Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-27
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Trenton hes a billiard club.
Brownsville is playing chess.

Trenton hes billiard club.
Brownsville is playing chess.
PickettviIle has base ball club.
Humboldt has photograph gallery.
Bolivar has organized a military COM
pany.
Cleveland wants a first-class female
college.
Humboldt is to organize a military
company.
Bellville is going to organize a MILL
tsry company.
The Columbia Herald and Mail issued
a supplement lss. week.
The Knoxville Press and Herald is
editorializing on Waddy Thompson.
Bellville now rejoices in the owner
ship Of mayor and board Of aldermen.
Captain Blunt, OF Cleveland, has
raised fifty-five bushels of wheat per
acre.
The mayor and aldermen Of Ch8tts-
nOoga have been indicted for failure TO
repair Market street.
A Lebanon cooper has contracted to
furnish q Nashville firm seventeen
thousand -four barrels.
The Shelbyville Gazette has discov-
cred paper in this city by the name Of
the Memphis Express.
Sam Hutchinson, of Rhea county,
claims that he will raise one hundred
bushels Of corn to the acre.
Nix Gilbert, who killed an aged blind
man named Johnson, in Lincoln county,
has been sentenced to death.
Humboldt Herald: The recorder dis
posed Of only three cases this week-a
doctor, lawyer and merchant.
The editor of the Sparta Index sdver-
tises that he will take dOg-skins in pay
ment for subscriptions to his paper.
Jack Hunt, Of Monroe county, recent
ly shot his wife dead and fled the cOun-
try, but was subsequently captured.
Dyersburg Gazette: "Bacon sides sell
in Dyersburg at sixteen cents pound"
What do bacon Tears and fronts sell for?
Bellville Enterprise: Crockett county
will be ably represented by a company
Of young men at the Centennial in Phil
adelphia.
Knoxville Press and Herald: Another
Of the great headlights of the Republican
party-Wendell Philiips-cOincides SUBJ
stantially with Kelley and Butler on
the currency question.
Trenton News Gazette: Young mock
ing-birds arc plentiful hereabouts, not
withstanding that great many Of the
sweet-throated warbIers are carried off
for the northern market.
Brownlow's Knoxville Chronicle: The
OF the Press and Herald
toward Governor Porter and his admin
istration, is in pleasant contrast with
this unusually hot season.
Brownlow's Knoxville Chronicle:
has a Psychological Sem
the Jail yard, where Migrants are taught
the art of street improvement.
Shelbyville Commercial: Last Mon
day we dropped down to Nashville to
spend a few hours in that city. We
found business duller than we have ever
seen it there at this season Of the year.
Pulaski Citizen: William Conner,
colored, was arrested last Friday at the
instance OF Susie Barber, white, and
to town and tried before Esquire
on the charge of having
raped the latter.
Brownsville Democrat: We have it
from reliable authority that gentleman
living north OF Forked Deer, harvested
two hundred and forty bushels of wheat
from six acres-forty bushels to the acre
Who can beat it?
Alamo Sentinel: Mr.. Richard Burke
brought US, last Saturday, limb from
an apple tree, only nine inches in length,
bearing over fifty well developed APP
Pies, the smallest one being almost as
arge as hen egg.
Chattanooga Times: It is worth in
whether the city OF Chatta-
lOoga is not liable to q ten per cent. tax
N all Of its scrip IN circulation, and ten
Der cent. more for every time it is re-
,eived and re-issued.
Shelbyville Commercial: 'Brownlow
sys the most popular act Of the three |
asst legislatures of Tennessee was its al /
sine die. The most popular |
vet of Brownlow's life viii be to turn up |
lis toes" Wouldn't his nose do SIS |
veil?
Bellville Enterprise: Mr.. HORNE, the |
amous fruit-groWer Of Gadsden, passed
trough our town this week. He has
most Of the fruit around Bells,
nd intends to ship four thousand BUSH
Is from here during the next thirty
lays.
Shelbyville Commercial: Our sapient
of the Marshall Gazette
the only paper in the State that has
AIKEN direct issue with US Oh the Jordan
Holt case), works himself up into boil
ng heat, and froths like dog with by
rophObia.
Dyersburg Gszette: Messrs. Nose and
esse Hurley the other day cut from
heir field stalk of corn which had on
forty. eight ears of corn. Foriy-five
aTs grew in one cluster and in one
luck; of course they were small, but
ley were fully developed.
Bellville Enterprise: DR.. Williams,
Tuggist and postmaster at Gadsden, |
'as robbed few nights since Of about |
x hundred dollars; he left his pants, |
his pOcket-bOok, near an
pen window, and the thief easily Sc
Ired it without entering the house.
Brownsville States: An alteration
,ok place in District No. 8, last week,
etween a cOlored preacher and another
egro not so piously inclined, which re-
lifted in the one getting his senses
nocked out Of him partially, and then
e rushed On the divine and bit his nose
alf off.
The Dyersburg Progress has the fol-
wing: The Fayetteville Express says
Ir. t. G. Little, OF that county, raised
vo hundred and five bushels Of wheat
4 five acres, making foTty-one bushels
the acre. If any farmer in Dyer
,unty can beat that, please let US hear
ON you.
Brownlow's Knoxville Chronicle:
excitement w2s occasiOned
Iring last week in the Paint Rock dis
let, growing out Of the arrest and ex-
Of Calvin Pope and Osborne
haley, charged with the murder,
lring the war, OF a MAJ by the name
Billingsley.
Brownsville Bee: Rents in Browns.
lie are cheaper than ever before
lOwn. 1t is the first time we ever saw
lpty houses "gO-a-be gging" for ten j
Is. We will have twenty-six BUSH
SO houses to rent this fall, when the
W ones now in course OF construction Z
2 completed.
The Humboldt Herald man thus gives s
} advice: "The famous Gibson wells,
lose health-giving waters have been 81
INK by many in West Tennes see, and -
lose praise is on the lips of thousands, ="
We been reopened." The waters Il