Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-26

TENNESSEE.

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An express Office has been established
at Lebanon.
The population of Chattanooga is six
thousand and seventy
The Senatorial Convention is to be held
at Purdy on the second Saturday in Octo-
ber.
Mr.. James Duncan, aged ssventy-siX
years, died in Hardemsn county last
week.
The Maury county Fair commences at
Columbia to-day and continues all the
week.
r. II. Baskerville has announced him
self as candidate for the Legislature IN
Sumner county.
Thomas S. Steele, Esq, of Shelbyville,
has been appointed Chsncery Court Clerk
Tor Bedford county.
The bridge on the Virginia and Tenn
esse Air Line railroad has been replaced
and trains are passing. 6.
R r. Butler has been nominated by the
Radicals of tire First District as their
Congressional candidate.
Humboldt claims a population of 24OO,
and is the fourth town in population in
this division OF the State.
The dwelling house of J. H. McLaren,
near La Guar3o, Wilson county, was de-
stroyed by fire last week.
NJ. NJ. Bond, Esq, has announced him
self as candidate to represent Wilson
county in the next Legislature.
General J. D. c. Atkins will deliver an
address to the people of Humboldt on the
opening of the Fair at that place.
General Hickman is busily engaged at
Nashville, in getting up an organization
10 establish an extensive wooden manufac-
tory at that place.
Ex-President Johnson has fallen so in
love with the Shelbvville American Res
cue, that he has paid his subscription five
years IN advance.
A roaring wild animal is loose in the
woods near Morristown, which is sup
posed to have escaped from some travel
ing menagerie. We expect 1t is Andy.
The cotton Of Haywood and surround
ing counties promise a fine yield. In
Haywood and Lauderdale counties the
yield will be much larger than last year.
The weather so far this season has been
very favorable to the cotton crop near
Madison. 1t is now opening finely, and
our people are using diligence in getting
it out.
J. A. McRsdy, of Marshall county. is a
candidate for the State Senate from Bed
ford and Marshall. w. n. CowdeR of the
same county is also a candidate for the
Senate e
I'd. Watson, ESQ, has been at Hurri-
cane Springs short time, and his health,
instead of improving, is growing gradu-
ally worse. So we are informed by his
friends,
Minnie Strum, the little daughter of V.
H. Strum, of Knoxville, burned by
lamp, died Saturday. She was famed for
her Intelligence and beauty, even at 10
of years of age.
Shelbyville has 2 total population, &C
cOrding 10 the census returns, of 3,0l4;
divided As follows: White male S94;
white females l,002; negro males 4Si; ne
gro females 6Si. .-
James Brown shot the whole top off of
the head of Thomas Daniels, six miles
from Manchester, Coffee county, on the
night Of the 10th inst. An old feud eX-
listed between them.
Rev. DIR. T. II. Pearne, United States
Consul at Kingston, jamaica, left Knox
vile on the 18th inst, accompanied by
his family, for New York, where he will
embark for his official labor.
The safe of w. f. Holder, amerehant of
Gaiiatin, was robbed on Sunday night,
llth inst. 1t was cut open with an AK.
The robbers got about S6SOO in greenbacks
and Tennessee money for their trouble.
Colonel James II. Hughes, of McMinn-
Vile who had announced himself as a
candidate for Congress in the Third Dis
triet, now declines, upon the ground that
some OF his friends thinks he labOrs under
disabilities.
Col. A. s. Colyar last week sold the
well known manufacturing site, Allis-
onis, on the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad, to a company of capitalists,
who Will at once proceed to erect first
class paper mill on it.
Lebanon, says the Herald, is putting on
city airs in earnest. There not being
enough money in circulation there, the
Bank of Wilson has changed itself into
the Second National Bank, with a circula-
tiOn Of some so, 600 or So, 200.
The Lebanon Herald of the 18th inst.
says that Col. Price is making arrange
ments to run daily lines of stages between
Lebanon and Alexandra andI. lebanon and
New MiddletOwn, and tri-weekly lines
TO Spatrs, Carthage, COokville and Liv-
5ngston.
A span of horses, wagon and load of
leaf tobacco, the property of A. ID. Valsn-
tine, of Henry county, Tennessee, was
seized Monday by United States Revenue
Collector, Frank Travis, for peddling
without license. Valentine had also
small lot OF manufactured tobacco minus
stamps.
The Jonesboro Herald and Tribune of
the 18th inst, says that the satehel of the
younE unan who was recently so mysteri-
Ously murdered in that vicinity has been
found. 1t contained some clothing, a
watch and a letter from his monther, Fan
ME Church, and directed TO her son James
Church.
Andrew johnson having proved him
sal "a traitor 70 both Democrats and Re
nub lieanF, is not worthy Of the confidence
n either. and the Democracy would be
lust as inconsistent in listening 70 his
counsel and giving him sn oftlce as Nash
ington would have been in making Ar
lid Secretary of War after his attempt
TO surrender West Point 70 the British.
The Supreme Court, now in session in
Knoxville, is pushing through an i'm
mense amount of business. All the
Judges, Attorney General and Clerks
labor with unhagging industry to clear
sbe docket of the aceumulations of the
last four wears. In this they are aided by
ahe whole bar, who with uneXampled
arsodesty refrain from taking up the time
~ the court with lengthy speeches.
Tare State Commissioners have decided
20 aeH at auction, on the Sd of November
next, the States interest in the following
~Llnqusnt railroads. receiving State
IL ssin payment: Nashville and North
DonG fRilrosd; Cincinnati, Cumberland
western Charleston; Central Southern;
tap and ~eafacky; Memphis, ,Clarks-
"a EIgneId and N fssi Knoxville and Ken
vile and LouisvL = and Manchester;
lucky; MeMinnvili, ~eVille; Winches-
hogersville and JeffersC- sad Charles
Yer ana Alabama; Knoxville nd Nash
ton; Evansville, Henderson a. end
vile; East Tennessee and Yves Nefl''
North Carolina Mineral Home.