Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-26
TENNESSEE NEWS.

: Nashville had twenty-five deaths last
week two being from sulstTJke.
> The thermometer reached eighty. six
degrees at Ea3hville Wednesday.
G. G. R1dGla, OF Madison county, was
killed by a runaway team lest week.
G ee1e county b n imported four thou
sand dollars worth Of corn this year.
A negro lsborer, in Wilson county,
suicided by hanging himself few days
ago.
A negro burglar recently entered q
Knoxville house ard WIS caught by the
police.
A JOnesDoro firm wants to purchase
one hundred thousand poguds 81 blsck-
berries.
| Cbsttsnoogaius ara INVESTIGATING Geor.
gis watermeiOns, and 50 are Knoxville
cit zeus
| Eighteen white, and twenty-five col
ored prisoners e confined in the Nash.
vile Jail.
Mr.. Frauk Hemphin as purchased
third interest IN the Columbia Mail
and Hersld.
Eggs are te,liniDg at Knoxville, and
now sell there ct seven and One-hslf
cents per deem.
John NJ. Taylor, OF Henderson coun-
ty. has taken tao stump for 5ongNess in
the eighth district.
T1e JlHes boyO Jourusl records the
! death Of a Cat that had attained the age
OF twenty-o2e yesrs.
Henry Az X AndeT, of Davidson coun-
ty, gave Jim Bragg an unmereifuI
b9suJg. Bob men were negroes.
An inc ffs2sive negro boy was shot,
and seriously wcurdgd, W Mit Moore,
/ at Kingston Springs station, Dixon
euonty, last Wednesday.
| John S1eens, color d, while bathing
| In creek in the F,u'ih district Of Hay
wood ccU1ty, a dsy or two ago, was In
| stautly Killed by lightning.
! TIE body Of Tn Onas Cummings, a
| mechanic 10 the Mobile and Ohio rail-
! read shops, was found receDtlv il a field
near Jackson, wheIo he died Of up
plexy.
Andrew johnson, j., sou Of the late
President Johnson, aud proprietor OF the
! Greeneville Inteiligencer, is a candidate
for the leg stature to represent Green
county.
Brownsville States: We regret to learn
that the little daughter Of Colonel J. J.
Crowley fell from u fence, last week, and
broke her arm. she is in fair way to
recover.
William Williamson, said to be the
Oldest citizen of BtoUn county, died
Saturday, the fifteenth instant, in the
ninety fifth year OF his age. He was
buried with Ms sonic hOnor3,
Nashville Banner: The weather re-
ports Of the United States signal service
Ia this city have been temporarily sus-
pended, en- account OF the dead ocx in
congrcsJ on the appropriation bills.
Samuel Ho- kins, coI0red. wss are sted
by Detectives Ryan, Watson aud Fields |
st Nashville Friday, on the charge of |
having abducted Fannie Sneed, colOred, |
sixteen years OF age, For the purpose Of
seduction.
The heavy rain storm of Friday after. |
noon did some damage to farms five |
miles west OF Nashville, on the river.
Rock walls were washed down for the |
first time in the memory Of the oldest |
patriarch.
A few days ago q gentleman named |
Jones, who lived near ConyeYsviIle,
Henry county, YVES shot four times and !
mortality We rounded, by two trampe, who |
refused 10 pay for their dinner. The |
tFamps escarad.
IN Efficiently At lev JenceDuTg, last I
Week, W. b. CnSffin. while drunk and |
dlsOTdeTly, was struck in the head with 1
3 spade, and fatally Injured, by John
Kennedy, who was 9sisting the sheriff
in arrC2ting the former.
Mrs. Hancock, OF Wilson county, has
adopted couple Of orphans left to the
care OF County Judge Ferriss, at Nash
vile. That judge has quite number
OF orphans on nand, and can supply |
families who need children.
Mrs. Jane DlvideOp, who was famous
among travellers for having the best /
tavern on the Nashville, Chattanooga
and st. Louis railway, died az her home
at Decherd, on the twenty second, a. the
advanced age Of ninety-f1ur.
Jackson Wing and Tribune, 22d:
There has not been time for years at
which widespread and eopiOus rain
was SIS much needed as at the present
writing Thursday. The eaTly-pianted
corn not only will not fill out, but with
out rain in brief time, will shrivel up
and die.
Pulaski Citizen: Grasshoppers are
becoming very numerous and destructive
west and southwest Of town. Esquire
Iidwell informs US that they have al
ready made havoc with some of his
corn. They are more destructive in his
neighb0rh0Od than in any other portion
OF the county.
Jackson Dispatch: Tuesday morning
last, about sunrise, seven or eight large |
sea-fowls were discovered flying over
the city. They continued 10 circle
around for two or three hours, seemingly /
10th to leave. These strsngers were
larger than wild goCs7, perfectly white
except the legs, which were black.
Brownsville States: An agent OF the |
government called at our office, last |
Monday, on his way to Bro wnsville |
landing, to deposit sixty Gh0Usand young |
shad in Hatchie river. The theory ia |
that the shad will gradually work their /
way TO the gulf and finally return, full |
grown, to the point from whence they |
started.
Somerville Falcon, 2lst: The Bell |
county cases Wera hesrd before ChaDceI- |
lOr Livingston at Bolivar last week. |
Two iDjunctiOns were filed sglinst the |
Bsll county commissioners, one by the /
justices Of Fayette and the other by the |
justices of HaTdeman county. The two |
cses were consolidated, the evidence pro
and con read and argued by counsel for
both sides. Chancellor Livingston will |
September term Of the Fayette chancsry
court.
The MOrristoWn Gazette has the fol- |
lowing, relative 10 the late bank swim |
die in that town: young Coffmsn had !
preliminary examination before mag. |
istrate, and was bound over to the circuit |
court 10 bond Of three thousand dol |
lars, which he failed to give, and was
taken ID Dandridge Jail. We leaIn that |
COffman says that he entire plan was
cOncocted by some par les in Knoxville, |
and that he was made cats paw OF |
by two scaundrels there, who fiesced |
him Of most Of the money he obtained |
on the notes."
Jackson Wing and Tribune: Cap ain
S. II. Gilmore, Of HolyOke, MssssChu-
sets, agent Of the fish commission, was |
in the city Monday, and deposited sixty |
thousand yOuug shad in the Forked |
Deer liver, near M'Clanahan's levee. |
The fish commission is doing good serv-
ice in the way Of piscstory culture, and |
the people OF this section return thanks !
for npiuog 90 kindly ran1au1h erpd Last !