Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-25
TENNESSEE NEWS.

/ Knoxville wants the vsgrant law en-.
forced.
Two Jail prisoners at Kingston recent
Iy escaped.
Bells depot has already shipped two
carloads of wheat.
The COvingtOn Record has received q
cOtton-bOll from John Jacket.
Alsmo had a thunderstorm last Tues.
day, but only tree was damaged.
The Alamo Sentinel nOtes the fact
that man in that town has been eating
roasting. ears several days.
The Alamo Sentinel, an excellent
journal, has resumed its visits to us after
an absence of several months.
Jasper Herald: We have had heavy
rains every day for the past week, which
have seriously interfereG with the thresh-
ing Of wheat.
The Paris Inte'ligencer, after seven
weeks of labor, has finished q series of
articles upon the history Of the Mountain
Meadow massacre
BledsOe county possesses a young man
who swears ia open court that he would
not believe his mother on oath. He
ought to be an orphan.
Knoxville Press and Herald: The
tender solicitude of the Chronicle in re-
gaId to "GOvernor Porter and his adj
miuistratiOn" is very tOuching-but, on,
how thin!
The Winchester Home Journal says:
The Fayetteville Observer alludes to the
fearful increase of crime, and says the
remedy is to be found in patience and
prompt justice.
Alamo Sentinel: The object of the
grange, az we understand 1t, is to pro-
mote the interest Of the planter. and by
90 doing advance the interests of all
other worthy citizens.
Paris Intelligencer: Esquire John
| Trevathsn brought us in a remarkably
fine stalk OF cotton, being about four feet
high, well bIanched, and has about sixty
squares ana two blooms.
! Winchester Home Journal: Eggs are
cheap-Only seven and eight cents a
dozen. Butter ID in demand at twenty
cents; but for good fresh butter we pro-
pose TO give tWenty.One cents.
| Alamo Sentinel: Presley Smithwick
has laid upon our table beet, grown in
measures four feet in length, including
have yet received.
BroWnlOw's Knoxville Chronicle {:
| While we do not agree with the govern
or on political questions, as our readers
well know, we most cordially approve
his determination not TO call an extra
session Of the legislature.
Markie Wright, OF Buddie Upshaw, Of
the Columbia Journal, says: That last
bridging Of the chssm at Memphis, by
! some COnfederates and negro Pole
Bearers, has not met with such an app
prevail by the press and people as its
OriginatOrs may have hoped for.
Paris Intelligencer: y muskrat made
q hole through the dam at Cedar Ridge
Mills, Weakiey county, the other night,
turned all the water off and caused about
tWenty-fOur hours suspension Of BUSH
ness. They have since fortified agains.
the gentleman with tWo-inch oak spill
ing.
New Market News: During the thun-
der-storm Wednesday evening, the
| lightning struck q small persimmOn
tree, rear the house Of John Woodland,
living on d. G. ThOrnburgh's place, and
! knocked his wife, who was sitting near
the window, which was partially raised,
| backwards on the floor.
Brownlow's Knoxville Chronicle:
| The Democratic papers throughout the
| State, with few exceptions, have con-
demned, in pretty strong terms, the
| failure OF the State authorities to pay
| the July interest on Tennessee bonds.
Some OF them have been unsparing in
their fault-dnding of the last legislature.
! From the Columbia Journal We learn
| that ct 8 recent meeting Of the Young
| Mems Christian association of that to Hn,
| the treasurer reported that he had dona-
! ted five dollars TO assist in defTaying the
| funeral expenses Of q deceased member
and received two parcels Of clothing
which he was requested to give to orphan
| children.
Winchester Home Journal: We learn
that Mr.. Sam Pearson WAS killed in the
ninth district, last Monday night, by
Mr.. Bradford. MIR. Pearson had threat
ened to take the life of Bradford, and
went to his (Bradf1rd's) house to carry
ont the threat. Next morning, Mr..
Pearson was found dead, seven buckshOt
having done the work.
Murirees boro News: The news comes
in from all quarters. This time it is
Brother Crawford, q minister of the
Cum berland Presbyterian church some
where on the line OF Bedford and Lin
coin counties, who has been "playing
pOmegr2nates." lie recently, we learn,
seduced a respectable lady Of that local
lily and then skipped to parts unknown.
The Knoxville Age, which was evil
IDENTIFY born mad, says: We don't want
to tell tsies out Of school, but neverthe-
less, there is silent belief in the public
mind that our governor is not fully
equal to the OCCASION, and that ne is de-
ficient in breadth Of states manship.
Some folks have the hardihOOd to insin-
uate that he is not capable OF graphing
with this knOtty question Of State finan-
ces, and that he can't weather the ffnan-
cial hurricane now sweeping over the
commonwealth.
Henderson Advocate: Just as our pa
per was going to press the operator here
commenced receiving a dispatch from
Jackson, when his instrument broke, so
that he could not get all OF the telegram.
Enough, however, was received TO in
form US that bill had been filed en-
joining the county Of Wisdom. This
step will not, at all, interfere with the
elections next Wednesday. Go on and
elect your Officers-the bill can't eniOin
you from doing that. Be ready when
the bill is disposed Of to organize.
Paris Inteligencer: Mr.. Andrew
Williams and his son, while saving a
poplar tree, two and 3 half feet in di-
ameter, into saw stocks, sawed into 8
cavity about eight inches through, and
four or five feet long, which had grown
up so as to leave no mark on the outside
Of the tree. In this hollow wss found
some hickory nuts partly eaten by squir-
rels aud bone, supposed to be the large
bone OF the lower part Of the arm Of a
man. From the number of rows OF pores
that the tree had outside Of the cavity in !
which the bone was found, it is esti- |
mated that it had been there about one |
hundred years, and must have been of