Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-15

Five inches deep in snow at Knoxville on
Tuesday.
Only one death in Chattanooga last week
JduS Do.
A board of trade will soon be in operation
in Chattanooga
The Knoxville Chronicle says oysters are
there at twenty cents quart
October-sown wheat Is doing well in the
northern part of the State.
Cleveland is considered tie banner quar-
antine city of Tennessee.
4 rise in the Tennessee s bringing va>t
amounts OF iron down that stream.
A two hundred pound bear was killed in
johnson county last week after two days chase.
w. I. Hayte's new store and W. P Brew
ers residence, in Bristol were both damaged by zEe
The Athens Post says large nambers of
hogs pass through there for market and prices are
! Knoxville Tribune; Twenty FIVE emigrants
from HaEkins county, en- route to Texas, passed down
| the road Monday"
The Daily Ne,os is the name of an after
noon paper In Chattanooga, the publication or which
| wds commenced Monday.
Chattlnooga's new courthouse, now In
course of erection, viii Sc ready for occupation about
March neSs, SAYS the CoH1,erciaI,
Those who voted for Pettibone in East
Tennessee are mortified with the discovery that his
nsm9-the hrsnch petit ooH-means "LittlegOOd."
Chattanooga shows no public signs of the
yellow fever attack but In mourning dresses and in-
early day.
How cold it is in Nashville III the winter
mas Be Judged Of IeSm the tact that the reporter
We met nineteen coal dealers.'A
They have a quack doctor in Chattanooga
known as "RattleSnake Tom He cures all sorts
OF complaints with rattlesnake-oil Some have done
the same thing with arsenic.
\ Tennessee paper offered a copy Of Web
steTis unabridged dictionary and a tWo-hOrse pillow
Iof llst ot hlteen subscribers How many CT those
subscribers would 1t take TO draw the pillow?
Turkey-shooting matches are getting Up
in the villages of Tennessee AZ a Christmas
amusement. That is copying tie Russians, unless
Tennessee turkey shooting had the precedence
The kenton city council has oT.l~red side
walks In q! the principal stEo~'Ss. The Academy
school there has seT5nty pn-,,s Tbsra Is a moye-
ment also 10 esiaDIs... d bubble Hbrary-a better
iiete '''e''' e'',I not be made.
"a Saturday last, in the circuit court at
Bountville the Jury in the case of I. C. Miles and
wife, charged with the murder OF Mrs. sally Leon
ard, rendered verdict fixing Mless punishment at
ten years Imprisonment In the penit-ntlaTy and re
leasing his wife.
Brownsville Democrat: Donald M'Leod,
| one OF our Oldest citizens, died on Monday. Our
that Mr.. Folk conemplates lighting ut his own ex-
| pense the street lamps around the square,
The same paper states: I'VE understand
that certain professor OF this city made an at
tempt TO poison his wife day before YESTERDAY Mr.
eo9mtted smcs w Wenesd " evening by Hanging
! himself in the upper story Of his dwelling"
| The Nashville city treasurer, In a commu-
nicaton TO the city council informs that DO y why
the teachers are not paid as prOmptya Ohei
| officers Of the corporation. Firemen, policemen
| dirt-haulers and stfeetscraDerS are paid, but he
schoOl-eachers LETT to take their chances. Bad
! for Nashville
| Greenville Era: Notwithstanding the law
OF the tate fOIbdding the sale OF cOaloil STANDING
| lower figure test than one hundred and twenty de
greeS, unprncipled men taking an advan age OF the
iax manner In VIII eh the law is enforced. are bring
log into the state and selling oil which IS far be
low the legal test and which Is absolutely unsafe
and dangerous 10 use"
|. A wretch set fire TO toe schoolhouse at
| RIeVe,s station on Tuesday night week. The hOuS'
| Was used by Prof. Craven. ana he Informs Us tina
| not even a book was saved Eserything total loss
place. The reason OF 1t IS, they incorporated
and according TO the laSs OF tennessee WI skey ca
not be sold within four miles OF an lne0 OrdtlOn Of
this kind, so says The Union City ChroRic6.
The Newport Sentinel, Green couaty, saws q
man named Rich 4rdsOn, with a companion offered
a counterfeit note at COopeT's store. Ii was refds
by Cooper; Richardson declared that he should tax
Richardson fired and wounded him MORALLY. Coop
er's wife, hearing the report OF the pistol rushr'
into the room with gun IN DER handsi WhefeupO
the man in company with Richardson drew his pistC
: ! and fred killing the woman Instantly. The mui
p derers escaped.
GreenvilIe Era: John M'Gauehev, a sol
of Richard MGaughey, and a grandson OF the lat
Major John AGaughey, was killed In Decatu
county, Georgia, a few days ago. He was shot in n
: head with buckshOt of grazing the cheel
. Of bis wife, Miss Fannie Vance, formerly O
GreenYille, who sitting beside him. The WOunJ
B instantly fatal. A negro who had been in hi
employ was thought 10 be the murdt rer, and was
rested and placed In jail, from which mob TOOK
him and lynched him.