Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-02

Alamo wants a jeweler.
ClsTksvllle has q mite society.
CovingtOn has chicken cholera.
Crockett county is about to organize a
grange.
Alamo has two. .Sunday-schools and a
brickyard.
The Covlngton Clarion is advocating
temperance.
The Alamo Sentinel is one OF the best
weeklies published in the State. Its
system OF county cOrrc JpOndence is ex-
cellent.
More land is in cultivation in Dyer
this season than there has ever been in
any one year since the organization of
the county.
Alamo Sentinel: One pint Of cut
worms wss gathered from sixteen rows
OF Irish potatoes, each row only ten
steps in length, in Esquire JohnsOn's
garden.
| The Knoxville Press and Herald has
Jenkinism quite badly. 1t was enabled,
through the kindness OF lady, to make
q list Of presents at recent wedding in
that city.
Three hundred and ffty-seven crates
! OF strawberries were shipped from Gads-
den list Tuesday. This is the largest
shipment ever made III one day from
that place.
Meals Gazette: The authorities of
! Dyer county are "gOing for" the va
| grants, who are a curse to society. That's
| right; put them 10 work or make them
''go west and grow up with the cOun-
| try"
Clarksville Chronicle: p. H. Keesee
says he hes had tree cut down on the
Martin farm from which he got six cords
OF wood, besides one thousand and thir-
ty-slx rails. 1t was not very good tree
for rails either. Next.
Davies mill, located on the Hopkins
vile turnpike, five miles from Clarks-
VILE, was fired 10y inceDdiaTiCs few
nights ago, and burned to the ground.
LoSs TO the owner, p. e. Hambaugh,
hiteen thousand dollars.
Dresden Democrat: A. G.. Altman,
who was attacked about two months
since by mad-dOg while he was out
flulng, lost his horse a few days since on
account Of its having been bitten by the
log when he w9s attacked.
Is il possible for a hOrseman not to bet?
The Nashville Union andAmerican says:
General w. q. Harding, of Tennessee,
one OF the Oldest and truest devotees OF
the turf in this country, has never bet
cent on horse race in his life.
Dresd Democrat: Mr.. T. |. Little,
taxi S.ssessOr, found in district No. l one
hurIdred ana sixty-twO dogs and seven
ty two bitches. III every district in the
state does as well as this, where will the
national debt be in few years?
Meals Gazette has the following EbeI-
GUS article: John w. Wright authorizes
us to say that all persons are at liberty
II tell lies Oh him for forty days from
this date. Shoot 'em in, for John
Wright is able to stand it like little
man.
Knoxville Press and Herald: "Thir-
ty-seven foreign nations have promised
to be in at the Philadelphia centennial,
and New Jersey is considering propo-
sitiOn to become the thirty-eighth."
East Tennessee might make the "thir-
ty-ninth."
Dresden Democrat: There are so
many lOafers in our city the boys have
concluded to hold an auction from day
to day until they are all hired out. !
Their first one was held last Monday;
but the weather being bad, sales were |
very low.
Shelbyville Commercial: Last Satur-
day night Tom Whites son, in Blue |
Stocking Hollow, had mule colt fOaled |
that measured three feet four inches in |
hight. The colt is tailless, there only |
being a bunch Of hair where the tail |
ought to grow.
Bell County Times: With the first |
number Of the Times we present the ad-
vertisement Of the Memphis APPEAL,
which, however, as a valuable news
journal neC Is no Endorsement from US.
Don't subscTib1 for the APPEAL to the |
exclusion of the Times, but if you need
q Memphis paper, then the APPEAL is
the one.
Clarksville Chronicle: The board of |
directors Of the University of the South
west held q meeting in st. Louis last
week. They will meet in this city on
the first of June, when ma.Uers of i'm
portance will be brought before them.
We learn that they will take charge of
Stewart college, as now organized, for
the present.
Ripley News: That fatal disease,
known as CHAMBERS, we understand is
prevsiliDg among the horses around
Henning and Durhamville. Our young
friend, George Green, living mar Hem
ming, has lC Il four head of ste * by the
fearful scourge. A small bag of assafOe-
tida nailed to the trough will keep off
diseases peculiar y horses.
Clarksville Chronicle: The late tobac-
co seasons have been taken advantage
OF by ELL Of our planters who were ready
for them, and we iearh that about one
third OF the crop has been planted.
They are al busy getting ready for the
next one, and another good season about
the tenth Of June " III enable all of them
10 get their entire crOT out.
Dyersburg Gazette: Last Sunday, as
Mr.. Pete IhurmOnd was engaged in his
horse.lOt, by the bars, frightened bull
jumped over, LuCcking ore end Of the
bar out OF It's g, c6et. On return
sweep the bsr Suck Mr.. ThurmOnd a
fearful blow on the head, wounuing him
in a serious me- ~ q. His life was at
first despc red Of, but we are glad to
know that there are now some hopes OF
his recovery.
Ripley News: A calf wPs born on the
Jones place, near Oak Grove, last win
ter. and in a few q Us died. It5mother
Sc med to be inc 0nsOlsble over the loss
she srstst tned, aud Mrs. Jones had the
calf skinneu, f. hide stuffed and set up
in the lot. Tne COW seemed to be per
fect'y reconciIed by what had been done,
and every .ime she is brought up to be
milk 4, Universally stands by the stuffed
cslf and atfec'iOuslly licks it. a curious
cese Of maternal affection.
Brownsville States: Colonel John NJ.
Galloway, representative in the last
legislature from Fayette end Shelby,
also the champion letter-writer r Of Ten
nessee, has this to say in the Somer-
vile FalcOd Of the house ami It's menu
bers: "Strictly speaking, there was no
leader in the house. 1t was emphati-
cslly every member for himself and
devil take the hindmost.' A body emil
Dently and altogether sti generis, with
little Of party discipline or personal in
fluence, with sincere wish to advance !