Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-10

Methodist, PrssbYterian, E~piscopalian, Bap-
tist, Cumberland Presbyterian, Catholic, etc,
sabbath, except in the Cumberland Presby-
terrain, which Is opened TO public worship
twice a month and the Catholic once. OF
benevolent societies, the MasOns have two
lodges one Chapter, Council and one En-
campment; the Odd-Fellows have two lodges,
and the Sons of Temperance one Division and
the Good Templars me
In educational advantages, Brownsville Is
peculiarly happy The Brownsville Female
college, with an experienced and able faculty
had curing the last term an attendance OF
one hundred and sixty pupils. The Wesleyan
Female College under the care OF the MetRo-
dissl, with an able faculty, also had az at
tendance OF about one hundred pupils. The
~BrOWnsV1lle Male Academy, now under the
management OF two tried, skilled and eA,e-
rienced professors, is entering on its nffh year
since It's pOSt-beutnl resuseitation, with every
prospect Of signal success and usefulness.
Besides these three important institutions Of
learning. there are various other schools, Sc
lect and miscellaneous, for white and black
mat are engaged IN the truly noble work OF
elevating our population in the scale OF INTEL
ligemce and moral worth.
These establishments, added to our other en-
terprlses for material and moral improve
ment, our gas works Just completely, our
music bands. railroads in projection ana
soon 10 be finished, our factory now in process
Of Reconstruction. with other schemes on IOOt or
soon 10 be 50, shows show how rife among US
= the spirit of progress that marks with EN-
phasis this living age
NJ k0AAAAN &AAA& 49, - ALAl
Agricultural, Mechanical and Horticultural
Association Of Haywood County, gotten up Tor
purposes suficiently indicated in It's title and
sustained With uberality characteristic OF
our people. The Fair Grounds, connected
with and belonging to this associations are
near the cityof Brow nsvtle. Here are annu-
ally exhibited, to large and interested crowds
the various products Of art and labor. Here
are publicly awarded liberal premiums 70
those who excel IN the many nnesoI human
effort there represented. Also, the two print
ing Offices, with their newspapers, the
Bee and the States, that circulate through
Haywood and adjoining counties These,
in the excellence Of their work, the onward
and upward tendency of their doctrines are
designed to aid the people in all good enter
prises. They are devoted TO the interests OF
he county, no less in It's material au4lrs
han its political and social matters The Bee
has been published since May, 1865, being now
IN It's nth volume. Its facilities Tor JOB WSrk
aretFuly admirable. The States IS now pass
through its second volume, and IS printed
in a weIl-htted-up news and JOB office, with
pOwer-press and other conveniences. The
IaIue OF these offices 10 and hay
county is appreciated By the intelligent
people, who have the great bulk OF their
printing done IN them
THE GAS WORKS
were built during the spring and summer Of
lS72, and the buildings u streets Illuminated
With gas during the % OF August This
enterprise was effected by subscriptions OF
stock by the citizens of to the
AMOUNT OF twenty thousand dollars, the bal
Of the required forty thousand dollars
being taken BY the NATIONAL Gas WoFksBnild-
.ng Company OF ST. Lcuis, the contractors who
undertook the work At BroWnsWAe. D de-
for gas is onthe Increases n b eeity, and
is believed that soon by far the greater part
the public and private houses viii be sup
Piled with Insight n
THE Holly SPRINGS, BROWNSVILLE
AND OHIO RAILROAD.
Early after the building Of the Memphis and
Louisville Railroad our Observant merchants
other trsdesmen discovered that with
my enc Eoad reaehlng our we nus
De at the mercy OF its managers Win respect
o tariffs Of freight and passage. They saw
chargedEexOrbitant freights to and
rom Memphis and Louisville, while parties
from one of these teTmini to the
could obtain through rates at figures os-
ensibly low compared with Brownsville
ares They complained, u TO no effect.
nlpplng 10 they pald rates
through to Memphis, thence back to Browns
lille heavier rates than the first or through
TIT goods then stopping AZ Browns
lille never went 10 Memphis 50 that the
merchant paid all Of n huge ]
and part -of-anOtne for transporta-
ion over which his goods were never car
led Disguised and wear1ed with this wrong
imposition the people determined to break
down To work they went, and with a viii.
subscriptions were raised, estimates made,
ight spread and contracts let out to build a |
Dad north, toward Union City, on the Mobile
nd Ohio railroad at a distance of sixty-three
niles. At the present writing august 1879
his track is graded and bridged from here to \
'Tiendship, in Crockett county, a distance Of
wenty-three miles, and the energetic Presi-
ent, DR.. J. D. Smith, iRfOrms.us that grading
$ progressing satisfactorily north Of that
oint, several miles having been completed.
n favor of this important undertaking., Hay
God county has given, or Is 70 give, one hun
red thousand dollars by direct taxation upon
rOperty within her limits. We venture the 1
that when this road shall have
completed, and its benefits realized, the
eople will be profoundly convinced that TINS
precipitation was wisely and economically
lade
HE DENMARK, BROWNSVILLE AND
DURHAMVILLE RAILROAD.
This projected road, though n Of less pre-
.nsion than the above, tsyet destined to work
I'D the thirty miles in extent Of country that
e between its termini, Denmark and Dur
lmville. II isan enterprise OF local impor-
and driven entirely by local enterprise
Id local means. The design is 70 extend the
IrhamVtlle section on to Ripley, on the I
emphis and Paducah railroad, a point
ghteen miles distant. This, when COM
eted, will place RrOwnSvillei in railway COM
unication with the North and West by one
ore route, thus immensely increasing her
.vantages, forever freeing her and the people
no trade with her from those mo-
poly exaetiOns that annually extort
IN them, in o~ver-charged freights,
.~rrow-gauge road. The eastern or Denmark
vision viii probably 81 no distant day be .
shed on 70 some point on the Mobile and !
no railway giving Us another outlet east
d south. This road, at least the Durham
lie or western division, is under contract
grading etc, and the work Is rapidly pro-
3Ss1ng. From these indications our eader '
Il gain a definite and reliable understand l
: Of the transportation advantages soon to
enjoyed by this county. These works are
70 be completed soon. They are in =
arge OF men who sat down and counted up
2 coast ere they proceeded to work. They
ant they said, when they proposed E
2 roads. They the roads, were necessities,
and reat-necesstties, not OF Browns
lie n her merchants, but OF Haywood
lnty and her honest and toiling agricul-
al people. They needed choice of roads
d competition OF freights; they needed that =
artty which only opposing companies and
rpOrauons extend 70 their custOmers-and =
z projectors Of these roads, allied with Hay-
county as they are, in birth, blood and
1PeFty,- determined that these people
)uld have these benefits. And have them
y win the capital brain aad muscle neces-
70 such an effect are pledged and at
.
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