Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-27
The Earlier Years Of Andrew lack
son and sam. Hoaston-Iw0
Historical DuEls.

KNOXVILLE. Aug. %, 1S7l.-Judge
Trigg, OF the Federal, and eX Chlei
Justice Mckinney, and Nelson ana
Deadrick, OF the Supreme Court, are
often encountered, late IN the ailer-
noon, saUniering about the streets OF
Knoxville The very presence OF
such men, in a little city like this,
gives tone TO popular morals and taste,
aud uplifts popular intelligence.
Judge Nelson came along Gay street
lust nov, and an old school ieli08 oI
mis- said: tephere goes the best fellow
in America i knew him when lit
tie boy. We were school fellows and
afterWard chums at the University.
His father was an suCtiOneer and JUS
lice OF the peace. Tom was his clerk,
and made All the entries on the old
mans docket. The father was not
man of letters. One day ] was in the
'Sauire's court. awaiting lis adjourn
ment. that Tom and ] might go on
the river. A drunken fellow was on
trial for some trivial offence. The old
Squire fined him five dollars and
costs. The culprit rose, and steadying
himself by leaning on q chair, said:
sWeU, Squire, y0u'e an honest man,
INT II takes YOU and Tom both 20
make decent Justice Of the peace
The old topper lived to read one Of
Toms sneaches ia Congress, as pub
lished in full in the London Times,
with the commentary that it was one
ofthe most tasteful and logical ora
tfons ever pronounced in the Ameri-
can cspitOl.n Justice Nelson lauds, in
extrsvagant terms, the ability and at
tainments Of the Memphis bar. E5-
pecially did he commend those gen
flenen who appeared IN the Graves
POsfon trial. He had never listened
GOtwO speeches more wholly unlike
or Of greater ability than those Of Sale
and McRae; Sales distinguished
by originality and native force, and
McRae's perhaps the finest specimen
Of irresistible logic ever uttered in his
presence. On the same street, at the
home OF his brother, Judge Deadrick
spends most Of his time. The two
fudges are constantly employed in eX-
amining yOlumenOns records, and
distinguished by the same tireless in
dustry at home that characterized
their conduct during the late eXtraor-
dinary session Of the court a jackson.
A PROGRESSIVE CITY.
The Main street Of Knoxville was
originally part Of the main road to
Nashvill1. Gay is now the main street
running MOTH and south from the
HolstOn TO the railroad station. On
this street there Is a single structure,
occupied by single mercantile firm,
COwan, McClung a Co., that cost one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
1t is simply magnificent. This whole
sale establishment sells two millions
annually. It buys in Europe, and
because OF lower rates of taxation and
cheapness ~ living, it sells at lower
than New y ork prices. The building
tbev OCCUPY is five stories high and
$50 by 80 feet. Here, country mer-
chant can buy everything except
drugs, and therefore, these wholesale
drug houses slowly rise hard by the
vast dry-gGcds and grocery buildings.
There is nothing Ike II IN any
SOuthern city, and KNOXVILLE
speedily becomes the New York
Of East Tennessee. Nichols, Page
Il Co., annually manufacture here
500, 900 worth OF shoes from
leather made ia q great part IN
East Tennessee. Their shoes are
pegged by machinery, and they have
all the appliances OF the shoe makers
art used in the towns around Boston.
They ship to the cotton fields OF
Georgia and Alabama, and will soon
try the Memphis market. Tom
OCOnner manufactures most of the
saddles used in this mountainous
region; and Knoxville, though the
people seem unconscious OF the fact,
QroWs apace and flOurishes as never
before. The place mas been so thor
Oughly changed since 1863, when last
I wandered over the nights on which
IL stands. that there are few ancient
landmarks by which il may be.recog-
nized. With such rapidity have bust
ness houses with broWn-stOne and
marble fronts been constructed, con
stantly nearer the railways, that the
County Court viii st once build an
iron bridge across the HOlstOn.
INVALUABLE PROPERTY.
- The best speculation of modern
times was that by which Mr.. Jacques
and associates became owners Of the
railways connecting Bristol and
Chattanooga. The Memphis end
Charleston, Nashville and Chatia-
noOga, StantOn's road, and the whole
system Of Georgia and Alabama roads
sre simply feeders 20 this line through
East Tennessee. Its freights are four
times greater this than for cores
pOnding months OF last year. How
curl0usly It sounds 60 West Tennes-
sean cotton producer! 600 900 pounds