Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-06
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The now cotton factory at Nashville is
running.
The print works will soon be in full opera
| ton at Nashville.
Nashville has three daily papers and
twenty weeklies and nonthlies.
Alamo Sentinel: "The residence of John
w. Bond, constable, burned down; only a
bed saved"
Erin Reu;e,o: "The Tennessee Lumber
| Company's boiler exploded, killing one man
and wounding two"
Humboldt Arg,t: "Willis King, colored,
while playing With his infant child on Mon
day let it fall, killing it almost instantly"
At Bristol as Mr.. John Sharp was drawing
a ramrod from gun the piece went off, blew
| the ramrod through his brains and killed
| him.
The trade with the upper Cumberland has
become an importance. 1t has the Wander
| bilt University and other important educa-
| tional institutions.
Nashville is exhibiting great enterprise,
| and is advancing accordingly. Her popula-
ton decreases, which is causing many houses
to be built this season.
Mr.. John I. Norville, of Alamo, and Miss
Delilah =. Allison were married at Jackson,
at the residence of Mr.. John Allison The
contracting parties are both deaf-mutes.
The United States customhouse at Nash
Vile will be so far finished in Mayihat the
postoffice will be removed there. The struc-
ture is OF stone-the style pointed gothic.
Dyersburg is excited about a cotton fac
tory TO be started there Mr.. John Partee
subscribed $50, 600. The town is con
BOOM" but the public square has never had
an oil-lamp in each corner OF it yet.
Nashville Bd1ner: "Wheat two feet six
inches high 10 this county ......... The mud
left by the flood is disappearing, and the
street-sprinklers are called for 49,. The
composition Of the immense crowd that wit
messed the introduction of the electric light
Last night more than one third citizens
of East Nashville"
The State Board of Health, at Nashville,
reports the number of cases of smallpox aud
deaths from that disease in different parts of
the State to be as follows: Milan, IS cares
and ii deaths; Knox county, "a cases and 9
deaths; Sewer county, IL cases and l death;
Edgeheld Junction, cases and / death;
Kingston Springs, l case, no deaths; Chatta-
nooga, 10 cases and 5 deaths; Memphis, I25
cases and ~ deaths; Brownsville, 6 cases and
deaths; Jackson, cases and l death; in
the Shelby county pesthouse, ia cases adj
mitted and As deaths.
lockwood Republican: "On Saturday last
Mary FinIy, n colored girl about twelve or
thirteen years OF age, in company with some
other colOred children, was at or near the
mouth of Caney creek, on the Tennessee
river, this county. Mary took off a nubia
from her head and gave it 10 one of the
others, and also handed them come other
small articles of clothing, asking that they
be taken home and given 10 her little sister,
as she intended TO drown herself imme-
diately. She waded into the river about
waist deep, another girl started to follow her
for the purpose of pulling her out. Mary at
once told her to stay for she was not pre-
pared 10 die, and then throwing herself into
the swift current of the stream, ciasping her
hands over her head, bade them goodbye,
and hoated off with the current some ten or
fifteen yards"
Chattanooga Times: Building is active;
l94 dwellinghouses are building, and "a
Fruit-growers state that in the lowlands the
irosts OF last week did some damage, hut no
great loss was experienced go. The County
Court is taking action respecting the erection
OF a bridge across the Tennessee river. IA
dollar bill raised TO $40 was passed on a mer-
chant. 49,. The Cranberry Iron Company,
who are building a new railroad from John
son City, in upper East Tennessee, on the
their property, in Mitchell county, n. c.,
have been tunneling for ore the last eight
months. Their enterprise has been rewarded
magnetic, one OF eighteen feet and one Of
ffiyfopr feet in thickness. -. Chattanooga
is prospecting. 1t had fifty-two cases at its
tain was thronged with visitors on Sunday"