Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-20
TENNESSEE NEWS,
GAINESVILLE Is base-balling.

GAINESVILLE Is base-balling.
Maury county has trotting club.
Franklin has pigeOn-shOOting matches.
Columbus is to have a law library as
ISOLATION.
The army worms did damage i'll some
parts Of Dyer county.
By actual count, thirteen male citi-
zens of franklin went to sleep in church
last Sunday.
The eleventh civil district of Frank
lin county has two Sundsy-schools and
a half wheat crop.
Sam Rexinger, the GAINESVILLE post
master, was recently presented with a
handsome cane by unknown friends.
The Winchester Home Journal is go
ing 10 print poem entitled "The Dog
Law" 1t will doubtless be doggerel!
The taxpayers of Greene county have
dubbed together for the purpose Of test
ing the cOnstitutiOnality ofthe dOg-law.
The annual picnic Of the GAINESVILLE
lawyers will be held July Sd. Robertson
county, jokes, mint and rolling down
the hill!
Twenty-Five papers-One daily-were
represented at the Tennessee Press assO-
citation which met in Murfreesboro on
Thursday.
Nashville was thunder-bolted on the
seventeenth. Several houses were I'M
| rooted and q number Of persons stunned
by lightning.
A correspondent q the Franklin Re-
view and Journal, il speaking OF re-
cent visit to Texas, says that he crossed
"the Arkansas river, on the bank of
which stands Little Rock on a fine iron
bridge" That's a good joke ION the
bridge"
Jackson Sun: The Brownsville DEM
ocrat dubs Major w. J. Sykes the "great
railroad evangelist The Democrat
does this, doubtless, with full knowl-
edge of the meaning of the word "evan-
gelist'-that is to say, one ''whO is not
allowed to administer the eucharist"
Jackson Sun: The Memphis APPEAL
swallowed the Union and Americans
hoax about the great raid organized
against Mexico, and wrote quite spir-
tied article about the effort to get up
a war. We hope the APPEAL has found
relief from the apprehensiOns OccasiOned
by that article ere this.
The cornerstone of the new Trinity
(EpiscopaD church, GAINESVILLE, will be
laid on the thirtieth instant. Bishop
Quintard Of Tennessee, Bishop Wilmer |
of Alabama, and Bishop Dudley of
Kentucky, are to be present, and Judge |
J. L. Sneed, of the supreme bench, is |
expected to deliver an address.
Jackson Sun: The farmers have
been busy all this week Teaping the |
heavy crop of wheat. At least three |
fOurths Of the crop has been harvested, |
and the weather was never more favora- |
BILE for saving the crop. The heads are |
all filled with mature grains and the |
yield promises to be fine indeed.
GAINESVILLE Chronicle: The failure of
the proper authorities to negotiate loan,
in order to secure the payment of the |
July interest, may prove very embarrass-
ing. 1t leaves the financial situation
just where it would have been had the
right to borrow been denied by the bill so
earnestly urged by portion Of the legis-
lature.
Dyersburg Progress: The wheat crop
alone Of Dyer county would bring in a
large revenue if we had railroad trans
portatlOn to take it to market in order to
compete with other counties that have
railroads. The failure of the railroad to
reach this place in time to take off the ,
present wheat crop will lose to the cOun-
y thousands of dollars. '
Jackson Sun: After several weeks of {
persistent evangelical labor in Memphis, t
White and Bliss have converted the l
Memphis APPEAL. If they had not i
oftened the crust of another sinners 7
conscience in Memphis, they would be e
untitled to the thanks of the country for i
his astonishing performance. We hope L
hereafter to see the APPEAL take less :
redit to itself for occurrences about |
demphis, and give more credit to the d
lord for the event OF things. a