knoxville, ca the SSth FAST.
We learn that It is coutempla-
tedto putfon an extra force of
policemen Christmas. Possibly
Captain Mac is ssing 70 bag some
game from the Robbers Roost.
1t is with regret we learn that
that most estinabls lady sle
widow Of ex-President Johnson, is
seriously i'll at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs Patterson, at Home.
--ifyou don't want yoaF povl.
try to freeze their feet, give them
S~assafras roots to rest on. Cover
your hennery with the same kind
oftimber and the frost will not af
feet tseir combs.
We cAroicls this week tbs
sudden taking off, in n matrimonial
way, of n Greeneville typo. With
many wishes of a happy, prosper
n future, we subscribe ourselves.
Dick, yours most truly. yarlrgr-
Our thanks are due nIsma-Cn:
friends for news-letters from vari.
parts orthe county. When cor mt
,pieations 1f this nature are accept
ed and published expenses will al
ways.be refun ded on demand.
Mr.. Burnett of Cooke county
shipped a car load of cattle from
this place last week, to Baltimore
Mr.. B. accompanied the shipmen'
and will spend a few days at tn,
national capital ON his return.
That st. Louis prognosticator
Prof Tiee, is a fraud and a swindle
He said the last three days of las
week were to he warm and bright
and they turned out to be the cold
est and dreariest days of the yeal
1T is not customary to issue :
paper the week after Christmas
but we will next week publish {
half sheet. The boys have work
ed hard for the year past and theJ
must have a little lime for "somC
fun"
We have made arrangements
with a Mason of our town to edit {
Masonic column in the UNION AM
AMERICAN. 1t will contain cores
pondence from East Tennessee,
Lodges and information of impor
lance to Masons.
notwithstanding the closenes.
of money matters and the marc
times we are getting new subscri
oers every day from all direc
tions. Honest worth will Away
tell with people who earn thei
bread in the sweat of the brow.
Rev MI. Barb has a very pros
porous school ut Caney Branch
The attendance is large and regu
lar. There have been nearly onC
hundred and fifty scholars ever,
day for the past five months. Tn
school closes the session next Fri
day. .n
Now that fast mail bushes
is really a thing for u gloriou
bird of liberty to sereech himsel
hoarse over. BY its operations W,
are able to receive our New Yorl
and Washington mail via. Sal
Francisco in just one week or tel
days after publication.
"A laughable but annoyin.
error crept into u columns las
week, we speaking of "open house
being kept on Christmas, when
of course, it should have been OIL
New Years Day. Next week
paper will not be too late for tn.
list if it is desirable to publish it.
The country roads are in a des
picable condition. We would no
recommend that the overseers b
held to a strict account for thei
stewardship while the laws remain
as they The road laws SHOULD
be changed. Property should b
assessed proportionately with tn
polls. Then, and not till then, Cal
We look to have good roads.
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