Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-19
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Knoxville is busy vaccinating.

TENNESSEE NEWS.
Knoxville is busy vaccinating.
Nashville is much excited about having a
bridge, free of toll, over the river.
Last week was the we:test, sloppiest, dirtiest,
ugliest. that Rogersville has ever experienced.
Nashville American: "The Hiawassee
river is up and Knoxville expects to get wet
A great revival is going on at Shelbyville;
several of the hardest cases in town brought in.
Five miles north of Knoxville the barn of
Gilbert Nichols was burned on Sunday by an in
cendiary.
A train on the Knoxville and Ohio road
was thrown from the track yesterday at Cane creek
by misplaced switch.
Skiff-riding is just now the principal
amusement at Nashville; lone mans meat is an
other mans poison"
Chattanooga has organized an electric
light company and will have the things blazing
away by the LIST oil May.
Shelby has had only one rain this year;
stin going on on Saturday.
A second earth-slip covered the railroad
near Loudon, on Monday worse than the frst
which had been cleared away.
A stock company is organizing at Chatta-
nooga for the Manufacture of stoves, with CAPT
tai OF $4,000 already subscribed.
A movement is on foot to organize stock
company in Chattanooga with a capital of So, Co.,
for the manufacture of plows The amount OF
stock is already nearly subscribed.
The Knoxville Times, OF Monday, reports
two young men taken sick at Eager's boarding
house, on High and Fifth streets Chattanooga
aud it was feared they had smallpox.
The failure of Calmus & Schwartz, retail
boot and shoe dealers at Chattanooga, which was
announced Saturday, was of more importance
than at first supposed Their liabilities are $50 GOO
A Columbia correspondent says: ''The
goosebone theory has been.eXploded Mother Ship
ton distanced, and Nennor's battery silenced
HON hql IN n int 1lpn
In Nashville the old Egyptian Presbyte-
rian church. the grand old structure OF years
standing, and of hundreds more; has been re-
modelled inside after the style OF Eastern deeora-
ton.
The Pulaski Bank having been scooped
up and the directory and officers changed. it is
fS t ina s e oaK @ 1hG ak ar pe
est in the Giles National Bank.
The McKendree Methodist Episcopal
church at Nashville, with its beautiful style of
spires piercing the clouds, will be finished in
March. The organ (the finest in the South) is now
in position. This musical wonder will be operated
by hydraulic power.
Thompson, one of the six parties who were
wounded in the pitched battle near Helenwood on
Christmas eve, two of whom were killed outright.
died from the effects OF his wounds q few days
since; the others are recovering. weak attempt
was made to arrest some of the participants, but
it was finally abandoned.
Dyersburg Clipper: "The mail route from
Dyersburg to Rutherford has been discon tinuCd d.
Mail for Dyersburg will be brought TO Newborn
the railroad and thence to Dyersburg by carrier.
The grass in the courtyard looks almost as il
and Seventy pupils attending the public school"
Woodbury. is sinking an oil well, now
seven hundred feet deep. There are strong hopes
of getting oil in paying quantities at the depth Of
in over a hundred places east OF Woodbury.. Par
ties have collected bottles of it in various loeaH
ties. Ii is all lubrcating oil.
At Columbia on Monday Rice, who was
arrested in MissisSiDpi last and broupht
for trial for stealing horse was sentenced TO the
PPersuaeion. During the testimony of BsInes Of
Mississippi, the officer who arrested him, Rice
Barnes put his hand in his pocket and cooIIy re-
marked to the deputy-sherih. who was
not, however After the verdict Of The jury Rice
INDUCED, until ordered to jail by Judge McLe-
and witne ses. He is the prisoner who set fire to
his cell to effect escape, berating the three Kelly
boys, some weeks sinfe RICE ana one OF the keilys
were captured in Hickman county. The other two
are still roaming at Will.
