Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-18
TENNESSEE.

Paris talks Of having baby show.
Chattanooga wants a fair ground.
The sick season at Mckenzie has set
in.
The Waynesboro county Jail is being
repaired.
A two-legged goat perambulStes Chat
tanOOga.
Blount county has prosperous farm
ers' club.
Gadsden is to have a grand grape and
wine festival.
Buchanan, recently jailed at Troy, has
become insane.
Fruit is so plentiful in Tennessee that
even the hogs are tired of it.
The National Bank at Springfield viii
commence business in a few days.
Knox county has grown a cucumber
fifteen and half inches in length.
An Alabama gentleman intends to
prepare fair-grOund near Chattanooga.
Robertson county has at present thir-
teen establishments for distilling brandy.
A large number of rattlesnakes have
been killed near LEAFS Springs this
season.
Two eonvicts from Jefferson county
were placed in the penitentiary at Nash
vile the other day.
Monday was the hottest day of the
season at Knoxville. Thermometer,
ninety-five degrees.
Three hundred and sixty-eight pa
tients at the Tennessee Hospital for the
Insane, at Nashville.
In Robertson county, bacon tends up
ward-hams at fifteen cents and sides
at twelve and half cents.
Hafford Porter, Of Paris, used coal-oil
To bring out his mustaches, and il
brought 'em all out-by the roots.
The number Of building improvements
now going on in Knoxville, is without
precedent in the history of that city.
A Nashville colored band, numbering
ten, were lodged in Jail the other night
for boisterous conduct on the streets.
Martin Turney was struck dead by
fire-damp, in the well Of d. L. Durrett,
in Robertson county last Friday morn
ing, while cleaning il out.
Alfred Caldwell, Of Knox county, has
been nominated as the Greeley candi-
date for Congress in the Third Tennessee
district.
A horse and a wagon, together with
the driver, fell over a seventy-five foot
elf in Chattanooga the other day, kill
ing the horse instantly. The driver es-
capped by leaping from the wagon.
Mrs. DR.. E. L. Beach, Of New Orleans,
was killed by being thrown from a stage,
which turned over with her en- route to
Virginia Springs, near Morristown. Her
children and grandchildren were with
her at the time.
The Springfield Record, which has
hitherto borne at its masthead the name
of Hon. Ed. J. Golladay as its choice
for reelection to Congress from the
Nashville district, now advocates the
claims of Col. 10. c. Stark for. election
10 that position, and has changed It's
masthead accordingly.
A new banking institution is about
being started at Knoxville. The stock
holders are among the ablest financiers
and moneyed men Of East Tennessee,
and they have now a subscribed stock
of one hundred thousand dollars, with
the privilege of increasing the amount
to five hundred thousand dollars.
A son Of Mr.. John Adams, of Robert
son county, while blowing in a tobacco
patch a few days since, had the pleas
IRE. whether agreeable or not, of seeing
his horse and plow sink about seven
feet-the earth at that locality having
qiven way. The horse was killed,
while the youth was untouched.
AT the election in Crockett r. G..
Harris was elected Sheriff, James Low
.srv Trustee, and j. b. Smith, Tax-COl-
hector. The Commissioners have To-
Gated the eOunty-seatatC Cageyllle, which
village will hereafter be known as
Alamo. The action OF the Commls-
sioners gave general satisfaction, and
the people Of the new county are pro-
foundly happy.
man named Grigsby was run ovei
and killed on the railroad near Bristol,
last SATURDAY evening, by the passenger
train. The man was walking on thf
track. and the engineer blew his Wbls'
lie expecting he would get out Of the
Nvav Trigsby, however, did not leave
the track. and before the train could b'
sfonDed ne was knocked over by the en-
vine. aud the wheels ran over his body
mapgliDg him SO that he died IN fe"
hours.
The Governor of Tennessee has offer
"A = reward of two hundred and fifty
dollar for the apprehension OF 4. Hob
ert Masgin, charged with having mnf
dered JohE F. Turnbow, in Perry coan
ty, on the taasd instant. he also oIler
a reward OF two hundred and hfty DOL
lars each for the arrest of stephen ;
NEavfeld, Charlie COpeiaBd and Wllllsn
b. Smith, charged with murder, Bn'
.eseaBsd from the OvertOn county jail OF
the twentv-fOurth of last month.