Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-16
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Nashville has a courthouse water
melon club"
A Maury county mule, belonging to
J. II. Aiken, died with bydrophobia last
week.
The Ten Virgins was presented to the
citizens Of COLierville last week by the
amateur dramatic company.
Sherman, the porter of the Read
house, Chattanooga, has b9en arrested
for alleged completely in the postoffice
robbery at that place last April.
Nashville Banner: Thirty-six prison.
ers are confined in Jail ct present-six-
teen whites and twenty colored. Nine
are from other counties for safe. keeping.
Columbia Journal: Judge Hine, q dis.
tinguished lawyer Of Bowling Green,
Kentucky, is in the city. He is one If
tbs counsel for Guinan, charged with
the murder Of Stark Woods, in 1855.
Knoxville Tribune: We are Informed
that the Nashville, Chattanooga and st,
Louis railroad have offered to lease the
Tennessee Pacific for twenty years at
nine Thousand five hundred dollars per
annum, and the committee of the courts
recommend the acceptance of the bid.
Brownsville States: Last Friday Mr.
Frank Barrett was permitted to leave
iail under guard to hunt some friend to
sign his baii-bond. He visited several
places without success, but finally
thought that he could find a man at
Heads stable, and thither ne repaired
After examining all the stalls in the
stable in search of o bOndsman, he es-
pied faithful charger, by chance Of
course, saddled and bridled, ard it he
mounted, quick as thought, and HE'D
him to other and more cOngenial chimes.
Knoxville Chronicle twelfth inst ant:
The house Of a widow lady, Mrs
Wright, living out on the Dsndridge
road about three miles, was entered en-
Sunday night by thieves, but not find
ing anything OF value the unmitigated
scOundrels killed the old lady'5 milk
COW right in the yard, and skinning her,
brought the hide TO town, and sold it to
the lanyard. This was certainly an I'M
paralleled piece Of conduct for q civil
lied country.
The Nashville Banner states that the
master mechanic of the Decatur division
Of the Louisville and Nashville railroad
has notified the mechanics under his
supervision that they will have to work
ten hours per day instead of eight, and
have their daily wages reduced twenty
five cents. They assembled together
and unanimously agreed to continue
working eight hours and receive full
wages. They are still at work, but ig-
norsnt of results.
Pulaski Citizen: Miss Lula Cox has
our thanks for copy Of the Nashville
Banner of July IS, 1861. 1t contains
the first news from the battle OF Bull
Run, and many other interesting events
OF those stirring times. Nearly the en-
tire paper Is utilized in advocating the
election OF William 81. Polk, of Maury,
over Isham @. Harris for governor. The
strife was carried on bitterly, it seems.
| Toe practice of authorities in giving of.
| fees to none but secession Democrats
wss severely condemned. The Banner,
then, was sffiicted with some foolish ill.,
dependence that finally killed 1t.
Nashville Banner, thirteenth instant :
| At half past seven o'clock this morning
the Northwestern train, bound for this
city, VIII lie coming at a rapid rate around
q curve near Bosley's Springs, five miles
! from toWn, ran into handle r. A sec
ton fireman named MshOney, and four
wJrkmen, who were on the car, did not
see he locomotive approaching until
they were within few feet of it. All
except MahOney succeeded in leaping
from it, Dat b3fore Msloney could follow
their example the locomotive struck the
car, smashing it into fragments and
hurting Mahoney in a violent manner
against the rocks in the curve. A col
oTed workman received a few slight
bruises, but MshOney was seriously in
jured on the hands, legs and arms. HI
was taken to the city, and conveyed II
his home.