Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-22
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Inc OdELld96uldlS nave no uIluhlIlg
saloon.
a County Grange is to be organized at
Pulaski next Tuesday.
The ladies and gentlemen Of Franklin
have organized a reading club.
A commandery o. Knights TemplaT, No.
10, has been organized a. Paris.
The clip of wool is unusually fine in
Washington county, this spring.
The Lincoln county Patrons met Thurs
day, to organize a county grange.
1t costs $500 every month to pay of the
members Of the Memphis City Council.
Williamson cOunty's Oldest inhabitants
are-JOhn Griggs, 81; Byrd Hamlet, 81;
Asa Harper 100.
A negro murderer has been convicted in
the Circuit Court at Huntington and
sentenced to be hanged,
The Memphis Ledger says that the cater
pillar and grasshOppeT have made their ap-
pesranoa in the suburbs Of that city.
True bills have been found against the
four men concerned in the murder If
Koran, in Benton county, some weeks
ago.
Whittle and Bliss are not attracting as
large audiences in Memphis Is they did
here. They have tougher material to work
upon.
The residence Of Mr.. Noble Ellis, near
Triune, Williamson county, was fred by
an incendiary, last week, and burned to
the ground.
Hon. n. P. Banks, Of Massachusetts,
will deliver an Grafton in Memphis, before
the Masonic societies, on -. Johns day,
the oath Of June.
A calf recently born on the farm Of ".
Y. Moore, on Norris creek, Lincoln county,
weighed eighty-ti'e pounds the following
morning. 1t was OF the Durham breed.
Two lawyers who had a fight in the
court room AT Clinton Wednesday, during
1he trial of a case in which they represent
ed opposite sides, were fined 50 each by
the judge.
The American Newspaper Reporter has
cOmplimented the artistic iOb-wOrk done in
the Winchester Home journal Office, and
Skaters big heart swelled proudly within
his manly bosom.
Giles county suffered badly from grass
hOppers last year, and her farmers read
with no little uneasiness about the deyas-
tatiOn in the West and the steady move
ment Of the destrOyers Eastward.
In the suit recently decided at Fayette-
vile, between Moore and Lincoln counties,
the former was taxed with the costs and
required to pay back 70 Lincoln county all
taxes collected in the disputed territory.
It is now evident that the Legislature
baTked up the wrong tree when il passed
the dog law. Not a man in The country
districts who voted for 10 can be reelected,
unless pledged TO IFS repeal.
There are eighty-One pistol cases on the
docket Of the court now sitting at Pulaski.
Life would be safer in Tennessee if those
who carry concealed weapons were prose
Cuted with equal yigOr in the other counties.
Those who intend going TO Beersheoa
This season will be glad to learn that the
road between there and McMinDvilie is be-
ING put in tiTst-claSs order, so that the drive
will be al easy one Of not more than three
hours.
The SprinufeId Record now devOtCs a
portion Of its fourth page TO a department
for the young folks, under the tiueOf The
Ball, Rope and Hoop" 1t is admirably
conducted by a lady, whose nom ne plume
is cousin Holly
John J.. Lancaster, q venerable citizen OF
Jackson and a prominent COTTON merchant,
died p his residence on Tuesday last
making the fifth among the old and inhu-
ential men of Jackson who have died
within the last four months.
The NcMiRRUdlc Nor Era CoTects the
general impression that the dog tax col
lected by each county goes into the county
- treasury for school purposes. such is not
the case. as the revenue collected from that
source goes into the State treasury, and Is
collected and paid over by collectors rs 9th
er Ievenue.
The Patrons of johnson, Carter Sulli-
van. Washington. Greene aud Hawkins
counties, at JonesborO. last Tuesday, de-
zeTmiued TO establish q Grange manutlctO-
" AZ TeIford's Station. aud invest $4,000
in the enterprise. Samuel heebiar, OF
Greene. was elected Pres ideut of the Board
of MANAGERS,
Sarcasticaiv inquiries tie PU'aS5i Cit
zen. sis II a Joke upon our Bar, a slam on
OIr Governor OF people, or an honor 20 20
luuobia. chat no office can be filed for Tins
mart of the legal vineyard by any man out
side Of that intellectual city? Let Us 90 10
the next time we have q chance, ana either
sbuck some Of the corn or eat none Of the
bread
Although GalIaiiu had no formal cele-
braiiou of the Centennial Of MecHienOuEE,
the Examiner saws social circles were en-
liveuaB by two marriage ceremonies, as
5oIlovs. st the Presbyterian Church by
Rev. W. NJ. Green. Of Nashville, Dr. Alex
y Ws.erfeld, NJ. D.. of Mckenzie, II
Miss Bette A. BoXley, Of G3llaJln. A
The residence Of Judge Wm. Dudd, by Rev
Mr.. Arbuthnot, Charles b. Moore, OF Ne
kinney. Texas. to Miss Mary Ann Dodd.
Every once in a while, an editor has
small wind fan in his business. Ih'
CTersIUHd Banner says cheeIiulIy. "Ohl
day last week We had one in the shape
$40 for subscriptions SO Ona poS.-oihce
Orllv a few wees ago wa received Sd al
the ss,0e office subscriptions. That j
some encouragement to keep us peEgin.
awav. I'm fhrsa hand times. As long as VI
meet with success lie this We never in
tend TO give up tie ship. No. much W,
don't
The Memphis ACulmcbc gives an &C
count Of a sensational scene that oocurrel
at the landing, near the departing hour o