Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-12
TENNESSEE.
A national bank Is born at Pulasli.

A national bank Is born ct Pulsski.
Pleasant Grove is TO have q fine hotel.
Cofle goes for Matt Martin for Congress
The Supreme Court meets in Knoxville
to. day. ~
Our next Governor Is st home In Pulaski
In vigorous health. Ut
The Congressional Convention sits IL
Shelbyville on the 10Th.
Nashville is to elect a Mayor on the last
Saturday in this month.
John @. Lester, Esq, Is candidate fol
the Legislature in Giles county.
A Catholic church is building near An
DIV Johnson's house in Greenville.
The vote on the establishment Of Crock
eff county will be taken on the 18th.
There is talk of the nomination of Gen
Mabry for Congress against Maynard.
A Swiss cemetery is TO be provided a
Knoxville by the Swiss Relief Assocla-
tiOn.
Arneu is at home near Columbia
Whitthorne will occupy his seat IN Con
gress.
VIM. 8 Fleming has received his COM
mission as Chancellor Of the Msury dis
trict.
cen. Mabry is entirely outside Of the
psyvspsper business. he sunk enough
in that line.
The Democratic Congressional COnven-
ton for the Fourth District meets al
Knoxville on the 10th.
Some fifty negro recruits for the United
States army passed Pulaski Monday night
on their way 70 Texas.
Mrs. Florence Fleming Cooper, OF Co
lumbia, wife Of Colonel D. B. Cooper,
died last Friday morning.
The Paris TntelIi0eacer and Franklin
Perielg have hOisted Gen. John I.
Browns name for Governor.
Andy johnson, It is said, wrote the res
olutio1s of the Greenyills Democratic
Convention. They are lively.
Asa jackson, one OF the oldest and best
citizens Of wilson county, died at his resi-
dence st StringtOwu, last week.
'Souire Nat. Moore's magnificent resi-
deuee. above Culleoka, has a fine view OF
the little city in the valley below.
The CIarksviIle Tobacco Leaf says that
cutting tobacco has already begun, and
the crop is largely above an average.
The 07,srier is to be the name Of q new
paner soon to be started at Union City by
Inc editor of the MGiI, lately destroyed
Extracts from Col. Bob LOony's speech
are published everywhere as specimens oi
true eloquence and excellent good sense
Our friend. J. R. Mccall, near Mason's
Dapot- sent the first bale of new cotton
from. Tennessee TO Memphis last week
Itis alleged that the East Tennessee,
and Georgia and Virginia railroad has
fallen wholly into the hands OF Wall
street.
Oolouel W. B. Stokes, who was last
week reported in a critical condition from
the effects of sunstrOke, has got sober and
is well.
\. G. TAYLOR the former great head
light with Brownlow, Of Knownoth'ng-
ism. is 3 candidate for Congress in East
Tennessee.
The eolored people Of Sumner county
held q fair near Gsllstin last week. The
exhibitions are represented as creditablf
10 the race.
The beautiful Miss Ella Morgan, Of
Nashville. has gone and married Pitts
c. Hammond. a clever fellow
for all that.
The GreenviIle National Era says
suthoritativelv that Andrew Johnson viii
not be candidate for Congress in the
First district.
Colvar viii not suffer his name to 20
before the "Guber-" national" Conven-
tion. He will run on his own hook and
mighty-slow.
Tbe Press aad Herald thinks thai
somebody lies when the editor is charged
with voting for reputation in the Ten
nessee Legislature
Nashville last week boosted over two
sides of bacon, which weighed l651a
pounds. This week Shelbyville boasts Oi
a pair weighing l73 pounds.
The Winchester Home Journal says the
onpositiOn TO the introduction OF Chinese
lsborers in Franklin county is almost
universal Don't have any, then.
Colonel George Polk, of Ashwood, was
thrown from his buggy several weeks
since and his lsfg arm was broken. We
are glad 70 learn his arm Is healing.
Knoxville sold S. COS. GOO worth Of goods
last wear, and the capital in manufscto-
riss, as it should be IN Memphis, amounts
TO one-third Of the total capital or the
city.
RI. Wilson, of Loudon, is now presi-
dent of the East Tennessee and Virginia
railroad, 10. Jackson, vice president, }. q.
Mitchell and r. c. Jackson, superin-
tendents- .....-.- .. ~
A. 5. Colvsr is man Of ability and hon
est and worthy; but in what does be sur
pass OF equal Gen. Brown. To elect
Brown il is needless 10 derOgste from Col
ysr's claims.
bolivar is q live place, but it hasn't az
large population as some suppose. The
census reveals its strength at sS2, ali
told" Not by half; Nose z. wasn't 81
home when they eOGnted.
Last Saturday night, at Culleoks, Mar.
tha Chezthsm, about midnight, was found
IN the stable suspended by a rope ane
dead. She had gotten up on plank
where she could jump of.
An old-fashioned camp meeting wa
held at Cedar Hill, in Robertson county
recently, which lasted for ten days. II
adjourned on the lst instant, with eighty
one additions to the church.
Colonel A. 5. Colyar, candidate for Gov.
eraor. in his speech st Franklin, asserted
that the State debt of Tennessee was In
creasing at the rate Of about twelve hun
dred thousand dollars annually.
Col. Frank Duffy, editor of the Car
thage Vidette, is announced as candf
date for the State Senate in bis district
He and Col. DuBose VIII worthily repre-
sent the press of the State in the Senate
Mr.. A. d. Trimble, agent for the Or
rhans' Home at Lauderdale Springs
Miss. gave a concert for the benefit o
that institHtion Oh last Saturday night, II
Columbia. He had with him thirty-tW'
OF the orphan children. a
FThe Clarksville Ctronicle positively re
fuses to insert the name of any csndidat
in that paper, until the lee is received.
How otherwise, when candidates const
tuts half the community and all Ia
Ia aou1d q naNTEnRro9r MEnY
The Knoxville Chronicle of the Sth inst
says: We thought that with the approacI
Of cosl weather the disease among csttl
would abate, bat il seems 70 rage wit
slDabsted violence. We are informed tbs
upwards of thirty cows have died In ID
city within the past three days.
The Athens Post, Of the 9Th inst, learn
that parties in HcMinn county are ofel
ing eight cents per pound, gross, for hog
The supersbundant corn crop. and u
urosuect that il viii command but sIna
mice for shipment. is causing the Large
farmers to invest in hogs a. the most pro
liable way to get rid Of their surplus.
The Soldiers Gqsette, published at Mar.
Vile, says that on Thursday evening, Sep
! about eight O'Clock, the prisoners col
fined in the iail at that place made de
usrate effort 20 escape, but failed Inc
had succeeded in breaking the cage
which they were confined, and whe
Vaught. acOlored man in the employ OF u
sheriff, opened the outer door OF the rool
Ibev assailed him, when strong hgl
snsued. Vaught. through the timely arr
val Of the sheriff, coming on more lhs
eonqueror.
ALABAMA.