Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-05-05
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Knoxville is base-balling.
Dyer county has mad-dogs.


Buffalo gnsts have killed much stocl
IN Upton county.
a Franklin preacher has consented [,
lecture on fashion"
The fruit in Upton county has beel
damaged by cold weather.
Dyersburg is clamoring for the estab
lishment OF manufactures.
The Chattanooga Times thinks tina
the party is not TeactiOnRry.
a preacher Of the female gender ha!
been trying TO reform Jackson.
The taxable property in Chattanooga
il valued at five million dollars
The recent cold weather has damaged
the Williamson county wheat crop.
y few days ago James Lispenby
killed pelican in Henderson county.
BrownsvilIe States: It is feared that
/ cateTpillaTs will again visit This section
before spring is over.
Mrs. Margaret Reed, OF Wilson county,
died few days ago st the age of one
hundred and four years.
A Dyersburg editor has been induced
to believe that there are coal, iron, sill
Yer and lead mines in Dyer county.
Mr.. Bell, the oldest citizen Of Gallstin,
died lest week. At the time of his
death he was eighty-five years of age.
EPluri6us UpuBl and revolutionary
poetry will soon appear in the patent
manufactured newspapers Of this State.
Prof DeCastro, the magician, has
been arrested in Knoxville, for giving
gift concerts. East Tennessee is vir-
tuous.
A Franklig county negro fell from
mule while crossing Harpeth creek,
near Franklin, last week and was
drowned.
By the comptroiler's semi-annual ap-
pOrtiOnmentO Of the poll-t8X, Dyer county
gets eight hundred and seventy-five dol
lars for her school fund.
"The cersbrO spelling meningitis. or
photographed frenzy" is what Smith,
of the Fayetteville Express calls it, and
says it is about to reach his town.
A. S. Nicholson, deputy-sheriff Of
Green county, Alabama, recently COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself at the
residence OF Henry May, in M'Nairy
county.
Winchester Home Journal: Ceriph,
ptysmagogue, tachygraphy, giaour,
bael, eyOt, euchymy and demOniacal
played smash with the last Boston SPELL
ing match.
Jackson Wing and Tribune: Three
hundred and thirty-three fishermen cast
their lines in Latham's mill-rsce one
day this week, with the usual luck.
What was the "usual luck"
Jackson Sun: The county court of
to low ~
on dogs. The legislature would have
made the law popular by exempting one
dog to each head of a family.
Paris Intelligencer: Mr.. John Hicss,
OF this county, few days since plowed
up large clump of lead ore, very rich,
which weighed over fourpounds. Several
specimens have been found in the same
neighbOrhOOd.
Humboldt Journal: "The mosquitoes
Injured our reputation SO much last sea-
SOD, We had hoped that they would not
again appear in this region" The repu-
tation of that editor was only skin
deep. Hence the damage, but not the
"injury."
Shelbyville Gazette: Mr.. s. b. Hos
kins, a constable in the ninth civil dis
trict OF this county, has had seven chill
dren born unto him, and each one OF
them was born on the twenty-second of
some month. There are six of his chill
dren living,
PaTson Billy G. BrOwnlow's Knoxville |
Chronicle has the following ridiculous ar
tiCle: ave have asked Democratic pa
pers in East Tennessee to Ome out and
say whether they indorse the theory of |
the Memphis APPEAL, to the effect that |
the 'TOrbett Issues ought OF right to be |
paid. We have looked in vain for a re-
ply. Does the Press and Herald sp- |
prove that position? Will it answer, |
and let the people know where it stands |
on question in which every taxpayer |
is directly interested?"
Humb )ldt Herald: Three negroes
made application for dinner at the |
Louisville hotel, at the Crossing, last |
Sunday, but from the hostile appearance |
Of few bOarders standing about the
office, the trio suddenly decided that
they were not hungry anyhow. One or
two have also tried to force themselves
as guests upon the Dunlap house.
Shelbyville Commercial: Our friend,
John e. Barrett, of this county, informs |
Us that his wife took from a goose that
was sitting an egg that was not pipped.
She broke the shell and found it con-
aimed live gOsling, with four feet and
.hree wings. The feet were all natural,
ss were also the wings, but one Of the
wings grew out of the back between the
)ther two. DR.. Davidson, of Richmond,
las it preserved in alcohol.
Franklin Review and Journal:
We are informed by Mayor James w.
Harrison that he and his wife went to
zee the burning hickory tree upon his
sther's place near Spring Hill last Sun
lay and it was still burning. 1t is now
Ibout five feet high. It was struck by
lightning last August and has been
)urning ever since. The tree when
truck was sixty feet high, and green
hickory, and has burned from that night.
Humboldt Journal: "The copies OF
he Memphis APPEAL which reached
his city yesterday were printed one
ide up and the other down. The AP-
ZEAL is sometimes editorially in the
anne distressing condition" So is every
Opy Of the APPEAL when seen by the
piritually corrupted eyes OF the Journal |
ditor, whose virtuous interest in the az
airs Of this city caused him to make the
notice: "The disreputsble
Iouses on Washington street, in Mem
his, are being Investigated by the pO-
ice bOard.n
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