Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-25
TENNESSEE NEWS.

company.
Andy johnson viii be in Nashville to.
morrow, it is said. q or 90
Several new brick cottages are going up
in West Nashville.
Dewberries are beginning to come into
the Nashville market.
The Culleoka Female Institute during
the last ten months enrolled 40 pupils.
Business on the railroads centering at
Nashville has become very dull in the
last W weeks.
Ex-COmptroller Blackburn has taken
hold of the plowshare at his farm in
Maury county.
There is not enough money in the State
Treasury to pay of the porters at the capt.
tol-four in number.
One hundred and nifty barrels of beans
were shipped north by a Nashville mer-
chant quite recently. 4.
Fifteen hundred pupils were gathered
at Mckenzie on Sunday, the 18th inst, in
a Sunday School celebration.
The prize declamations at the lookout
Mountain educational institutions took
place on Tuesday morning Last.
The Nashville City Council is waging
war upon the canires. The muzzling law
will go into effect the 1st of July.
Brownlow has abandoned all idea of
passing in his checks, and therefore
Andrew Johnson puts up no stakes.
They a a crazy fellow in Nashville
who won't wear clothes. Not so crazy
after all, if the weather is as hot there as
here. -
During the week ending June 18th, let
tiers patent were granted TO d. @. Ritten-
house, Of Shelby Depot, for a cotton
scraper.
An election for constable in the Nash
vile district is to be held next Saturday,
to I'LL he vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton Of Mr. Moss.
A gentleman from West Tennessee in
forms us that the cotton crop in that part
Q fthe State has been badly damaged by
the heavy rains.
A pillow strapped to the small of the
back is said to answer an excellent pur-
pose in breaking the falls of learners at
the Nashville skating rink.
Squire Brien held an inquest on Tues
day morning upon the body of Thomas
J.. Hoffman, an old citizen of Nashville,
The jury returned a verdict that deceased
came to his death from apoplexy.
The Holston Journal of the 18th says
that a colored man known by the name of
Neelsnd, who - times was not rational,
drowned himself in the Holston river
near Mr.. McClure's farm last week.
The brick work of the new hotel at
Chattanooga has been commenced, and is
already up five feet high. If the weather
be sueh as to allow OF brick making, the.
completion of the building is expected in
a short time.
The Chattanooga Times, of the 10Th
inst, says that Gen. ]. L. Wilder arrived
last night from Cincinnati. He has or
dered ten Of the patent pudding furnaces
to arrive in sixty days. He says they
viii save $40 q tor on padding iron.
There are in Maury county, says the
Columbia Herald, about lis reapers and
mowers of the following different patents:
Wood, As, Ktna, l; Hubbard,,2; Clipper,
lately introduced, u; Excelsior, 30; Buck
eye, Is; Johnson, 2; Marsh Harvester, i;
Champion, 4. Total, IFS. f'
The United States Senate Military Com
mittee have reported a bill for the relief
of the University OF East Tennessee,
giving it fifteen thousand dollars for
damages suffered during the war, with
three thousand dollars additional con-
tingept on certain proofs concerning the
destruction of their buildings.
The Athens Post learns through the
County Court clerks office, that the
aggregate taxable property in MeMinn
county for the year 1870, is g. SOB, 260 81.
Number of polls, 1886. State Tax, $7.651
81; County lax, {5,43I 50. Total tax, Si3,-
0S3 Al; State tax for 1S69,$l7 1855 So; county
tax, $3.50 81. Total, So, 955 81. Reduc-
ton in favor of current year, .S1O,s72 IL.
It appears from accounts that Rev. DR.,
Pearne, whilOm editor of the Knoxville
Wing, Was no more popular with the
printers than with the Stokes Radicals.
One of his printers once, after cursing
thu nnOfnw - the EuH1 1880 81 L.. :
ity, wound up with this whitening pro
f%essiOnal anathema; ~ wish he was in
HILL with his back broke, setting diamond
italics at ten cents a hotGsGnd
The Chattanooga Times reports that Mr..
II. Brszier, of the rolling mill, has re-
turned to that city. He accompanied
Gen. Wilder to Cincinnati to examine a
new patent apparatus for pudding by
machinery. Both were we'll pleased with
the machinery, and it will be introduced
in the mill there. By it twice as much
iron can be- made as by hand, and no
skilled puddlers will be needed. This
will be a great saving.
The bill reducing the - from one
dollar and twenty-five cents to fifty cents,
on both white and colored, was passed on
its final reading on Tuesday, and with the
signature of the Governor will become a
law. When collected it will be paid over
to the Trustee of each county and be ap-
~prOpriated TO the schools of the county, as
the law directs. Nc report OF It to the
Comptroller will be required hereafter.
The Hest Tennessee Hing, published at
Jackson, says of Mr.. Watkins donation
of a public park to the city of Nashville:
''Of course the city Will comply with the
conditions. Mr.. Watkins is a man of
fortune, made by his own energy
and hard labor. When we first knew
him, now nearly forty years ago, he was
a day lAbOrer, working as a bricklayer. /
strict economy, indomitable energy
abstemious sobriety, he has worked
bis way to the front rank Of capitalists in
that city, and is universally respected for
ais hberality and public spirit. We love
70 honor such mem"
The people of fractions of Gibson, Car
roll, Madison, Weakley aud Henderson
are to decide the question by
ballot whether they shall rave the county
If Etheridge or not. Messrs. William
Stone, w. c.. Holt, Samuel Pearce and
Mcfarland, Esq, Of Gibson county;
John Birdsong, of Madison county; JAS.
ofHendersOn county; l. H. Hill
nan, j. @. MeCullum, John Warlick and
Browning, of Carroll county, snd
Drewry, of Weakleyleounty, have been
commissioners an act of the
Assembly to carry out the law
n this respect.
The following gentlemen have been
ppointed as delegates from Fayette
Ounty to the July Judiciary Conven-
ion, proposed to be held in Nashville: F.
Rsgland, Calvin Jones, W. b. Dortch,
E. Warren, K. Ii. shelton, G. ID.
Ordon, J. L.. Pulliam, James L. William
on, II. G. Norman, VIM. Maris, 7. g.
deClellan, w. Ivie, Joseph r. Mosby,
Thompson, Charles Lynn, S. GIL
T. B. Firth, George I. Stull, X. I
:. Broaduax, John T.. Morrow, and Il. l..
Davis. Alterrates; Hon. FL. r. Sher-
cd, Hon. Z. j. Tucker, General j. It.
Hon. John Reed, General S. R..
and General Joel Battle, who
nall be authorized to act in lieu of the Z
in the event OF their absence, {
nd cast the vote of the county. {
With the compliments of the Faculty {
Id pupils of the Columbia Athen8um '
} the Memphis APPEAL, we acknowl- :
ige An invitation to attend the examine :
on and commencement exercises OF that
lstitution, which were appointed as fol-
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