Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-12
TENNESSEE NEWS.

A death from smallpox three miles from
| Milan.
The Pulaski Spenserian Club is a grand
success.
Columbia will be lighted with gas on Sat.
urday night.
The Giles County Immigration Society is
| increasing, but has not met with much sue
cess yet.
Dyersburg public school has nearly two
hundred pupils; Dyersburg is a real, GO
ahead, gem of place.
Pulaski is deciding whather il will have
gas or not; dark nights and many of them
are trying all patience.
AT Kn 1xville the court awarded F. Dob
son $1,000 against the proprietors of nail
factory where he lost an eye.
There is trouble at Marquette College, six
teen miles from Knoxville, and twenty-five
students are suspended. More trouble was
expected, and many students were leaving.
The mischief arose out of the application
OF colored student for admission into one
of the voluntary literary societies connected
with the institution.
Milton and Samuel Hodges, two negroes
who murdered Jim McFarland last summer,
were sentenced to be hanged March Oath
When Judge Hall said, "May the Lord have
mercy on your souls" Milton Hodges re-
piled, MAY He have mercy on your soul.
You will be gone before we will" This is
the first death sentence passed in Knoxville
in twenty-five years.
Jackson Sun: "The Hon. Leon TrousdaIe
and family will arrive in the city this week
and will make Jackson their home. We ex-
tend them hearty welcome and congra1u-
late the city on the acquisition of SO distin-
guished citizen as Colonel Trousdale and
80 accomplished lady as his wife. -. We
no fnr1r nf nar1nt nIr
Newsom was shot and killed by John Dali
ton, case Of neighbors disagreeing about a
fence"
Nashville American: "The bridge ques-
ton is in fair way for settlement mat
Dickson station, A. Crockett, colored, was shot
by somebody concealed among the freight;
he is in critical condition. 80. Many think
that the fall in tennessee bonds yester-
day was bear movement on the part of
ork, to shake out the small holders and
cause sharp depression, with view to tax
ing fresh hold. The Hammond revival
meetings in the city are very successful"
Dyersburg Clipper: "Tbe negro Harry
Young, who was shot last Tuesday evening
by John Fowlkes, died Thursday night.
A move is on foot to abolish the corporation
of Dyersburg ......... Mr.. Dea Williamson, who
lives eight miles west of Dyersburg, killed
nVe Qeer last thursday out oil gang OF
seven. Mr.. George Jackson killed five the
same day on Bell Cabin ridge. The high
water has driven the deer out of the bottoms
on to the ridges, and they are being killed in
great numbers .........A meeting of the Lit
erary Society proved that Dyersburg has
women who think and men who have talent"
Nashville Banner: "Cetton-seed oil must
certainly be successful substitute for lard,
as many persons are using it over here. .....
More than two weeks have passed since any
new cases of typhoid, malarial or scarlet
fever have been reported as having occurred
in East Nashville. Pneumonia, whooping
cough, measles, mumps and diphtheria still
Marshall Dotson and Mrs
Kocheler eloped, she taking her husbands
savings off with her Vaccination still
going on. The growing wheat crop has
come out SO fast it has been found nee
essary to Craze it to an unusual extent,
which fact was a great help to a great
many farmers with whom feed was scarce,
in conses uence of last summers drouth 49,.
The temperance ladies at Nashville are
going to open a house where a good cup of
coffee can be had. The Jews of Nash |
vile are preparing to receive several OF their |
Russian brethren. Committees |
have been appointed to secure a furnished |
house and board for them and to collect |
funds to cover the expenses. Very liberal |
donations have been rendered by the con- |
yregations and Jewish orders of this city. |
It will be no hard task TO secure labor for |
hem, as several applications have been |
made to the society 49,. A dead colored in |
ant was found on an empty lot"