Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-01
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Murfreesboro has now in operation large
furniture
A new Republican daily paper is soon to
be started in Chattanooga.
Negroes continue to leave Haywood county
for Arkansas in large numbers.
a high wind last week blew down the half
completed colored Baptist church at Overs
burg.
The Nashville Banner urges the public to
look out for counterfeit half dollars. They
are in circulation there.
The people of the little town of Bradford,
Gibson county, have taken steps to have
their village Incorporated.
Nashville now boasts a Tennessee Soap,
Candle and Oil Works Company" They
have also Roebud Music Club"
Mr.. L w. Duke, living miles south of
Brownsville, has the smallpox. He con-
tracted the disease from laborer in his
employ.
Somerville Falcon: "Mrs. Nora Cannon,
has been delayed in visiting the various
schools of the county by sickness"
Mr. John L. Humbert, colored, of Mason.
has been in attendance on the Circuit Court
at Somerville this week. h is the first COL
ored lawyer who has ever appeared at the
Somerville har.
Mr.. Headley Coburn, = merchant OF Can
adasville, Fayette county, was robbed of
something over $500 last week. The thief
broke into Mr.. Coburn's bedroom and stole
pocketbook containing the money.
Count Hawkins, convicted by the Davidson
county Criminal Court in ten cases of gam
ing, and sentenced to thirty days in jail, if
he tailed TO secure the fine and costs in each
case, was pardoned by the governor.
Chattanooga was visited this week by a
number of Cincinnati merchants, on their
way to take a trip down the Tennessee to in
spect their extensive coal interests, with a
view of making further investments.
At Caneyville guard on the convict
camp stumbled over something in the dark
which he took to be bear. He shot and
wounded fatally not a bear, but colored
man who had fallen on the road from drink,
Henry Tate, colored, attended n prayer
meeting on the Poindexter place, and while
under religious excitement fell dead. A
post rnortem examination on the following
day revealed the fact that his heart was
diseased.
j. Volney Ryan, the notorious insurance
swindler who cheated a number of business
men of Jackson last summer out of S1400,
was adjudged guilty by the Criminal Court
of Madison county, and sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary. o.,
Berry Cobb killed Joseph Cunnunins in
nr to in 1851 Friday he gtaf led
and surrendered to the authorities of Knox
vile, saying he was not afraid of trial, as
he killed Cummins in self-defense.
At Wartrace B. F. Cleveland opened his
bank Monday .... The poorer classes around
Wartrace are beginning to feel the want of
bread and meat, and are getting hard up.
The less scrupulous are beginning to raid on
their well-to do neighbors for corn and bacon.
A case was on trial in the Circuit Court
at Somerville between "a white man and a
negro. The jury was composed of six white
and six black men. The counsel on one
side was white and on the other black, and
as sharp attorney remarked, if a mulatto
judge had presided the thing would have
been 'alf-and-'alt, like the Englishman takes
his drinks.
The Ripley Neus says Esquire Porter and
his sons had killed horned snake there. 1t
had a peculiar hue, about 4 feet long, no
fangs, but on the tip of the tail it had
long horn, similar to the spur of a large
rooster. 1t had an aperture in it from which
a sting protruded at the will of the owner,
its operation being like that of the caudal
appendage of a bee or wasp.
Chattanooga Times: "The Electric Light
Company are erecting their building -.
Fruit trees are in bloom in portions of the
city. The fruit crop will be bountiful. $50.
A social club is organizing at Looney's Creek.
Several of our settlers are making ar
for going West Our farmors
are busy as bees sowing oats and preparing
for corn planting. The wheat crop is very
promising in Marion county this year."
A Chattanooga correspondent of the Nash
vile american, speaking of the electric light
which is to be introduced into that city, in
In that respect we differ
OTTO cello from the sanity city of Knoxville
There a company failed to organize until the
uccess of the light was demonstrated in
That city of churches, cul-
ur- and high-toned morality, proud of its
traditions and conservatism, with Golfers
,verfowing, sits back on its launches and
links at the city of hills it hazards its
United capital to introduce all modern i'm
Nashville Banner: ''One of those period
cal killings, common to the celebrated, or
ather notorious Owens Crossroads, on Sun
lay, what is reputed to be the twenty fourth |
murder, occurred at that spot. 1t is one of the |
NEST sections of land in Tennessee, and was at |
me time in great demand, but the repeated |
lomicides occurring there has 20 deprecated |
he value of land it can scarcely be sold at |
my price" Too many groceries. Sol Og- |
len, who was drinking was threatening a |
legro with death; James Crockett, a fine, |
teady young gentleman, took the poor |
elbows part. Ogden then shot at him; he |
II self defense drew his pistol and shot his |
ssailant dead. He rode like the wind for a |
loctor, but before his return with one the |
,oor young fellow expired The Nash
lille cooperage factory is nearly finished. |
The pump factory is in active business
rumor is current in the city that a young |
md beautiful girl, the pride of her father, |
las been abducted by a near relative of the |
amily."