Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-16
STATE NEWS.
There are gipsies in Brownsville.

There are gipsies in Brownsville.
jackson, Brownsville and Union
! City need more light.
Clarksvilie has a new market-house
and Brownsville new railroad depot.
The Paris IGfelli0eneer, following
thgexample Of the jackson Tribune il
! to'be enlarged.
The Union City Herald OF Friday
says that snow came down and paid
su3 a visit yesterday-in a quiet,
lrisntIiy way.i3 t43Hgs ffAa "a
The Brownsville Bee, Bolivar Bta-
Ietjn, Upton County Record and
I Union City Herald, all promise that
hereafter they will not advertise for
patent medicine vendors and manu-
facturers at one cent less tkan 1t does
/ for business men generally.
The Bristol Nslcs of the 18th says
The mountains south Of Bristol have
for several evenings presented a beau
tifill sight. As the fire stole up their
rugged heights it looked like the fires
| thilt were sometimes kindled along a
line of battle that awaited the enemy
on the mountain top.
tfhe Nashville Banner saws the fol-
lowing discharges in bankruptcy
were issue.i during the past week:
james b. Jones, of Davidson john
j. Beech and Ira Swanson, of VIII
hanson; G.. ". Bartee, of MontgOm-
cry; r. +. Cattles, OF Sumner; W. y.
Parsley and W. n. Alfred, of Ruther-
ford, and W. +. Conner, of Gilt 5
county. ~
She Jackson Tribune and the Jacl :
son Wig both threaten the gangs who
arc depredating in Carol and Gibson
counties with vigilance committee
tactics, and the Milan Times says elf
every county where the laWless bands
exist were to adopt the plan that Mad
ison county has, the State would soon
be cleared of these midnight prOwl-
ers." The present state of affairs can
and must be stopped.
The Union and American Of Satur-
day says: An accident occurred ON
the Nashville and Chattanooga Road
yesterday morning, at 10 O'Clock,
eight and a half miles south of Nash-
yhle, ont and half miles the other
side of Antioch, by which three per-
sons were pretty severely bruised, one
baggage car tipped over and smashed,
and the tank OF passenger engine
badly damaged.
The Bolivar Bulletin says the bell
for the courthouse, weighing SIS
pounds, net, has arrived. It is from
MOnely's foundry, West Troy, n. ",
and is about twice as large as any
other bell in town. Our town clock
which by the way took the prize at
thaState I air in Nashville last October
and has been pronounced by artifieers
a splendid piece Of mechanism, was
shipped from Nashville on the ID in-F
slant, and will doubtless arrive in a
day or two. Memphis has neither
courthouse, bell nor town clock.
The JHioR and AE4eTican of Satur-
dag saysl Col. Murdock, President of
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, whose
arrival we noticed yesterday, has
made for himself an undying nOnu-
mcnt in this State, by the bequest Of
the splendid library Of his distinguish sh-
ed father to the theological depart
mnnt of Cumberland University. The
library istae choicest theological cOl-
lection in the United States, il being
the only entire collection OF the works
of the ancient fathers, except one.
The University have established a
prOfessorship aud give the name Of
Mdrfock, its genuine founder. This
is monument which the storms of
time cannot efface. How much might
the wealthy men of our country do
foTstheir race, if they would turn some
of their worth in this direction. Fi Z 4
A correspondent Of the Union and
american makes the timely and peril
nent suggestion, that while seat in
the proposed State Convention would
be q high honor, it is not one to be
soaght Df directly or Indirectly, by
any individual. The can Vass foI. il,
on the hustings or through the press,
after the manner of candidates for the
General Assembly, would bet0 de-
grade the position. To which the
BoHaer' sensibly responds: "While
we are not particular as to the mode
of the selection, nor deem it necessary
that the age Of the delegate should be
prescribed in advance, we coincide
with the correspondent in the opinion
that the delegates Should be men who
combine natJIEal ability, acquired
learning, and experience in public
business, or at least knowledge of il
attained By reading and study, So
far as the age Of the Representative is
concerned in this Convention, we do
not care how gray his hair or green
his whiskers-ifhe is honest, capable,
liberal and Just, and is not partisan,
he will come quite up TO the measure
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