Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-19
ALL OVER THE STATE.

Somerville is troubled with buffalo gnats.
The american Gays the governors procla-
nation does not include the settlement of
the State debt.
Buffalo gnats are prevalent about Coving-
ton, and spite of smokes" several horses
and mules have been lost.
The first steps have been taken in Knox
vile toward establishing second national
bank, with Major Thomas O'Conner as the
probable president.
Chattanooga courts divorced four couples
lost week and the ds;'-Ss sayra -the-a IA not a
esirable house in that city vacant ANY
Connection between the two things.
Allen Clark, a colored sneak-thief, at
tempted to break into the smokehouse at the
Rogeryille College cne night last week, but
was filled with bird shot from the gun Of one
who discovered him.
At Chattanooga black negro and woman
perfectly white were arrested for living to-
gether as man and wife. They produced
formal marriage certificate that they had
been married in South Carolina.
The Helena YeOmdn says: "The people of
Tennessee have fallen out with Evangelist
Hammond, Just because he initiated ducks
and other fowls while illustrating his calls
on the sinners to turn. This seems I'M
reasonable"
ping the boys from flying kites in the streets.
Dog-pOisoning is going on go. The
revival at Broad street closed last week.
There were over forty conversions during its
progress, and when it closed there were ten
mourners."
Pulaski Citizen: "The committee discov-
cred the true inwardness of the cabinet per-
Torrance and might possibly explain them,
but 1t would involve the use of words more
mystifying than the tricks themselves, and
after consultation We have determined not
to expose Prof. st. Elmo and the other gen.
tlemanly devil, named Howard"
Paris IateLigeneer: "Mattie, daughter of J d.
L. Speight, near Cottage Grove, was burned
last Wednesday by her clothes catching fire
while she was passing too near the fire. The
parents We're from home at the time. The
burn was very severe, and the little sufferer
found relief in death. Wheat is looking
very fine. The cool weather so far in this
month has a tendency to check the too rapid
growth, which is beneficial, as it was grow
ing too rapidly for so early in the season."
Nashville Banner: "There is a case of con-
fluent smallpox at Edgefeld Junction .......
There are a great many loose horses and
mules always running our streets ......... A
seedy individual is going about the city
soliciting subscriptions for the back-water
sufferers large number of kildees, a
species OF snlpe, are running and flying about
the back-waters over here .... One of the
most commendable acts that is shown by some
of our little white boys is the zeal with which
| they seek some kind of employment to aid
their mothers and fathers"
At Carthage a pretty girl of seventeen
Summers, and a belle among the rural
beaux, recently became the betrothed of an
industrious young man of the community,
and they were to have been made one last
Thursday. Preparations were made for the
event, and all parties seemed happy. But
| things are not what they SEEM" and Miss
- decided that she did not love the groom
elect as we'll az she did another gentleman,
and wrote to her affanced that he need not
come. She also wrote lover No. 2 that she
would elope with him op the evening before.
But he did not put in an appearance, and
| the young lady went into Mysteries. A ply
stefan was called in and pronounced the case
bad one. She has since sent for No. l, but
he will not come, and she is still in a dan
| condition