Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-02-09
STATE NEWS.

Davidson county is to have q lunatic
asylum.
The Johnsonville elevator will soon
be completed.
A medical society has been organized
in Henderson county.
The Wilson county grangers have or
ganized a temporary council.
The CIsrksville and Edgefeld narrow
guage railroad is being surveyed.
A fire alarm broke up a recent meet
ing OF the Jackson municipal board.
Rolfe Saunders, of Knox county, has
received herd of imported Ayrshire cattle.
An Alabama carpenter named War
moth tried TO suicide at Lebanon, last week.
The accidental discharge of gun at
Wavery a few days ago wounded seven men.
Two Jackson reporters are engaged in
polemic, and bleodshed is expected to fol-
low.
A Chattanooga paper announces q Mar
ruary the tenth.
James McGinnis, of Jackson, has
been arrested for attempted outrage upon
cOlored woman.
Last week Alf Dill made an un-
effectual attempt to shoot f. A. Douglass mar
Shal OF Wayerly.
One night last week an incendiary
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west OF Covington.
One hundred and twenty-five horses
were hitehed TO the courthouse racks IN
Dyersburg last Monday.
Clay county has levied an ad-
diHonal schoOl-tax of one mill on property
and one dollar on polls
One night lsstweek at a country frolic
in Knox county, BOnaparte craig shoJ John
b. Cox, bat did not Kill NM
J. B. Simpson, recently jsiler ct Wa
verly, has been appointed a deputy United
States marshal for West Tennessee.
A mailbag left on the platform at
jackson, Tennessee, a few nights ago, by the
Mississippi Central railroad, was cut open and
robbed.
Jim Parker, colored, refused to pay
the dddler al recent Upton county party,
when he was sho. By the man who carried
the hat around.
J. +. Woodward, charged with the
murder of the marshal OF McMinneville, and
his accompuces, James and Gilbert Flynn, are
in Jail AT Nashville.
The Jackson Dispatch javOrs the
nomination OF General A. w. Campbell, OF
that city, as candidate for governor by the
Democratic convention.
A traveller, giving his name as J. r.
HaSkett, left the Commercial hotel, at Jack,
son, last week, without paying his bill, and
also cut the bed-clothing 10 pieces.
Subscriptions to the amount of ten
Duck River Valley road, on which wo TX viii
be commenced at Columbia very soon.
From October 1st, 1873, to February,
1874, Nashville had forty-six fires, involving
loss Of one hundred and Iwenty-nine thou
sand nine hundred and twenty eight dollars.
The Christian church, Of Jackson, has
issued a circular letter for a mass meeting of
preachers and lsy-mC Cmbers Of this denom.na-
lion in West Tennessee, 10 be held in that city
May LIST.
The Chattanooga iron company has
completed Its preliminary organization, the
last subscribers to the necessary stock being
j.. W. McLsne, Webster & Marks, &. d. Cal
houn and n. DOwd.
Two steamOOa navigate Forked Deer
trade. An Ohio river man wants TO place
boat on the FOrked Deer river, capable of
carrying three hundred tons Of freight.
Governor Brown has confirmed the
election, by Inc directors Of the East Tennes-
see insane asylum, OF John NJ. Boyd, NJ. D., of
Knoxville, AS physician to the board ia assist
ing them TO select a site for the proposed
building.
The O wensbOro and Russelville rail-
road under the amendment 10 its charter,
will be consolidated with the Evansville,
OwenSb0rO and Nashville railroad, and have
power To issue one million five thousand dol
lars Of bonds for completing the line.
The Dycr County Progress says: awe
sre informed by Captain ! ON Smith, who has
the contract for the dirt work on the Pa
due Ia and Memphis railroad, between New
bern and Ripley, that be viii soon put large
force 10 work ON the Ripley end, and work
this way. He will stil keep his present force
al work ri NewbeTn.