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

A stove factory is about TO be started at
Chattanooga, with a capital OF $4,000.
Claybrook boasts OF three stores, a mill, a
good school and go ahead proclivities.
Bells Station is about to vote for corpora
ton or no corporation, which meaps saloons
or no saloons.
At Caney branch barn and two cribs OF
| corn were destroyed by lightning. MIR.
| Huff1s house was burned down sometime ago.
In Jefferson county Mr.. I. P. Franklin
sawed a log of timber on the eide of a hill,
when it started, rolled over him and killed
him.
The Cleveland City Council have forbidden
| peddlers entering railway cars to sell pies
and cakes, a great effort OF municipal wis
| dom.
Knoxville Tribune: "Thomas Martin fell
| forty feet from the ridge of a house where he
was assisting some skaters. He will probably
die"
Dyersburg Clipper: "The boiler of the
Hoosier mill bursted Tuesday evening, kill
ing Charley Stevens, the negro fireman, and
white man."
land was stopped by Cleveland officials who
feared the smallpox. The citizens there held
Indignation meeting.
Ripley News: "Mrs. Lloyd, not feeling
we'll, took some white powder she supposed
to be medicine she used when sick, took by
mistake some arsenic kept in the same box
medical aid was obtained, but she died"
Lawrenceburg has had vote-charter IA,
no Oh after 60. This is a victory for temper
ance; no whisky selling the next year. There
was big bonfire on the public square at
night guns were fired and all was Joy. The
hearts OF many women thrilled with graft
tude.
The Knoxville Chronicle says the railroads
there make no discrimination on account OF
| color, and that two colored ladies and two
men as their escort" were in the ladies' car
on Monday when the colored people were,
according to the Tribune, rather riotous about
the right OF coloreu passengers TO sit in the
same cars as the rest.
Covington Gail: "There will be an immense
change in railroad matters in month from
now Instead of having only one train a
day, the road will run two through trains
| daily each way, besides the accommodation
train. Somebody in this county must
drink whisky. There were about hundred
empty whisky barrels shipped from here last
| week"
Rutherford Courier: civilian Cunning
hams wife left on the train last Monday.
! She had been married eight years, when she
| Eecane intimate with d man named Nit.
| Her relations with her husband have been
unpleasant since then; he gave her $500 to go
| away with as she confessed that two of the
five children were Nitt's; these two she took
with her"
Chattanooga Times: "James Montgomery,
| a few years since one OF the wealthiest, most
promising and popular business men Of Chat
tanooga, was taken through the city on
Wednesday manacled, on his way to the
| penitentiary. His face wore look of de-
spair, and he appeared stupeied by his ig-
nominy. Wages in Chattanooga remain
unchanged, and the men appear to be salts
fed"
In YorkYille, Gibson county, on Tuesday
| night, six persons in disguise aroused the
negroes of four or FIVE negro cabins by burst
ing the doors open with an az. They kindled
a FIRE, made the negroes dance and cut rp
capers. Qle of the negroes, who got away,
they fred after. They asked for a neg O
who had stolen some meat, but mentioned 70
name. Two persons have been arrested, but
both proved they were elsewhere at the time
OF the outrages.
Columbia Herald: "a barn belonging TO
Mr.. Latta, on Snow Greek, in the Eighteenth
civil district, was struck by lightning last
| Wednesday, about l. o'clock, consuming the
barn, provender, etc, also killing mare and
| a mule. 4 young man by the name OF james
| johnson was coming out OF the barn al the
time it was struck, and when he recovered
| from the shock the roof was falling in lie
made very narrow escape from being
burned to death"