Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-09
ALL OVER THE STATE.

ALL OVER THE STATE.
The Nashville ladies have caught it, they
are wearing suniowers.
At Knoxville real estate is looking up and
property is changing hands almost every day.
The grand jury there are expected to find
ninety indictments against gamblers at Gal
latin.
At Lasea wheat is Looking better. Some
wild animal seen in the woods is causing ex-
element.
Chattanooga has big depot and an Owl
club, the former useful, the latter, oh! how
ornamental!
In AIcAlinn county farmers are behind
with their blowing. Wheat looks well and
winter oats have good stand.
In Knoxville the directors Of the Girls
Industrial Home have purchased home for
the little ones under their care.
Dispatches received hy the secretary of the
State Board OF Health al Nashville announce
that three cases of smallpox exist within
three miles of that city.
Our old friend Rolfe S. Saunders was in
! Knoxville last week; he intimated that he
might be heard from in Nashville at the head
OF an agricultural journal.
The wheat crop OF Davidson county is re-
| ported by the farmers to be in splendid con-
dition. Should no frosts interfere the crop
will be an exceedingly large one.
| The mortuary reports for the past several
weeks OF Nashville show a great decline
in the death rate compared with reports
made OF the latter portion Of last year.
| 1t is the opinion of some of the best farm
| ers in East Tennessee that the winter has
| been thus far unfavorable one to the wheat
| crop. There has been too much rain and not
! enough snow.
Many of the one-horse farmers around San
| ia Re, are out OF corn now; others not enough
to bread their families until the wheat crop
| comes in. They have nothing to sell and
but a slim credit.
There is no city in the South or West with
the same number of inhabitants that equals
| Knoxville in the Number and elegance of its
| churches, and the tone of its moral and re-
| ligieus influences.
Chattanooga Times: Farmers say the
wheat crop looks fine and the prospects are
encouraging. Chattanooga has had three
OF Its city prisoners to escape this week, one
| OF them woman"
A death occurred in Chattanooga on Mon
day from smallpox and eighteen persons
were in quarantine 80. The cotton-mill
there is Furnishing and Is buying machinery
to make finer ya!-ns.
About Santa F'e the wheat crop is looking
we'll and promising. Many of our farmers
are pasturiDg stock on their wheat, 1t is
feared that sopIe crops are too forward for
the season this year.
At Campball Station, Malcolm Mcdonald
is digging for a silver mine on his farm. There
is good deal OF excitement among his neigh
bors on the subject. A "sIver witch" has
shown him where TO dig.
There. is something mys terious in the
sudden. disappearance of a well-known law
yer, Who has rendered himself somewhat con-
spicuous in maltreating an innocent and
helpless wife. This at Knoxville.
At Springfield, on Monday, II. B. Hooper,
John Hooper and Boss Elliot were arrested
and placed in Jail. They are harged with
being parties TO the murder OF DIR. J. w.
NHckolls on the 2Sth of February.
Mr.. G. w. Ross, OF Knoxville, has speci-
men OF pure gold, from quartz, weighing
nine pennyweights; it was picked up from
Coker's creek, Monroe county. There are
surface indications in the neigh b, ,rhood.
Huntington Republican: ave h ave reports
from nearly every portion of the county,
and all concur in the opinion that the wheat
crop promises to be a failure. Sol ne Is head |
ing out now and nearly all is jointing. How
ever, If We have no frost we will have very
early wheat crop"
Murfreesboro Press: "a nine-year-old-son |
of Mr.. A. Todd while endeavoripg to keep |
dOS IAOhl blLlliS uGiSEDOE WdI6 llUlSSNI So |
Scared by the animal that his life is in d an !
ger. A colored man hearing some owe |
IN his corn-crib in the night fired his gun |
and shot his own horse"
DR.. Hawkins, State commissioner, reports
that the farmers of Carroll county are very
uneasy about their wheat crop being injured
by the spring frosts, it is heading out.
Otherwise than this the crops are looking
fine, and the prospects indicate early har-
vest and splendid yield.
At Whitthorne Mills rain prevents the
sowing Of the oats; the wheat has not taken
good root, and dry weather will ruin it.
The health OF the community is bad, for
there Is scarcely a family but what have a
case 81 the nAea=lSs, brought there from
West Tennessee by young man.
Chattanooga is becoming ambitious and Is
discussing scheme for a city hall, to in
clude iremen's hail. a markethOuse, a per-
manent expedition, and city officers rooms.
A case or two of smallpox in that city is
causing alarm The first patient was from
Cincinnati; two others are doubtful.
East Nashville can boast of female car
penter. WheF. she has finished up her house
hold duties, she frequently assists her hus-
band, who IS a carpenter. She knows all
about Pulating the iack-plane, compass.
spirit-level, gimlet and foot-adz, and uses
them more dextrously than one half the mas
culine carpenter amateurs.
Hon. HoI ace Maynard can be seen almost
every day promenading Knoxville streets,
bowing politely and dignihedly to his friends
ana occasionally stopping to exchange friend
ly greetings. He begins to show age, not in
his movements, for he steps as elasticaIIy as
he ever did, but in his face and hair. the
former wrinkled and the latter quite gray.
Three boys, each about twelve wears of
age, were found in Chattanooga on Sunday
who had run away from their home in East
Tennessee for Cincinnati. They were out of
money and could get no further, and were
kindly sent back home again. They set out
to seek their fortune" but failed, as others
have done before them even when they set
out for gold mines.
Mrs. Hathaway, OF Cleveland, O., gives in
the Leader OF that city, rather hard char
acter of Chattanooga, which she saw in the
midst OF the mud that stamps 'misery" on
everything. She says: "A peculiar dead
ness seems upon the entire town and commu-
nifty, although there are manufactures.
Everybody and everything that | saw upon I
this tour OF observation were decidedly slow
Chattanooga to the manor born may be |
known from the utter absence of bIscking |
upon his boots, SLOUGH hat and ragged fus-
tlan, streaming tobacco Juice and unseen
hands,"
Dyersburg Gazette: The track Is laid 10
within Tour miles OF Dyersburg, and next
week 1t will probably be completed to town.
. lin the Chancery Court OF HAYWOOD |
county, last week, Chancellor Livingston held 1
that dealing in cotton futures was a VIC. alton \
d the statute against gaming -. The food |
IN Dyer county seems to be more disa strous |
han ever before. Immense .numbt rs OF