Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-04
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Cumberland, Maryland, wants new
charter.
Knoxville, Tennessee, has a religious
revival.
Baltimore, Maryland, has a debt of
! forty millions of dollars.
A flee stands guard at the Methodist
church in Talbotton, Georgia.
Crockett county, Tennessee, is to Oh
ganize teachers association.
The recent rain-storm did much dam
age in Sumner county, Tennessee.
Ten miles of the Nashville and
Vicksburg railroad is ready for iron.
A lead-mine of exceeding richness has
been discovered an Sumner county, Ten
nessee.
Ten thousand dollars is expended
tOmhouse.
An unseen person recently fired at the
Knoxville and Ohio railroad agent at
Coal Creek.
New Orleans has an "upper girls
high school. This is grade above that
of most cities.
Last week fifty thousand dollars
worth of property in Baltimore was de-
stroyed by fire.
The Brownsville, Tennessee, cotton
factory commences operations the ninth
/ of this month.
A few days ago, Robert Anderson, an
/ old citizen of Montgomery county, sui
/ cided by shooting himself.
The Batesville ARK Times fears
! that the recent frost has damaged the
fruit prospects in that section.
The grangers Of Haywood county,
! Tennessee, are to organize a county
| council at Brownsville this week.
The recent freshet did much damage
in Wayne county, Tennessee, and car
ried off the bridge at Waynesboro.
A new ore-bank has been opened near
| Greeneville, Tennessee, by the New
York and Tennessee iron company.
w. H. n. Burns, deputy United
! States marshal, was killed by a gang of
counterfeiters, in Sullivan county, last
month.
There is a probability that the interior
! of the Lindell hotel, st. Louis, Missouri,
/ will be finished with East Tennessee
/ marble.
The Baptist revival at Chattanooga,
! Tennessee, continues with unabated in
terest, and siXty-one persons have been
! converted.
| Mrs. Ward and troupe still continue
/ their frantic temperance ululstiOns
around the Greenevilie, Tennessee,
| liquor saloons.
The Virginia papers express condem
nation of the scheme to confer upon
! the legislature the power to frame new
constitution.
The Manassas (Va.) Gazette says that
several new settlers from the north and
west have purchased lands in that
neighbOrhood.
At a recent grangers' meeting near
Grant, Boone county, William Under
hill shot Len Sanford, who is not dam
gerously wounded.
G. w. Price, an inmate of the lunatic
! asylum at Lexington, Kentucky, re-
Gently committed suicide by hanging
| himself with sheet.
Since the war much attention has
been paid to fruit culture in Virginia.
There are several flourishing nurseries
in WestmOreland county.
The Catholic churches in Baltimore
are receiving donations of money for
| the prosecuted bishops and priests in
Germany and Switzerland.
Friday last, Thomas Sarten shot and
dangerously wounded Thomas Grindle
at Heiskell's station, on the Knoxville
and Ohio railroad, in Tennessee.
Chancellor Temples decision in the
case of r. Swepson as. G. NJ. Branner
| ct al. gives the complainant title and
possession of the Knoxville gaswOrks.
A detective in search of a thief re-
| Gently visited Murfreesboro, Tennessee,
and was arrested by the police of that
town, who believed him to be rascal.
C. Evers, city missionary of Lynch
/ burg, Virginia, wants to use the small
pox hospital, Of that place, as tempo
rary house of refuge for fallen women.
Deputy-Sheriff Wall, of Decatur coun-
ty, few days ago shot and killed man
named Gsnus, who drew q pistol and
resisted the officers efforts to arrest him.
Last week, Mrs. Sue Wilson, wife of
| Colonel Thomas Wilson, formerly pro-
prietor of the Montgomery white sui
pher springs, died at her home in Vir-
'ginia.
The Huntingdon TENN Republican
warmly advocates an additional school
/ tax in Carroll county, and believes the
proposition to levy the same will be
| voted.
Charles Bilharz, deputy postmaster at
| Pittsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, will
| be tried for embezzlement by the pres
ent term of the United States court at
! Danville.
| Only seven out of thirteen of the best
/ farms on Severn and Ware rivers, in
! Gloucester county, Virginia, are uncul-
! tivated. The Lynchburg Nea0S says this
is why Virginia is poor.
Owing to the peculiar obligations and
heavy responsibilities imposed upon re-
tail whisky dealers, by the liquor laws,
Lewisburg, Greenbrier county, West
Virginia, has no bar-rOOm.
The apportionment of the Carroll
! county, Tennessee, school fund amounts
/ to sixty-seven cents per scholar. The
remaining sum of five thousand dollars
will be apportioned next April.
/ Last Sunday week the wall of the
! church building at Waynesboro fell in
with a tremendous crash, the teachers
and children barely escaping horrible
death by fleeing from the crumbling ed
ifice.
Eliza Chandler, a colored woman in
the employ of Judge Joseph jackson,
of Danville, Kentucky, recently made
one pound of butter from a quart of
cream by simply rolling it in glass
| bottle.
The Nashville Journal of Commerce
asks il that place is to be a great COM
mercial center, or only a way station.
The Journal then speaks of the discrim-
nations made against Nashville by the
Louisville and Nashville, and Great
Southern railroad.
The Maysville Bulletin says that the
Kentucky and Great Eastern railroad
company are negotiating for the pur-
chase of the Maysville and Lexington
railroad. The bargain has not yet been
concluded, or if it has the terms have
not vet been made public.
The Wayne County (Tenn.) Citizen
learns that the greater portion of the
southwest part of the county has very
promising wheat crop, and a large
amount has been sOwn the present sea-
son, He thinks the crop looks better
than it has for the last five or six years.
The Knoxville Press and Herald says:
"McMinn county comes to the front
once more, with Archibald Blizzard, of
Athens, for governor. Sam WINS is al
ready named as q candidate. The mod
ern Athens thus adds two Intellectual
| giants To the host pressing onward to