Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-04
TkNNESSEE.
Winchester has a glee club.

w lHt ntsteI las gee cluOs
Troy has new brick pavements.
Horse-thieves infest Sumner county.
Brownsville wants q new llvery-sta-
bic.
Bret Harte lectures tonight in Nash
vile.
Fayetteville has a turnpike and two
banks.
Dyersburg had slight frost Monday
night.
Sumner county was frosted Septem-
Der 18th.
Covington has an amateur negro min
strel club.
The college at Troy is approaching
completion.
Chattanooga is nuissnced by rail-
road crossing.
Butter sells for tbirty-fve cents at
Brownsville.
Brownsville has pneumonia and
watermelOns.
Mckenzie Is to have a fashionable
wedding soon.
Nashville is to have a new engine for
her waterworks.
The G lllatin high school has two hum
dred and flfty pupils.
The Upton county col0Ted fair will be
held October S0th ana 3ist
Nashville had three hundred and
ninety-six arrests last month.
Last week John l. Booth, Of Henry
county, suicided by taking iaEdan UNI.
DIR. George A. MsIhes has severed his
connection with the Somerville Falcon.
The COvington jail prisoners made q
vain effort 70 esc'pe wednesday night.
BrOwnlow announces himself a can
di4Rte for congress IN the second district.
The Nashville street-cars are to have
clocks Tor the convenience of passengers
The Democrats OF Haywood have
nominated Lewis Bond for representative.
Hemphill, of Nashville, ia feasting the
Uaion and American editors on fat oysters
The Upton county far commences at
Coyington october 18th, and continues four
days.
The Hamilton county Democratic
convention meets at Chattapooga Monday
next
The wife of the MoTristown Spy's ed
itOr has given birth 10 a nine-pouna Bohe-
mian.
A Brownsville doctor recently had a
fight with a whisky. dealer about a pint o the
creature.
Judge NJ. NJ. Brien, of Nashville,
says he is in favor Of mixel schools and repu-
diauOn.
A few days ago Joe CahIl fatally
stabbed q man named Morgan at Chstta-
nooga.
The Nashville board Of trade failed to
meet "Wednesday because no quorum was
present
Dyersburg will gather half of cot
ton crop. The corn win yield more than was
expected.
Geo. J. Bacon, Of Greene county, was
run over and crushed to death by wagon
last week
Blant Harris had bis hand badly
injured by the Paris Istslltgenosr job press a
few days ago.
Horace Gordon, eolored, was instantly
.,lsd ~ falling out OF a wegon near Acken-
Eie last week.
A correspondent Of the Springfield
Record says Evansville Is citB et l9Vt 'hou'
sand inhabitant'.
One firm at Covington has purchased
sighty-three bales Of new cotton, mostly Nom
Lauderdale county.
The total vote OF Nashville la the
late mayors election was ave thousand three
hundred and thirty-six.
The Memphis aud Charleston railnoad
paid twenty thousand dollars on Its interest
account last "Wednesday.
James T. Woods, who murdered Sam
Woods, his brother-ip-iaw, at Hadley's Bend,
has been Jailed at Nashville
Last week Rev. Mrs Dlckey, Of Dyer
county, died with milk sickness, which pre-
walls northwest Of DyershuIg,
A Nashville man has a hens egg
measuring four by two and half inches ana
weighing nearly half pound.
Sam Ferguson, a colored house-b burner
Of jackson county, has been put IN the Peni-
teniiRTy FOR tweDty-one years.
NashviIIe's total Indebtedness is
81 SO sos 2. Expenses for last municipal year,
sl6l l5se IL receipts Si6l.5e9 IL
The Tennessee historical society of
Sashyilie VIII celebrate the anniversary OF
Kings Mountain next Tuesday.
The editor of the Winchester Home
Journal has for sale "a mule. four months old,
well-formed and large 10 his age"
Wednesday night negroes tried TO as.
sassiDate W. 4. ChTistenberry while he was
crossing a levee near Hunr ogdon.
The second survey OF the Cairo and
Tennessee river railroad from Paris TO the
Kentucky State line has been completed.
Hiram and Michael Vaughn have
bought the states interest in the Nash Vile
and Oaliatin turnpike for ten thousand dol.
/ lan-
Lafayette Smith, who killed Henry
Bradford IN Henry county in 1853, has been
arrested In Illinois, and Is now In jan In
1 Paris.
Maynard has become a porterhouse
steak, as he was badly hammered by IN.
Democratic candidate az GreeneviIle lasi
/ Wednesday.
An immigrant party, consisting o.
seventeen females wo men, two boys, two OK
1 wagons and three dogs, recently paraded tht
( streets OF Nashville.
A Lebanon negress recently buried
her child in a shsilow grave, and when N,
body as returned 20 her, ehe conggnsd II a
the bottom Of well.
A civil rights correspondent writing
frcB ClafkEvilie to the Knoxville Ckronfsi
says the old Whigs of Montgomery coun I,
VII Eivs maynard liberal suppork
Henry Bailey, q eolored boy Of Fsv
sSee seunsv, last week sfst himssif nsadssi