Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-22
STATE NEHS.

Ex-President johnson has gone
home TO G~reenville.
The Columbia, Maury county Athe-
neum has opened with a larger number
of pupils than ever before.
A Nashville correspondent of the
Clarksville Chronicle recommends Capt.
Frank Hyberger for State Treasurer.
The number ofmatriculates entered
at the East Tennessee University up to
last Saturday night, was about n hun
dred.
The Nashville papers fairly enough
go into e~cstacies over IA Maxwell House,
which was lighted up on Saturday night.
II attracted a large number of ladies and
gentlemen, who took the opportunity to
inspect the house.
The Pulaski Citizen of Saturday
saws: Col. John Ballentine, while driving
"a young horse in a sulky out on the Park
last Saturday, ran against a wagon, up
setting The sulky and throwing The Colo
mel violently to the ground. He was con-
siderably bruised, and il is thought his
collar bone is slightly fractured. we are
happy to announce that he is doing well.
The Nashville Press and Times of
Monday saws: Detectives Starkey and
Funston last night arrested a negro
named Jim Thomas, alias Webster, alias
sam Scott, upon information furnished
bv a gentleman from Columbia, who is
chargedwith shooting a white man named
Chadman week ago last Saturday, and
who died last Thursday.
The Columbia Herald and Register
a v that, owing to the scarcity of corn
in the eastern part of Maury county,
many of the large farmers and stOck-rais-
ers up there are carrying their pork hogs
to Hickman to get them fsttened, corn be-
ing two dollars per barrel down there
only. Some contracts have been made to
feed hogs at two dollars per head a month.
Capt. j. C. French, of cambridge,
arrived in the city yesterday, says the
Nashville Press and Times, of Monday,
in charge of Wiley and Emerson Gilmore,
against whom a true bill has been fOund
for the killing of man named Northern,
and wOunding the father of Northern, AT
New Market, jefferson county, about
twelve months since.
There is on the farm of Mr.. Peter NJ.
Reeves, in Washington county, Tonnes
see, an apple tree, from which there was
gathered in one year the yield Of
ninety bushels, se~VentN-tive of which were
picked off the tree and put away for use,
and fifteen gathered ON the ground for
cider. The apples are of excellent quality
and medium size.
About a month since Buster"
Henry, the Commissioner Of Registration
Of BlOunt county. forwarded by mail the
election returns of the county 20 the Office
Of the Secretary of State. BY some over
sight on the part of some one unknown,
the official report of Blount comfy did
not reach the Secretary. The latter has
written a letter 10 Buster" at Marvs-
vile, making the inquiry Have we a
Blount cOunty2"f
A letter from Berlin, Marshall cOun-
ty, says: " oar corn and cotton crops are
very materially injured by the drouth,
which continued for a considerable time.
IL is now supposed that there will not be
more than hall a crop of corn and cotton
gathered. The wheat crop was more than
am average one, and from theamOunt sown,
we nave more than is necessary for home
consumption. The oat crop was never
finer than il wa this season.
A knoxville paper of Saturday
says: Sixteen car loads of Texas cattle,
belonging TO a Mr.. Eddings, arrived yes
terday morning from Memphis on their
way to the East. 1t was the intention of
the owner to Craze and water them on the
commons, but upon complaint of James
H. Armstrong, Esq, Mayor Bearden
promptly interfered and prevented their
removal from the depot grounds. Ever
since last February, when a lot of Texas
cattle were permitted to Craze in Mr..
Armstrong; neighborhood, a strange dis
ease has been prevailing among the cattle
and q great many have died.