Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-10
TENNESSEE NEWS.

of May.
Chattanooga has an ice mandatory il
full operation, and is furnishing ice at 81
per ton.
The residence Of Mat Pearson, in Lin
coin county, vas destroyed by fire few
days ago.
| Capt Jares Stewart, of Wayland Springs
was killed at that place a short time ago
| by Fayette and Ben Pierce.
One firm at Charleston, little town on
the Hiwassee, has been shipping 800 dOzeI
! eggs per week for some time past.
The smOke-house of Sheriff Ransom, o.
Rutherford county, was robbed few nights
| ago Of quantity Of meat, lard and flour.
There was shipped from MurfreesborC
| during the month Of March seventy-fge car
loads Of lumber, amounting to $4,000 feet.
The residence Of VIM. Massey, of Car
roll county, was destroyed by fire a few
days ago. he saved most of his household
effects.
Rev. W. d. POyner, of Henry county,
has lost four hOlses and one mule within
the last two months, supposed from blind
staggers.
Seventeen Morristown ladies challenged
an equal number of gentlemen to spelling
match for the benefit of the Baptist Church.
The challenge was accepted.
An old man named VIM. Bland was
found dead in the road in Lincoln county
lew days ago. Apoplexy is thought 10
have been the cause of his death.
The wooden mills al Fayetteville con-
snmed 30,524 pounds Of wool and S14 of
cotton last year, and manufactured Il. 937
yards of different kinds of cloth.
The MurfreeSbOrO NelcS states that there
is not cent Of money in the Rutherford
county Treasury. This is due to the re-
ductiOn Of taxation and pOstponement of
collections.
A child Of Jack Lancy was drowned in
the Watsuga river near Carriers Depot, a
few days ago, by the upsetting of a canoe
in which the father and child and a neigh-
bOr were crossing.
The Chattanooga Times says: Mr..
Thomas Mcfarland, who lives near Ross
vile, lost seventeen out Of flock Of twenty
sheep Monday night by dogs. He is in
favor Of the dog law.
The GGllGtiH Examiner reports the
burning recently Of the residences Of DIR.
Talbot Wilkes, Richard Pond and Peter
Lewis, in sumner county, and Vim. Saw
yers, in the edge of Robertson.
VIM. Couch, a wagner, was found dead
in the road near Knoxville, a few DAYS ago.
Two cOlOTed men who were at work close
by saw him fall from his wagon, but he was
dead when they reached hime
The GreeReCiHe american SAYS: Greene
vile will soon be the literary centre of the
South if papers increase as rapidly as they
have in the last Two years. -Four Weeklies,
one semi-mOnthly, and one monthly are
now publishe here.
The Kingston East TenReSseedR saws:
Some uneasineSs is OccasiOned by the pres
ence=of unusual numbers Of grasshoppers
in portions Of ROane county, and appre-
tensions entertained that our section will
be oveTun with them during the coming
summer.
The JOBesbor0 journal SAYS: During the
past week we have had an opportunity Of
talking to quite a number Of citizens from
Flag Pond and Greasy Cove in regard to
the proposed new county Of Unicoi. With
few exceptions they are enthusiastic advO-
Gates Of the measure.
The Chattanooga Commercial says:
Some of our country friends feel terribly
outraged at the passage Of the dog law.
There was talk Of having the County
Court add a dollar for county purposes to
the dollar imposed by the State, but the
'Squires did not have nerve to face the
music and the tax was not levied.
The Paris IBfeilisfncer learns that Mr..
Elisha PASCAL, OF Henry county, having
failed to secure tobacco plants last wear,
planted his tobacco land in corn. After
selling $500 worth Of com. he has one hun
dred barrels left-wOrth now $3.50. a
good feature about this matter is that Mr..
p. and his children made this crop with |
very little help.
The GresneCile Agericda says: 4 GER
tain country lady is very proud of the in |
-elligence OF her dog. She and number |
n la'lies were discussing the dog law. when 1
she turned TO her dog Badger and told him /
th5t'he must pay his ewn tax. That night 4
Badger caught and brought home q fox |
which had been doing considerable mis- |
chief in the neighbOrhOod, thus paying in /
part his tax.
Some specimens of hail which fell in the !
Norris Creek district in Lincoln county, on |
the 18th Of March, were picked up on the /
}d inst, and exhibited in Fayetteville that /
day. The OJSerUC. says: ''SOme stones
lue yet half as large as hens egg, and
masses formed by hail freezing together are
i've inches in diameter. L will be a month
1et, probably, before the drifts entirely
Iisappear."
The JOHes5Or0 JoiTnaI says: In 1864,
George Galloway, then a Confederate
soldier, was shot in the eve, othe ball tear
w out his eye and passing into the back
part Of bis head. u learn from the Bris-
.OL NelrS that Mr.. Galloway recently ex-
racted the ball from the rOofof his mouth,
aud nov carries the troublesome souvenir
IN his pocket. Mr.. Galloway is well !
Known to most Of the citizens in the north
IN pant Of Washington county.
The Bristol NeJrS says: Mr.. V. r. SimpH
on one Of cur most enterprising and sue
,essful tobacco growers, has Just made a
ale Of his last years crop, eat the round
igure Of fifteen hundred and ten dollars,
ash. The prices realized, were from 50. %
II the way up to 500 per hundred pounds.
We note as pounds at $50 per hundred.
The whole number of pounds was 6,455, l.
md The average price obtained in Lynch
'Uirgs was TWEEN. y-thgee and a quarter cents
,eT pound. ID
The GdJgtfa Esrdsuiner says: There; is
opposition to- the dog law
lassed BY the late General Assembly, and
IS enforcement wills create a stir in some
,OftiOQs Of the CoUutry-anda this, in view
If the fact that last year, according to the
epOrt Of the Department Of Agriculture,
100 sheep were killed by dogs in Sumner
,Ounty which Fe-e reported, which does
rot represent the full number by a
per cent. Lord DOG is an
.utOCrat in Sumner.
The parties who are engaged in opening
ne coal mines at Smiths Y Roads. in Rhea
Oupty, says the Chattanooga Commercial.
AVE carried the tunnel about 100 yards
ntOs;he mOuntains' Coal, said to be Of the |
NEST quality, and varying in thickness
rom eighteen inches 70 more than four
eet, las been struck, although the main
,oItiOno Of the mountain has not been
cached. The tunnel il, being opened assi
n outlet for the mines and no coal has been !
yet for Use.
o \ fire originated in the ceiling Of the =,
econd story of thes jail at Greeneville a
sw nights ago, and in consequence of the
amporaTy absence Of the taller, it
-as some minutes before the dOorsi
-ere opened and the single prisoner
Tho was al The time Gagged on the second
DOR got out Of the building. He was
making a lively outCTy, screaming, "FOr
he Lords sake let me out; I'm burning TO
cath - His cries almost phrenzied tie
rOwd outside, and when the doors were
nally opened, be was found unframed ,
utyery aluch frightened. The fire was
con eKtiuguiEhed. ;