Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-02-24
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Lebanon plays pin-pOol.
Shelbyville wants fire engine.
Edgeield has religious revival.
Jackson has homemade circus.
ShelbyviIle has dancing school.
Lafayette wants to be incorporated.
Shelbyville has sn active matrimonial
| market.
Brownsville has chain.gang of elev-
| en- men.
In Tennessee there are eleven hundred
| grangers.
Gypsies were encamped near Macon
| last week.
The Knoxville Chronicle favors "PO-
lands gag law"
Chattanooga has grasshOpper club,
and is masquerading.
The Paris Intelligencer has discovered
coal in Henry county.
A negro preacher at Jackson has been
arrested for Beecherism.
Rhoda Hines, of Knoxville, has Just
won fifty cent slander law suit.
Mrs. Mary Read, wife Of the late Judge
Read, died at Jackson last week.
The Fayetteville high school, which
opened last month, has thirty-seven pu-
pills.
The Haywood county grangers are 60
ing to erect fiOuring-mill at Browns
vile.
The Knoxville Press and Herald op-
poses Colonel A. s. Colyar's reputation
theory.
The Paris Inteligencer thinks 'the
negro himself will yet be sick of civil
rights"
The Bolivar Bulletin likes Wilson's
dog-taX law for the protection Of wool
growers.
The Dyersburg Progress thinks the
grasshoppers will eat up half the Neva-
da ice crop.
A Madison county farmer recently
went to Jackson to purchase bushel of
Mardi-Gras seed.
Several Middle Tennessee weeklies
are publishing Texas letters in order to
induce immigration to Tennessee.
Nashville is to have Martha Wash
ingtOn teal party and a kettle drum con-
cert on the twenty-second instant.
Fayetteville Express: A Tennessee
cotempOrary says nothing is better than
a goose. There's egOtism for you.
a daughter of r. H. Boon, in Madi-
son county, was dangerously burned by
her clothing catching fire last week.
Dyersburg Progress: The colored cit
izens of Memphis are making arrange
ments to publish newspaper of their
own.
Several Tennessee papers are apollo
giZing for the stubborn ambition and
fatal aspirations of the late United States
senatorial candidates.
The Shelbyville Commercial is exer-
cised about the dog law and predicts po-
litical death to the legislator who favors
the destruction of CANNES.
Fayetteville Express: The scarcity of
local news is only equsled by the scar
city Of money, and the scarcity of both
is only equsled by the scarcity OF each.
The Bolivar Bulletin thinks that the
school law, as it stands, is an absolute
damage to the progress of education in
nearly all OF the small towns in the
State.
]. J. Worrell, editor of the Jackson
Dispatch, was married last week to Miss
Lula G.. Taylor, of that city. May the
Lord bless them, and a bright future be
theirs.
William Spencer Helms, father of
John &. Helms, who is editor of the
MOrristOwn Gazette, and clerk of the
State senate, died on the eleventh at the
age Of eighty years.
Jackson Whig and Tribune: Thanks
to the anonymous Chesterfield who sent
us valentine representing a lazy man
that swallowed a jackass. De guStibIS
non est dispotand,ma.
Miss Sallie Gosling, daughter of Mr.,
VIM. Gosling and sister of Harry Cos
ling, Of the Shelbyville Gazette, was
married last week to Mr.. w. r. Wal
lace, OF San Antonio, Texas, by Bishop
Quintard.
DR.. J. B. Lindsey, DR.. w. P. Jones,
Hon. Dorsay B. Thomas and Governor
BroWnIoW, addressed the citizens of
Knoxville last Thursday upon the sub
ject Of popular education.
Mr.. Charles Murphy AN old and PROM
inent citizen Of Hardeman county, died
at the residence of his son.in-laW, Mr.
81. G.. Griggs, near Somerville, Monday
night, February 18th, at seven O'Clock.
He was in the sixty-eighth year Of his
age.
We would inform the public that Mr.. |
q. n. Tillman has nothing to do with |
the editing Of this paper, nor any one
else Shelbyviile Commercial. That |
is evident to the most casual observer.
The explanation is candid but unneces-
sary.-[ Lebanon Herald.
The proposed new county OF Chester,
with Henderson as the capital, is to be |
made up from thirty-niue square miles |
of Madison county, ninety-fOur square |
miles Of Henderson, one hundred and |
three square miles Of M'Nairy, and forty |
square miles of Hardeman.
ShelbyvilIe Gazette: We are now IA
vOred with daily exchange from the |
Memphis APPEAL, one of the largest, /
most newsy and reliable papers ia the |
State. The APPEAL is ably edited, is |
rich with Jelegraphic and miscellaneous |
matter, and evinces 3 progress and en-
terprise that is commendable.
Speaking of the death Of Hon. Ian
don G.. Haynes, OF this city, the Knox
vile Chronicle says, that he was an old !
resident Of East Tennessee, and for
many years law partner of Colonel
Johp Baxter In this city. He resided in
the first congressional district, and in
1859 made memorable canvass OF the
district with the late Judge Thomas A.
r. Nelson, who, after a close contest
defeated him for congress by few hun
dred votes.
The Knoxville Press and Herald of
the fifteenth says: Senator Johnson
looks extremely well, though a rest will
be undoubtedly grateful to him after the
stirring and exciting scenes through
which he has passed during the last
month. During the afternoon and
night the senator was called upon at his
room by continuous throng OF visitors,
him on bis election. 1t
had been Mr.. Johnson's intention TO
leave for Greenevllle uo-day, but yield
ing to the solicitations of many friends,
he decided to remain in the city over
to-day. In conversation, the senator
EXPRESSED his confident belief that an
executive session OF the senate will be
-, .ho of March