Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-03-30
TENNESSEE NEWS.

courses on the oil question: "GOVeTnol
| Porter has poured oil upon the troubled
waters of Tennessee journalism. -Four
/ Tennessee editors have been appointed
oil inspectors. Look out for explosive
editorials. r. i. G. White, M. D.. E.
] L. H, o. 1.-The which it means Doc
tor Of Medicine, Editor of the Lebanon
Herald and Oil Inspector. Rhea, OF the
! Memphis Ledger; White, OF the Leban-
on Herald; En'oe. OF the Jackson Sun,
and Wade of the Milan Exchange, have
all struck ile."
The ShelbyviIle Commercial says OF
/ Senator Johnson, in connection with his
recent speech: "He stands to-day, be-
| yond doubt, the greatest living states
man in America, and it will be but a
/ few fleeting months ere he will be called
| to fill the highest office in the gift OF the
people. Tennessee may justly feel a
! great degree of pride in having such an
able and distinguished representative in
| the senate of the United Stltes-a man
who is honored even by his enemies for
his ability, integrity and devotion to the
constitution"
Greeneville Intelligencer: Gan old
colored man 10y the name of Mathes,
who lives near the depot, died on last
Monday. The night following there
was a wake at the house of the deceased.
Brethren, including a psrson, and sis
tiers attended. Sequel of the wake-a
small, cOlored, Beecher-Tilton case.
The church trial is now going on in the
Zion African church. Tee 'culled' par
son is ION the ragged edge of despair
and wishes he was dead He failed to
| attend the church trial last night, and it
will probably come before the courts.
Look out for racy proceedings"
Perhaps there are two Democratic pa
pers in Tennessee that will agree with
Brownlow's Knoxville Chronicle in the
following comment upon Senator john
sons late speech: "Tne two promirent
points in his speech are egOtism and
blind prejudice. He labored hard to
present himself as a model statesman.
In his own opinion his administration
of the national government was superior
to that of any of his predecessors in the
White House, from Washington up. He
evidently regards himself as q Colossus
surrounded by pigmies. Rob his speech
OF its egOtism and it is an unseemly
skeleton"
The Pulaski Citizen says: "a pro-
tracted meeting has been in progress at
the Methodist church since the four
teenth instant, and is still in progress.
The pastor, Rev. A. G.. Dinwiddie, has
been ably assisted by Rev. DIR. DuBose,
pastor of the Presbyterian church, and
part Of the time by DR.. ]. B. M'Ferrin,
of Nashville, Rev. George Mitchell,
pastor of the Cumberland church, and
Rev. J. B. Anderson. There has been
a great awakening ofsinneTs, and about
fIE3 TfIn "
all of them heads OF families and gentle
men of influence in the community.
The work still goes on with increasing
interest. Payer meetings are held at
ten o'clock each morning and preach
yiRg at night"
Phil Sheridan is wanted in Knoxville,
for the Press and Herald says: "The
members of the University baseball
club have been considerably exercised
over the receipt OF challenge to play a
match game of ball with club in town
composed Of negroes, said challenge be-
ing signed by Charles Eaton, cOlOred,
captain Yesterday two Of the cadets,
making some inquiries about Charles
Eaton, were shown the veritable cap
tain on Cum berlo nd Street. Being ap-
preached and questioned, he admitted
having sent the cIe ilenge. A moment
aiterward he was meSsu ing his length
in the gutter, and rising up with a scared
| look out of the whites of his eyes, he
went not upon the order of his going,
but went at once at break-neck speed
away from the vengeful cadets"
The Nashville Union and American
publishes the following as special from
Lebanon on the twenty-fifth: "The
murderers of Robert Hamilton, who was
shot and killed at his place ON Sugg
creek, in this county, on the night of
the nineteenth, have been arrested and
pre- now in Jail at this place. The hat
| found near the scene OF the murder and
alluded to in my former dispatch was
| the clue to the detection. The hat was
| thought to be the property of Burr Beg
| carly, negro about twenty-five years
| old living in the neighborhOod. He was
arrested Sunday, but denied all knOwl-
edge of the murder, and was released.
! The hat was afterward thoroughly
identified as his property, and he was
re-arrested Monday night. He then
| confessed that he and another negro
named Porter Williamson, about
eighteen years old, committed the crime.
| Williamson was arrested and made
the same confession. They say they
| went TO Hamilton's to rob his henhouse,
and being discovered by him, shot him
TO escape. Both tell the same tale, ex-
cept that each says the other did the
shooting. They were tried before a mag
| istrate and committed to be tried at the
| next term of the circuit court. They
were brought here to-day and placed in
! Jail. There is considerable excitement
here, and apprehensions that the pris.
/ L., . sorE,f
| tertained. Hamilton's remains were in
tered Sunday"
The Macon Telegraph says that il
rain were to cease now and fair weather
| set in, the farmers would find them
selves fully twenty days behind with
their work. There have not been more
than fifteen days since the first OF Janu-
ary in which farmers could do anything
toward getting their land ready to plant.
Corn, which is usually planted during
the last week of February and the first
week of March, is still ont of the ground,
with very unfavOrable prospects of get
ting it in at very early day"
Forsyth Advertiser: son Saturday
last fearful storm visited a large por.
ton of Monroe county. The storm was
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through q small breadth Of territory al
q frightful speed, unroofing houses, up
roofing trees, leveling fences and doing
q work OF general destruction. The
wind was accompanied with much rair
and hail. Near the Towaliga river, the
hail-stOnes which fell were large, anC
fell with such force as to wound mer
and animals caught outside Of shelter
/ ~$S-
1t is only within the last ten years
that much attention has been paid tC
the cultivation of the pineapple in Flor
ida. Experiments have been tried il
various parts of the State with only par
tiRi success, with the exception OF thos'
made in the southern part of it. Their
the soil and climate are admirably
adapted 10 the successful growth o
semi-tropical fruit, and the. efforts Of tn,
planters have been crowned with com
plete success. One Of the most favorable
localities for the propagation and cult
yation OF pineapples is at Key Larg
and its vicinity. Key Largo is small
island about ninety-five miles nOrtheas
OF Key West. The product Of the pas
year exceeded fifty thousand pineapple
Of superior size and quality.