Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-24
STATE NEWS.

Receipts of wheat in Nashville con-
tinue very heavy.
There are said to be 500 candidates
for Office in this State.
a Hibernian Society has been sue
cessfully organized in Nashville.
Thirty-nine journalists were arrest
ed in Paris on the 18th of June.
The Banner says there are 29O white
and A colored Iunatics at the Tennessee
Asylum for the insane.
Reports state that public schools
viii be quite extensively opened through
out the State next September.
The great Peace Jubilee which is
being organized by Prof. DeCastro will
come off in this city in September.
The Nashville papers are in costa
cies over the Sunday school children's
concerts. They were a grand success.
The Knoxville Wing V We
learn that the Gas Works in this city were
sold TO a Northern company for $4,000.
The Banner says the jackson Mills,
in South Nashville, is turning out 26S
barrels Of Hour in twenty-four hours.
James B. Buckner, of the firm of
Gordon, Buckner & Co., of Nashville.
died in that city IN Wednesday morning.
Mr.. John Slack, editor ofthe Greene
vile Union, announces himself a candi-
date to represent Sullivan county in the
next Legislature.
Maj. ID. A. Carpenter, who was a
candidate for Representative from Knox
county, has Withdrawn in favor of Col.
John n. Fleming.
Large deposits of fine marble have
been discovered on the land of DIR. c. t.
p. Jarnagin, two miles east of Messy
Creek, on the East Tennessee and Fir-
ginia Railroad.
The Nashville Union and American
of Thursday says j. Z. Rust, State Treas
urer, has gone to Cincinnati on business
connected with the Tennessee National
Bank at Memphis.
There is great excitement in a eer-
tain church in Nashville, over a domestic
scene in the family Of the pastor, in which
the reverend gentleman whipped his
grown daughter severely.
Judge Cary, of Nashville. a Radical
Judge at that, has issued a mandamus To |
compel the Comptroller to paw the salary
o. chancellor Barry during the time the
OHlce was usuTped by Lauke.
The Southwest Railroad. of whieh
senator Parker was President, having
ISlled 70 meet the July interest, was
paced IN The hands of Major Johnson as
hecelVor, by the Governor on Tuesday.
Mr.. Il. 2. Eaton, the Senator from
hhOA ana Roane IN the last Legislature
y q candidate for reelection. and favors
the calling OF a convention in which tho
people shall settle the franchise question
Dr. Thornburg, General Suroeon ofI
Inc Militia, returned to Nashville on
Thursday from East Tennessee ana "a
ports h canvass between Iegislatfve
as lively, and says thai Fast
tennessee viii give SeDter a handsome
majority.
The Bos1aer understands that a Mr..
aerr, at present s%ojourning at Dover.
county, intends to purchase leo. Ha6 /
acres Of land in Middle Tennessee an
which to settle 900 families Of Swiss an
migrants between this time and the FIRST
Of next January.
During the last scholastic a 4hara !
we're seventy schools, ~fftv.one white and ]
colored, in operation in Bedfofd 1
Three school houses were burn- T,
d by men in disguise-The amount Of !
unds drawn from the State WAS SI5.I5S "a
including the salary Of the County Su- .
,~erintendent. z
The Press and Times, Of Nashville i
avs: In such counties as the Democrats [
o not intend to make a fight, they have /.
repaired a TAPER, with a series Of cues :
ions upon the popular issued of the dav. /
Thich they require to be answered, and n
he candidate who gives the clearest and !,
aost satisfactory replies, and pledges 2
imseh to be guided by the principles r
ao down, will be supported by them. "a