Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-19
TENNESSEE.

r. r. Butler is sick in Washington.
Drunkenness is epidemic in Jones.
borO.
In a recent election, Sullivan coun.
" decided against q school tax.
There is great complaint in Uppe,
Tennessee, Of sheep killing dogs.
The Cleveland SWeetWater Enter
prise says the country is flooded with
counterfeit five and ten dollar bills.
Colonel ]. B. Cooke formally an
nOunceS himself a candidate for the
place on the supreme court bench va
Gated by Judge Nelson.
Beatty, the Maury county wife muir
derer, has had the time of his exseu-
ton postponed by the supreme court
nom the 18th instant to April 9th,
John Presswood, the DeKsIb eoun.
ty murderer, has been sentenced by
Chief Justice Nicholson, to hang on
the 10Th Of April, within one mile Of
Smithyille.
The Gazette tells Of the flight of the
postmaster, DR.. GOshorn, OF Overs
burg, who is said to be a deiaulter to
the amount OF SS,465 So. His sure
ties are Messrs. L. II. Benton, J. n.
York and I. J. Frazier. Mr.. JaRue
Harrison is the detective who bounced
down on GOshorn.
The State bureau Of agriculture held
its first meeting at Nashville on the
18th, and elected General W II. Jack
son president. Professor J. NJ. SAT-
ford, of Lebanon, Wss elected chemist.
and Professor Nicholson, of East Ten.
nessee University, was requested TO
address a circular letter to ali the agri-
cultural sOcietiesin the South.
Mrs. Francis B. Fogg, who died
Friday ia Nashville, rose early that
morning, opened a window, and find |
ing it very early returned 90 repOse.
she was sleeping soundly when her
husband left her, and was sent for
the breakfast room. The serv-
ant found her dead. This estimabIe
.ady was born near Charleston. S. c..
a June, 1901, and consequently was
nearly u years of age at the time of
ler death. She was the daughter of
Major Rutledge, whose father was
me OF the signeTs OF the Declaration
Independence, and her mother was
Middleton, also one OF the sign
rs Of that sacred instrument. She
vas married in 1923, and a short time
fterwards removed TO Nashville, and
0ntinQed to live there ever since.
The Nashville correspondent of the
'ress aud Herald says that The ques- !
ON Of establishing the line between
and Tennessee has been
about and legislated upon for
yer seventy years. 1t appears that
4 1901 commissioners were appointed
y the legislatures Of Virginia and &
tennessee to settle and adjust the s
Ounasry line between the States, and ]
na1 The commissioners appointed on
AZ part Of the former were General L
0seph Martin, Greed Taylor and I
etef Johnson; and for the latter, q
loses FISK General John Sewer q
al 0eneral george Rutled9e. These q
len went TO work to establish fhe n
ne, ana compromised upon fhe \
ne where Ii now il. They q
Iads their reports to the respective :
Qisiatures-which was ratified nv ~
ia States in 1903. We understand .,
Il Virginia now claims some seven r
ca miles Of the territory Of Tennes. Il
all along the line from Gambler 4
I'D Gap 10 the North Carolina line, a
lis would destroy and obliterate
veral Of cur counties, and in the C,
Of one Of our border repre-
atatives, g Il cam tba did, Indeed.
I. Editor, this would cause US to al
the famous White Top with OF
Of its mineral wealth, and yCu eN
oW too much Of its proprietor to 60
the idea Tor @ moment that al
4 unuld he eubmitfed 10. ~