Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-29
STATE NEWS.

/ WhOOpingcOugh is among the chill
dren in Brownsville, and it "makes
the little fellows whoOp."
/ Mr.. Nathaniel Baxter and Col. G. c..
/ Terbett, of Nashville, have declined
! being candidates for the Constitutional
/ Convention.
/ Mis- Jean Hosmer gives a perform
ance, tonight, at the Nashville Thea
ter, for the Confederate Cemetery,
near that city,
General John II. Meeks, Mr.. Hud-
/ dlestOn and Mr.. Pace, are spoken of
as candidates for the convention in
McNairy county.
One commission house in Knox
vile shipped, in two days OF last
! week, $4,000 pounds of dried fruit to
/ Western markets.
/ Major John II. Bills and Mr.. James
/ Fentres, of Hardeman county, have
/ been called upon to run for the Consti-
tutiOnal Convention.
.. Brownsville Female College has one
! hundred and sixteen students at pres
ent, and is in very flourishing con-
/ dition. Brownsville Male Academy
! has between ninety and one hundred
| students in attendance.
The residence of p. A. Lyon,
/ Rutherford county, was entirely de-
/ strOyed by fire on last Wednesday
night. The fire was evidently the
work of an incendiary, as this is the
second time it has been fired.
I
There have been so many accidents
! of late on the railroads leading into
! Knoxville, that it looks as if the con-
ductOrs and the landlords are s'in ca
! ho0t, as the latter are doing a driv-
ing business with the delayed passen-
| gers.
| EX-President johnson declines to be
candidate for delegate from Greene
county to the Constitutional Conven-
ton. This determination will be a
source of regret to thousands through
out the State, who earnestly desired
that the Convention should have the
benefit of his ripe experience and
powerful mind.
The UaioH and american saws the
medical department of the University
of Nashville, deservedly the most
popular institution of the kind in the
Southwest, and one of the best con-
Quoted in the land, has opened its
present session under the most favor
able and fiattering auspices, Most of
the States are represented by puDiIs.
The session of 1869-70 will witness no
less than $50 students in attendance
! receiving the benefits of this scientific
and useful institution.
On Tuesday morning last Albert
] Maxwell, living in the western portion
of Rutherford county, about II miles
! from MurfreesbOro, was killed by his
uncle, man named John Vaughan.
/ The difficulty is said to have Origina-
! ted about an account which Maxwell
had against Vaughan, though others
/ think there was some personal matter
unknown to the public, which caused
the murder. Vaughan fled after COM
mitting the deed, and nothing has
been heard from him since.
The Columbia Herald says: We
understand that there are three can
didates in Hickman county for dele
gate to the State COnvention-MaiOr
| Boiling Gordon, r. Lyles and w. NJ.
! Edwards. All of these gentlemen are
good men, and either of them would
truly represent the people of Hick-
man. Maj. Gordon was member of
/ the State Convention in 1891, and has
| been identified with State politics for
many years. He is a sound, constitu-
tional, State Rights man.
The Jackson Tribune, of Saturday,
says: "a bill has been introduced in
! the Legislature by Mr.. Warren, of
| McNairy, in which 1t is provided that
/ the people of McNairy NAV vote
upon a change of the county site from
Purdy to Bethel Springs. We sup
| pose a people already burdened with
! taxation and prostrated by four
| years war will be slow to add addi-
/ tiOnal burdens thereto. Purdy is
near the geographical center, and, we
! hope, will always continue the capi-
tOl of the county"
The House of Representatives yes
/ terday rejected the bill to modify the
usury laws. The vote stood ayes 81,
noes Al. We still cling to the idea
that money is worth no more than six
per cent. a year, notwithstanding it is
sold on the streets of this city, and
perhaps of every other city and large
town in the State, at from one to five
per cent. a month. The law forbids
such transactions, but it Is practically
q dead letter, except to the few, the
very few, who think that even an un-
reasonable law should be obeyed.
The Union and american of Satur-
day says: We observed several more
] droves Of fatted hogs on the Public