Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-03
TENNESSEE ITEMS.

Humboldt has centlpede.
The knoxville Tribune calls them "Murph-
les
Somerville has become thoroughly Murphy
lied.
The Tennessee Press association meets at
Gallatin next summur.
Knoxville Is admiring the wonders of Edi-
sons talking machine.
The Murphy movement is awakening the
moral rectitude of Knoxville.
The Upton Weekly Record is in its ninth
volume-both sides home made.
Milan promises a strong delegation to the
celebration of the Fourth in Memphis.
Tipton county will hold fair at an early
day, under the auspices of the grangers.
The Morristown Gazette thinks the wheat
crop in East Tennessee will be the largest
ever harvested.
There are twelve hundred and twenty
names of convicts registered at the penlten-
tiary In Nashville.
Tennessee has received two thousand SIX
hundred industrious northern settlers within
the last ten months.
Mr.. B. H. Wear, editor of the Crockett
County Sentinel was married last week TO
Miss Fannie Buck, of Bellvlle.
A large number of Brownsville people con-
template attending the Fourth of July cele-
bratlon at Mempais next Thursday
Hon. John A. Gardner, of Weakley. has
written a letter, at the solicitation OF his
friends, giving his views on the State debt.
The Dyersburg district conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south, will be
held at Kenton station July 26th, 27tn and
18th.
The East Tennessee university will be rep
resented ct the teachers convention, at CleVe.
land, by Colonel S. II. Lockett and Prof.
kirkpatrick.
The citizens of Upton, round about Gov
ington, are going to celebrate the Fourth
with a grand, old fashioned, spread-eagle
barbecue and Grafton.
At a stock sale at Winchester, Kentucky,
June 18th, one hundred and thirty-one cows
sold for sixty thousand dollars, averaging
over four hundred and fifty dollars.
An East Tennessee sage is no mean prophet
when he says that what the country at pres
ent needs is less orally round the flag, boys, !"
and more rally round the hoe-handle."
Colonel KIlebrew, State commissioner of
agriculture, has had the degree of Phi. d.
conferred upon him, very deservedly, by his
alma mater, the university OF North Carolina.
Milan Erchange, 9th: The wheat crop
of this county turned out even worse than
was expected. Not more than one-thlrd of a
crop was harvested. Many think not more
than one-fourth.
Mrs. Martha B. M'Donald, mother of DIR.
B. w. M'Donald, former president OF the
Cumberland university, died IN Nashville on
| the seventeenth instant, in the seVenty-second
| year of her age.
A Masonic picnic at Bellville, last Tuesday,
| was the occasion of an immense outpourlng
| of the people of that section. The Humboldt
| Gadsden, Alamo, Friendship, Caro- and Other
lodges participated.
| The farmers of Crockett county are very
| busy with their crops, and the prospects Of
the fruits of their labor are fatter1ng. Har'
vesting is over, and the hum of the thresher'
| can be heard In all directions. Wheat Is no
| turning out as well as was anticipated few
| weeks ago.
The Teachers institute will meet il
| Brownsville July 23d and continue three
| days. State Superintendent Trousdale viii
be IN attendance. All the friends OF public
schools ought to meet him on that occasion
A Hickory Grove correspondent of thu
Bellville Enterprise reports the farmer
getting along quite well, though crops arr
looking rather badly, the wheat crop being
almost total failure IN that part of Hay
wood county.
The dry weather for the last few days ha
| given Upton county farmers an opportunlt.
of cleaning out their crops, which they hav
not been slow to improve. Many OF then
have their corn almost ready to lay by, ant
the cotton is looking better.
Since last fall Humboldt has shipped abou
three thousand bales of cotton, fifteen hogs
heads Of tobacco, no grass, four hundred AM
eighty thousand pounds OF flour, ten thou
sand pounds of fruit of all kinds, two hun
bred thousand pounds of corn and wheat.
The Knoxville Tribune ''gets out of it
by describing the mysterious operations. o
the photograph as photograph" of the voice
Let's see: photos, light, and graphetn, wrl
ting-that don't consist. Probably the pho
/ nograph has been entertaining the editor o
that paper with light expressions.
Nashville american, 23d: While Thoma
johnson was driving thoroughbred mar
into the city, yesterday morning. splde
got into the animals nostril and thence Int
her mouth She swallowed the insect an
died instantly. A post norton examinatlo
was held, and the spider was found IN tn
mares stomach.
Nashville Christian Adgocate: The geneI
} al conference, at its last session, requisite
the bishops to appoint week OF prayer /
the month of August. Bishop M'Iyeire re
quests US to say that the college. OF bishop
has appointed the week beginning Angus
I'd. This will be Friday, and will be observe
, as day of fasting.
| ZuHTUT. n WTclCuj WuOm
were fattery to call scoundrel,' named Fol
residing in the seventeenth civil district
this county, cruelty maltreated his daughtt
, a short time since. He broke one of ht
arms with a un-barrel, and otherwise il
3 jured her. 1t seems that nothing short (
Judge Lynch can cure such fends.
, Knoxville has lately had great scandal
high life, involving married lady of gre;
beauty of person, and young man who
the son Of a prominent judge, and is an of
t Ger of the church. The lady is member
: the same church, and both are now being IL
| vestigated by the members and officers Their
= of. Beacherism is not yet dead, we fear.
, GAINESVILLE has young LADIES' cooking
club. A recent entertainment was given,
which the company was composed of Il
beauty and chlvalry of GAINESVILLE and b
sister cities, Memphis, Brownsville and Mas
;, vile. The editor Of the Tobacco Leaf W
L sumptuously repasted, and then wrote Il
e following: Noticeable among the ladie
o both for elegance of costume and gracef
, ! movements, were the Misses Humphreys,
: Memphis; Miss Mosby, of Arkansas; Mi
Beaumont, of Clarksville, and Miss Peyto
:, of Memphis The ladies were arrayed
y charming costumes. Filmy lace and sill
q of rose and sea-foam tints helped to perfect
- picture beautiful as that painted by the pc
e the halls of mirth.'
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