Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-13
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The Nashville Blood Horse Association
has decided to offer $1,000 in purses and stakes be
sides added money at the opening spring meeting
The oil we'll near Woodbury. has reached
a depth of seven hundred feet. No oil of any con
sequence has been discovered nnd very little gas
1t is the mention of the company to sink the vel
to a depth OF fourteen hundred feet
SomerSille Reporter: "Somerville has two
skating clubsan no is ANNOYED
because its town clock has stopped" In Memphis
| wound up, never goes wrong and never stops; nC
credit to Memphis either.
In Nashville during 1881, there were 1I4=
! ing rate for the year of co.'s per 1000 fol the
whlts 80 for the cSored and s52I for the whole
children Under years of age.
| Dyersburg Cfpper: "The recent cold snap
was quite beneficial to the wheat crop. 7 he
railroad company have Pile,driver ON the way to
Hatchie river bridge.....We regret 20 notice that
the habit OF using profane language exists to an
alarming extent among our youth. ...,.... To the
airy society,"
A Huntington dispatch says seven negro
prisoners made their escape from the county jail
last night by burning out the wood work and
picking out the brick under one OF the heavily
grated windows in the of the Jail This is the
same place from which prisoners have made their
escape twice before in the last two years although
a cost to the county of over $4,000.
Nashville Banner, 11lh; "A bill authoriz.
ing the purchase of ground on Doth the north and
south sides of the capitol for site for a congress
DOM. Nashville has deficit of $500 on the
budget of 1881 1t is proposed in the city coun-
also the erection of school in the sixth or eighth
ward; also school in West Nashville. Nash
difficulty is experienced with the coiored people
......The city and county have made effeetual ar
engagements for action in case of smallpox appear
ing; the physicians are authorized to vaccinate
the seven hundred and fifty pupils OF the schools
reported not vaceinated 5000 fire al DIR. j.
H Whites Bridge Disaster is expected
from the great rise in the river; the amount OF
move out ...... the Rev. T. Nightengale colored
was formerly turned out of the Baptist church for
seducing and deserving girl he had promised to
marry. He had become pastor of a church in the
seventh district, Davidson county. He is now on
trisl before the Criminal Court for disturbing pub
lie worship. He entered the pulpit, though
ineligible, and at church meeting assailed an
however. Charles B. Gibson a merchant at
Trinity, in attempting TO board freight train
Memphis and Charleston railroad, Monday night |
felI and mad both legs terribly mangled, from !
offered for two English thieves, believed to be
travelling in the southern states No water |
a big demand for skifs'
Chattanooga Times, 11th: "Louis Hope. |
residing at Mason, Tennessee, and employed as a |
brakeman on the Memphis and Charleston rail |
At Bailey Station, and was instantly killed...
Between the prospect OF high water and the small
pox scare our nervous athens are far from com
portable -.---..There are six Chicamauga creeks in
his county. =. Fifteen tramps were drinking |
md dancing, and threatening disturbance at
he Powell railworks on Tuesday. They were from
Louisville. The police started them of in the
direction of Nashville Joseph Boyd, who |
Silled Major Tom Boyd, of sweetwate-, last satur.
lay has waived preliminary hearing and gone
o jail at jacksonville. The Israelites of this
atty propose erecting synagogue at an eary |
lay TO cost not less than 5000. The lot
las already been purchased, and is located |
lear the corner of Fifth and Market streets !
lookout mountain remained hidden nearly ali day
eSterday in dense mass of what used TO be
aIed clouGs.....-..Corn is very dull, and the de-
land Is light Eighty cents per bushel a fall OF
Wo and half CENTS. Mail Agent Lindsey re-
orts very high tides on all streams between here
no Memphis In some sections the country is al |
aost entirely covered with water...... Dan Ballew
convict who came from Cincinnati TO this civ |
aFing the smallpox, is well attended to at the |
ospltal Citizens are yaecinating and there is no |
rooabHlty of the disease Spreading The
nrlstlan church is selecting q lot Tor q new I
lurch bullding------A narrow miss yesterday of |
llIroad train running down u street car: pas |
myers Jumped out into the mud. +"