Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-04
STATE NEWS.

The annual exercises Of Spring Hill
Academy viii take place on Monday and
Tuesday, 9Th and 9th of July.
Col. John Williams is in Washing
ton City, in company with ex-President
Johnson.
Hon. John TrimbIe, of Nashville,
declines the nomination. for the state
Senate.
The house and furniture of a Mr..
Vaughn, living in the 9th dist let of Henry
county, was entirely dest~ .ged by fire a
few nights since.
On Thursday night, says the Paris
| I-HfeIIigeRcer, quite severe shock of an
earthquake passed through this section
no damage.
The Richland Cotton Mill, at Pu-
laski, Tenn, owned by Samuel Orr, has
| 1900 spindles and A looms. It turns out
heavy ~sheetings.
We have been presented, says the
Paris T-pteUigeHceT, by Mr.. Cornelius Pc
den, Of town, with a part of the press
/ owned and used by Gen. ZOllicofier many
wears since in our town. 1t is also the
first printing press eYerused in Nashville.
The Jackson Hest Tennessee Wig
saws: - A new depot building for the
Mississippi Central Railroad is soon to be
erected just north of the Mobile and Ohio
depot building, in this city. The two de-
pots wiz be connected by a covered plat
form, sixty feet wide.
The Paris BlteUigeReer of yesterday
SAYS: The whole community are sincerely
grieved at the death of RObt. L. Travis,
one Of the oldest as well as one of the best
citizens of this county. He died on Sun
day last. His funeral was appropriately
celebrated on Monday by the Masonic
fraternity. of which orderhe was a shining
light.
The liquor dealers of Nashville are
considerably exercised on the subject Of
heavy taxes, and have held meetings to
devise means TO break down what they
term e%xorbitant rates. One o fthe resolu-
tiOns adopted at their meeting recon-
mends liquor dealers throughout the
State to use their influence to elect men
to the Legislature who will favor the re-
peal of such obnoxious laws.
There are two mills at Gallatin,
Tenn. one cotton and one wooden. The
Eagle Wooden Mil is a new building with
new machinery, and turns out about 225
yards Of jeans and linseys per day. H.
Fitzgerald Il Co.'S cotton mill has 400
spindles and 81 looms, which are used in
the manufacture of OsnaburgS, Sheetings
and cotton yarns.
There are hive cotton and one
wooden mills in Lawrence county. Tenn.
as follows: Crescent Mills. Lawrence
burg, which run 200 spindles and -
looms on yarEs and sheetings; Laurel
Hill Cotton Mills, LawrencebUrg, sheet
ing, 1000 spindlcs and 80 looms; Hope
Cotton Mills, Lawrenceburg. warns, 1000
spindles; Shoal Cotton Mills, Lawrence
burg, yarns, $50 spindles; Eagle Cotton
Mills, Lawrenceburg yarns, 400 spindles;
O. A. Williams WOODEN mill, Marcella
Falls, jeans, linsev. etc.
The Nashville Press and Times of
Friday says; The quiet that has prevailed
in Nashville municipal affairs for a few
days was merely the lull which preceded
the storm. As will be seen by reference
TO our local column, a notice was served
upon A. :. COlyar yesterday by the at
torney for the city Of Nashville. that mo-
tiOns viii be made next Wednesday, be-
fore the Chancery Court, to dissolve the
iniunctiO nagainst the city authorities and
to remOve the Receiver. We trust the
whole subject of judicial authority in such
eases viii be thoroughly argued, and we
little doubt it viii be, as able counsel are
engaged upon both sides.