Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-04
TENNESSEE.
There is to be a Fourth of July eel

There is to be a Fourth of July eel.
ebratiOn at Maryville.
Judge John NJ. Lea, of Nashville,
is earnestly asked to become a Con-
gresham.
Trains now go through from New
orleans, La, to Humboldt, Tenn,
without change.
The Tennessee Homestead AssOcia-
ton are about TO buy 10000 acres OF
land near Knoxville.
The E. t. and @. r. r. has paid the
State of Tennessee S4I, III 81 in Ten
nessee bonds due the State.
The Jackson Tribune commends H.
Clay King, of Memphis, for Attorney
General of the State. Sensible.
The Shelbyville Commercial says
that a large portion of the wheat in
Bedford has been cut and sheafed.
There is a man in Florida nine feet
six inches high. He is in good health
and is evidently tong for this world.
The kitchen of III. +. Commings,
ESD, of Paris, was burned on the I'D
nit, with narrow escape OF his house.
The Columbia Herald extends a
very warm invitation to the members
of the General Assembly TO return to
their homes.
The Bolivar Bulletin says that there
will not be more than a half cotton
crop in that section, excessive rain
being assigned as the cause.
W. p. Bond, n. A. Tully, r. II.
Wood and David Campbell have all
called on the editor of the Jackson
Hhig daring the week. He is well
pleased.
Miss Ames Kettle was thrown from
a refractory horse near Milan, Gibson
county, one day last week, aud so
badly injured that she died from the
effects in few hours.
The bar at Lewisburg have eX-
pressed their preference, in pub
iished card, Ter the Hon. A. o. p.
Nicholson and Colonel p. TuTney for
the Supreme Judgeship,
The Athens Post and the Knoxville
WHO. both anti Radical papers, de-
clare their belief that BrOwnlOw is
personally innocent of any participa-
lIOu III LuC tliSlt VI tAfS Dt'NA OA 1NiAOOA
fund"
The Jackson Hhig.says. jackson
has 5I20 inhabitants. The white pop
ulation is two and One-eighth larger
than the black. There are 230 more
white males than females, and 20I
more black females than males"
Captain John SkefiRgtOn, of Dyers-
burg, is a candidate for Attorney Gen
eral of his circuit. Captain SkefiBg
ton is a genial gentleman and a good
lawyer, and, if elected, will make an
able and efficient Attorney General.
Captain Duffy, of the Carthage "
clefte, calls upon the publishers of pa
pers throughout the State to send
papers gratis TO the Orphans Asylum.
The suggestion is a good one, and we
hope that every publisher in Ten
nessee will comply with it. We GER
tainly will.
The L1teliigeI,cer gives a 1attering
account of the crop prospects in
Henry. Last years wheat crop was
the best raised since the war, but this
years crop beats it. The fall fair
October 9TH. Samuel Ken |
dali, one OF the earliest settlers of
Paris, died there on the 2lst ult.
Colonel Joseph II. Blackburn, late |
United States Marshal Tor Middle |
Tennessee, is announced as a candi- |
date for Congress in the Third Dis |
trict, now represented by Hon. VIM. !
b. Stokes. He says If he is elected he |
will exert himself "tO promote the |
general good Of all the people of Ten
nessee.'
Colonel Augustus SOweIl, who re-
sided six miles west of Trenton, came |
to Lis death on the 2lst inst, while on /
his way to town. BE was riding on /
and in crossing a bridge !
the train passed, frightening the |
horse, and causing him to throw the |
rider. In the fall his back was
broken. of which injury he died.
A.Tenuessee exchange is somewhat |
angry and says: zone or two candi- |
date: have not as vet paid for their
although they prom
ised to do so, sin DAY or two, when |
their names were announced. We |
Cont want to hurt any bOdy's feelings |
or make them mad, but if they don't |
pay up before our next issue, we will |
drop their names from our columns |
as certain as fate"
The MurfreesbOrO Neirs says: "At |
n meeting Of the Mayor and Board |
of Aldermen held on the 22d instant, /
an ordinance was passed permitting |
each head Of family in the corpora
tiOn 10 keep only one dog on their |
premises, and on each and every dog |
kept over this number, three dollars 1
skalI be collected by the proper officer. |
This ordinance is 10 take effect thi ty |
days from its passage"
The Wig also says: "Pomp," the |
- P0mp," the faithful old horse that |
belonged to Uncle Tommy Beveridge,
died on last Monday, and was buried
out Of sight Of the vultures OF the air \
by his kind old master. He was |
twenty-five year., two months and
nine DAYS Old-cOmm6nced labor |
when three years old, and his first
WORK was hauling brick with which
10 Iuild West Tennessee College.