Tiptonville Star: "Colonels H. E. Clark
and II. W. Nelson have been to our county for the
rom here to hickman they are from s St Luis
and propose to contract to do the work. The same
cross ties. Here is a chance for some live man or
men to add materially to their purse. Ii the con.
tract is made upon fair terms heres millions in
itr.......The only thing that imparts life to
Hickman now, is the busy hum of the
to enable her to hum as sweetly and proftably as
our enterprising neighbor, ........Tne master me
thousand feet of lumber now awaiting shipment
to St Louis. The Key Stone wooden track en-
CINE has been in successful operation for such a
length of time to nj axe it pronounced success,
although many such enterprises elsewhere have
wholly fail=d.''
Nashville Worlds GAINESVILLE dispatch:
Owing to the exceedingly mild winter and much
rain, the blue grass hills and wheat fields look
winter YVES God-send to the country for the corn
and hay crops last year were failures, and stock
would have suffered but for the good winter pas
Lursge. There is scarcely enough corn in the
country 10 keep up the stock in making another
money scarce and nothng 10 sell. We are really
Just beginning to feel the severity of last summers
passed, and our country will have to rely on the |
Zee factory of Bowling Bros. q TURNKEY TO cool Off
me heat of the coming campaign The tobacco
,rop OF this section is falling far short Of the cal
;ulatioDs three months ago: Il is undoubtedly |
rict; thin. chaffy, green, bitter and weighs out
exceeding. light.....-..The experiments in White |
han the ordinary tobacco that farmers are becom-
ng disguised with the foreign demand
CoviDgton Gall: "Cotion shipped up to
late three thous nd five hundred and forty-seven |
miles of telegraph poles have been
put up and holes dug for thirteen miles &c.
Under the act OF Isl saloonkeepers have to take
,ut wholesale license when they sell whisky in !
quantities OF quart and over, and several Of |
.o for selling less than quart w. II: |
POI ss, of the United States survey, has visited |
1iIity of establishing a telegraph line from Cow
ngton to Plum Point where the corps OF survey ors
.hannel of the river opposite osceola by means of
willow mats. The government viii spend about |
800 600 in improving the river at that point. The
liver is now about two miles wide, and IN low |
water only four feet deep, and the immense sand
ion to navigation The river win be narrowed t. |
hree thousand feet, and thus the channel will be |
leepened. About hundred men are now at
YORK"
Chattanooga Times. Lookout maintain
las been almost invisible for days.......There
Ire five powder magazines in the vicinity OF Chat
ANY has purchased an engine of one hundred and
wenty -hYe-horse pover.........Lookout Waterworks
ave supplied the city with clear water through
IL this long spell of rain and mud An aged
ramp named Stone found few days ago /
hanging in the woods near Tullahoma- Ii is be-
ieyed he committed suicide---.---lt has been sug-
ested that new county be made out of that por-
ion of Cooke: and Sewer counties lying next to
Sorth Carolina, and calling il Kings Mountain.
road to the mountain, just this side of
he hallway house, has been under water for
everal day s.......A number OF Chattanooga drum
neTs have Just returned from along the line OF the
cincinnati southern railroad They report that
he country i almost fnunds ted, but business was
od.....-..Ten or twelve persons from Banks
ounty, Georgia, passed through the city yesterday
morning route to Collinsyille, Alabama. where
United States marine surgeon, yester-
lay received orders from the government 10 vac
,ital at this port This includes all persons
,wning, using or running ON steam vessels
THE mayor OF Chattanooga is opposed 10
vaccination let smallpox become ep-
demic around him and he viii change his min d, |
,ut too late-.-.-..There has been considerable
in the city for several weeks, and now
hat the public is nervous about smallp0X when /
the marks Of the former appear there Is panic.
ramps, and they are arriving from every quarter.
he weather seems to increase their mum bers....
az three traInps broke into sealed freight car
ear the Alabama Great Southern depot, which
ras loaded with small peeknges
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