Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-02
SOUTHERN NEWS.
TENNESSEE.

SUUIh Elm NEW %
TENNESSEE.
Reports from all parts of the State repre-
sent the fruit prospect good.
General Joseph r. Davis was married at
Mississippi City, on the eighteenth, to Miss Marga-
The Grand lodge of Knights of Honor, for
the State of Tennessee, will meet In Nashville on
wednesday, April 9Th.
Two children were playing with an old pis::
toll In Chattanooga the other day resulting in one of
them being badly shot.
The Bristol Courier notices the arrival In
that town Of Colonel Tudor and party, the great
horseback expedition to the straits OF Magellan.
The members of the bar of Nashville have
started on foot movement for an appropriate
monument over the grave of the late Judge John
Haywood.
exaggeraton to say that there more pokerplaying
tennessee"
David A Jones, living near Gadsden, was
assassnated by one Of his farm hands few nights
feeding the stock.
A correspondent of the Knoxville Chron-
icIe, writing from Columbia, thinks that with Grant
and Key Tennessee can be carried Republican In the
next Presidential election.
Two twin brothers, by the name of Lafay-
cite and Landon Kite had difficulty In Hawkins
county recently, when Lafayette struck Landon on
the head with stick, from the effects Of which he
died.
Brownsville Bee: ''Some of our oldest
and best farmers buying corn. This should not
be, and better times cannot be expected until we
learn TO raise sufficient quantity of country pro-
Cuce."
An old gentleman, while sitting on the
railroad track near Franklin, last week, was run
is supposed that he die hear the train APP
preaching,
A difficulty occurred between number of
ali drunk on moonshine whisky and pistols we're
| used freely. In the melee John Rollins shot and
killed A. j. Hooper.
Henderson Herald. 28th: "a man named
Kirkman, living near Bethel, hung himself last
Monday morning BE had been insane some two or
| dread OF future existence"
The Huntsville Sentinel says: "Mr. E. B.
Marshall, while saving up large hollow poplar
| remained there without food or water for seven
weeks The animal oied forty-eght hours after be-
| ing discovered
| Putnam county, Tennessee, has the cham
| pion moonshiner; He is boy ten years old He
USED tar kegs for beer tubs old cOffee-pot for
stll ana an aldeI-stalk Tor worm good average
Tor this miniature mOonshine establishment
| four gallons per week.
James Rogan, together with Constable Lipe
and others, had been shooting with pistols at
| smith & Wesson pistol in the hands OF James Ro-
gan, 1t was accidentally discharged, the ball striking
| fatal wound.
Clarksvlle Tobacco Leaf: &C. Mason
| Lane, tire gentleman who ran of with Texas gul,
TO Clarz svie aud entered the university, and then
went TO Nashville ana entered Vanderbilt. and then
out OF church at Fort Worth, Texas"
M'Nairy County San. 26th: "a dead man
was found floating In the Tennessee river, near
been cut out, and Dullet-hOle in his head. 1t
is supposed that he had been at work at Muscle
robbed, and his body thrown into the nver.'
Monroe Democrat: ION Tuesday evening
little girl about two years old, the daughter of Mr..
VIM. Rodgers, on Fork creek was seriously burned.
AS We learned, the child sitting in rocking
chair before the re rocking, and fell frUm the chair
into the fire, burning one or her hands the side OF
face and her body severely before she could be
taken from the fire.
Mas qvile american, Both: Colonel George
f. AkeTs, the boss fisherman OF this part OF the
world returned yesterday from AllisOn's, on South
Hdrpeth, bringing with him ample evidence OF his
trout (bass) that weighed In the aggregate twe8ty
pounds, besides fine string, none OF which weighed
less than one and d half pounds"
Chattanooga Commercial, March Both
Last Sunday evening David Henritze and Thomas
Wilson vent buggy riding taking with them little
Charlie Bonham, boy about seven years old. In
turning the corner at Fourth ana Market the buggy
was overturned and the occupants thrown out, and
house before medical attendance could arrive and
before his parents could be summoned"
Bristol Courier: Walnut Grove church.
situated four miles north of Bristol was DESTROYED
BY fire on last sunday, caused by defective fiue.
Rev; j. + Briscoe was holding services az the time
but two or three years costing between fifteen hun
and windows were ali saved We hope thai some of
our benefacorS Will assist the Walnut Grove COM
munity In replacing their church,
Cleveland Herald: No less than seven
thousand dollars has been paid out by southern mule
and horse buyers In Bradley county In the past two
months for STOCK. One man by the name of VIII
lams from Rome Georgia. has bought alone over
tour thousand dollars worth. The truth is our coun-
y has surplus of stock. and the farmers would be
plus stock To keep STOCK when one has earthly
use for Il is dead expense. Better sell at half price
than TO iced dead-head stock"
The Covington Record COMPLAINS THAT the
high rates charged for freight by the Paducah and
Memphis railroad is injurlng that town by forcing
their cotton TO Randolph and Fulton. The railroad
charges one dol ana seventy five cents per bale for
Perhaps the reopenlng of Hatchie viii bring the
railroad company to their senses, it VIII enable
unless it treats them fairly. Nothing ike healthy
competition to force soulless corporation to respect
the rights an interests OF patrons"
Nashville american, March 30th: "Col-
lecor w. III. Woodcock has received reports from
deputies rading in White county of the deStruc-
Bryant, on the Cumberland mountains, ten miles
east Of Sparta They DESTROYED twelve hundred gal
lonS OF Deer thirty gallons OF singngs and all the
still fixtures. Also, or the dstillery of Holland D.
Knowles and Jerry Batne. twelve miles southwest Of
ground They caught Knowles and destroyed twenty
tubs hfteen hunored gallons of beer and all the still
hXtuIeS The dlsllleTy has been operated, It Is said,
IN this cave for four years.
The Gallatin TennesSeda says: ''We learn
from a gentleman of Wilson county that the mys-
ferrous person seen in nj Neeley's benz some time
since, and who was supposed TO be lunatc, turned
out to be frSelasS horse thief in the shape of one
VIM. Jones. Jones is young man seventeen or
eighteen years Of age. He came from Nashville,
some time past, ana hired to Mr.. James Duncan as
farmland. Becoming dissatisfied from some
cause, he et, and II is supposed went to Nashville
However, II was but few days untfl he returned TO
the neighbOrhOOd With horse to sell. gentleman
by the name OF Thompson purchased the horse for
fifteen dollars. Jones returned to Nashville, and a
few days ago, while on his way NJ WhlTtersviile,
was Overtaken by one Mr.. Granthum. the true owner
OF the horse, and lodged in jail at Nashville