Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-22
TENNESSEE ITEMS.

The Kingston East Tennesseea,
echoes the cry of rain wanted.
Several mad-dogs have been killed il
Bedford county during the past week.
Colonel John T. Hogan has been ap.
;, pointed City Attorney for Jackson, Vict
Lawrence Talbot, Esq, resigned.
The Episcopal congregation at Tren.
ton have purchased the old Methodist
church in that place, and viii refit it fol
their own use.
Colonel NJ. G. Page, a former citizen
of Chattanooga, has been appointed by
the President Acknowledgement of Mon
tana Territory.
Joseph Green, one of the oldest citi-
Zens of Bedford, and a soldier in the wal
of 1872, died at his residence, some fOuI
miles from Shelbyville, a few days ago.
James White, of Hawkins county, an
nounces himself as a candidate to repre-
sent the Second District in the Senate
rial branch of the next Legislature.
The Springfield Record says: eve
regret to learn that the apple prospects
are very unfavorable. In some localities
in our county nearly the entire crop is
dropping from the trees"
The Nashville exposition, which has
been a grand success, worthy the intel
ligence and culture of our State capital,
closed for the week on Saturday last,
the @BdRRer says "under circumstances
highly satisfactory" to all concerned.
The extension of the Mississippi Cen
trail railroad to Cairo, starts out directly
from Jackson, and running by Milan,
ten or fifteen miles east of Humboldt,
viii connect with Cairo. This road will
be built and put in running order in one
year.
Mr. John Horton, who lives six miles
from Chattanooga, had a desperate fight
a few days ago with a brutal negro EN-
ployed on his farm. The negro attacked
Mr.. Horton with a hoe, but the latter
succeeded In grasping the hoe with the
left hand and took his pocket-knive out
with the other, and cut the assailant in
three different places. One of the
wounds is in the abdomen, which, it is
thought, viii prove fatal.
The Cleveland Banner of the seven
tenth instant says: 1.-THE present con-
tinued drought has materially inter-
fered with the erOpprospects in this sec
ton. Wheat and corn look well, but
other crops are being injured for want
of rain. The early Irish potato crop,
which was very promising before the
drought commenced, will be cut very
short unless we. have rain in a few days.
All kinds of garden vegetables need
rain badly.n
The Jonesboro' Herald and Tribune, of
May 10th, says: 'The dogs, upon which
we would send a thousand deadly
plaques at one blow, recently raided on
Squire William McIntuff's flock of
sheep, in the Greasy Cove, and killed
eighteen out of twenty-four. These
sheep were worth at least fifty or sixty
dollars. One night last winter a hum
dred dollars worth were killed on Cher
okee. This is not more than one-tenth
of the sheep that have been destroyed
in this way, in our county, within the
last twelve months. And still our
County Court refuses to levy a tax"
A Smith county correspondent of the
Nashville Union and american says: ~
not heard a single Democrat or
Conservative express any disappro-
batien of Greeley and Brown. The
only fear is that the Democratic
Convention viii make a nominal
ton, and thus r~e-elect Grant. We fear
the influence of European bondholders
upon the Baltimore Convention. And
is not that we like Greeleyan Brown
well, but in them we see the deliver
ance from the crushing despotism of the
present dynasty, as we saw it once before
in Mr.. Senter. So far as this region is
concerned, the only way to preserve the
Democratic party is to make no nomi- 1
nations at Baltimore.
The Athens Post of the seventeenth
says: ga gentleman left at the printing
office, a day or two ago, some specimens
of ore from the lead being opened on the
place of Ham. Pearce, in the Eastanallee |
six miles south OF Athens. 1t is
the best specimen of galena we have
ever seen in this country, and is said to
contain a large percentage of silver
From the indications, the company at
work are OF the eve of developments
viii possibly infuse new life into
the dull and sluggish veins of enterprise
in this section. The truth is, the whole
of the Eastanallee, from the head
waters of that winding stream to where
It loses itself in the bosom of the beauti-
ful Hiwassee, is rich in undeveloped re-
sOurces.n
The JOnesborO Herald and Tfi6une
May 10th says: "Aterrifc fire ragged in
he Cherokee mountains, south of town,
rom last Thursday night to the next
morning. The burning of log
and brush-piles in q clearing is
supposed to have been the origin of the
ire. The mountains were swept with
he flames for several miles, everything
Try burning like finder, even the green
lines being stripped oftheir foliage. There
vas not anything like an organization
o dispute the progress Of the destroyer ,
lntil Saturday morning, when the citi-
turned out en- ndSse and worked
With some system and order. By firing :
Iiflerent districts they deprived the
mass of flames. Of food, and they finally
to theif persistent efforts"
At "Tank, y near Nashville, on Satur- ;
last, st. Johns Lodge No. 423, +. q I.
!. NJ, at Tank, was organized by the :
lstallatiOn of officers and the dediea-
ion of its hall. The hall, which is over q
is very tastefully fitted up. At
n early hour in the morning, the lodge
)rmed in line, and, with the Rock City !
and at its head, the procession moved to
beautiful beech grove near the bal,
Then Captain Thomas l.. Dodd, the I,
AASOA VI AhC ONlalolOA1 0CLlNElEA dA aR-I !
ropriate address. The following Off
ers were installed by DR.. Hammer,
pecial Deputy Grand Master, assisted
Thomas l.. HAYNES, of franklin:
saac n. Hall, w. NJ; TheO. T. Hull, :
!. W.; Peter Reynolds, j. w; John A.
OK, Secretary; p. N. Potts, Treasury.
he installation ceremonies over, the =
recession was reformed and marched to +
big barbecue, which was demolished S
/ due time. Colonel w. L. DemOss Z
as the Chief Marshal, assisted by n. :
|. Morton and DIR. j.. B. Hill. After 4
he barbecue the lodge returned to its :
all, and while the hall was being dedi-
tied the Rock City band entertained
Re visitors present with some of its
st airs.
The Nashville Bonner of Monday
lis this story: "John Morrow, who Isl
painter by trade, left the city in an in
Ixleated condition Friday night, for
S home on Tulip street, Edgefield.
a reaching the abutment at the east
u end Of the suspension bridge, he lay
upon it and went to sleep. At
70 O'Clock yesterday morning he acoi- .
'ntally rolled OF and was temporarily e
upon the two telegraph wires
WINS It IihtL dhQ D6f1ilcl
it'll each other. His weight broke one
the wires in two,aDd the insuIators at :
ched to the contiguous pole gave way. =
using the other wire to sway to with
ten or fifteen feet of the embankment
low, and pr~ecipitating Morrow head
remost to the ground, pseling the skin
om his forehead and injuring one oil
5 arms. The distance he fell was
out fifty feet, and. had it not been for i
Q telegraph wires breaking his fall, he =
build have been killed instantly. He
- not discovered until five o'clock, at
llch time Dr. Compton was called and
ken home. Morrow fell from a ladder =
lille painting a house on South Spruce 2;