Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-22
TENNEssEE TOPICS.

Up to Friday they had poisoned 100 dogs
at Nashville.
Hay brings eighty-fve cents per 100 in the
Cleveland market.
Two coal mining companies have been
registered at Nashville this week.
The wheat and oats crop in lower East
Tennessee looks very promising.
At Springfield on Tuesday ten buildings
were destroyed by an incendiary fire.
About Cleveland the farmers have cotton
on the brain and are hauling fertilizers.
Thefts OF meat and corn are frequent in
many places where provisions are scarce.
Athens Pos: There will be plenty OF
peaches this year-without an accident-say
the fruit-growers."
A Kentucky capitalist has just purchased
600 acres of coal lands in Campbell county,
and will develop them.
DR.. Robert Aliens residence was burned
up, with clubhouse and all their contents, on
Sunday, at Carthage.
A large force of hands are now engaged in
the building of the proposed new cotton
factory in North Nashville.
A hoodoo colored woman was jailed in
Nashville for s%indling another colored
woman by her tricks out OF S25.
At Dunlap the wheat appears well, but
farmers are doubtful whether the yield will
he good; the winter has been too warm.
The Nashville Board OF Health is urging
the city council to take immediate steps
looking to scientific system Of sewerage.
The Lamar House in Knoxville has
changed hands. o. H. Thomas, late of the
Hattie House, and J. NJ. Reeves now con-
duct it.
There is no case of smallpox inside SEWER
L l.
county, and there is much anxiety on ac-
count of it.
The concealed weapon tosters are getting
their deserts in Nashville-S50 and costs, or
failure Of payment, nearly years impris-
onment.
In East Tennessee a great many deaths
have occurred during the past two week.,
and much sickness is reported. The variable
weather is the cause.
At Chattanooga this week building per-
mits amounting to $4,000 were issued in
one day, and during the week 800 emigrants
passed through the city.
At Knoxville the railroads and some of
the manufacturing establishments have re-
duced the number of their wo.kmen, and
also the hours of labor.
Near Horn Lake Landing, w. Williams,
wife and five children, attempted to come to
Memphis for provisions; the skif leaked,
and the mother and two children were
drowned
Franklin ReUieiU: THE farmers are at
work in earnest; great demand for seed .........
At Hillsboro the 'roseola is adding to the
victims suffering from scarlet fever its own
ravages.
At Jackson the scarcity Of provisions has
deVeloI ed a number Of native ro9ues in and
around town. They steal a small scale
from the stores, smokehouses, corn cribs and
hen roosts.
At Jackson the ladies' (Silver Thimbles }
club performed the broom drill last week /;
their martial step and accurste wheel, diago-
nal, and bout face movements were warmly
applauded.
Sweetwater is receiving a visit from troop
of gypsies. The peaches there suffered from
frost last week. At Cleveland the thermom-
eter was down to 24o and most OF the peaches
were killed.
The Sewanee coal mines are doing we'll.
During February they shipped in 10th coal
and coke 745, 900 bushels, or 3l,075 bushels
per day. In addition the company stored
10000 bushels of coke.
A stabbing affray occurred on Wednesday
at Ooltewab, thirteen miles above Chatta-
nooga, between DIR. Boyle and John Fi,zger-
aid, and the former was probably fatally
stabbed. Whisky was the cause.
Murfreesboro Ne,cs: eve have had several
severe frosts lately, but we learn that The
fruit crop has not been injured ......... Now
that we are going to have an oil factory why
can We not have cotton factory"
Nashville Banner: Burglars broke into
the courthouse on Sunday night, searched
several boxes and tried two or three safes,
but opened only an empty one; they found
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pound ......... Business is quiet"
Knoxville Tribune: "An ingenious saloon
keeper in Knoxville treats every customtr
vino buys drink TO fried oyster and three
crackers. We are afraid some of our
mountain friends will be disappointed at the
prospect Of no hanging for next Friday"
The Knoxville correspondent of the Chat
tanooga Times writes Il ind, in certain
circles, decided feeling tor Colonel c. NJ.
McGhee as a candidate ior governor. 1t is
certainly ginning strength. The entire pop
ulation OF Knoxville has confidence in his
integrity and ability"
A movement is on foot to settle number
of Germans add CANADIANS, who are resi-
plateau in Fvnires-. They VII 20 into
grazing cattle and raising fruits and vegeia-
bles. When they have got things under way,
immigrants from Europe will be settled
near them, and an active arrival of others is
looked for.
Governor Hawkins pardoned or committed
the sentence of seven criminals, among the
number being james Gaines, colored, Knox
Vile, pistol-carryiDg. sentence committed to
I20 days in Jail and $40 fine; Castor Blew
ms, Hawkins county, murder, and sentenced
to two years imprisonment, pardoned;
George Young, Marry county, twenty-one
years for horse-stealing, pardoned.
PARKER'S.