Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-01
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A pork house is to be opened at
Clarksville, Tenn.
Wheat was quoted at 81 per bushel
at Lebanon last week.
The rush of freight over the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad still con-
tinues.
A bill authorizing appeals from the
decisions of Mayors and Recorders,
has passed.
A. C. Pearn, of Milan. raised a calf
six months old weighing over four
hundred pounds.
The Clarksville papers have seen
Norway oats which yielded from 100
to 400 bushels per acre.
The law regulating the legal adver-
tising has passed both Houses of the
Legislature and is now law.
The Chaneery Division, composed
Of the counties of Madison, Dyer,
Gibson and Haywood, is to be abOl-
ished.
The Comptroller of the State, in his
report to the Legislature, puts down
the total debt Of the State at $50, ,264,
244 50.
Mr.. Wm. May. who lives on the
head waters of Egnew's creek, in
Giles county, is I03y years old, and still
hale and hearty.
The Murfreesboro Monitor is decid-
edIy opposed 10 the proposition to con-
vert the Legislature into a Constitu-
tiORal Convention.
The Maxwell House has become the
grand rendezvous of Nashville.
The Office, billiard-roOms and bar
present a lively appearance at night.
Parties interested appear to be con-
testing the removal Of the Supreme
Court from Brownsville to Jackson,
and there seems to be some delay in
reaching a final vote.
The hardware house of Craighead.
Breast & Gibson, at Nashville, has
lust put in operation the first machin-
cry ever erected in Tennessee for the
manufacture Of ak handles.
A bill Is pending to abolish the
County Commissioners of Madison
county. An exactly similar bill for
Shelby county has already passed,
and this one viii evidently follow.
The merchants tax bill meets with
strong opposition from the agricultu-
raj interests, and will not be pressed
until the subject has been more thor
oughly canvassed.
,,-,,,osiffo,, hos baa,, e,,g,7,,f+fo1
10 tlIA effect that all male citizens, not
convicted of infamous crime shall be
permitted to vote on the matter Of
calling a State Convention, and for
delegates.
The Radicals made a good point on
their party on Friday last. by electing
20 the United States Senate the Judge
who decided their State Government,
Legislature, and its fraachise law, ju-
dietary and all bogus.
4 gentleman just from Campbell
and Claiborne counties, informs us
that a very large breadth of wheat
has been s0wn, some Of which is now
up and iHUks as green as meadow
grass. Without an unprecedently Sc
we're winter, an extraordinary crop
will be made.
The Columbia Herald says:, Mr..
James Beckett brought into our Office
the other day a gOOber vine which
had $50 gOOber peas, nearly all of them
quite large. He covered up the vine
when it was quite small, and the re-
suit is $50 gOObers. Can Georgia or
Hickman county beat it? We trust
our readers viii not infer from this
that the BigbyVille country is all Door
land, because we can prove by Capt.
Tom. p that it is a land flowing
with milk and honey.
The Gallatin Examiner says: 20 More !
houses have been built in Gallatin 1
within the last two years than in the |
twenty previous. The builders have |
twenty-five now under contract. We .
hear OF a general shooting "scrim- /
mage" at old Mitchelyille, in this .
county, last Saturday, but have been .
unable to obtain reliable particulars. .
The rumOr Is that four persons were
shot, and one OF them, Groves, dan
gerously IN the head and body. We .
suppose taBEle-fOOt whisky to have .
been at the bottom Of the row."
Last Wednesday, the wife of Joseph .
Whitley, who lives eight miles east Of |
COvingtOn, while standing near the |
fire, was seized with vertigo and fell .
into the fire in an unconscious state. /
There being no one present, the bal
ance of the family having gone to
bury a child of Mr.. and Mrs. Whitley,
the poor lady lay in the fire until her
face, neck and arms were almost
charred by the flames; her eyes were
entirely destroyed, yet, strange to say,
she was, up 10 Friday, still alive and
conscious, though suffering the most
eXcTuci8ting pain from her burns.
Very little nope is entertained Of her
1t seems TO be q foregone conclusion
in upper East Tennessee that ROder-
ick Random Butler must yield his
seat in Congress to some more accept
able Representative. We notice, with
pleasure, that several of the journals
Of the First District have spoken, in
words Of strong cOmmendatiOn, in be-
half OF Hon. James White, OF Haw-
kins county, rs their choice for the
position. The people of the First
District would honor themselves by
sIecting Col. White. Hawkins county
is well represented in the Legislature
by Col White, who is regarded as one
nf the most talented young members
Of that body. As a Representative in
Congress, he would do credit to East
Tennessee, and the Eastern Division
sadly needs a creditabIe representa-
Tive in the National Legislature.
Hon. D. c. Atkins says: The Rev.
DR.. Munsey has been preaching in
Nashville for a week or two past. We
regret that We failed 10 hear him. He
was listened to by a very large and in
Lelligent audience at the M'kendree
Church on sabbath before last, some
Of whom were themselves very emin-
ant men-statcsmen and diyines-and
al felt themselves instructed, delight
ed, astonished. Munsey is a native of
East Tennessee or Western North
Carolina, OF very obscure parentage,
without endowment or patronage sur
icient to secure him while a youth
ayeli moderate education. But he
has taught himself and can now teach
he teachers. He was considered
Jy, his BeighbOrs and relations
4hfn he began 10 preach among
lin ana 70 spar lutO tHe
seventh heaven in his intellectual
Fights, to be a crazy man. He re-
moved to the city ofBaltimOre, where
he has been preaching for several
years, and now finds himself famous.
he has been offered his expenses and
twenty-five thousand dollars per
lnnum to remove 10 London and
make il his future home. He declines
- make merchandise of his rare gifts.
1t Is getting time that some one should
Use up in the Ministry, and in poll
ics, above the sad mediOcrity of this
sge. Munsey may startle the world
81 original thought; it needs awaken
NJ from IFS growing materialism.
Advancement Ia materialism is its
present fault; there Is not enough Of
he immaterial.
Grand Lodge of Georgia.