Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-15
SOUTHERN NEWS.
TENNESSEE z.

The Milan Exchange, of Thursday, re-
ports brisk business with the merchants of
that place.
Ex-Congressman Prosser's residence in
Nashville was burned last Saturday. Loss,
ten thousand dollars.
A little boy was thrown from ''hying
jenny IN Haywood county, on Saturday be-
fore last, killing him instantly.
An average of two hundred and eleven dol
lars per annum is paid county superintendents
OF public instruction In Tennessee.
They are to have tobacco fair at Clarks-
vile on the fifth and sixth of June next. One
thousand dollars 10 gold will be awarded as
premiums.
A correspondent of the Knoxville Chronicle,
writing from Columbia, thinks that, with
Grant and Key, Tennessee can be carried Re-
publican in the next Presidential election.
W. D. Alexander shot and killed U. S.
Moore at Ghmpville, Lauderdale county, on
the fifth. Moore was drunk and made
deadly assault on Alexander. The latter was
acquitted.
Bolivar Bulletin, 10Th: "We greatly fear
the fruit IN this section has been entirely
killed by the late frosts. What pity it will
bud and bloom so early, or rather what pity
the froSts come so late"
The peanut crop of Tennessee, the New
York SIN estimates, will reach four hundred
thousand bushels, and is exceeded only by
that of Virginia, where the greatest increase
from year to year is noted.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of the
citizens of Lincoln county was held in Fay
ettville last Monday, and efficient measures
adopted to secure the building the railroad
from Columbia to Fayetteville.
Paris Gazette, 10th: "There was a heavy
frost on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
mornings last, killing the peaches and many
of the apples, plums, pears, ETC., and per-
haps lDJurlng some early wheat.
The safe in Coley's drug store in Milan
was robbed of about two hundred dollars last
week. A man named J. A. Robinson, claim
ing to be from sSt. Louis, was arrested on
suspicion but was discharged for want of tes-
timony.
Chattanooga Times: 1.-THE ponds were
frozen over Friday as late as nine o'clock. Yes
to Chattanooga, and IL remained till near
noon in shady spots. The fruit must be tough
or it is killed"
Milan Exchange, 10Th: 1.-The late frosts
damaged the fruit prospects seriously, but
not so much as other localities heard from.
The berry crop will not come in so early as
but only the blooms that were
out have been killed. The other fruit crops
have been cut short over half"
A4eAlhgton COrre4ponuent Vi Iue Mlldn Err
change, 10th: Ray Rush, while feeding his |
stock last Sunday night. was fred upon twice |
by some unknown would-be assassin, part of |
the contents of the second barrel taking eff |
iect In his hand and shoulder, but without |
lnfiictlng very dangerous wound"
Fayetteville Express, 10th: "Corn, our
great staple, IS being put In as rapidly as DOS
sibe and wheat Is putting on new vigor as 1t
RECEIVERS from the ri yors of a severe winter.
This, the seed time of the year, is propitious,
let us hope, that the harvest will be so album
dant that we will have no Jacobs in the
and"
Columbia Journal, 10th: Among the
lumber who went to Nashville to see Knox
Martin hung were several negroes, and
Imong these was an old 'cullud gemman'