Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-14

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J, corn in this section will be Immense
II In some sections of our county the rt
e ports from the wheat yield are anythin
: but encouraging. Springfield Record.
e Crops, both cotton and corn, are sti
involved in weeds and grass, but th
farmers have taken advantage of tn
favorable weather the past week, an
are making some progress toward get
ting their crops in good growing condi
Z tion.-MulJrees6O Monitor.
= A Morristown woman whose husban,
: Is dead drunk most Of the time, has pu
: on Widows weeds. A woman, not
= thousand miles away, picks over bean
4 with kid gloves to keep from catching
the cholera One of our merchants has
! a raised bill-a one dollar changed to
ten dollar-passed on him last week
4 Look out for this kind Of shinplasters
y I-MOrristOtOn G0zette.
: We have made general inquirl
e through the county, the past week, witt
: a view of forming correct opinion q
u to the yield of wheat. In several sec
tiOns the yield has been an average one
in Others far below, and take the eoun
try throughout, we have estimated tina
it will average half crop, but not of tn,
. Abest quality. Many Of the fields hav,
: been affected by the "seab. GdUGti'
: Examiner.
CAMDEN, July S.-We have been to,
} dry after so much rain, but we had /,
2 light rain, with some wind and consid
erable thunder and lightning last night
1t is cloudy this morning. Should W,
have rain for few weeks, our late corr
may improve our crop prospects, but a
best very short corn crop is inevitable
The tobacco worm has never been known
TO be so bad, so early in the season, as al
present. Union and Ameri
can.
, The Clarksville Tobacco Leaf Of the
ninth instant has the following from
Erin, Houston county: "There have
been twelve deaths from cholera since
the twenty-fourth Of June-eight whites
and four eolored. Thomas A. Gilman,
commission merchant, died here Of
cholera last week. w. ]. Thomas, 8
freight agent, was attacked with cholera
but is recovering. Business houses are
nearly all closed. The doctors have fled
the place, and left the people to take
care Of themselves"
From our friends in the country we re-
ceive the most encouraging reports as to
the growing crops. Oats are now being
harvested, and were scarcely ever better.
The wet weather may damage the crops,
II not 1t will be an extraordinary large
yield Throughout East Tennessee. Corn
never looked better. 1t has grown rapid
ly during the past few weeks, and one or
two more rains at the proper time, will
insure a heavy yield. Corn and oats
will perhaps 60 far to making up the
falling off in the wheat and grass crops.
RjaorriUe Chronicle.
A contest more or less fierce has been
waged for some years between Bethel
on the one side and Purdy on the other,
! TO see which shall be the countryside of
McNairy county. The county court
last Monday, by an almost unanimous
vote, decided to repair the courthouse at
Purdy, and for this reason appointed a
committee with carte blanc in regard
to the repairing, rebuilding, or other
wise dispOsing Of the courthouse ques-
ton as TO them may seem right. This
looks as if Purdy was master of the sit
uation.-JdcksOTl Wing and Tribune.
At regular meeting of the trustees of
East Tennessee university, the following
proceedings were had: Present.
Humes, Ludlow, Nelson, Baxter, Nc
Clung, Scott, Luttrell, Maynard, ,Cowan,
and Henderson. w. a. Henderson
was appointed secretary pro tenn. On
motion of Hon. H. Maynard, it was re-
solved, that the executive committee
are authorized to engage the services of
Rev. I. c. Teasdale, d. D., etc. as pro-
fessor Of rhetoric and oratory in the uni
versity, upon the terms, substantially,
as contained in his letter of July 5th,
1873, to Rev. DR. Humes.-Rn0rU Uille
Chronicle.
Yesterday afternoon Professor James
BOwery started for home in q buggy
from Bells stable, and when outside of
the city, some distance, not needing his
horse, he ran against an embankment
and capsized the buggy, which fright
ened the horse to such an extent that he
disengaged himself from the buggy il
quick time and came to the city in full
harness. Mr.. LOwery was thrown out,
but, we are glad to state, received no Sc
rious injuries. The buggy is somewhat
damaged, as a matter of course. Mr.. |
l.. was taken home by one of BelPs
drivers, about seven o'clock in the after
nOOn.--RaOrUiLie Chronicle.
Our old and greatly respected fellow
citizen, Thomas Kell, was in town last |
Thursday, wearing a pair of cotton
pants, the cloth of which was spun and |
wOve, and the pants made by his wife |
fifty years ago. The pants are perfectly |
sound in all their parts, never having |
been patched or mended in any shape |
since they were first made-in the early |
days of the ancient couples married life. |
Mr.. Kell is now eighty-three years old, |
and walks as spry and as erect as most |
of our young men; and we hope he may
last as long as the pants, which look as
though they had a quarter Of century's |
good service in them yet.-Mc MinnuiHe |
NelO Era.
About one o'clock on Tuesday morn
ing a heavy storm of wind and rain,
by thunder and lightning,
swept over the city. At times the wind
seemed TO approach the fury of cy-
clone, and the rain for several minutes
at a time poured down in torrents, while
the loud thunder shook the very earth,
and the wierd lightning lit up with a
glare the whole heavens. But little
damage, however, was done by the wind
or lightning, save the leveling of a few
trees here and there, while the rain was
an Incompatible blessing to the thirsty
crops. The corn crop was absolutely
saved by the rain, and we are glad to
earn that 1t was general. l.-JdcksOn WHO
md Tribune.
Notwithstanding the annual and
chronic crOaking which the farmers
more or less indulge every wear about
his time, the crops in this section are
"a her promising. Now and then in 1
Every neighboFhOod crops seriously in ;
ured by grass may be seen, but as a rule
t is the result of oveT-crOpping OF ne
ylect. Information gathered from all
parts OF the county justifies the state
nent that the cotton crop this season in
Madison county bids fair to yield fair
average, while the early corn was pretty
we'll made by the rams this week, and
ate corn, as rule, is looking well. 1
severe drouth this month all
vii be well with our farmers.-Jdcksoa
Wing and tribune.
SBrITHvIBLE, July O. We are rejoiced
% learn that the cholera is so rapidly
eaving Nashville. Some Of those who |,
iheltered on the highlands are returning
% their homes in your city. The gen.
eral Impression Is that il has done, or
we'll nigh, for 1873, so far as Tennessee
9 concerned. Corn crops are fine and !
n good hx. With few more showers,
1t the proper time, an abundant corn
,rop will be realized. Wheat is little
ihort in quantity, but excellent in quail ,
ty. The July quarterly court of this
county elected J. +. Trspp superintend-
snt Of public instruction, last Monday. !
There were four applications for the
position, but he seemed TO be the choice /.
'f the county court.-NashUilc Union . .
md American.
At meeting of the Nashville nledi- ,
al society held Tuesday night, the late !
epidemic was freely and extensively dis /;
;ossed. 1t was the unanimous opinion :
u all present. only one dissentinn that y