Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-03-28
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Morristown has the mumps.

ed outside.
There will be special term of the cir
cult court at Brownsville in May.
Westbrook, OF the Bee, wants a dis
tillery to be established at Brownsville.
The last circuit court cost Greene
county from three to four thousand dol
lars.
The name of the Jackson Courier
Herald has been changed to that OF the
Jackson Sun.
Londermilk, the brigand, recently
made an Intellectual attempt to break
jail at Kingston.
The preliminary meeting of the Union
soldiers OF the Army of the Tennessee g
will be held at Greeneville, May 1st.
The Brownsville States, under the
head of "persohal," says: "a great
many wagons have been Ia town this
week"
a few days ago EDoch Moore, Of
Greene county, died froW5 the effects Of
modification Of hiE leg which, though
| broken, be refused to nave ampuJated.
Dyersburg Progress: at is feared By
many of our farmers who intend to plant
| tobacco, that the continued wet weather
| VIII PlCNCAb lhSAAA AAOAA Baeahe
bsds.n
Morristown Gazette: "We understand
semi-ofIicially that the committee of
! citizens exonerated Mayor Dickinson
from any fraud in the management of
the corporation funds"
The Winchester Home Journal says
Of Senator Johnson's recent Oratorical
thunderbolt: at is great speech, and
we shall publish full text Of il in next
weeks Home Journal
There is one district in Greene county,
says the American, that has not had a
convict for the last forty years Except
one for manslaughter); but they have
ten months school in the year.
The Milan Exchange says: "All the
wheat we have seen lately is looking
well, and the prospect is that we will at
! least have bread this year." How much
have you seen? That's the question.
The Knoxville Press and Herald says
of the Solons were not great, and their
resulting work is to be measured ac-
cOrdingly. We must not judge them too
harshly."
That big difference of opinion and lit
tie question of veracity between Tom
Neal, of the Dyersburg Gazette, and +.
w. Thomas, of the Dyersburg Progress,
has been amicably adjusted by an srbi-
tratiOn committee. No fight.
Knoxville Chronicle: "The thinking
people of the country will eventually all
favor the policy of not only free educa-
ton for the masses, but OF forcing the
masses to take the benefit of such an
advantage"
The Knoxville Chronicle says that the
legislature has proved q most uninter-
esting body, distinguished more for what
it did not do than for what it did. 1t
has been peculiarly negative body 1t
failed to do anything positive, even
on the Torbett issue question.
Kirby, in his last letter to his paper
(the Chattanooga Times), says that
"thfs legislature is unusually proficient
in the art of how not to do it, not so
much by reason of any particular skill
in the procrastination, but simply by
main strength and awkwardness."
Alfred M'Kay, the oldest barber in
Nashville, died last Thursday night at
the age of fifty-one years. He had been
in barber shops for forty-One years, or
since he was ten years old. For twenty
years or more he was employed in the
barbershop of the old Sewenee house.
COvington Record: awe learn from
inquiring OF farmers from various por-
tlOns of the county, that the wheat crop
is very pronb-ing-negar was more so, |
in fact, and tffst tBsre is a greater |
breadth Of crop sown this year than |
usual by from One-f0urth to one-third, at
least"
Shelbyville Commercial: "The charge |
recently made by the New Orleans |
Times that Senator johnson bribed the |
members of the legislature from Shelby |
county to vote for him has been proven |
falsehood of the basest fabrication. |
Even the Memphis Ledger spits upon
the foul assertion"
Five young ladies and five young
bachelors of Knoxville are willing to
challenge similar number of the same
class from anywhere in the State, in
spelling match, at the Operahouse, in
that city, at any time within twenty
days, the winners to dispose of the pro-
ceeds for any charitable object of their
selection.
Dyersburg Progress: zone Of our sub
scribers told US few days since that he
ing and taking his paper, before he could
get to read it himself, that he would
have to stop taking it. A man who
would borrow or take another mans pa
per and read it, without paying for it,
is too mean for the dogs to bark at"
True, but he is not too mean for the dogs
70 bite.
The Covington Record, in chicken
toI - 10
whose name it should publish: "The |
meanest thing that has happened for a
week, was that fellows coming to town |
the other day with his wife's little pickle
Of butter that she had saved by denying
herself and children in order to be able
to buy some needles and thread, and
taking the meney he got for the sale of
it to get drunk on"
The Winchester Home Journal, whose
editor is usually liberal in his imagina-
ton, says: "Sam Riddleberger, of
Nashville, once weighed five hundred
and twenty-three pounds. In 1854 he
fattened one hundred and sixty pounds.
He came near suffocatiOn at one time,
and the doctors reduced him one hun
dred and seventy-fiye pounds in five
days. He now weighs two hundred and
ninety six pounds"
The following piece of comic an
ger from the Murfreesb1rO News,
which, though said to be edited by Ex-
Governor Browns brother-in-lsw, seems
inspired by Brownlow's Knoxville
Chronicle, is the most fearful thing
ever written since the days of Junius:
at is hard to tell which makes the
greatest ass Of itself in toading TO An
drew JohnsOn-the Union and Ameri-
can, the Republican Banner, or the
State Legislature"
The Franklin Review and Journal in
speaking Of Senator Johnson's late
speech says: "The truth is, he is the
only statesman in America who fully
comes up to the stature of Clay Web
ster, Wright, Calhoun and others. He
is to-day the most prominent man for
the next Presidency. The American
people have at last awakened to the
great fact that he is able, honest and
that he alone of all the men
of this day is able to bring the govern
ment back to its ancient mOOrings."
Winchester Home Journal: "Now is
the time for capitalists to come to Win
chester and franklin county. While
of our legislators have squan-
dered time in trying to legislate money