Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-25
TENNESSEE ITEMS,

Ants are said to be injuring the corn
crops in Stewart county.
Escaped convicts are said to be COM
mitting depredatiOns in Williamson
county.
A destructive storm Of wind and
rain passed over Cleveland, doing con-
siderable damage there to buildings,
The people Of Marshall county are
/ agitating the subject Of building a rail-
road from Cincinnati, by way Of
Lebanon and LeWisburg, to New Or
leans.
One Of the heaviest rains ever expe-
rienced at that point, fell at cleveland,
June II and Is, the streams being
more swollen than since the freshet Of
| 1867.
| Mr.. Michael Sullivan, well known
and highly respected citizen Of Knox
vile, died on the 18th inst, nom the
effects Of the heat.
Bishop DOggett preached to a very
large congregation at Douglas Church,
four miles from Franklin, on Sunday,
June IS.
Mr.. Eben. Alexander, son OF the
late lamented Judge Alexander, men,
Der of the Sophomore class at Yale
College, in the recent contest took the
first prize for the best essay.
The Rev. DR.. A. J. Baird, of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
Nashville, preached the commence
ment sermon OF the West Tennessee
College, at Jackson, on Sunday, June
18th.
Mrs. Margaret Crusman, an old time
citizen of Clarksville, died at her resi-
dence June 10TH, after long illness,
aged siXty'One years. She was a men,
Der Of the Presbyterian church, and a
devoted Christian.
The Knoxville Press and Herald, of
June q, says: "At fifteen minutes be-
fore one o'clock this morning, a bril-
liant meteor, seemingly as large as
the full moon, shot across the sky
from northwest to southeast"
Business is dull in Franklin and the
streets present a deserted appearance.
There is but little money in circula-
ton, and not much probability Of any
increase until winter, when the cotton
and corn crops will be thrown upon
the market.
The MOrristOwn Gazette, of the 2lst
inst, says: towing to the failure Of
the wheat crop, there being not more
than half crop made, corn is appre-
Ciating. It is now selling at sixty
five cents per bushel in this market,
with an upward tendency"
The stories of the Ku-Klux depre.
datiOns at TOOne's station, Hardeman
county, are now proved false; and the
real perpetrators discovered to be eX-
members of the Sixth Tennessee Reg
inent Of United States Cavalry. They
have been committed to jail at Boil
var in devault Of $1,000 bail each.
The sale of the lots at Arlington.
(McMillan's field, } the county seat Of
the new county of Houston, took
place on the 10Th inst. Sixty lots
were sold at prices ranging from $38
to S155. The sale of Holsters field,
near Arlington, on Monday, the 18th,
amounted to ffty-seven lots at from
$40 to $92
The Franklin Journal, of June I'D,
says that in many places in William
son county the wheat will scarcely re-
fund the seed sOWn. The corn crop
Is irregular both as to a stand and as
to size. Much of the cotton is very
small and is not doing well at all.
The fruit crop is poor one. Only
the Oat crop is good.
Knox county, according to the
Knoxville Chronicle, possesses one Of
the neanest men and gluttOns on re-
cord. He provides for himself guam
titles OF nutritious food, refusing his
family bite, and has purchased for
them during six weeks time only one
peck of meal and two beef shanlzs.
His wiie's industry prevents suffering
for the bare necessaries of life.