Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-03
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Columbia wants q boat club.
C0lur7hia is IN have OaswOTkB

Columbia wants boat club.
Columbia is to have gasWorks.
Nashville taxes commercial tourists.
Robertson county has large blsckber-
ry crop.
The Hickman county fruit crop will
be a failure.
At Columbia whest is worth one dol
lar per bushel.
Msury county negroes are making
money by picking blackberries.
The Iatestspecies Of literary enterprise
by the Springfield Record is in publish.
ing church hymns.
A Maury county woman has given
birth to a child with six fingers on each
hand. 1t is 10 be hoped that each menu
Der Of the manual limb will be honest.
Brownsville Democrat: What has the
editor of this paper done to the news
cobbler OF the Memphis APPEAL? We
are not aware that the Brownsville
Democrat has an editor.
Messrs. John Kirkman, John Browne,
NJ. Burns, r. NJ. Andersen and B. 4.
Cooke, have filed an application i'll the
Office of the Davidson county court clerk
for incorporation under the name and
title of the Nashville ErOtting sssocia-
ton.
Jasper A. YsrbTCUgh, the register of
Marshall county, is perhaps the smallest
man who holds Office in Tennessee. He
is only three feet nine inches in hight,
weighs seVenty-nine pounds, and is
thirty-four years Of age. He is bache-
Tor, but says he is engaged.
Columbia Journal: Colonel L. D. Ny
er's gardener brought to town last week
S flat Dutch cabbage, weighing seven
snd half pounds after being stripped
for cooking; an onion measuring eleven
inches, and an Irish potato measuring
fourteen inches in circumference.
Knoxville Chronicle: Mr. Nick Long,
chief Of the Knoxville Brotherhood Of
locomotive engineers, received yester-
day from the heSd officer, at Cleveland,
Ohio, about nineteen hundred dollars, to
pay off the Brotherhood at this place.
This makes the sixth payment, and
about twelve thousand dollars the Broth
erhOcd has received from their chief Off
cers. There are only seventeen Of them
out CT employment at present.
Springfield Record: The largest to-
baccO crop ever planted in our county is
that which is now growing. The plants
are doing finely, and promise a large
yield. In another place this same Re-
cord says: We learn that much Of the
tobacco crop in our cOuntyis Frenching.
II is said that if a common pOcket-knife
is inserted through the stalk Just above
the ground, it will step it. We hope
our farmers will give it d test. Stick
the blade through from side to side, and
then withdraw the knife.
Nashville Union and American: Our
tobacco factors have late information
from the upper Cumberland country and
the Ciarksville district, to the effect
that the young tobacco is appreciably
affected by the cOpiOus rains recently.
The plants show yellowish color not
belonging 10 q growth that is perfectly
healthy. The reports were, however,
that a few bright days would cure the
sickness and make the prospect for an
abundant crop uneXceptiOnable. No
complaint has come to our knowledge Of
worms, and we hope that the Trouble
from this sOurcewin be Insignificant this
year.
Brownsville Democrat: Our contem-
pOrary, the States, claims to have the
largest corps Of editors Of any weekly in
West Tennessee. The corps is composed
as follows: G.. A. Mathes, lesjing edi-
tor; Arthur DuliD, city editor; George
c. Porter, granger editor; J. B. Turner,
educational editor. The financial EDITORS
name is unknown, but we have no doubt
but what he will have column set apart
for him during the year. With the ad-
ditiOn OF q religious editor, the editorial
corps Of the States will be complete The
Democrat needs an editor TO conduct the
homemade half Of that sheet, az the
present editorial-tinker is Over-worked
with the scissors.