Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-27
STATE NEWS.
Gtt ms from Every Part OF the state
a MeIanEe ihEC viii have Interest
for People from East. Middle
AZ well as West Ten
EcRAeR.

Fourteen towns in Tennessee have asked
for repeal of their charters.
Greeneviile has q skatin g-rink, and skating
IN costume Is the tav0n-a sport
An attempt was made 70 bur2larize the
| po5tofice at Fayetteville few nights ago.
The Dyersburg Gazette expresses confidence
| that the Paducah and Memphis railroad will
be completed this year.
The jackson Tribune and Sun speaks of
band Of horse-thieves operating throughout
| Tennessee and Illinois.
Thomas Moss. a farmer, who lived near
WIldersville, in Henderson county, commit
ted suicide 40 that place on the seventh in
slant, by taking morphine.
The Tennessee press association meets in
Gallatln next June. The KENTUCKY associa-
ton meets at Bowling Green at the same
time, and at the close OF the meetings both
associations will visit Mammoth Cave.
The eolored people viii hold d State con-
ventlOn IN Nashville on the second of April
for the purpose Of choosing Twenty-Five dele
gates to represent them in the National con-
ven;ion to meet II the same city on the sixth
OF May.
Knox Martin. the negro who murdered
Whlttemier and his wife near Nashville, Il
few months since has been sentenced to be
hung and declines an appeal to the supreme
court, preterrlng hanging TO suspense and
delay.
A dog-fght in Knoxville the other day
| caused a team Of horses 10 run away with a
| wagon, smashing it to pieces. throwing the
| driver out and severely br,using him, and
running over and killing Il horse. Don t
know which one Of the dogs whipped.
Jonesboro Journal: During the re-
cent term of the circuit court at Vanderbilt,
mR. William Shelton and his wife were di-
yorced on Wednesday; On Sunday following
| Mr. Shelton was married again, and on Mon
| day his divorced wife celebrated Ler second
| each other so closely"
Clarksvllle Tobacco Leaf, 2Ist: "Last Tues
| day morning, Johnson, aged about fourteen
years, son OF John Monroe, who lives on Bar
tons creek, was kicked to death by a mule.
| He was riding the animal to water, When II
| became frightened at calf and threw young
| Monroe, entanglng him III the gear, with
the result above stated"
Alamo Sentinel: 'The wife of Elder w.
| A. Cook died last Monday evening, at the
residence of her father, in Gibson county
Only few months ago, with happy congrat-
ulatlOns, we announced the marriage of Mr.
Cook and his arrival in our midst from an
adjoining county, and now il is our painful
duty to notice tins sad separation"
Mr Doriot, a jeweler of Bristol, has made
a wooden watch, which is said to be an ex-
| cellent time keeper. The dial plate is made
from the horn OF buffalo killed by loco
motive on the Texas Pacific railroad The
| outside is OF olive wood from Jerusaen. The
| works, except few most important, are OF
| box wood. Even the stem and bow are OF
wood.
Ashland City P7aiadealer, 2Ojh: awe
| learn that forest fires IN Davidson and parts
of this county have caused a good deal OF
| trouble and anxiety to the farmers, during
the last week or two, and some damages IN
| the way of fences destroyed. IL the neigh
borhood Of Hyde's ferry the fires have been
| eXtInguished two or t rec times, and re-
kindled, 1t Is thought, 10y tramps."
Knoxville Chronicle, 22d: "a Nashville
photographer struck off pictures Of the asses.
misc called legislators, the other day. Now
| when he has obtained pictures of the inmates
of another institution IN that vicinity. some
| times known as the penItentiary, and also OF
| another, the insane asylum, let HIM put them
together IN his show window and leave it to
an enlightened public to tell which is which.
| Perhaps It might hurt the convicts feelings,
| though; but it would undoubtedly be an
| honor to the average member to be placed in
such distinguished company"
jackson Dispatch, 18th: LAS train No. l
On the Mobile and Ohio railroad was coming
IN on yesterday at four o'clock, negro
| woman stepped or tie track just below the
machine shops, and when the engineer
| sounded the alarm she FASTENED 10 the mid
die Of a nigh trestle IL front of her and sat
down facing the ira n, and before the train
! could be stopped she was stuck by the pilot
and thrown about thirty feet and terribly
mashed up. The train was stopped and she
was brought to the sitting room at the depot,
| and Major Hostord, superintendent, sent at
once for a physician. Ii was said she was
crazy at times and wandered about alone.
Her injuries viii perhaps prove fatal.